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    Ban bamboo.

    Is part of solarization eg with black colored covering denial of light for photosynthesis so you can kill live growth but dormants like seeds and other things not requiring light are only temperature affected?
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    Someone please design an industrial level version of the fiskar telescoping pole pruner

    That's exactly the same as the pruning stik. On the pruning stik the pull cord anchors in the orange ball which can separate from the bottom handle and you can use the ball as a rope handle so you hold the very end in one hand (probably over your head) and pull the ball/rope with your other...
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    Someone please design an industrial level version of the fiskar telescoping pole pruner

    That almost looks like a licensed version of the fiskars! Does it also have a pull-able end on the cord at the base?
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    Curved blade for reciprocating saws

    The stone in the sprocket side cover looks to be the same as in the bar nose clip on. Could be a coincidence that the drive sprocket is the same size as the bar nose sprocket. I bet if you did a raker lowering you could get another life cycle out of the chain. However the mud grit stretch...
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    Nerd Alert

    Scientific Laser Weld Vid Masters welding engineer from Spacex talking about developing specs for hand held laser welding. Less heat, better penetration less distortion smaller equal strength fillets. another fairly informative vid
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    Curved blade for reciprocating saws

    Thanks Merle. I've usually gotten 10 to 20 seconds cutting out of a chain vs root before it's just steam and smoke. One vid said powersharp started in the 60's. Oregon has a current powersharp corded saw.
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    Curved blade for reciprocating saws

    Power Sharp derail. Taryl's saw seems to be running a conventional chain and sort of resharpens though probably not optimally - 1970's! edit - this gizmo never addresses the rakers so even with it's weird custom chain tooth shape the performance has to dwindle with each sharpening. The...
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    Curved blade for reciprocating saws

    Bi-metal blades are more durable in grit than nice big coarse toothed wood blades, finer teeth but they still cut a root with persistence. Never wield a chainsaw in anger against a root, no matter how pooched the chain and bar, it will only bring more sorrow.
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    Ban bamboo.

    In Toronto I've never seen a giant limb dropping type pear tree. They're always graft-stock based little fruit bearing semi-sickly trees. Seen the odd cherry tree get up a head of steam before suddenly dying within a 1 or two year span. Still, not big, maybe 3 stories max rarely, usually only...
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    Tall Cottonwood = scary? Made to top!

    Last time I was in a big tree was a poplar maybe 110'er. I roped a big broken 25' snag from the neighbouring dead big poplar but my main imprint was how the normal size maples etc directly underneath looked like bushes from above. Wee bit of the tummy zing too. (adrenalin)
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    Ban bamboo.

    What prompted the pear tree ban? In my neighbourhood they're mediocre healthy fruit bearers.
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    Nerd Alert

    Woodstove Testing This nugget escaped from its paywall prison. Enlightening. Small point I noticed resistance wood moisture meters are dry basis wheras firewood measurements are usually wet basis. There's a few percent difference in the 15 to 20% range of interest and they can be converted...
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    New device from ISC

    Here goes at an attempted explanation. On bending/friction type devices the dimensions and angles dictate how much occurs. Case in point RW the space between the bollards and the angle of the lever arm determines how aggressive it is. On a zigzag or that family of devices the chain structure...
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    Someone please design an industrial level version of the fiskar telescoping pole pruner

    I've got a possibly better recollection that the slipping issue may have been aggravated by plastic parts dimension changes on cold to hot and vice versa days. I.e the telescope clamp. I think I also pulled at least one clamp.bushing assembly apart from the fiberglass bottom during use...
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    Someone please design an industrial level version of the fiskar telescoping pole pruner

    The click button assembly, positive lock, was probably done because on the pruning stik the extension position is held by friction lock and always slips using the saw blade. You can tweak it but then it's hard to telescope. I'll measure my pruning stik aluminum tube and then it can be...
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    Add quick buckle to TM Essential

    I once added a bridge to my son's saddle by using so called certified parts in the form of petzl openable rings. Only liability then is that you've altered configuration, but maybe that's as much of a legal sin as using non-cert parts. ? Jimmying a latch or buckle may set you up too.
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    Offering additional services such as lawn mowing / landscaping

    A friend of mine, now retired, ran a comprehensive grass landscaping business. Small, crew total 2 to 4, fast in fast out on lawns, hated doing flower beds, was trained climbing mainly spurs and the new-invention micropulley DRT tending. He zipped around town clock chasing doing lawns and...
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    Energy absorber for rock climbing.

    The last thread I recall on this was based in part of the debut review of these elastomer absorbers on Hownot2 with drop testing and I think also pull testing. IIRC screamers offered more catch snubbing capability. Constant force vs increasing via spring extension force. Devices like this are...
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    Treatment for board/ lag bolt compressed trees from a treehouse swing.

    Assess for targets in the weak direction and let it grow if ok. The cambium layer might still be ok as the face doesn't look rotted dried or dead. A Meilleur way to spell it ;) (better)
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    Is it time to replace the bungee on my Big Shot?

    For clarification, mine is home brew so its bare steel rod inside the latex. Still, my cracking is on the outside. I cut my tubing in the free air portion and roll it off the horn. I use slightly lighter tubing and re-use my pouch - home made leather stitched :)

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