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So would the maasdam be better in a tip tie lifting situation or is it too slow of a tool?

Great points! I didn’t think about incorporating MA with the maasdam. The tree I took down was a pretty thick trunk could have easily been 3000lbs of wood before considering ground friction of crippling and pulling the stem. I see how y’all are achieving so much with the tool, I like it 😁 time...

The Maasdam is rated for a max pull of 1500. Is that accurate? Never used one but doesn’t seem like enough pull to drag a 5000lb tree

Cripple/winch would have been a great idea but I don’t have a winch. Probably would have made it a little bit easier lol

All climb by myself. Tree was supported by two other trees. I bounced between climbing those two and walking up the dead spar to drop everything. As I released each resting point the supporting trees stood up more. The cut before the last one made the dead tree root to shift up 6-8in. That’s...

Went and did a side job after work and it was quite interesting.

I fell in love with climbing when I was a landscaper. Making not a penny more in a tree than on a mower. Climbing came before trees, bucket trucks, or the money. I’ll set a line in a tree and get my butt kicked by it any day before I take a fence down to get a bucket truck on the job. Don’t get...

Yeah definitely a cleaner job that way. It just always seems all the fun jobs are done with the bucket and the butt busting jobs are done climbing. I want some fun climb jobs sometimes. I need some more tight back yards 😁😁😁

May have been. It was out by the beach so some rich ladies home. Yeah it was an easy job. Only real obstacle was the occasional truck and the one street sign. Had the tree done and on the ground in 1.5 hours. Took us that time again to finish clean up. Sometimes the boss has us take the bucket...

Nothing special but got the tree done and cleaned up in under 3 hours so I’m pretty proud of myself 😁 https://share.icloud.com/photos/051G6i4eMO-Ib2k27Q3GqQy0w

Good thing “we” are recyclable though, will probably be more useful the second time around 😅

I must have been a defective product cause my ex wife returned me to the “single’s department.” 😂😂😂

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Thank you Skwerl for the encouragement! Gonna be studying this next year to become ISA certified and I hope to make past generations proud and to help grow this industry

Well ladies and gents. Today I took down the tree that all of you helped me pick a saw out for (the ms462 thread I started). My ground guy (dear friend) wasn’t able to make it so I was by myself on this big tree til my friend that I was doing the job for came home. Then I was able to balance...

Such good techniques that can’t wait to try out 😁 thinking of so many trees that would have been easier if I knew of this sooner 😂

So just thinking of how that could go wrong, could the limb still “poke” the earth in a way that it wouldn’t say hinge on the remaining fibers but act like a heavy limb with too much undercut and just pinch the kerf, still becoming a pivot and something to stab in to the earth

gotcha Marc, great explanation of that one. When y’all were first mentioning the technique my mind went in to doing a series of undercuts down the spar. Maybe only 20% of the diameter so that when it fell you only had to do the top cut and not risk burying the saw in the dirt.

Man you guys are awesome lol. Constantly hearing of new techniques, now about folding leaders and spars. For the new guy, is there any footage of this process so I can get a visual and some guidelines of it?

Yeah Sean he caught the very beginning of the barrier where they set up those metal collapsible energy absorbers. The hitch on the truck just needs to be replaced (hopefully). That was an older work truck 05 f250 so easy enough to get another hitch. I’m not sure about what our local dot says...