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Dear MasterBlaster, To paraphrase Robert Service: "There are strange things done under the eastern sun". But surely you jest kind sir. The scene of the crime was next to a weekend house (out of photograph on the left), that was down-hill of the trees, with the longer branches over the roof...

I am attempting to post image of a couple of Larix kaempferi that I recently cut about 30 some branches off with the noble SILKY "ZUBAT". No hydro-carbons were employed. Stubs left on the one as the client deemed the job "good enough".

Dear MasterBlaster, With regards to your photographs demonstrating the "hinge down and catch it" technique: I, with my admittedly relatively limited "chain saw experience", previously stated self-imposed "rules of engagement", etc. would have been up there using my trusty SILKY "Zubat" (240 mm...

As for my personal "rules of engagement" it should be noted that I am usually alone, am an effectively non-speaker of the national language, Japanese, (the telephone is the worst... face to face I get by), my usual place for doing this tree work is at most a few kilometres from my home, but, and...

Ah the "Stub or not to stub" question. Initially the sight of them as I was wobbling around some 10's of metres up the stick was reassuring. But as rigging experience grew the nuisance value of the stubs becomes glaringly obvious. So I am increasingly moving to the "not to stub" party. But I...

I was tied in three ways: two flip-lines with one of them wrapped completely around and my SRT set up was choked off in a running bowline below the flip-lines. As for the spurs (relatively short, i.e. utility pole size gaffs) they both kicked out for the full "Yee-Haw" rodeo moment. But I was...

Here I am doing probably my first topping. Some sort of 30 metre tall Larix kaempferi. Watch for the brief "rodeo moment". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdEDfv2nJ-0