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  1. oldoakman

    Sycamore and Elm climbing.

    I agree with the comments regarding Elm trees. The tight crotches and stuck ropes are a bitch. Sycamore and London Plane leaf dust is worst in the spring when the leaves are young. I have also been affected in winter when the seed balls break apart as well. My daughter has about 60 London Plane...
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    Favourite SRS rope?

    I'll second the Marlow Vega and xstatic is a close second. I'm not fond of the RRP so I have returned to the OG Rope Runner. I also use the Sticth hitch and Matt Cornell hitch on both ropes with good results.
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    Associate Arborist, City of Jacksonville

    We have about 140 employees in the division. Needs a good leader. I don't have that special piece of paper so they wont even consider me, even though I am filling half the requirements of the position. I don't want to have to deal with employee issues anyway.
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    2020 Bandit 15xp chipper.

    How so?
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    Associate Arborist, City of Jacksonville

    Good luck finding someone. Our position is still open...4.5 years and counting!
  6. oldoakman

    Battery explosions

    I always pull my batteries from the charger as soon as they are fully charged. I never leave them overnight in a charger.
  7. oldoakman

    Throw bag-line accuracy issues

    When no one is around to see it, 9 times out of 10 I am awesome. If someone is watching, especially the client, I am crap. IS what it is.
  8. oldoakman

    T-shirt quilt

    My wife has recently gotten into quilting and has just completed her first quilt and is beginning a table runner for our daughter for Christmas. I tried to convince her to do yours Tom, but the knit of T-shirts makes the cutting difficult.
  9. oldoakman

    Where do you start training a new climber?

    That is the dilemma in this city. We are the second largest city in Georgia yet have no tree services that do any kind of PHC and few who do reasonable preservation work. So the question you ask has never come up. Hopefully some day it will and at that point we will have to adjust the field...
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    Where do you start training a new climber?

    Original post specified "new climber". My first formal training was the Arboriculture class in the Horticultural short course at Penn State. Our first lab was spent inside learning knots. We had 12 knots to learn. You could not climb until you could t-d-s all of them correctly the first try...
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    Where do you start training a new climber?

    In a classroom learning to tie knots. When I start to teach someone to climb, the first thing I teach is knots, About 12-15 of them. homework is to tie, dress and set each one 100 times in a row. Most students never do the homework. The City I work for requires testing before one can start a...
  12. oldoakman

    Dealing with rotted wood

    Million dollar an acre neighborhood??? $75 per hour seems quite a bit low to me.
  13. oldoakman

    Dealing with rotted wood

    Speaking of the mold spore cloud, I have had several instances where dusty spore filled wood caused me grief. Just this past September I spent about a month hacking my head off with no other symptoms after an afternoon of dusty chipping.
  14. oldoakman

    Closing Thoughts

    Glad you have gotten the anchor chain off your neck Steve. Sounds like life is taking a good turn for you. We are not getting old, we are getting seasoned. Hope to see you at Geezers. OOM.
  15. oldoakman

    ISA Webpage

    Their web page has ALWAYS been a mess. It is worse now though. It is not intuitive at all.
  16. oldoakman

    I like big butt(ress) and I cannot lie

    I know you are limiting your study to the Ashville area but you may want to consider one thta is in my neighborhood of middle Georgia. We have a City owned Willow Oak that is 84" DBH that a third of the canopy was destroyed by straight line winds in spring of 2016. It is retrenching beautifully...
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    Legends of the Geezers 2026

    Wednesday is CTW review and test.
  18. oldoakman

    The 80+ foot 80th birthday climb went well

    That's what we do.
  19. oldoakman

    Trail Cam and Wildlife Thread

    I've had a pair of Red Shoulder hawks nest in my back yard about 50 or 60 feet from my back porch for the last 3 years. I would love to put a camera on the nest. We also have a family of Barred Owls nesting on back in the woods. They are hilarious when a group of them start to laugh.
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    The 80+ foot 80th birthday climb went well

    We have had some great weather for climbing lately too. Glad you had a great day.

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