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  1. tomstrees

    Arborist licensing and pesticides

    There are clearly hack workers out there; the problem is enforcing the rules. They could separate licensing between pesticide applications, hopefully requiring good reasons for the pesticide applications--and then the care of trees; I'd like to see permits required in most jurisdictions for...
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    Arborist licensing and pesticides

    There is the legal aspect to the licensing for tree work. Then there is the moral aspect of unnecessary and excessive pesticide use. Most arborists have told me that 95% or more of the spraying is unnecessary; many pesticide applicators have permanently damaged their health with the...
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    Arborist licensing and pesticides

    Is licensing for tree work necessary or does it increase more responsible tree work? Here in Connecticut you can't do "tree improvement", advertising for that without a license according to the law. But licensing is 90% or more centered around pesticide application, not about what are largely...
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    Undercutting hung up trees

    I can see how someone cutting a tree could be liable for all kinds of nasty liabilities connected with it coming down badly. In this case it was way in the back in the thick of some other trees, so the chance of it coming down on someone was remote. The property owner likes to do everything on...
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    Undercutting hung up trees

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    Undercutting hung up trees

    The guy insisted that it be left after we cut it; not a contract job, I offered to check it out and see what I could do. I told no charge but he gave me some money. He didn't want my advice on how to get it down.
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    Undercutting hung up trees

    The fellow from the first post where we undercut a hung up tree that stayed hung up said that it finally came down in the winter winds, probably a couple years later.
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    Undercutting hung up trees

    I got this particular job of a couple 12 inch or so hung up trees down and cut up today, a birch and an elm, no real spring in them which you have to watch out for. I first undermined the birch with a couple cuts so that it would come down when the elm went down. I tried to take a picture but...
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    Undercutting hung up trees

    I have a couple smaller hung up trees, around 8 inch dead elm, I will tackle this week in a rocky brook area with steep banks. I told the customer that I'd have some environmental concerns as a little bar and chain oil will spray around, unavoidable, unless you took extraordinary measures...
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    Undercutting hung up trees

    A guy from the Bible study wanted me to come up to his property to help try to get a hung up tree broken away from the tree it was on. Against my better judgment, I got a couple of my big saws, and he had a come along, etc., so we cut a few sections. My experience is that this can be...
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    Kidney Stone

    I'd do thorough research for preventative care; it seems some intakes and foods increase the chance of this major health crisis. Those who are not health focused these days are asking for trouble. But it's about balance in diet and life. I had a friend who had atherosclerosis who had stents...
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    Can You Make Money Planting Trees?

    I did reforestation work in the south; pine tree seedling planting paid for by the paper companies. I never liked the work because I'm not a machine and don't work well as one. I raked blueberries up in Maine with a fellow who did that in the winter for many years with some others and stayed...
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    Nasty jobs

    Many contractors are slow right now. On the local "NextDoor" forum requests for tree work keep popping up and since it is apparently a closed forum it is impossible to post links. High income area, Fairfield County CT. I recommend local businesses with roots in the area, not those tied to...
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    Pruning older and neglected apple trees

    Around here, in New Canaan, CT, the best that can be hoped for is to convince a customer to bring the apple tree to an acceptable shape, production would require many more steps the customer is not interested in. Though I've found an occasional old tree that bears a few apples regardless. I...
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    20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq

    This from an obsessed friend today: When it comes to crimes in US history, this is one of the top 5. When it comes to the 21st century, this is the biggest US crime of all, and there have been plenty in the last 22 years. Brown University estimates that we killed between 250,000 to 306,000...
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    20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq

    https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4499417/user-clip-stephen-kinzer-talks-book-overthrow-americas-century-regime-change-hawaii-iraq
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    20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq

    This is what we sent and left behind in Afghanistan:
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    Please keep your parrot indoors

    I've got one canary at this point, I had a raccoon break through a kitchen window in the middle of the night and take out one and terrorize another..... A local tree service, Mill River has "free cat rescue" in their ads. When I asked Johnny about it he mimed using a shotgun to shoot it out of...
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    20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq

    I was 100% against this madness and found the pictures of our dead soldiers devastating. I lost the interest in work. I cannot think of a single big expenditure on the Federal level I agree with! It seems to be all wasted money whether war, covid and sickcare or banks! Here is an unhinged...
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    Bid that tree!

    I keep getting emails from Angi's leads saying they've been turning away customers in my area and are flexible with promotional prices for their services....Who's heard of a highend customer not being able to find a tree service?! The corporate profiteers have a lot of dough to shell out on...

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