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  1. RyanCafferky

    GRCS stories

    So a long long time ago (2006?) in a county far far away (Washington County) I worked for a company called Walt’s Tree Service. There was no Walt. But that is another story… So, the owner Dave lived around the corner from our shop. His street intersected with West Union Blvd right where there...
  2. RyanCafferky

    GRCS stories

    I posted these stories on Facebook. Thought you guys might get a kick out of them. Let me tell you a story. It is about a GRCS that had quite the adventure. One of my friends who will go nameless set his GRCS winch on his truck and went for a drive and lost it in Portland. He called me...
  3. RyanCafferky

    Grant funding freeze

    All over the US fuels reduction projects are grant funded through the USDA. That is going to have a huge effect in our area. My wife and I just applied for a fuels reduction grant for our 64 acres. Many folks in our area depend on that funding to tackle that important work that otherwise...
  4. RyanCafferky

    Beefy hedge shears

    I second Tom’s suggestion of loppers and hand saw. Slow and steady wins the race. The quality of cuts will be much higher than with other methods and will yield a product that can be sheared in future visits.
  5. RyanCafferky

    c

    I’m a big fan of man knitting aka splicing. Thankfully though we have been having really good weather and are still working most every day.
  6. RyanCafferky

    Today....

    Seems like a good way to keep carbon out of the atmosphere. We just need to figure out a low carbon way to truck all the wood in Cali to the desert to just sit instead of grinding it or burning it in cogen plants.
  7. RyanCafferky

    LA Fires

    Unless you’ve been to these areas and actually seen the terrain and the reality of these fires when they burn, you really have zero idea of what it is like and the speed and intensity of them. There is no man made water system that could stop fires like this once they are cranking. When...
  8. RyanCafferky

    Port a wrap spliced onto a loopie

    I think the main reason not to do it has to do more with how the human mind works than how rope fibers work and or break. If Wesspur or any other purveyor of tree gear sold portwraps with spliced slings on them, how often would those slings be replaced? Never. At a certain point we would...
  9. RyanCafferky

    Sold

    I’ll bite on the Atrax
  10. RyanCafferky

    When do you block a customer's number?

    I had this happen a few months ago. This lady wanted her neighbor’s oak tree cut back to the property line so she wouldn’t get leaves on her patio. There was no lift access, the tree was on a super steep slope, and the neighbor would not allow the tree to be climbed. I went back and forth...
  11. RyanCafferky

    When are these going to hit our job sites?

    I’ve been thinking that it probably restricts your movement but maybe in a positive way. Maybe it makes you move more ergonomically? Less awkward movements?
  12. RyanCafferky

    CEO murder... somethings not right

    Cold blooded murder is wrong. But corporate profiteering that results in death is ok because that is capitalism and corporate crime doesn’t really matter. All you have to do if you commit a crime as a CEO is sit at a table in front of Congress and get beat up for a little while so everyone can...
  13. RyanCafferky

    CEO murder... somethings not right

    I think a big part of why so many people support Luigi is that he is like the hero in so many movies. Do all of these people actually support murder? No. But everyone truly feels the pain of our horrendous health care system and the insurance system that we are stuck with. Seeing a veritable...
  14. RyanCafferky

    What's the point of side cuts made after face cut?

    A lot of good fallers I’ve been around do it to have an easier time seeing their holding wood. On the beetle kill and fire projects in Cali when I was doing safety we required the crews to shave the bark so they had a better understanding of how much wood they were dealing with, so they would...
  15. RyanCafferky

    When are these going to hit our job sites?

    https://probuildrobotics.com/awaist-x/ Or maybe Hilti’s version? https://www.hilti.com/c/CLS_HEALTH_SAFETY/CLS_CONSTRUCTION_EXOSKELETONS/r14012433 I’ve been doing a bunch of fuels reduction at my place and spending a ton of time limbing up fir trees. Something like this to take some of the...
  16. RyanCafferky

    Best chainsaw pants for longevity

    Personally I love the Pfanner products. That’s all I wear. My wife likes her Clogger Zeros. Another brand worth checking out is Raingear Pro. https://www.raingearpro.com/collections/all I bought their waterproof chainsaw pants. They were too small for me but incredible durability. Not...
  17. RyanCafferky

    Failed White Pine rigging

    I like how he cut the top and just left it up there and then got the lower bit out of the way before dealing with it. Don’t know why I never think about doing it that way but that will be going in the mental toolbox.
  18. RyanCafferky

    Redwood Issues

    I think with that species you have to err on the side of caution as we know how they readily shed tops and limbs during extreme weather events. I like the idea of doing natural cabling by weaving branches from one top into the other as I’ve seen them graft to the stem and other limbs on...
  19. RyanCafferky

    Stump grinder tooth sharpening

    Anybody sharpen their teeth? I was thinking about trying this companies product but am a bit skeptical. https://arboredgetools.com/ Would love to hear how other folks deal with this.
  20. RyanCafferky

    Multiple vehicles for sale. Klamath Falls OR

    Send me a direct message with your phone number and I’ll give you a call

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