The younger pedestrians I had to deal with the other day weren't as bad as some of the older folks. I somehow got stuck on traffic duty for a couple of hours, and I was aggresively reminded how ridiculous people can be, but especially entitled people.
I have also grown goji berries by planting dried berries from the store. They obviously must be separated after sprouting. It occurred to my wife to try it out after we noticed a few mulberry sprouts growing out of the compost after composting some stale trail mix that had storebought, dried...
That had been my plan when I first got started, but California basically ended contract climbing within the state. The onlh way to do it legally is to perform all the work 100% by yourself, or with your own employees, and then hand the jobsite back to the primary for them to clean up...
I find that the silhouette picture series of the Arthur Clough Oak paints the picture really quickly, and it just got a great 2025 addition
They need continous structural pruning for their first several decades
That's what I'm saying, with another heavy follow up two to three years later. I think one of the most difficult things for the client is to get into the mindset of thinking in tree timescales. It's not as crazy as geologic timescales, but it's quite a thing to start seeing the longview, and the...
Yea, I have been meaning to get some solid tires. I don't how long I'll be able to deal with it, because I really have much more of a soft tire kinda place.
I agree that they're not great compartmentalizers and are brittle. I wouldn't take the whole thing off, but I wouldn't cable either. I have seen enough evidence of huge break-outs in liquidambar, that I would bet that it just stresses the next weakest link further down. Reduction. Heavy without...
If you do the heavy reduction, what do you hope to gain with a rod but no cable. hard to guage dimensions there; what's the distance from the union in question and the tips?
Best way I can think to describe it right now is that I used to feel the need to feel held in place by my harness, and now I just lay back into more. It all just kinda came naturally as I worked in it, so I never formalized a theory about it.
I had to adopt a more relaxed style of climbing. It's hard to describe, but I know what you mean about it riding up. The MB, and the Petzl Sequoia both stayed lockes on my hips, but the looseness of the Kinisi has been a feature rather than a bug for me. I think it's why it doesn't make the skin...