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REVENGE!!! Wife did not quite get my crawler parked back into its spot from winching the tree earlier in this post. Came home for lunch and something looked funny. A tree from further up in the woods had fallen and the canopy landed right where the crawler is normally parked!

Excellent words. Another truthful one: "Experience can be a cruel teacher, it gives the test before the lesson" My oldest son is extremely hard headed and no longer does any side work with me for his lack of attention to safety due to his vast "intellectual knowledge". Awhile back i stopped...

Thanks for the advice. Every time I look at it, my gut says no... After being in industrial maintenance for the past 30 years safely. I have learned to listen to my instincts. 2 years ago I was one of the first on the scene to a major accident. Really made safety become a priority! I lead a...

I followed that thread! That was crazy to see you swing away and then it split! This one is about 75 feet tall. Thought about climbing it with spurs and coming top down, but just not sure on how sound it is. I have a poplar about 2 feet diameter that is hollow and up against my house...

Don't know why you can't see the photos? I guess evaluating the strengths of tie in points and anchors comes with experience. I got about 10-15 more trees to go around my house! Now put me on an an I industrial crane and am I right at home rigging those. Just got my cert last week! Hats off to...

Here is the ash, my line was in the far left crotch of the ash, Poplar junction. Would it hold? I. About 260 with saw and gear.

So I got my "skidder" hooked to it to put some tension on it. Even after I made the cuts, we still had to pull it out of the crotch. But it fell exactly where I had aimed! Thatade me feel better about not being able to take the tree down with me in the saddle. This would have been my first...

I have a ash tree and having been getting rid of some dead limbs in. One long branch has crotches in with a poplar tree. Poplar tree has to go! So I get the Poplar tree stripped except the crotch of the Poplar growing in the crotch of the ash. Today I was going to top the Poplar and trim out the...