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Or rent it. Or take the bosses gear out for a side job......

I doubt that they are brand new. Just saying... Easy to get a new truck and vehicle wrap, hi-viz and PPE'd out and look pro with minimal experience. Easy to have the same reliable equipment for a long time if you aren't breaking or losing it, if you bought quality, and have it look...

Congratulations on the progress!

I made good progress on the tractor today, despite frozen fingers. One of the battery nuts was seized, I've never seen that before. Now the stud just spins in the battery.

The trick that can be hard for some operators on the ascendant side of experience is actually realizing when they are wading into dangerous waters. Without that, the "rethink and do whatever needs doing" that @Mick! speaks of will be hard to stumble unto. Like @davidwyby's grandpa says, "they...

Just like accidents. Usually a number of things combine.

I’m a little less black and white about these things, most people aren’t just good or bad at this job, these guys may have had a good rep before this. As @Dave Shepherd said, maybe underpriced, maybe it seemed doable. It’s rarely one mistake, rather a series of poor decisions leading to this...

Yep, agroforestry.

With the right debtload, a person could buy all of that gear in one day.

Speaking of growth by tree cos, the number of AT cranes, Palfingers, Merlos, Sennabogans, and spider lifts around here is mind boggling. The game is changing, as usual the US is 5/10 years ahead of Europe with regards to mechanization. But it’s happening over here as well.

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...