I sawed right through a mummified cat in a cavity in a maple once. I couldn't figure out how it even got in there, and apparently he couldn't figure out how to get out!
Anybody else having problems with Silky Zubat blades? I have busted the tips off of the last three blades while sawing. The blade gets slightly bound in the wood and snaps the tip off; twice about an inch and a half back, then last week 3" back. It's driving me crazy and getting a little...
Picture has beeen pulled on the website. Probably a good thing, especially for his family's sake. You're right Chad, it's never easy to read these things, but boy does it hit hard when it is this close to home.
I thought I remember reading something in the "recent research" section of the Arborist News a few years back about using sugar water during tree transplants. I think it was favorable.
All right, that one really made me laugh. But dang the closest I've ever come to death was in Waimea Bay stuck in one wicked rip-tide. I was young and trying to body surf those big winter swells, what the hell was I thinkin'???
I've often wondered how many of the younger generation thought your avatar was actually a picture of you! I had you pegged for an old dude when I saw that avatar. Congrats on the new addition to your family!!!
Same thing happened to me w/ a 192 I used to own before a customer backed over it w/ her car (my fault) I took it back to the dealer, he worked on it doing all of the above, including the compression test. He couldn't figure it out either. Called the dealer rep (cause I wanted a new one) the rep...
Macro: I started with planting. Planted close to a thousand trees, but quickly learned there was little money in it compared to effort and time. It was easy to sell trees out here because there aren't any growing naturally on the high plains. But that was also a curse; there's a reason nothing...
I do it the same way you do Mike. Been doing it that way for a long 'cause it works so well. This old timer showed me last week how to pull out bushes (phitzers) with an old spare tire still on the rim. Worked slick