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95 degrees or so today, in the Rains-All-The-Time PNW. Blazing sun. COOLVEST FTW!!!

Had a temp worker to help my regular groundie (medium-duty-- with healing, stitched, wood chisel wound to the trigger finger), and myself, at an ongoing maple removal. Temp worker told me how his friend just lost his arm up to the elbow in a chipper accident. He was not very fit/ strong...

Willard, I can't tell if you have a loft system. I'm curious, with your engineering on your trailer, what you have come up with for tool storage in your pick-up. If you care to, post a pic, if worthwhile, please. I mostly work out of my pick-up as a tool truck. The pick-up goes along anytime i...

Funny, I just two days ago had a customer tell me about their "cherry", which is a purple leaf plum.

Good luck, Jim. A hiatus from booze is a good one. Try to get water, exercise, sleep. Avoid network news, aka the Death and Destruction Report. Its designed to scare you, worry you, and bring you back for more.

Delayed start to a redwood removal job. The Thursday/ Friday groundie is out with 6 stitches in his finger, wood shop accident, outside work. The more experienced guy is going to run the ground with a temp service laborer. I haven't figured out exactly what my plan is. Usually, I have it all...

I tell guys that they know that they brought enough food when they have some left at the end of the day. Low blood sugar is a recipe for an accident, and bad morale.

How hard of a bribe/ thank you for the good work does a pizza delivery cost, anyhow?

Maybe he'd see it differently with him in the tree. Has he experienced it? Might help. Help him to understand, and maybe help him to shut his piehole.

ahahahahahaha all around

Smooth operator!

Two words: Foot ascender Your foot ascender should be advancing your line mostly, when climbing spurless, whether Hitch climber or blake's hitch. Every kid is strong enough to get up a rope, just not do pull-ups up a rope. $.02

A day of chipping and clean-up from an orchard restoration of old, previously topped trees, and from a big fir prune. Going to the Bainbridge Island Master's Challenge climbing comp, across the Puget Sound from Seattle. Its a team event. One of the Ascending the Giants guys is on my team, and...

Oh, I sent those to you Peter. No need to thank me. An anonymous gift. ;) My ornithologist/ bird friend went to pitch his raptor boxes for sale to a large orchard corporation... rodents in orchards require eradication, mostly with poison. Now he manages an 800 acre orchard in southern...

You know that its cumulative, though. Maybe that level of equipment has anti-vibe built in, but its cheap insurance. You don't want to have nerve damage. My recollection was a lot of vibrations in smaller machines, and with lots of bucking. Holding harder means more vibration transfer, I'd assume.

That's fantastic. You're musical fingers will thank you, too. Do you know about those $11 hulk-gloves, anti-vibe? http://www.galeton.com/hulk-anti-vibration-gloves-black/12099-product/?gclid=Cj0KEQjwl-e4BRCwqeWkv8TWqOoBEiQAMocbP1cN4eAcdOUs52UWox5ESdGAdGzI4yAS4KDd_o0HKGgaAqPq8P8HAQ

Its worth getting the guy's eyes checked, August. Maybe spring for prescription safety glasses. My guy wear glasses, and wears 'safety over-glasses'. My policy is that the passenger should prepare to get out of the truck before arrival, and get out immediately at arrival, with helmet comms on...

Join the modern world. Don't get exhausted by such things. You will need a carabiner for a spliced eye, anyway. They are safer, as tri-action versus bi-action. You're not climbing with a cross-cut saw and ax, are you?

I always use a scaffold knot ("1/2 double" or "1/2 a triple fisherman's" knot). Under body weight it will cinch on the biner, yet easy to get a keylock biner out of the knot, and "fold the knot over itself" to untie. Fast, easy. Easy to ID as tied properly or not tied properly, which is crucial...

Really? wears you out? tying knots is the easiest part of my day. A spliced eye is nice. A Scoffold knot takes about 5-10 seconds.