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Thanks, Butch & Stephen! It's been WAAY too long...

(RIP, Gene Wilder. :() Holy crow, I've missed you guys & gals & hanging out here! It's hard to summarize the past nine months since I posted last. Things have been absolutely NUTS over that time: new jobs, new city, new everything. Uprooted the family of six and moved from Indy to Asheville...

Thanks, Ray. Definitely getting more comfortable, but as the diameter of the limb shrinks and the airspace under me gets deeper, my steps DO get smaller and more tentative! :lol:

No worries, man! I can't remember what I had for lunch, so there's no way I'd expect anyone to remember all 150 replies to this thread! ;)

Fiona & Sean: Thanks for the feedback on ear pro. I'll make some changes...thankfully the kids were well away from the running saw. Peter: I'll stick to notches on something that isn't for life support! Samuel: Thanks for the that. Joel and Sean first brought up the idea of sapwood cuts on...

Thanks, Squish. There sure aren't many notches in this belt, but going from one tree to two is a 100% increase! :/: Just taking it slow and steady...!

Gary, I think it was seeing earlier pictures of your equipment that first gave me the idea! :thumbup:

Without having seen it in person yet, I'm thinking about one of these as the main attachment point on my harness for climb line and lanyard... https://www.treestuff.com/store/catalog.asp?item=140 I know #3. Will learn and practice #1 & #2... That is POWERFUL motivation to avoid the COD. Ugh...

Not a ton of good pictures from the weekend. My ace photographer was away on Saturday, so the 11-year-old understudy filled in. Then on Sunday afternoon, we had a crowd: Neighbor Eric on the pull line, his wife, another neighbor lady, and my photographer all watching--but minus the camera. Too...

Thanks, Sean. Was this the salient point of that T-Buzz thread...? If the face closed and stopped from too narrow a face cut it could split out.

Gary, truth be told--and despite the fact I THOUGHT i'd followed its directions--upon rereading this passage, I'm confused about what it recommends... Seems to me that in order for the cut to close when the top is parallel to the ground, the bottom of the face cut must itself be parallel to...

Yes, indeed!

From the other thread... From just above... I love you, man! :lol:

Thanks, Gary! It was a great day, for sure. My neighbor, Eric, is a super guy. There's plenty more to do, both in his yard and mine; I think we could get a good thing going! It's pretty nice to have a groundsman older than 11...they're significantly more capable! :lol:

Thanks, Sean. MAJOR sigh of relief over this job and a MAJOR leap up the learning curve. (Though what I know best is that I know VERY little!) :|:

Hi, all: Here is the little devil that gave me fits and a fair deal of sphincter clenching over the last two days, as recorded HERE and HERE... What I wound up doing was setting a pull line in the fork by the third hashmark from the bottom and making the cut at the second mark from the...

Fiona and Stephen, thanks for the continued feedback! Safety advice is extra valuable! :thumbup: Gary: There's NO question now that your chipper is MUCH better than mine. Try as I might for the better part of an hour yesterday, I couldn't get the @#$% thing started!

Nice! That's a brute of a motor compared to mine, Gary. Peak grunt is 12 ft/lbs more at 200 rpm less...

Good luck, Rich! Be safe. Thanks, Charles! Gary, both the dump and the chipper are from work (school). We have about 20 acres of woods on campus and the maintenance/groundskeeping crew use the equipment to manage the property. They're good guys and will loan stuff to me for the weekend, which...

Sitting with a tasty barley pop and carefully plotting tomorrow's dawn ash assault...