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    Wildfires

    Point to ponder. States forests generally in higher average temperature climate zones so presumably grow more each year. More natural "droppings" to compost. Presume part of climate zone is precipitation? Maybe? So maybe it's droppings rate vs moisture driven composting rate = if "dry"...
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    Rigging Point Failure

    Glad to see you're ok. I've only encountered longer sheared branches a few times. They were horizontal and had visible air gaps with partial regrowth, smaller than your branch but surprisingly long split length. I wondered how they still held up. Perhaps tree species that don't callous over...
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    Wildfires

    I did a post in a previous fire season explaining that the Canadian forest stretches coast to coast and is so huge that the entire population spread over it couldn't make a dent. And then do what? Cut/rake dead/dry into piles - dump them in a lake? Or do what with it? Nature composts if it's...
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    A Discussion on The Fundamentals of Tree Felling

    100' x sin(1 deg) = 100' x 0.017 = 1.7 feet you'd have to watch the top just deflect a bit maybe beside another stationary top for reference. Maybe it's more like 2 deg or 3.5 feet motion. Rough numbers. 5 deg @100' = 8.7 feet. know the feet know the angle Minor concept correction. If...
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    Wildfires

    Over 900 wildfires across Canada today. About 200 in Ontario.
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    A Discussion on The Fundamentals of Tree Felling

    Looked like it went about 1 degree off vertical before changing course. ? Not much obstacle clearing capability. ?
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    A Discussion on The Fundamentals of Tree Felling

    David, 90 degrees course change is like a football player running straight downfield and then abruptly bolting straight for the sideline. 180 is falling forward, stopping mid fall and reversing direction to fall backwards. I think you're mistaken or have misinterpreted. 30 degrees on a clock...
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    A Discussion on The Fundamentals of Tree Felling

    How many degrees off axis direction change is achieved using the cut? Pretty sure I've never seen 20 degrees, probably not even 10 degrees. By off axis I mean initial landing spot vs course-changed landing spot. Like clock hands from the stump. ? And how many degrees off vertical does the...
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    Wildfires

    Trump wants to put tarriffs on the smoke from the hot-climate-dryness induced forest fires to get cleaner air for the U.S. cities - isn't that concept called a carbon tax? At least he's latched onto the cleaner air part. I jest yet it's eery that it seems like I'm not jesting. Still moderate...
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    Bucket Truck Boom Failure

    A week or so back I saw some guys with a shiny new thru-36"-gate tracked lift that had a 2 man bucket. Can't remember the brand. 72 foot
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    Wildfires

    On that Thursday smoke map the big purple blob is what I was talking about Wednesday blotting out the sun all day. Thursday we were only 9 or 10/10 crappy air, not 10+. Today the wind shifted the smoke plume a couple hundred km to the west so we have some blue sky and 2/10 air today, but it's...
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    A Discussion on The Fundamentals of Tree Felling

    Correct me if I'm wrong. Most species that timber fellers do in the woods are chewy fiber, good hinge-ing. The most common reason to start the fell in one direction and then slightly change it's direction mid-fell is to get it's top/branches past/around a nearby tree while also placing it on...
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    light rigging with ring and "figure 8" aka "rescue 8"

    Cool idea. Previously I've heard that using a rescue 8 puts a twist into the rigging line. Have you seen any sign of that? By the way, I carried a figure8 on my saddle for years as a backup emergency descender. Never used it once, finally took it off but it jingled a bit like cowboy spurs...
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    Latest findings from a Climate Change Study by Ronan and Michael Connolly

    Hot and crispy weather leads to fires. Today the sun never really came up. It's kind of dusk with more yellow partly brown color to the sky just about need lights on inside the house. On the plus side it blocks the sun so much it knocked about 5 deg C off the heat wave temperature outside...
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    When things go super smoothly and when they don't

    A for effort! Reminds me of having to shoot a line into the top of a bushy conifer from the outside but with the inside actually being passable, playing stuck bag roulette tie-ing a bag to the firing end of my throw line, hoisting it up over all the branch tips and getting it to drop down...
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    Latest findings from a Climate Change Study by Ronan and Michael Connolly

    For you Canucks, eh, elbows up! eh, ya Hoser. Little hope for an outdoor rink at my place for about the last 5 years. Used to make one. Have a beer, eh, ya Hoser. Normal pattern now is rain to snow, or snow to rain, very seldom just plain frozen snow...
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    Modern AI Tech

    I saw an interview where Paul said it was a small jab at his school teacher who gave him a hard time. Could be fabbed up by Paul later on for PR/interview but it seems in character with his mantra "Are you going to tell me I'm not allowed to do that? I'm allowed." One time he was asked who's...
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    Tree Gear on Amazon

    I wonder if Sherrill, DMM etc turn a blind eye to this or maybe it's like sticking your finger in a dam - just overwhelming to police.
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    Tree Gear on Amazon

    Did a google to find the open-able Petzl ring and found multiple knockoffs with names I didn't recognise. All had graphics indicating CE EN approval - though we know how much that can mean in certain markets. Amazon served up related...
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    Modern AI Tech

    More often than IMO it should occur, I'll see tech or history vids where mismatched media are used. They'll be talking about one type of engine eg small single and then put in a photo of a v8 head and then you recognise the inflection and tone, the exact same as you heard in another vid (and...

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