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I bet he's tough!

I bought a Hooeyman(compact, telescopic, short blade, heavy...on sale), then later, used from a guy leaving town a lightweight Silky Zubat and a longer Stihl pole saw after rarely using pole saws beyond chainsaws. I've used a fiberglass pole with hook for deadwood. Alder tops are the best...

Wrecked another HOA declining alder in the greenbelt, along a road to 2 schools. Cable line along the road on this side. Pole saw'ed the top from small wood and multiple trunks until I could hinge and manually tip it parlellel to the truck and wire. Chunked it into the greenbelt. No clean up!

Wrecking two alders that were past their prime days. Solid wood. Oozy. Lil mushrooms on dead sections. I'd already dead-topped the larger alder. Had a branch from the big alder grown over by the smaller alder's fork, like a câble. I ended up leaving two branch stubs on the smaller alder to...

Wishing him a good recovery, Stephen. When my mom was in the hospital une general A, she was feeling post- A confusion a bit, more at times especially after wakng up, several days in. A whiteboard helped us : where she was, specifically when she would see me next ( between 8-10a, not earlier...

Better than something worse on both accounts and still PITAs!

Don't believe most video clips straight away. Some real. Some staged. Some AI.

DOesn't take long to find the baseball cap photos.

There is definitely a long leader pulling back and toward the camera. There's front weight, too. Even if fully neutral, a 1/3 depth hinge is way ahead of the COG. Oak is heavy and hard to bend.

Wish there was a follow up. Maybe local a news story. Actually, no. I hope it wasn't newsworthy.

Doing that type of thing to a criminal is a way to lose a lot of windows or worse.

When it falls, the far, backleaning lead is more visible. I'm looking at it all on a phone.

Is the big bucket truck pulling the medium truck? Anyone zoom in on the knot/ mess? Looks like they could have improved their rope angle and rope height.

I don't know the lean. I see a potential for a strong back leaner or a reasonable neutral or front leaner. Probably not a front leaner (bet money). Any rope breaking and tree rocking back could cause failure. If they had a bad spot or a knot, it could be easy to break a rope. We broke a...

If you need more pull than your hands allow and/ or are trying to reduce finger strain, a weight lifting strap might help for starting. They choke on a lifter's wrist with a girth hitch, then are wrapped around the bar so the lifter's fingers pinch the strap to the bar, transferring some force...

Good stuff!

To be clear, how do you all read the weight distribution of That tree? Not How does one read the weight distributing of A tree?

I mentioned something you may or may not have read...basket-ing the rope through a crotch and portawrapping both legs, together, way more than doubles the strength of a single-leg line with a knotted termination. A tensionless hitch is better than a R-Bowline, but requires up-close setting, not...

Double-bagging!! You end up with a weight in the middle of the TL, and able to control the weight from 2 sides instead of 1.

I'm no sling maker. Cable swages that I'm used to have 2 holes for the cable and a compression clamp. I watched them make an eye and eye for me, but can't remember is it was untwisted, then retwisted strands for the eye, then fit with the compression fitting. I don't have my truck here to look.