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Lucky to sub in with a killer team on a unique site.

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L3VI said:
Cool, I love the east coast for that type of stuff.
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Not just the east coast.
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This is about 15 miles from my home in Northern MN. A friend of mine cleans the soot out of those stacks every year. Odd as it sounds, he is lowered down from the top with a shotgun and a few thousand rounds of bird shot. As he goes down he blasts the sides to knock loose the soot. He says it is not a fun job at all. It is a coal fired power plant that feed a goodly portion of this area.

And this one is in Duluth MN
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But that stack is not operational anymore.
 
Very cool. My grandmother is from Virginia, MN. Duluth was the big city for them as kids.

I a guy dangling from a rope blasting soot off with a shot gun is, I can't tell if you're joking or not. Sounds like an awful job.
 
Steve Connally said:
@oceans Thats an amazing site
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One hundo. Just yesterday, we were working around the corner of the building where the slope met the envelope quite high, making a transition from steep slope to 20’-ish vertical drop. We all had to be tied in to work on the ground except the winch operator.

Some trees were growing out of loose rock at that transition. We had to tip tie the winch line and butt tie the base to control overall swing and drag as not to hit the building or break any rock free. Even the thinner 6” trees were plenty challenging.

The job harkens back to the work I was invited to do with the great Maruichi crew and @SoftBankHawks. It was nice to have that prior experience…We just had to watch out for an old building instead of a speeding train!
 
oceans said:
One hundo. Just yesterday, we were working around the corner of the building where the slope met the envelope quite high, making a transition from steep slope to 20’-ish vertical drop. We all had to be tied in to work on the ground except the winch operator.

Some trees were growing out of loose rock at that transition. We had to tip tie the winch line and butt tie the base to control overall swing and drag as not to hit the building or break any rock free. Even the thinner 6” trees were plenty challenging.

The job harkens back to the work I was invited to do with the great Maruichi crew and @SoftBankHawks. It was nice to have that prior experience…We just had to watch out for an old building instead of a speeding train!
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Thanks for sharing the amazing photos of a very unique job site.
 
Serf Life said:
Pretty sure that Nectria sp. is native.? @KTSmith
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You bet, the asco experts consider the fungus that causes target canker to be native to North America as well as to northern Europe. That fungus was long-established as Nectria galligena but has had several transfers to now be cited as Neonectria ditissima. As with everything else, the more one looks, the more variation one sees. Safe bet that the Nectria-like fungi one sees are indeed native.
 
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