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Fiona, i really like the ropewalker system that goes like this; HH held to chest w/neck loop or over shoulder lanyard, pantin, petzl basic on rope below HH w/foot loop bottom and hand loop top. you have to tune the length of the foot loop so the basic is low enough not to hit the HH on your up...

butch, im quite sure they taste horrible. they excrete hydrogen cyanide, thus the smell of almonds.

stayed home sick yesterday and today. felt better today and putterd around the garden some. im really starting to get excited about it, hoping it will be epic this year.

sick on mon and tues. today we worked on a nice copper beech. dont see many of those around here. there are three big ones in the neighborhood, and weve done two of them. im hoping we get the third as well.

is that a homemade rig? i really like Holman's trailer rig, but that one looks pretty darn handy. put the mini/stumper on the back and away you go!

lets just say that i would have preferred ivy! passion vine is STRONG. yah, never pruned except some stubbed off lower stuff. tree was at the back of the back yard, huffing armloads of dead stuff through a narrow side yard really slows things down.

pruned a good sized monterey cypress. full of deadwood and passion vine all the way to the top. took 5 guys all day, including some monday clusterf**k truck shuffling.

i did a little walnut log like that on friday, beautiful stuff, wouldn't fit in the chipper anyways;). today was a crane job. 70' or so, about 8 or 9 heads all originating near the ground and reaching out to forever. we spent two days previous rigging a couple of heads the crane couldn't reach...

too true. just yesterday the other crew managed to run over a hardhat (nice petzle) and a shovel, separately, by different guys, after almost running over a saw:|:.

spent most of yesterday pruning a beautiful copper beech. not too many of those around here, and this one was ~70'. i really love the way they branch out, so much fun to climb around in! been doing so many live oaks and canary palms... stabbing and scratching is getting old. btw, did the beech...

just a few weeks ago i dropped a big heat out of a live oak and watched a thigh sized shard come flying back and over me into the neighbors yard. luckily the gardeners had gone by then and there was only landscaping in the area. always a a mix of thrilling and horror seeing wood fly like that.

we tend to be well respected, i think part of it is that we are all white and speak english:roll:. tho i do cut a fine and professional image if i may say so myself :D. speaking of professional... we did a job today, 3 small removals and an elm tree to prune. i set one of my guys on the removals...

we knocked out an underbid job this morning. five fir trees, combination of felling, bombing tops rigging, speed lining, and chunking. then we did our aerial rescue training. Manuel really shined, i think we will keep him on, maybe even give him a raise!

he does lack enthusiasm for sure. on the plus side, he never complains and he works real cheap.

meet Manuel, our newest employee. He will be helping with our aerial rescue training on wed.

i like your cutting board/table Stig, looks like a lot of fun. i'm going to be running our areal rescue program at work now. i figure ill spend the day prepping and building a rescue dummy so we don't have too take turns playing rag doll in the tree.

its been raining here almost nonstop since late monday night. thankfully its been pretty light during the day. pruned live oaks today, going back to clean up the mess and prune and remove a few more tomorrow. im not a real big fan of making a big mess without cleaning as we go, but the boss...

i miss my goats. boer/saanen crosses. worked on restoring three big(for around here) chinese elms today. they were topped/severely pruned many years ago and were full of deadwood, stubs and crowded branches. lots of limbwalking. a late day due to the 2hr round trip, but fun, and the trees...

we got rained on today, and cold (by santa cruz standards). this whole winter has felt like spring, and checking the weather, were due for more sunshine for the rest of the week. pruned two big firs today, one was previously topped at 140' and has a foot bridge right at the base, the other was...

congrats on the raise, always a good feeling. pallet chipper? not so much. sorry to hear it. stephen, the grcs saved my butt when i got myself in the same situation. i dont know what i would have done without it. started working on my next rocket stove today. this one is solely for heating a...