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There are caterpillars that can pack a nasty sting. They feed on bushes and trees. Friend went to ER with a sting. They asked him about using different soap.... blah blah. He finally got his phone out and brought up a picture and description of what bit him. Quite painful.

Looks extremely hot and arduous work. Why not just rig a couple of pieces of rather than ripping, slicing and dicing?

spider bite or the like sounds right to me. Don't let it get out of control.

I need to bring this discussion back to life. I am slowly learning as I remove a large hackberry with several leaning leaders. Fortunately there are high tie in points. Still a challenge for me as I have little experience with leaners or gaffs. I tried on top and underneath… and then...

Spider Bite? am gradually removing a large hackberry tree over my parking area. I had cut off the dead branches that were most threatening to my van in a couple sessions over the last few years. I have a week off my day job so I am back at it. Saturday morning I got bit or stung by something on...

They do ok, this one was 75/80 years old. They were rarely planted in groups, probably because they were expensive, so in isolation I often see them with their tops blown out, which ruins them aesthetically.

What an exhausting task that one was! I've never seen anyone take chunks by ripping the trunk like that.

In my line of work we call that hackery.

I hear the Sequoia do right well across much of Europe. That one seemed to have taken to it fairly well. Any idea how old it was?

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And tree was worthy

Thanks, light was good, blue sky etc.

Nice page!

Wow good pics

Here is a bit of work from my second climber

Not very big, but not very small sequoia we did last week. As you can see had split at a co-dom earlier this spring.

COOLVESTS!!!!!!!

Cool. I will have to look again at a tree I have to take down. Might work. It has a lean for a building. If I use the anchor available to pull, it has a 20 foot White Oak in danger. My bud planted the oak 20 years ago. Been pondering using two pull ropes. One to get it committed to away...

Levitated a 55 ft tall dead one yesterday. Hollow at the base and up about ten feet, and the Pileated Woodpecker had blasted it halfway through about 30 feet up. Hung it from the hickory next to it and whittled it from the bottom up.