TCIA mag article

I have talked about the cabling article, publicly and in print, if the editor chooses. As for your own standards of writing,[ QUOTE ]
Critique it if you can find it,

[/ QUOTE ]invites us to play the child's game of hide and seek. If you cannot stand behind your harsh words by demonstrating your own writing standards in public, then I won't help you bring down the discussion with your flaming.
 
Guy you obviously don't have anything to say about my comments, just me. Why don't you stick to the article and my comments rather than trying to throw the discussion off track. I don't think there is one single comment I made about the article that is not true. That is not flaming that is constructive discussion. So please stick to the topic at hand. When my writing is published in a journal or magazine you read you are more than welcome to critique it.
 
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I would suggest that the reviewers and editors at Tree Care Industry Magazine could do far better. The amount of generalizations and sloppy articles are not acceptable in my opinion...surley a professor at Univ. of Mass (with a Ph.D.) should be able to write a better article than this... Does this cabling article actually do Dr. Ryan justice? I hope not.

[/ QUOTE ]This is not a constructive discussion. Put up or shut up--why are you hiding behind your keyboard?
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I agree with the hiding behind the keyboard comment.

Anybody could say they are published without actually proving it, which probably means they actually aren't published.

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Does it really matter if I published? Does it change the meaning of my comments at all? If there is a problem with an article than anybody can point it out they do not need to be published to do this.

Maybe we should start a rule you can only comment if you have reached a certain level. Lets start by only those who have competed at the international tree climbing championships can comment on climbing techniques and only those who have published in Arborist News can comment on articles in Arborist news. Sort of ridiculous I would say so why such concern about my publication record? Take comments and disagree and show why you disagree, not attack me because you don't like the comments.

I must assume that Guy and EasyPhloem agree with me, just not my approach. They have not made a single comment to contradict my concerns with the cabling article.
 
I'm not sure if I agree with your points on the cabling article. To be honest, I don't care.


I just have Guy's back.
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No, seriously, I see what you are saying about being able to comment on any article, but you did bring up the fact [sic] that you are published, and I think that many people here would like to know what and where you have written.


But I don't want you to feel like I am attacking you. This is a friendly forum, and open to discussion and discourse.
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Does it really matter if I published? Does it change the meaning of my comments at all? If there is a problem with an article than anybody can point it out they do not need to be published to do this.


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I agree with your comments on the cabling article. You're published work evidently has nothing to do with this subject and should not be a part of this discussion.
 
Ah TreeCo you get it. Where, or if, I published really does not matter. The questioning of my publication or experience is very much like politics currently, attack the person not their message.

Easyphloem I am interested in what points you don't agree with. That is the importance of my posting, what is it I said in my points that is wrong, or what has Dr. Ryan said that is right?
 
Again I wanted to give someone props for writing and article,Good job Pancake.I think human mature is prideful and argumentative, that people will lie to gain and upper hand.Alot conversation online seems to always in up this way,I guess its due to lack of respect.You do not have to face another person,so things are said with courage behind the keyboard.Its looks so ridiculous and immaature frankly I feel people must not have a life.So if it makes you feel important please carry on but your not accomplishing anything.Again good job Pancake. P.S start your own thread if you want to discuss the cabling article quit hi jacking this one.
 
Way to go on the article Keith! Nicely done. Here's to many more
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And cheers to you Guy. I actually sent that article to a client a month ago as a part of a bid to check an alley of Maples for SGRs. Dave Leonard sent me a copy of it, and came from Lexington to demo the Air Knife and give us a private seminar in root health! It was very informative. I think we're buying the Knife on Tuesday.
 
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Way to go on the article Keith! Nicely done. Here's to many more
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And cheers to you Guy. I actually sent that article to a client a month ago as a part of a bid to check an alley of Maples for SGRs. Dave Leonard sent me a copy of it, and came from Lexington to demo the Air Knife and give us a private seminar in root health! It was very informative. I think we're buying the Knife on Tuesday.

[/ QUOTE ]Boy Dave is really fast--the article has been out less than 2 weeks! I brought him into because he has experience and credibility and he is also a good guy.
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I got a great reminder from one of his captions--"Finding the flare is not enough..." Examining the root collar is often called for, despite all the misguided concern about this expressed in the Transplanting BMP's (if you read the article you saw a subtle reference to this erroroneous fear of exposing the tissue of structural roots). This brings up the bigger question--where does the trunk flare end and the root collar start?

In the Glossary committee work last year I tried to make a case that these were indeed two separate structures, and there was a way to demarcate them. Trouble is, I couldn't do it well enough, so for now the two terms are synonymous. I'd like to find a grad student who wants to investigate this--on every plant there must be a transition.

If that point is defined, the Glossary will have to change. This would be positive change based on positive contributions by positive people like Dave. Keith made a positive contribution by reminding us that climbing is a means to an end--the practice and business of arboriculture. With all that good stuff around, who has time for negativity?
 
I just got on this thread. First of all: Great job Pancake. I just read your article online because KySawyer gets "our" TCIA magazine at his house and he didn't show it to me. I feel so out of the loop. Also, props to Guy. Before, Dave L. was just a great arborist in the next town over. Now I think he's a superstar. We will use yuor article to sell many airknife jobs.

One last thing. It's official: We have the knife. I repeat, we have the knife. All objects in my life will feel the supersonicity of mach 2 air cast upon their compacted surfaces. I will shoot many things with, and out of, our air knife. So it is written. So let it be done.
 
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Before, Dave L. was just a great arborist in the next town over. Now I think he's a superstar. We will use yuor article to sell many airknife jobs.

[/ QUOTE ] A 5% taste of that action would be sweet!
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The first 3 are on me since you sent me that nice Tshirt and stuff already.[ QUOTE ]
So it is written. So let it be done.

[/ QUOTE ]hey now you are starting to sound like yul brynner as pharoah! Is that chiseled in stone?
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