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My grandpa used to say, “You don’t know what you don’t know”. But if I don’t know how much umph that tree needs and how much that rope will hold, I will find out first. Not having the motivation or desire or the realization of the need of that knowledge is the problem. People that are...

Sadly, at least in my area, there is so much demand for tree work, that anybody with a little motivation can get by on the less technical jobs. Some of these guys start growing faster than their knowledge should allow. There is also the money factor. That could usage been a $5,000 tree from an...

Poor technique plus ego, bad things happen. Just a matter of time. And what’s up with that pile of spaghetti up in the tree? Can’t tie a knot so tie lots.

Yes, very similar to the house demolition vid.

Plus the last two big tree mishaps the tree came off the stump.

I'm primarily cutting logs to make timbers. I've been burned many times by huge open face cuts. Pull an extra six inches of tape if you are going to do that. Humboldt eliminates that issue.

Well, I think they have been lucky until now. A few jobs in made some money, bought some iron, got cocky, and the tree gods said “not today boys”.

You hit the nail on the head, Mick. It boggles the mind.

That bloke doing the talking head stuff knows considerably less than my dog about that. I think the thing that fascinates us about this is the ambition of the guys involved. This is a very very high risk operation performed by people who, ostensibly at least, seem to know what they’re doing...

To whip the dead horse...

Pollarding and coppicing are very old practices. Mulberry is food for animals. Goats will even strip the bark off for you. The long straight limbs could be made into fences, furniture, fire wood, baskets. Just another part of a harvest back when. Old willow furniture another example. Harvest...

Humbolt for the win while climbing (at least for me), and topping trees here on the East Coast.

Osage limbs are incredibly strong. A neighboring farm had limbs put in along the road for posts. Cars would go off the road in the winter and hit a small post. Owners would be amazed the damage they did to their car.

I do use some Humboldts Logging and Felling , maybe thirty percent of the time. Climbing work that bumps up to about almost fifty percent , a real friend when piecing top , limbs , chunking stem down ... like you guys said , the way the wok comes off the cut

Another East West difference , here the money is in the Butts so ... West many times Butt Logs aren't as valuable even Culls. Think Gerry schooled us on that.

Mulberry, Osage orange, a black locust all are fluorescent under a uv light. I think they share other properties as well.

I discovered that mulberry is related to Osage Orange. That told me a lot. Their roots are both orange. That's what gave me cause to research.

We have lots of fruitless that get hard pollarded to the same place every year, ugly while pollarded. Get all hollow and rotten and nasty and will never die. I tried to rip some small ones out with 12,000lb winch and they gave me quite the trouble.

That tree was leaning pretty hard to the fence and $$$$ house on the right. Tethered with my new cable to the left.

I’m pretty chill but that makes me feel very un-chill.