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My most recent strategic drop using a redirect pulley to keep my tooltruck/winch out of the line of fire

Placing the muffler directly under the cylinder the entire length of the cylinder! Hot air rises straight up into the cylinder's cooling fins. Why they quit placing 020T mufflers on the right rear side's a mystery to me...... My 020AVE has never rattled a muffler loose or overheated during...

Can't help but be curious as to whether any other commercial chainsaw wielder's in this industry are as anal about chainsaw maintenance as I've been for the last four decades? In other words every time I fuel my saw, I blowout my air cleaner, It's surroundings and the fuel caps, as well as...

Some of my fondest memories as a father are teaching my daughter n two sons how to footlock up a doubled rope, split the lines, slip between and rest, securely locked off, grinning down at me. The eldest, my daughter was the most adept at it. I often wonder whether my decision to steer my kids...

Essentially a 12 volt winch on a dolly/hand truck, that straps to the base of a tree, controlled with a wireless remote, hanging from the terminal end, a spreader T bar, splitting the tail into webbing on each side, routed through your saddles upper D rings, creating a balance point just above...

Well the ARP7's just about ready for a new home up north, and the ARP8's gonna stay with me! I kept tellin meself aluminum Jomo, aluminum. But I hate aluminum! Biners rings n beer containers, they all leave a bitter aftertaste! Nope, another project of mine left me with a 6X12 inch plate of...

This idea's been floating about in my mind for decades, including a few failed pro typing attempts over the years. Simple cinching's not the challenge, it's the letting go, combined with maintaining strap stiffness that makes upward progress possible. Staring at my old abandoned telescoping...

Kind of an Alladdin's rope, giving you everything you ask for. This biz and its coiled ropes are a kinked improperly aligned tangled mess! Whereas ropes on a spool stay in perfect alignment, holding their rated capacities longer, because they lay true, in a less contaminated setting. This...

Not the first time it's occurred to me by any means, but lateral leaders are far more prone to failure when the wind blows them up rather than down. Now that being the case may well be common knowledge, but I don't recall Shigo or Harris writing on it. I noticed long ago that little conifer...

Wrist power's crucial to climbing arborists n bucketboys alike, and decades spent going at it full bore commercially can take it's toll IME. It was only after three decades that I began using a speedline strap n biner on awkward wrist twisting branches I intended to cut n chuck, letting the...

Now this can apply to other climb saws, but the 200T allows me to cut with my upper bar(14" using an unusual gripping method, perhaps unused by others. With the saw running I grip the upper trigger portion of the saw in my left hand, and with my right hand I grab the ropeclip at the back end of...

I've got 4 mature coastal live oaks in close proximity to each other. Two of which are lightly infected with S.O.D.(Phytopthora ramorum). The other two appear to be healthy. Have any of you had any hands on success whatsoever treating S.O.D. with Agri-Fos fungicide systemically in California...

Around Lady Liberty! http://www.smh.com.au/technology/innovation/aussie-flies-worlds-only-jetpack-around-statue-of-liberty-20151111-gkwfis.html Jomo

I noticed many years ago that despite running premium unleaded only in my saws, my carbs'd gum up and require a thorough cleaning to get back on the pipe n run right. But about 3 years ago I switched to 100 plus octane racing fuel with extremely good results throughout my entire stable of saws...

At least it's Wallenda's wife! http://youtu.be/bvMt397WQ8c What's that tingle in the belly button called when you hit zero G on a swing set? Jomo Whereas the guys? They bump heads and fake falling. http://youtu.be/P839qG6_Wzs Jomo The man and woman team put on the best show, naturally...

Amazing the handy attachments for 60 ton track hoes these days. https://www.facebook.com/legendaryfinds/videos/931660526894386/ Jomo

My first experience with a FB saddle back in the early 90's ended with Magargal and I swapping lower belts, his traditional Sierra Moreno lower belt, for my new Sierra Moreno FB lower belt, he liked FB's, I hated them. But my opinion of them was biased because 90% of my work was removals where...

For me as a child making the transition into my teens in a large family, competition between the 8 sons was fierce, as was family discipline for misconduct as dispensed with military regularity by my Mormon father with his belt. He took no joy in the procedure, and there was never any doubt that...

Want to get a SoCal property owner's attention? Tell them there's a new bug in town that just loves eating guacamole trees dead! Yes, it seems symbiotic relationships between fungus and bugs can devastate a wide range of tree species both indigenous and imported...

Catching tops and trunks can often be a violent affair, particularly if there's no room for your ropeman to let the piece run due to targets. Mild rides are no biggie. But serious rides are another matter, in which it is vital to triangulate on the catch wood, and use both arms to push against...