Burnham
Woods walker
If it were my tree, it would remain unmolested. But I have a pretty high tolerance for trees even very near my house 
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stikine
Treehouser
Haha, no you don't!
Burnham
Woods walker
I had the same thought .
M and I visited Yellowstone NP in winter several decades ago for XC skiing and such. Took a SnoCat in to stay at the snow lodge there by Old Faithful. It was 45 degrees below zero the first morning at breakfast time. Cold enough to freeze the moisture in your nose immediately if you ventured outdoors...go to blow it clear on your bandana and you'd get a nosebleed from being punctured inside your nostrils by ice coated hairs. Which would also immediately freeze.
That's too cold.
We'd wait until about 10:30 before going skiing...it would be up about 25 below by then...balmy
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.M and I visited Yellowstone NP in winter several decades ago for XC skiing and such. Took a SnoCat in to stay at the snow lodge there by Old Faithful. It was 45 degrees below zero the first morning at breakfast time. Cold enough to freeze the moisture in your nose immediately if you ventured outdoors...go to blow it clear on your bandana and you'd get a nosebleed from being punctured inside your nostrils by ice coated hairs. Which would also immediately freeze
. That's too cold.
We'd wait until about 10:30 before going skiing...it would be up about 25 below by then...balmy
.I had the same thought
M and I visited Yellowstone NP in winter several decades ago for XC skiing and such. Took a SnoCat in to stay at the snow lodge there by Old Faithful. It was 45 degrees below zero the first morning at breakfast time. Cold enough to freeze the moisture in your nose immediately if you ventured outdoors...go to blow it clear on your bandana and you'd get a nosebleed from being punctured inside your nostrils by ice coated hairs. Which would also immediately freeze
That's too cold.
We'd wait until about 10:30 before going skiing...it would be up about 25 below by then...balmy
Like this?
Kaveman
Treehouser
Yall see this stud? You can tell lookin at him he clanks when he walks, without the harness.
Also, I see a fellow Unicender user, what's your pro/con list for it, sir?
Burnham
Woods walker
😂
The unicender is great, it is extremely fast between SRS/MRS, and on/off. I don’t think I’d be faster on anything else for a vertical system. They are perfect for crane work as well.
The downsides are wear, cost, and poor at tending slack for limb walking and lateral work. I wish they’d put a pulley on the bottom L.
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
was 74 today. 88 in a couple weeks
stikine
Treehouser
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
I’ll be hatin it come summer
I believe to round off the tree as in Max's pic would stimulate more and faster regrowth than a less aggressive trim
flushcut
TreeHouser
There’s a good chance there is frozen snot in that beard. Biggy Twiggy is too classy for saw chips in the beard.
Maximalist
Treehouser
This tree has unnaturally many branches. There is competition between them, which leads to rapid growth. If the branches are properly thinned, the competition will disappear and the tree will grow properly. Your so-called less aggressive pruning won't change anything at all.
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The shop helps, at least if you can drag something broken inside it is not entirely miserable. Even when it is -30f, the shop is still around 45-50f.
We still have about a dozen machines outside.
We try to plug in block heaters for trucks and machines at the shop.
Batteries only last 2-3 years… sometimes less.
We put blankets over batteries on the logging equipment in the mountains if it’s below zero and kill the main power switch. The service truck has a welder that can jump 12v and 24v. Also we have to treat our diesel, and be ready for problems with that as well. 2 years ago we were delivered bad diesel and went through about 10 fuel filters in our buncher.
Nice. Sounds like you have all the bases covered as much as possible.
Speaking of fuel treatments, are you aware there are apparently 2 approaches- one treatment to fight fuel gelling and a different one to treat algae growth in the tank?
Speaking of fuel treatments, are you aware there are apparently 2 approaches- one treatment to fight fuel gelling and a different one to treat algae growth in the tank?
The only problem I have had with algae in the fuel tank was with a bobcat T300 that came from Pennsylvania. I don’t think algae has a chance to flourish in diesel given our dry and then very cold climate.
Cobleskill
Treehouser
It takes algae quite a while to grow. I emptied a friends heating oil tank that had sat a few years. It was slightly darker. Burned a couple hundred gallons. No problem.
I usually load up with diesel fuel when the price is down. Offroad was $2.50 this summer. I bought enough for a couple years.
We had a hand crank pump in a tank when I was young. Dad bought an electric pump and the hand crank tank sat around for years. It got real black. We did burn some. Seems like it plugged filters and he was worried it might hurt the pump or injectors.
I usually load up with diesel fuel when the price is down. Offroad was $2.50 this summer. I bought enough for a couple years.
We had a hand crank pump in a tank when I was young. Dad bought an electric pump and the hand crank tank sat around for years. It got real black. We did burn some. Seems like it plugged filters and he was worried it might hurt the pump or injectors.
The fuel itself may be pre heated but the tanks don’t have a heating element inside of them that I know about. Never say never, but algae hasn’t been a big issue yet.
