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I hate neighbors, either the customer wants the neighbor to pay, or the neighbor gets pissy about trees that aren't even theirs, had one call the cops on me last year and threaten to shoot me over a trim job, shoulda seen the look on his face when I said I'd call them for him because I've got...

would a backup knot behind the prusik help with that?

Nice! Any Alaska contacts for those?

Back to work today. Three big ass white pines. Estimator missed that the septic was close. Made access a pain. Also neighbor was not happy that we were taking her trees down. Property pins were clearly marked and clearly not hers. To make things better the temps dropped and it snowed all damn...

Last week, my baby chipper spilled all its hydraulique oil, luckily on some crappy grass instead of the paved alley. It seems that the hydro oil filter on the return line got clogged, the pressure built up behind it and its gasket gave up. That surprised me because I replaced the filter not so...

I have been consistently impressed/frustrated by how strong ironbark is and how much wedge force is required.

Russian joke: "Have you worked in the Sahara Desert (in this case, the Mojave Desert) ?Yes, of course! But there are no trees in that desert! That's why there are no trees there, because I worked there!":)

Nicely done.

That would have been more appropriate for this task as well :). My personally owned gear is much lighter than what I had to call on in my working life...I was bringing a knife to a gunfight with this job :D. Burned up a couple of prusiks and glazed the main line when the prusiks slipped a bit...