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  1. Matias

    Topping, Pollarding, or what??

    I just know how few pollards I have seen around here that actually get maintained. People tend to go 10-15 years between cuts around here, and often they just get topped back to below the original cuts, especially mulberries, but I see this on a lot of sycamores, maples, oaks, you name it...
  2. Matias

    Topping, Pollarding, or what??

    Did the idea of removing and replacing it ever come up? I know it's the less appealing option in the short term, but will be a solution that will probably save them a lot of money in the future.
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    My family basically all live in Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile, and I spent almost 4 years down there throughout my youth. While I can't deny that everyone that I know has said similar things about Venezuela in the past, that doesn't make this the right way to handle that situation. Very simply...
  4. Matias

    Light 14 or 16" narrow kerf bar for 200t or 201t

    I have all sugi bars, and my 18" has been run really hard, and still in great shape, relatively speaking. I have nearly worn off all the enamel, but the tip is still in surprisingly good shape. I hear nothing but good about tsumura though, and would buy one without hesitation if it had the specs...
  5. Matias

    Food Thread

    Sick, in this context means awesome. :rock:
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    Why Is It So Expensive to Cut Down a Tree?

    OMG dude, people around here and the places they plant REDWOODS!! Reducing a redwood and not having it look stupid is hard work. I hate showing up to find a big fluffy red in between two houses.
  7. Matias

    Work Photos

    That sounds like a reasonable approach if you can find good branches to cut back to. All those big sprouts at the ends are gonna suck to thin, and you don't wanna restart the same growth pattern again, so it may be less work over the next 3-10 years (not sure what growth rates are gonna look...
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    is that real? It reads like an Onion article
  9. Matias

    Why Is It So Expensive to Cut Down a Tree?

    I struggle with getting good before and after pictures, but the guy I have worked with the longest, John Petersen, considers reduction work and preservation work to be his forte. He almost always calls me in when these big old trees need a climber to get full access, and they are always my...
  10. Matias

    Why Is It So Expensive to Cut Down a Tree?

    You may even be the most expensive bid, but if they only get other bids from total jackasses by chance, then they may just assume that's just what a good company is gonna cost to hire.
  11. Matias

    45° limbs

    Our willows are dense cluterfucks, but it's almost desert climate here, so a lot of commonly available cultivars don't grow how one might expect.
  12. Matias

    Why Is It So Expensive to Cut Down a Tree?

    It must be, as I think everyone has had at least one of those bids accepted. smart guys learn to ask for a lot more next time, but some of us are slower learners.
  13. Matias

    Why Is It So Expensive to Cut Down a Tree?

    Start them at what you think anyone worth keeping should be starting at, and give them the chance to be worth that. If they aren't, it's usually apparent in a few weeks, and if that $2-3 extra for a few weeks is too much to lose, then it may be too soon to be talking about hiring a guy. A...
  14. Matias

    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    The UAW is asking on all the unions that can, to set up any new contracts to expire by the end of April 2028. They wanna organize the big strike for May Day '28. A lot of the unions have active contracts with explicit consequences for breaking them.
  15. Matias

    Why Is It So Expensive to Cut Down a Tree?

    I have done countless reductions with small companies. I will be doing two more next month actually. I also see A LOT of hacks sell topping as reduction, which technically it is, but that is another conversation. It's the bigger companies that get the commercial and municipal accounts that don't...
  16. Matias

    Work Photos

    :baba:
  17. Matias

    Chipper drum failure

    That big unwelded section on the edge is definitely what worries me the most. If the unit is run and fails and someone gets hurt, does the welders insurance cover it? does it even matter if it continues to cost you down time?
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    I'm not the pne ypu need to convince, but when do you think we'll actually reach the tipping point where most people will actually get out and actually do something meaningful.
  19. Matias

    Chipper drum failure

    I've never welded anything, so I was withholding comment, but I was shocked that anyone would bet their business on a rebuilding a drum. I can't imagine these things are cheap, but with the speed of that rotating mass, and the vibration and shocks that the metal is exposed to on a regular and...
  20. Matias

    Work Photos

    Whatever gets it done! I prefer to keep my overhead low and do it like you, at least for now.

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