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  1. treehumper

    Dead (and Undead) Wood

    Daniel, you keep proving the point that one doesn't trump the other. "Its not that I haven't learned anything from science (that would be absurd.... you've mis-interpreted my statements). It's that I already know what I need to know. (for the most part). " This is not, I repeat, not, an either...
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    Dead (and Undead) Wood

    My point Daniel, is that we are still in the theory stage. Don't mistake the guidance set out in ANSI or anywhere else as absolute. Too often it goes from guidance, to rule of thumb to rule. This is more the failing of the non-scientist in that they want clear rules to work by. The theory relies...
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    Dead (and Undead) Wood

    I'm glad I wasn't drinking when I read this....:risas:
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    Ideas for Creative / Profitable ways to use our by-products

    Customers need to be educated as to the benefits of the "mulch" we produce with our chippers. It's much better than the tub grinder stuff that ends up knitting and acting as a barrier to moisture penetration. We are finding ways to repurpose everything we produce. Sustainable practices are...
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    Dead (and Undead) Wood

    Um... yeah. We simplify "science" There's scientific theory and then there's scientific law. Understanding when something is a theory we can then recognize it's still not fully developed nor irrefutably proven. Thus the "theory of relativity" and not the theory of gravity. Common sense, though...
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    The Illusion of Safety: Safe vs. Safer vs. Safer-er

    Story of my life....
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    The Illusion of Safety: Safe vs. Safer vs. Safer-er

    and you just keep tuning in...;)
  8. treehumper

    The Illusion of Safety: Safe vs. Safer vs. Safer-er

    Ouch. Yeah, so, outside of the hearing protection in use at the time, not sure how any of the other pieces of PPE were involved. I can say that the hearing protection today doesn't interfere with hearing, it cuts down the level of noise to acceptable levels. If I were to analyze the incident it...
  9. treehumper

    Big tree collapse climber

    Yup a fence is always a movable item or even one that doesn't really matter. More than a few times have I been told, sometimes after the fact, that they didn't really care about the fence or were going to replace it. Even wires, such as service drops to houses can be taken down temporarily...
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    Big tree collapse climber

    Definitely no lanyard involved. What at first looks like one was the kerf. Could it have been a wedge he was using to drive the top over? I'll second Rico's assessment of batshit crazy with a measure of skill. He knew enough that he needed to be tied in and suspended apart from that mess...
  11. treehumper

    The Illusion of Safety: Safe vs. Safer vs. Safer-er

    Then please explain? I'm not clear on how all that gear played a significant role in your injury. I wondered out loud what the cause of the injury was and conjectured not an assumption and since this is an open dialog, left it for you to correct or clarify. The evidence I'm using is based on...
  12. treehumper

    "Made to Order in 48 Hours"

    The point of a merger is to eliminate redundancy and leverage one companies resources for the other. Sherrill has a splicing operation in house. We saw that on the tour. That an order placed through TS has a splice with it makes sense to fulfill it through ST. Frankly, it makes little difference...
  13. treehumper

    The Illusion of Safety: Safe vs. Safer vs. Safer-er

    Yes, at that is the case in every industry and in every day activity that can kill you. It's not that it does every time and without fail but that it is a risk. It classifies as weekly body bags coming out of the woods in general, not, every camp or outfit in the country. Ask those people who...
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    Tree Species Failure Profiles

    That's it! Known conditions that are consistent so meaningful comparisons can then be made. As long as there's a "yeah but" in there then we wouldn't have something useful to work with. The layers start with conditions at germination and initial establishment within the site, i.e., seeded or...
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    The Illusion of Safety: Safe vs. Safer vs. Safer-er

    And exactly what advise am I giving? It's a statement about the underlying causes of incidents either in our industry or in any other industry. None of them being in doubt or debated. I haven't worked in logging but the guys I've met and worked with, who have did just that for as many years...
  16. treehumper

    The Illusion of Safety: Safe vs. Safer vs. Safer-er

    That was what we described as a safety meeting. But seriously, the first company I worked for was owned by someone who did timber cruising out in BC. The death toll was ridiculous. He described bodies coming out of the woods on a weekly basis. Hindsight being the exacting science it is, could...
  17. treehumper

    SHERRILLtree and TreeStuff.com announce Fallen Families Fund

    I've been back to work since May 2015. A week shy of a year. Since then its been pain management and working through the legal processes of WC. The US WC system is SNAFU, FUBAR and every other acronym one can come up with that describes organized and institutionalized stupidity. Fallen...
  18. treehumper

    Tree Species Failure Profiles

    How would one account for past arboricultural practices and their impact on failure dynamics? In collecting species specific data what would the parameters be in selecting the specimens within the study group? Looking at urban trees in Toronto, especially the street or park trees, what do you...
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    SHERRILLtree and TreeStuff.com announce Fallen Families Fund

    I have a set similar to that Alejandro. I just had my assessment by the doctors for the insurer and my lawyer, my guy was really impressed with the orthopedic surgeons work on my ankle. Small comfort....
  20. treehumper

    The Illusion of Safety: Safe vs. Safer vs. Safer-er

    In the Ontario Arborist apprenticeship program it is clearly not allowed to use a single point. That's how they train and evaluate. It's a fail if you were to climb with a single lanyard. So, from that standpoint they're looking to develop new climbers to have the habit of always being tied in...

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