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  1. Stephen Moore

    Pollarding time

    Enjoy it, remember that you trees have vigour and usually respond quite well to pruning and training. Keep tools clean. Always aim for good balance and structure within the form you are trying to achieve. Some trees like weeping willows are pollard loving monsters! You can cut them down to the...
  2. Stephen Moore

    Are Tree Companies Actually Worth Anything?

    I should clarify that if the machine in year 1 was sold at a loss it may not be a capital gain, but either way you lose. Either you did not recover your investment or you payed tax on the sale. That is why you need to understand the math involved. People generally hire a CPA or CGA or other...
  3. Stephen Moore

    Are Tree Companies Actually Worth Anything?

    Yeah capital gains is a real issue when dissolving a company. If you don’t know how that works I urge you to research the tax regulations in your country. But in essence, a piece of equipment will be allocated in a depreciating category with a percentage allowable per year. Example 30 percent...
  4. Stephen Moore

    Pollarding time

    On small trees branches can be treated much the same as a bonsai. You can use various techniques to position branches to spread growth where it creates better balance. An example would be a tree who’s branches at mostly on one side of the trunk. Rather than removing a branch it can be wired or...
  5. Stephen Moore

    Pollarding time

    Late fall for major heading cuts, early spring for shaping, early summer for thinning and training
  6. Stephen Moore

    Documenting my hand-sewn eye process

    I’ve done some reading about stitched eyes, and there are 2 separate camps. One camp believes that variation in stitch can increase strength, the other believes that consistent patterns do. My thought is that a machine would obviously be more efficient at delivering consistent results with both...
  7. Stephen Moore

    Anyone have monster trees I can climb?

    You don’t need to blow coal to get rid of def system. Blowing coal is a product of flooding the combustion chamber with too much fuel and incomplete combustion. In essence, a lack of efficiency.
  8. Stephen Moore

    Cool tree tent

    We used to make em out of folding lawn chairs and old rope
  9. Stephen Moore

    COW HITCH - ISA vs. TCIA

    Man your writing is hard to understand! But I think I get what you are saying?
  10. Stephen Moore

    New Gas Chippers how are they?

    That’s about the same size box I use, which is fine if you don’t have far to go for each dump!
  11. Stephen Moore

    Pollarding time

    Once the leaves have changed colour or have fallen. The sugars have been stored for winter. Hack away
  12. Stephen Moore

    SRT climbing line

    Sterling 3/8” HTP Static has a 2.6 percent elongation at 10 percent max BS ! Good place to start. I use Voyager and it seems to be pretty good but it could be a bit firmer
  13. Stephen Moore

    SRT climbing line

    Load rating on climbing lines is kind of a moot point since the likelihood of ever approaching that limit is zero. Ergo the the elasticity is really the main important criteria in extremely long climb lines. I came from dynamic lines so 300 feet of any of today’s static lines seems to work for...
  14. Stephen Moore

    It doesn’t take much

    According to OSHA any step ladder including an orchard ladder would require the user to be tied in
  15. Stephen Moore

    It doesn’t take much

    Personally I think it has to do with a run away winch line but I’ve never seen that happen.
  16. Stephen Moore

    It doesn’t take much

    Technically, tree workers in BC and construction workers are not allowed to ride the ball on a crane here either.
  17. Stephen Moore

    Dieing on the job

    We all need to go home at the end of the day! Think of the great burden of sorrow that comes with death. Family needs us to come home every day with all our fingers and toes! Say that to yourself every day before you start your task.
  18. Stephen Moore

    Smaller top handle recommendation needed

    You know, that’s funny- I’ve had the saw stop because it bogged in a cut, when they are out of juice they just stop! But I have yet to experience thermal overload. I have both batteries too. I must say that I only use the electrics on branches and tops, as soon as the wood hits 8” or so I...
  19. Stephen Moore

    Rigging stuff - SOLD

    The Large DMM pulley interests me if y’all dont want it?
  20. Stephen Moore

    COW HITCH - ISA vs. TCIA

    Both are good, in fact both are overkill. You can do the same thing as a basic or modified timber hitch. I’ve never pulled out any forms of these. Often I will use modified timber merely to get rid of extra rope to tidy stuff up.

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