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  1. chris_girard

    The Humboldt is primarily for speed of production

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

    The Official Work Pictures Thread

    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.
  3. Altissimus

    The Humboldt is primarily for speed of production

    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
  4. Altissimus

    The Humboldt is primarily for speed of production

    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.
  5. Dave Shepard

    The Official Work Pictures Thread

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

    The Official Work Pictures Thread

    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.
  7. davidwyby

    The Official Work Pictures Thread

    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.
  8. davidwyby

    How'd it go today?

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

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

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

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    I don’t think so
  11. davidwyby

    How'd it go today?

  12. davidwyby

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    I agree. I will put a new eye on it and use it for an extension or something. The new cable is not galv, (oily messy) and much nicer and more supple. Longer too,
  13. Nutball

    How'd it go today?

    I hit a nail on the last cut and it broke the chain. Just a stock Echo 490 pulling it.
  14. Dave Shepard

    How'd it go today?

    I haven't gotten them home yet, but I've been gifted 24, 12volt batteries grim an off grid solar system. They upgraded to lithium. Researching grid tied backup. Keep it topped off on the grid, then have backup during an outage. A day or two with no power would be very unusual. I have a propane...
  15. Kaveman

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    I like how shutting down the machine was the last priority. I'd still like to know how these kinds of folks can be successful, while I'm eating ramen. Maybe because I'm risk adverse, I don't know.
  16. Burnham

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    I can't decide if that one is sad, or funny. Both, I guess.
  17. treesmith

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    No shortage of experts…. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DZYzVfMoC/?mibextid=wwXIfr
  18. Dave Shepard

    How'd it go today?

    Headed in the right direction now.
  19. Burnham

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    I actually would feel much better about that failure, knowing it was not bad material, but rather bad installation of the swage. Poor quality cable you cannot fix...poor quality assembly, you can.
  20. Kaveman

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    Looks like a bad swage from here...lolz
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