Experience plays a huge factor in what can reasonably be done. I'm way more comfortable prescribing weight reductions, sometimes heavy, now that I have years of experience noting how trees react to pruning or injury.
SZ
Dang. Your description of the rope snapping and emptying its force onto your body is fascinating.
Always a good idea to listen to the little voice telling you when to take another approach.
Glad you didn't get clocked by the carabiner.
SZ
I wonder why we are so in debt? It couldn't have anything to do with two unfunded wars that raged for a decade, could it? Bush and Obama are two sides of the same coin. One man (President) can't control the multinational corporations that own Congress and write the laws.
SZ
This past year we really put that deck to the test. We often joke about how cool it would be to all die in a major collapse of the deck, and how it would be even cooler if the picture caught the exact moment when the wood beams snap.
SZ