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    Welding and Chlorinated Cleaners PSA

    Quite a few folks on the buzz weld. I came across this quite educational video of how using chlorinated brake cleaner as a degreaser in weld prep can produce fatal phosgene gas that smells different but innocent and doesn't manifest problems till hours after exposure making it hard to...
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    Nerd Alert

    As a first post on a technical information, some arborist products harken back to earlier roots
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    Tractoring a revver saw

    I think generally saw rpms have gone up through the years but a little voice tells me not to always run equipment at 100% because if it's going to wear out and break that's the most likely time for it to occur, However, I met a west coast guy who said he blew up his big saw by "dogging it in...
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    Chain oil in the wind

    I was cutting some ugly firewood on the ground today. The wind came up occasionally and also changed directions. I touched my glasses and -smear-. Took a closer look and the whole lenses were peppered with oil microdots. Made me think about if I was also breathing those micro droplets...
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    Enhancing Fall energy absorption

    Perhaps these rubber units could be paralleled with the rip/zip unit in an SRT base tie to gain more soft catch capability good background zip/rip screamer operation
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    Stihl RS chain points

    RS is rapid super and has a squared cutting point (at the junction of the side cutting face and the top cutting face) as opposed to safer chains which round off that corner. I "rocked" a chain into hidden metal and it combo bent those points in/down and scraped off the sharpness of the cutting...
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    Tall skinny Ash

    Mid-south Ontario, beside a lake, about 8 trees, 3 open grown others poking out the top of bushy forest growth. They're 60 - 80 ft high, are spindly, almost no lateral branches up the spar, co-doms and branches not far off vertical - all dead eab so no leaf etc id. Crowns 20 to 30 ft dia max...
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    Wankel/Rotary Engine Saw

    A factory product!
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    Tree hits house in Quebec

    Anyone have any detailed information?
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    Velcroed Tops, Spiderman and Treeson

    What I envision when a leaner in the PNW is mentioned. I enjoyed this vid.
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    Another Loss

    Stig over on Treehouse recently passed away. RIP.. sorry if crosspost inappropriate
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    New to me failure mode

    Our parody buck toothed friend finds no/low fueling problem as constricted/partiallly plugged impulse port in the emgine not hose. Found by low flow relieving case pressure test through impulse port. Never seen that in any guide or manual before.
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    Website Change Affect Browser

    Anyone else have a browser malfunction after the buzz website changes last week? My older Safari froze. Been so long since I typed my password I forgot it and had to get it reset to switch browsers. Sorry if I stay logged in now but I'm uncomfortable with google taking control of any of my...
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    EN Saddle Standards

    I'v found older presumably out of date copies of EN358 and EN364 (up to date versions are behind a paywall) and there is reference to a 1 m drop test. However, current sales info references 60 cm drop length. Yes this is in reference to work positioning saddle and not fall arrest...
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    Doozer Occurrences

    Had a previous customer encounter today. Spotted two small scruffy topped trees. Then noted a pine with few missing lower branches and a second pine with foot and a half stubs, thin looking canopy and still obvious dead branches. He said a company came in with a bucket truck and also took a...
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    Mental Health and Stress

    Got to be tactful with this one. Previous customer of mine started saying irrational stuff a year or so back. Initially I chalked it up to gotta cut him slack he's going through a bad phase and will straighten up and fly right given some time. He got to be pushy overbearing and too hard to...
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    Rope Breakage Research

    The youtube borg served this up to me. Synopsis of 20 years trying to not have ropes break, cut resistance. Coolest part is 4 different types of fiber failure under microscope.
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    Cracked Ladder

    Have a few largish springtime cedar hedges (flowerbeds). Was up the 12' a frame then tugging the skinny legs to skid it over a foot. Snap. I'd noticed scuffing at the surface of the brace pivot before but chalked it up to wear. It contributed but wasn't the root cause. With this gangly...
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    Solar Eclipse

    Anyone else experience near totality? It was cloudy and it was just like sunset. Automatic porch lights were turning on. Bit of a freaky experience giving a glimpse into the psyche of stonehenge dudes and the like. I said to my customer " somebody turned off the lights".
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    Frozen Wasps

    I know I dabbled on this topic somewhere else but thought I'd mention I've recently encountered at least 10 of them hiding sometimes one or two mostly in cherry and birch in my wood pile. If you bring them in he house they thaw and wake up. Kind of bigger than the average size I recall from...

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