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    What’s Your SMALLER Equipment Setup?

    I remember that thread with electric wheelbarrows etc. In this case with "tongue weight" providing traction I see risk of 1) slope reducing tongue weight to the point of inadequate traction to retain control 2) slope having the capability to make propulsion force (primarily fore/aft, but it...
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    Short vs. Long Bridge?

    Same guy who told me of grandpa ladder complained about certain double D Weaver(?) leather saddles just squeezing his butt badly - 25 years ago time frame. I can see on modern saddles the attachment being centered about dead center in front of your hip joint, but there's also the...
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    What’s Your SMALLER Equipment Setup?

    Or hot rod it into a power Arbor trolley. Couldn't find info on what speed it goes, fwd and reverse?, fixed or variable speed and optically it seems to have a differential. Parking brake y/n? Ghostice maybe you could pop down to your local store and investigate ?
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    Short vs. Long Bridge?

    My recollection of the why for long bridges was when DRT got the auto tending pulley feature (yeah that's a while ago) it was desired to be able to simply pull hand over hand on the tail to hoist yourself back in from a limbwalk etc and the efficiency of doing so greatly increased if there was...
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    Fruit tree holding on by a thread, client wants to get another year out of it. Thoughts?

    A phrase I got from a friend of mine, "grandpa ladder", lets you ascend into the branch structure of a smaller tree and then climb after that. My go to for canopy top verticals if they aren't out of control (too big) is to double lanyard (triangulate) in and then go to town with the Fiskars...
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    Fruit tree holding on by a thread, client wants to get another year out of it. Thoughts?

    Both trees in the pic directly under After seem to have retained their "twig" density relatively top center, but I know a camera looking upwards can make a canopy edge appear to be vertical. I understand leaving it for a later pruning session. Fruit tree prunes can have inordinate brush piles ;)
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    Fruit tree holding on by a thread, client wants to get another year out of it. Thoughts?

    What's the reasoning on leaving the highest tuft on at the top of the tree? Or is that an optical illusion and it's actually a horizontal tuft? I find I've got to prune from 360 deg around the tree to catch everything.
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    Fruit tree holding on by a thread, client wants to get another year out of it. Thoughts?

    I've seen a couple of times with Greek and Italian older generation where they build multiple simple sticks in the ground but connect them together with cross pieces at the top to make a framework, even for the entire crown of the tree, to hold up overweight fruit loads. One time I had to...
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    Stolen Stumper and Trailer in MI

    Brazen is the MO for some thieves! Hope you got your SN, model etc info in to the police asap. Maybe they would be able to track the guy via traffic cameras, security cams etc. Suspect they're not going to fence it locally but you could get stolen notifications into the dealer/servicing...
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    Nerd Alert

    1933 or 35 electrical engineering to bend your brain. They built and calibrated a photographic oscilloscope to measure spark voltage and current! 8 years of tech advancement. https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/jres/19/jresv19n4p401_A1b.pdf edit - further to the UV light ionization enhancement...
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    Nerd Alert

    I finally found the Briggs and Stratton 3rd electrode in their spark gap tester Mystery. The teaser electrode doing some pre-ionization for spark consistency. Dimensions etc to make it. NACA report 202 from 1925!!! about 4 pages from the end. Briggs goes way back. I found a couple...
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    Nerd Alert

    The stir welding is really neat. Odd to think of metal in a plastic state and then weld bonding at a relatively low temperature. I believe it's related somewhat to the fluid(?) behaviour of metal in high energy ballistics or maybe that's altogether different again. I wonder if the lower heat...
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    Nerd Alert

    Not Laser Welding, but Friction Welding! Small world story. When I was a kid I toured the nuclear research plant where my uncle worked, turns out, for his whole career. Radiation tags and the whole bit. Seeing this vid tweaked a memory of him pointing at a setup in a machine shop and saying...
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    Nerd Alert

    Snowblower Chute Control Came across this expensive Honda repair vid that happened to be about the electric chute control. Great minds think alike and fools never differ. On the Honda there is a 4 quadrant joystick each quadrant likely with a standard C.-N.C.-Common terminal configuration...
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    Fruit tree holding on by a thread, client wants to get another year out of it. Thoughts?

    Couple thoughts. There is a chance that the tree was in a final year distress heavy overproduction of fruit cycle last year. I'm not a disease expert to offer any particular help in assessing whether that's your case. Trees with "cancer" often do this. Temper the cost of propping with this...
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    GoPro cameras for tree work

    Speak the name in trivia three times and it shall emerge
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    GoPro cameras for tree work

    Smarter Every Day has a stable chicken head vid. I think in people stabilizing your head staves off motion sickness caused by vestibular system eff ups. I don't consciously stabilise my head when dirt biking - just realised it after the fact by seeing video playback. If you want a direct...
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    X15 coolant loss

    Head gasket - check for any milkiness in the engine oil, when its bad steam comes out the exhaust. My bet is a tiny leak that seeps at pressure/temp and evaporates immediately so you don't see it but you smell it. Best odds hose junction or weep hole on failing water pump. Maybe rad cap, less...
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    New “ to me” Husqvarna Batteries?

    Pay mind to what age battery packs you're comparing. Capacity and probably also therefore oomph during that capacity diminishes directly with number of charge/discharge cycles. On electric cars reduction to 80% capacity is considered the practical usage limit for degradation. Cell phones...
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    Looking for help regarding cabling hardware size

    What's the thoughts about weakening at the drilled hole: 1)simple mechanics less material and different shape 2) expected rot/more weakness in addition to 1), pre-compensated for in specs, or 3) some assumed ratio of additional diameter growth beating out/equalling/or not the rate of rot...

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