Today....

Gorman · Nov 29, 2018

What spikes are you using mark?

RyTheTreeGuy · Nov 29, 2018

Gorman said:
What spikes are you using mark?

Look like Kiwi Klimbers...I believe they just did and may still be doing a go fund me. Great spurs from what I have heard

Steve Connally · Nov 29, 2018

That class was the beginning of my training in this crazy career. It was taught by a young tall guy from Jersey. He was just a kid then and so was I. Many moons ago.

oldoakman · Nov 29, 2018

What?? No snow??

skygear · Nov 29, 2018

showing off the Akimbo!? sooonnnnn

Mark Chisholm · Nov 29, 2018

Gorman said:
What spikes are you using mark?

Kiwi Klimbers 2

Mark Chisholm · Nov 29, 2018

oldoakman said:
What?? No snow??

Not yet thank God

Mark Chisholm · Nov 29, 2018

skygear said:
showing off the Akimbo!? sooonnnnn

Verrrrrry

Mark Chisholm · Nov 29, 2018

What does everyone else's "Today" look like?

BruceWayne · Nov 29, 2018

Dead oak..pretty windy..

BruceWayne · Nov 29, 2018

Mark Chisholm said:
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How does that Tachyon feel in the Akimbo? Are you using KM in the zig zag?

colb · Nov 29, 2018

I didn't take any pictures today, but I showed up to prune a 22-foot-tall ligustrom, discovered that I could not complete the pruning specification (reduce height by half the 10-foot-tall crown), and informed my client that I would reschedule after I bought a long reach lopper. Chainsaw with new pico chain was mangling the small stuff and I could not reach into the middle with anything...

Then banking...

Then I drove out in the county to dump my 16 yard can of oak debris removed from the same site as my narrowest-ever lz, pictured below from last week:

That tree had three leaders, so I could span rig it. Overall, it's been a 3-day job - an 8 medium- and small-sized oak removal job with two single-branch reduction prunings requested by the unresponsive homeowner.

Then I picked up my son from 12:45pm early release. We watered ten 7-gallon spruce pines, two 7-gallon Virginia pines (no idea what these are but the grower threw them in for free because they had lean...), and a half-dozen 3-gallon upland tupelos and native persimmons. Then we watered our personal plants - blueberries, loquats, swamp chestnut oak red oak, and Nikita's Gift persimmon. Then we hooked the trickle charger to my dump rolloff trailer, caught up on the international chess championship, ate lunch/snack, went for a training jog, etc.

Tom Dunlap · Nov 29, 2018

Not tree work. Building a cargo trailer to store my tools n treasures.

Tree-Taylor · Nov 29, 2018

RyTheTreeGuy · Nov 30, 2018

Had some extra time to play today and let the groundie (aka friend who came to hang out) go back to basics on a beautiful majestic oak. First time for him in a tree for him...definitely not his last.