Arborist Dictionary

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I suppose it could have a double meaning. We always used it as a warning, usually in reference to a rather large piece and usually after the piece was free and beginning to fall.

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Sorry, I've never heard that one before. I was just making assumptions.

So it's like yelling, "Headache"?
 
cabbage pine - a pine (usually White Pine) growing with multiple large vertical stems

spiking squirrely - when a rookie climber slowly goes around in circles on a spar trying to get comfortable positioning.


i like oceans' arb-onics that had me crackin up
 
Yeah Dutch, it's ultimately your choice of course but I like Arbonics for the name. Even my wife, who liked my "Tree Speak", liked Arbonics better. For what it's worth...
 
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I like "Turd Tax". How about "bucket bunnies" and "first floor".

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Is "first floor" for newbie climbers that don't go higher than the bottom limbs?

Or is it just removing lower limbs?

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No, that's 'Giraffe Pruning', or 'Raising Cain'.

How about 'Industrial athlete': The climber who is so immersed in climbing, s/he forgets what to do when s/he gets up there.

'Gutting' = Excessive thinning, see liontailing.
 
Thats good Guy: industrial athlete. Had me laughing there...


'Zorro': 1. (noun) a climber--usually with years of experience--who uses the climbing saw one handed like a sword, with which many cuts can be made in fast succession....."Zorro!" 2. a serial one handed cutter.

ex. "Hey, Zorro, let's get 2 hands on that saw!"
 
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Ok, here's a new term you all need to start using. And sorry, I have to take credit for this one.

Turd Tax - When you bid a job, and the back yard is full of dog turds (that you know will be there on work day) so you add a significant amount to the bid. Turd Tax.

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I've been telling clients and coworkers about the dog poo tax for years now. Just didn't word it as "turd tax". Most of the time the client gets right out and cleans up.
 
Ryan, I was just claiming the term, not the practice.
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I know we've all been there and hate it equally. I've never brought it up to the client, on the first go around anyway, but if they want us back they'll have to clean it up. I'm just usually so shocked by it, that someone would be that disrespectful as to expect you to work in those conditions. It gets on your ropes, your boots, the brush (which then has to be hand loaded into the chipper). I remember descending once and a chunk climbed right up into my friction hitch. Nasty! So we just charge extra for it now. Then Kevin and I walk the yard and scoop them all up with a rake and grain shovel. Then we throw 'em on the front door mat. Kidding...don't get any ideas. What's worse is when someone's got tall grass and turds. Yay!
 
I put a vote box up on the website, you can vote for a new name or if you have a better idea, put it in the "other" section. I'll leave it up for a month and then we'll see what the name is going to be.

The Dripline website, i made for the tree guy. I don't really wanna take credit for it. I honestly just want to use it. I made the site completely interactive for that reason.

I'm also going to keep adding the words that you guys throw up on here, but remember you can add and edit any word on the site.
 
Tree troll; the self important neighbour from down the block who stomps past the caution tape, signs, waving groundies screaming chipper and crane to scream at you for removing a stone dead ash that isn't hanging over his house.
 
Baatz (naming this after one of my last customers, her last name); Customer who changes their mind on what they want done more times than you can count in the time between the job is sold and when you get there, calling each time leaving an ungodly long and detailed message.
 
Couldyajust; while your here couldyajust chip that brush pile and stack that fire wood. It's not on your work order and I'll have to pay more? No no no, your here anyway so what's the problem?
 
Bigwood and AspenArbo those are hilarious. I've met those exact same people. They must move from town to town tormenting arborists.

Couldyajust chip that pile of brush that we've literally woven together and is 30 feet tall with barbed wire and car parts in it?
 
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Landscaper: What everyone I tell about my job, tells other people that I do. "Oh, he's a landscaper."

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Actually, a landscaper is an arborist who rides the short bus to work.
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