Search results

  1. Matias

    Struggling with IDing a likely fungus

    I am trying to diagnose what I believe to be a fungal infection on a group of Q.suber (cork oak). The black staining is all the way up and down the trunk/stems, and seems to correlate with the sides that get the least airflow. Trees with buildings immediately west of them have the symptoms on...
  2. Matias

    Where to find aerial rescue training

    I have spent a few hours now trying to find an aerial rescue training offered anywhere west of the Rockies, and I have turned up nothing. I found a place called Academy Trained that seems to offer something, but I haven't heard back from them after days, and their answering machine is full.
  3. Matias

    Old School Hand Milling

  4. Matias

    A really cool visualization of trees

  5. Matias

    The most wrecked chipper knives I've ever seen.

    The knives had been changed about a week earlier. I think they may have forced a t-post through within a pile of brush and branches, feeding it with a Bobcat T86. I had gone home early that day, and the rest of the crew all got fired the next day. I have never seen that kind of carnage. The...
  6. Matias

    Need Harken part, don't even know how hard ot will be to replace it

    The groundie let a big chunk of oak swing into the winch. My boss would be elated if anyone just happens to have a spare for that plastic assembly that tails the rope out.
  7. Matias

    I was wondering if anyone would lend me a few books

    I just got my reply from ISA, and I am good to go to take the test! I remember several people offering to let me borrow books, and I am finally ready to actually study up and do this thing, so anyone with the literature that I should study up on before testing that is willing to let me borrow...
  8. Matias

    I fell yesterday

    So, the more I think about it, the more I see how I could have prevented this. I was 40' up and 30' out on a very sideways branch in a big Raywood ash, and I was on a base tied SRS with my rope over a decent central-ish union up high- about 60'. I had finished one zone and moved to this next...
  9. Matias

    pre-emptive WTB Buck Throttle

    I just wanna put it out there that if you bought a throttle and used it and wish you could get some money back out of it, I will help you out with $200 + cover shipping. I don't need one, but I am curious to try it out.
  10. Matias

    Who's making the "Hold Fast"?

    Looks like someone has been watching the GRCS mod thread and decided to go all in on an improved design... https://arbsession.com/hold-fast-rigging-system.html
  11. Matias

    This one is not like the other oaks

    I am pretty good at my local tree ID, but I have this odd oak in my neighbors horse pasture, and one more down the hill by the irrigation ditch. I have a black oak down the road a few hundred feet, and she drops her leaves. This one seems to be an evergreen, but I feel like I once saw it with no...
  12. Matias

    Redwood Issues

    I know most of you guys don't actually deal with these a lot, if ever, but a broader discussion of theory is welcome. I will be climbing this one and just taking of a couple of the lowest branches, broken ones and dead mostly, and then figuring out what to do about the top(s) It's almost...
  13. Matias

    The joke I got fired over

    Dark humor is like food. Not everybody gets it. Ironic ain't it?
  14. Matias

    Spurring non-removals

    I got a gig with an ISP, installing dishes in trees, and was not surprised to learn that until fairly recently, they required their tree climbers to always be on spurs. They understand that there are spurless methods and no longer require it, but many of the guys still do it. Does the ANSI...
  15. Matias

    New RopeRunner?!?

    @treebing were you involved in this one?! This looks like they resolved the issue of the slic pins and streamlined it, and made it more glove friendly
  16. Matias

    Treetopia meetup?

    Anybody going to Treetopia? I am gonna have time and it's close enough, so I'm gonna check it out.
  17. Matias

    Origins of the Chainsaw

  18. Matias

    Anyone near Grass Valley, CA need a solid new guy?

    One of my oldest friends in the world, who also taught me loads about soil, is looking to switch tracks in his career and move out from horticulture into tree work. He has a degree from Humboldt State, now Cal-Poly Humboldt, with a specialization in soil science, and he has been managing trees...
  19. Matias

    Pillow Talk

    So, I have a kink... In my neck. I have always used a fairly slim pillow, but around the same time my neck stopped hurting from looking up all the time doing tree work, I started just having a different kind of pain. I tried thicker and thinner pillows, both fluffy style, and memory foam...
  20. Matias

    Galvanized Steel Thimbles

    https://www.wesspur.com/SPL308-teardrop-steel-thimble Wesspur sells these steel thimbles, which appear to be galvanized, and offer them as an option for spliced eyes on Amsteel for winch lines. My local cable shop has the same ones, for the same price, and I went and checked them out, but I...

New threads New posts

Back
Top Bottom