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Aww, poor fella. It's this ole fart that needs a bucket......you, young'un? Nah!! :P8):walk::dude:

Yeppers.... Climbed on a TL for about 18-20 years. Blakes for about one or two. Vt for 24. Add em up and, by my count, that's too many...... Feeling old I wuz yesterday. Had a 32" purple plum with a (many) years old defect to remove. But it was 120 feet down a steep slope. Used the chipper...

Good work, Joel! Shows what can be accomplished by a competent and intelligent crew of two...but, without the Wraptor and GRCS, it would have been a tad bit more tedious, with all the up and down. Quick anecdote. Summer of 1975. A few months before my first tree job. Around the morning coffee...

Removed a wolfy five stemmed Austrian pine today and did some quick pruning on a wide silver maple, SRT with the Rope Wrench . Super pissed at myself for not noticing the dead battery in my new Canon 7D Mk II--had it on the tripod, and ready for a time exposure--the feature is built in to this...

All good here, being a football nut. My Seattle Seahawks, played in the third coldest playoff game ever, minus six F at kickoff, stunk up the place for three quarters, but were only down 9-0. Took the lead 10-9, then held it via a miracle, when their guy shanked a 29 yard field goal try with 26...

Who cares, Jed? It football time! And it's our time! It's only the preseason, but the Hawk offense wants a piece of the action! 41-14 and now 34-6..... the offense is looking wicked awesome. !! Sure, everyone will be gunning for us, and our schedule is tough, but, at this point, we have to...

You didn't get that downpour last Wed....? It continued into Thursday..... bet it rained an inch plus...

Fast pulls would be good, and would have been with the last tree, but a tad risky, though that line is bombproof.... could have broken out the top, though. Also, the line was around a limb about 10 feet below the crotch it was in, and out a ways, could have broken that limb which would have...

It was more than a slight cockup, or could have been. Besides my analysis of my errant backcut (and cutting too much hinge out before Trevor stood the tree up more), I should have redirected the pull line through a block on a tree off to the right to get a better angle of pull to compensate for...

Today we did some back leaning cottonwood felling with a loaded chip truck and our 9/16th 19k spectra core double braid line. Included is my screw up, that was a close call, but no damage. Referred to the shooting range by a world class archer friend who is also a wickedly good skier and bicycle...

Nope, Sean. Cottonwood can be sold as pulp, not poplar...go figger.. I pay Marilyn's Rccycle $600-650 per 40 yd self loading trash truck load. You got a deal! Take it! Sure wish I'd bid the trees right. My client gets no bids but from me, too boot. Some companies woulda said $4000, fo sho...

We slayed two poplars today..... prolly 22 yards of chips..... got some good video.... it would have taken any normal group of mortals two days to do those trees, but with this old fart in need of a walker, and the other young Jedi, Patrick, and the quite good, if not that experienced crew, and...

A bit of a blow...... Yesterday's wind blew in some work. This Mukilteo fir took out the neighbor's deck, but only a corner of the roof overhang. Its cleanup will be quick and easy. Will try to yard the stump back into the hole with a 2-1 with our 19k spectra line, using the chip truck on...

Sure, Sean! But, it's in my storage unit.....so it won't get stolen, like the wraptor and so much else.:X:evil:.. check my post on Evan's big cottonwood thread.

Roger Rajah!!

August, it seems that, every so often, someone offers up a Hobbs or GRCS for sale. A friend and I bought our GRCS together back in 2005. Later, he sold his business to Bartlett. THe GRCS didn't go with that sale, so it's now all mine! Paid for itself on the first couple jobs. I use HMWPE lines...

+1 on the cut surface for that prop! It's been a few years since I've had a similar scenario. But, several times, I've fashioned a tripod with three 4x4's.... (or suitable wood on site), which get lashed together down a ways. The overhang can then form a crude cradle. I remember one fair size...

The Eiger Sanction was filmed on the Nordwand...... Stig, have you seen the videos of speedflying the Nordwand on skis?

AS part of a media trip for ski journaists, years ago, this was fun. It was a night ride, I recall, and the temp was probably hovering around 0 F. The Chateau Lake Louise is in a stupendous setting, as is the Banff Springs Hotel, where I've also stayed...

Me too!! Of course, since I've really been shooting birds much more these last two plus years, I'm seeing them everywhere I turn. In fact, just as I arrived at today's job, a blue heron flew in and landed on the neighbor's roof. His quarry was the coy pond....so I snuck into the backyard with...