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The monster thin steel wedges they used to tip the redwoods before jacks. I’m not dumb enough to think you could wedge a tree with essentially cedar. I’ve tried euc and it doesn’t hold up.

Sitting too hard back, you would destroy a redwood wedge before you would get it to sink. So. Still no. Or did you mean "redhead" And still, hard head would serve better or magnesium IMO

I just meant if you were gonna insist on wedging, that’s all that would do it.

Fug no

Maybe some old redwood wedges

Wedges probably aren't the answer for that hog

Wedging trees is an art that many are not familiar with. Instead of pulling harder, more wedging!

The Dunning Kruger Effect comes to mind.

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...