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  1. Underwor

    Old Timers - Was The Blakes Hitch Pretty Cool When Released?

    Gerry, it was probably all the curse words coming out of the woods that kept the temperature up out there!!!
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    Old Timers - Was The Blakes Hitch Pretty Cool When Released?

    They did not mention the stopper knot at the Davey Climbing Classes in1967. Just suggested that you set the knot after each move in the tree. Also left a long tail. I did use the stopper in the end of my pigtail occasionally in later years. It was the friction knot that would untie itself if...
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    Old Timers - Was The Blakes Hitch Pretty Cool When Released?

    The tautline would creep if you worked very long without a load on it. It would loosen up and then when you loaded it, it would "unroll" a little bit. IF you did this enough without tightening it, it could slide off the end of your tail and "oops".
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    Old Timers - Was The Blakes Hitch Pretty Cool When Released?

    Jerry and I were on the same wavelength evidently. I stuck with the taut line for many years partly because it could be tied with one hand behind your back if you got in a particularly weird situation. I did generally use it with one loop on top as it did not tighten up so bad if I hung my...
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    How'd it go today?

    Used my first manufactured one in 1983. Tail of the climbing rope before that; Climbing was safer then, no hard dirt to land on!!!
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    The Joke/Funny Pic/Video Thread

    I believe it everyone knows everybody else and if you live there 24 years like I did you have hit most every town. Can't say that about bars however. I am not banned from any towns that I know of!!!!
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    Dumb ? Of The Week - Why Do Trees Die?

    When the energy used to grow each season and seal off the ravages of diseases and pests is more than the amount of energy produced by photosynthesis for enough years to deplete the amount of carbohydrates stored in the plant. Thus 7-10 years after the new house is built in the wooded...
  8. Underwor

    What's the weather like in your neck of the woods?

    We haven't really had winter here this year. only one snow over an inch I think. Lot of 50 and 60 degree weathe.
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    What's the weather like in your neck of the woods?

    Plowed snow for township in 78-9 until we got the plow truck stuck in road with chains on the tandems, diff lock and 12 tons of gravel. We had just been through that spot about half an hour before. That was just before we put it upside down in a creek. too much speed, about 10 mph. Had no...
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    Wanted to introduce myself. Im new here.

    Good to hear from new blood. I am still hoping to learn something new even after around 30 (?) years in the house.
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    advice on climbing pants

    Definitely want long pants, versus shorts!!!
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    The Joke/Funny Pic/Video Thread

    When I started with Davey Tree in Youngstown, Ohio, we had an old 700 Ford tandem with a 50' national crane on it, with a 5-speed shifter over a 3-speed shifter. I hated to get caught at the light just 1 block from the top of Oak Hill by the cemetery with a load of logs on it. You had to use...
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    The Tree ID Thread

    Type of evergreen Magnolia? Maybe Magnolia virginiana . Sweetbay, Swamp or Laurel are common names. OR, M. grandiflora, stunted a little by competition.
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    The Joke/Funny Pic/Video Thread

    The picture about showing your kids what work you have done, could have been me. I planted about 2500 trees over the years in the area and trimmed many more in 51 years. My Granddaughter's first remark if I even point at a tree is "I do not care!" I still do it every chance I get. It is a...
  15. Underwor

    What a rush!!

    The rush of the tree climber convertible: "Drop the top and go for a ride!"
  16. Underwor

    tree id

    Rocky hilly terrain also sounds right for both Spruce -Pinus glabra and Virginia- PInus virginiana. Glabra bark will look more like a spruce.
  17. Underwor

    tree id

    With all the cones, it reminds me of Virginia Pine. However the only ones I ever saw for sure were short and stubby in central Illinois. Twigs would have a purple dust like coating on them. Just a guess.
  18. Underwor

    Back from Idaho

    Hang in there buddy!!
  19. Underwor

    The Joke/Funny Pic/Video Thread

    Remember how funny it would be if you met or passed a cattle truck on the road just as a member of the bovine ilk let fly through the side panels? As of last Thursday I am glad I do not drive a convertible and had all window rolled up and the windshield washer tank full!!!! Enough said.
  20. Underwor

    The Joke/Funny Pic/Video Thread

    Got me too?
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