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The first step is to accurately diagnose what pathogen you are dealing with. A local certified arborist can help you with this. The second step is to determine what product to use and determine the the application timing. If it is a foliar fungal issue that you are dealing with, then the...

Sweet! I would love to hear your feedback on this lift as you use it. With pictures of course!

What got you all riled up?

My first crane pics were not that smooth! Nice job.

I am not sure if they are edible or not. I took a picture to try to identify them to see how they are an aggressive type of wood decay fungi.

As a temporary holdover? It is a fairly simple solution with the site Andrei recommended.

Andrei, do you ever have to worry about pedestrians walking through the work area? I see it is taped off, but some people just do not know any better.

The first thing I thought of when I saw that picture is Butch saying "no stubs!". Miss that crazy guy.

Those are fighting words! :O I will just chalk it up to the potential lack of good pizza options near you. :P My wife has family in Kansas City and they think Casey's gas station pizza is the best ever. Woof! We are very spoiled with good pizza and Mexican food here.

They are everywhere here. Mostly weedy and undesirable. Some of them get fairly big as well.

I have not heard of this yet. I will look into it. Please let us know what you think of it.

In terms of health, Silver Maples are tough. It is unlikely that there will be any meaningful consequences to pruning at this time of year with elevated sap flow. Reducing branch end weight on those long extending laterals will reduce the risk of branch failure, especially if there is included...

It looks like there is quite a bit of bark inclusion at that union. Is this a tree you are managing, or just cool tree you happened to see?

I watched the first video. While I like the rescue set up at the end of the video, I do think it is a bit impractical for the real world. It will be much more efficient to have a basal anchor with a lowering device so the climber can be lowered immediately. If I need to be lowered to the...