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Didn’t you tell us about a spotted owl or some other endangered species living in the woods next door? Lol That sucks about the woods.

How did you guess?

Awesome scenery!

Just some random tree weirdness I thought I post.

I use Spark Plugs and the voices in my head keep me company. They tell me to do things lol

Pics So one pic has shiny spots on the Rigguy, the other is a nice little melted end, and the other shows melting of the zinc coating. This was the cable in the tree half that exploded.

So we removed the tree today and the cable certainly looks struck. I’ll get a pic tomorrow. The end of one of the strands is melted over and there are shiny spots on the Rigguy, looking like arc marks to me. I’m guessing the cable attracted the lightning. Reason being is that I found chunks of...

I’d weld a ball on top of the arm.

It’s something to consider.

That sounds very much like a rust belt problem. If it ain’t leaking don’t touch or it will.

Should we be installing lightning protection in cabled and braced trees? We had some bad weather roll through yesterday and one of my custies trees was struck and blew apart. The lead that had one side of the cable shattered completely releasing the cable. So that got me wondering about the...

I have it plated at 26,000. Air breaks aren’t a thing until you get into the 33,000 gvw trucks or bigger trucks. It’s the subtle differences between countries lol

I think I’m good to tow 38,000 with the 5500. That’s just a lot, 7000 pound chipper is all it will ever see. I’ve had it stuffed with logs many times and many tons lol.

Every trailer needs to be tongue heavy or it will sway at speed. Just not excessive tongue weight.