Recent content by SeanKroll

Momentum/ speed helps poor hinges. Pull hard and fast enough and the tree goes where you pull it. We weakened and ripped down a horrible maple against the lean with a small skidder's skookum winch. No hinge. Too rotten.

Hinges fail.

Only Handle It Once OHIO

@davidwyby Super tight parking on a small island with 42 houses jammed in. The little trailer (5k axle) was good for chipping into, from both parcels without unhooking the chipper, hitching the trailer, moving the trailer, unhooking reconnecting to the chipper blah blah. Crash pad for...

I've been working on our wood. We will go through 4 cords easily between 3 stove, 2 houses, where one burns regularly, 2 burn continuously most of the deep winter. I never measure. Thankfully, 2 have large fireboxes in the big house. One is a small fireboxfor a small house, though plenty...

I helped Roger B with a sequoia about 15 years ago. The 40'er was a help for taking the stairs. I think it didn't turn into regular flipping up on spurs for a long while. Easier to strand on branches fir a while,, maybe the first 100'.

I know spurs are old news. It's often the little tips that pop in discussions that are little gems that make days easier.

They're good. High sound reduction. I don't wear that helmet typically.

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I tie mine with a prussic on the pole that slides up and down the pole to adjust the length. Pre-ropewalker, Is use an extension ladder Very worthwhile. There is a Beginner Tree Climber Tips thread or similar. Full of info beyond beginner. There are a few rope walker videos that are...

As a tip, 3 Benjamins and... 6 packs of fish: Blue fin tuna, coho salmon, ling cod. I've got a bunch of last year's beef and berries to eat up. The calves are growing and going to slaughter in s month. If you've ever heard of Eberhardt blueberries from California, they started spitting...

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Taking the 'stairs' (ladder) helps a lot if the tree is bulbous at large, low crotches