I did my first SRT work climb today. In the rain. In a wet silver maple. Probably not the ideal conditions for the first go but I had played with the rope wrench and different hitch cords and felt confident i wa sufficiently dialed in to be safe. I have used SRT for access a few times but given...
Cool Stig! I dropped a big ash in a parking lot for the county today and ground the stump. Filled the truck with chips, firewood guy picked up just under 4 cords.
Sorry I haven't been around on the site much. Life kind of goes through cycles and I have been doing so much work that I haven't felt...
Attempting to install a dump hoist on the pick-up. What a pain. Got the hot water heater replaced and the new hot tub cover arrived today so it was a "hot" day.
Pruned a big cottonwood and replaced the Cobra cable that I installed 8 years ago (Anybody else notice that the self adjusting feature of Cobra never seems to work?) AllGear BranchSaver is in there now. Then pruned 3 apples and did about 75% of the pruning on a big weeping willow. One more...
Yes, Congrats to Justin on the anniversary and to SimplyArbor on the chipper 37 hp is pretty good on a 6inch. Being a Bandit I bet it will actually eat 6 inch stuff!
Tiring week. Helper was out for 2 days....during which I was doing a big Maple removal. Sawed through a bee hive. Salvaged the hive and sent it off with a beekeeper. The neighbor lady videoed it but I haven't seen what she got.
Elephants are why most of Africa is Treed Savanna rather than forest. They may browse standing trees but if it is tasty but inconvenient they set their shoulders on a trunk, topple the tree and munch the tops. They poop basketball sized round hay bales of masticated twigs.
So annoyed about spraining my ankle that I forgot for a moment how blessed I am- I worked for the counterpoint of Brian's client today. I quote " You always amaze me that you can make an ugly old elm looks so good. You know what to cut and how to not make them grow crazy."
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