Couldnt find one on their site fwiw.Hmmmm, Jacksons Hardware in San Rafael, Ça. has them….
Tips and trick for pole saws
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Throwline and rip the branch out maybe. One option if it's suitably setup.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
You can pull a limb down with a rope to allow you to reach a higher limb and / or stand more to the side of the drop zone.
It probably steadies a limb for manual sawing.
It probably steadies a limb for manual sawing.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
This is going sound odd, but Deva has the longest wooden pruner poles I've ever seen.
Treeaddict
Treehouser
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Ryan, I film a lot too. It’s good to watch to critique yourself or if something didn’t go the way you thought it should, you can watch to learn why.
Don’t be silent! I think you should start asking at least a few stupid questions a week like me.
Don’t be silent! I think you should start asking at least a few stupid questions a week like me.
Bodean
Cali dreamer
They’re there… or Bucks saw service in Novato
Bodean
Cali dreamer
Give them a call on the telephone….
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
No, I dont have pole envy and rarely use more than 8 feet 
I always think of the uncle from Napoleon Dynamite, filming himself throwing the football.😁
SeanKroll
Treehouser
"If coach had put me in..." --Uncle Rico
In praise of pole saws, a Yardworks production proved imperative in pruning a previously topped piece of.... Box Elder. I quoted her $100, she hacked me down to $60 and then handed me a $50. She had me back the following spring to quote removing the rest of the tree and another beside it. I said $500 she hacked me down to $250 and then all of a sudden it was $200. I told her it was too dangerous and to hire a bucket truck/tree service which she did and probably paid more than $200.
Burnham
Woods walker
You did that and only were paid $50? No way, Ryan. She should be embarrassed.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Just say No Thanks!
Altissimus
TreeHouser
I set the price ... no one else , yes I've walked away from potential work over a dozen times
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Good job, Ryan.
I was chiseled down, twice.
I needed the work.
No more.
I was chiseled down, twice.
I needed the work.
No more.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
It's one thing to haggle, but another to underpay on an agreement.
I'm not positive but I feel there was a language barrier that may have become more prominent when money was discussed. 🤔 I had answered an ad in the classifieds basically looking for a cheap treeguy, and got some good jobs within a community of extremely friendly but frugal new Canadians. I was worried I burnt a bridge when I stiff armed Mercy but there were no sour grapes and they continue to call me as needed. I've learned a bit about estimates as well.
So, you're saying they were Chinese? :^D
I haven't had personal experience, but it's my understanding they're ruthless at trying to get a bargain.
I was working near a bus depot once, and we'd go there for lunch. One day an ethnic Turk(?) was ordering from KFC, and trying to bargain down the price. He'd get rejected, do the fake turn, then come back with a counter offer. Girl behind the counter wasn't budging of course. It was hilarious to watch.
I haven't had personal experience, but it's my understanding they're ruthless at trying to get a bargain.
I was working near a bus depot once, and we'd go there for lunch. One day an ethnic Turk(?) was ordering from KFC, and trying to bargain down the price. He'd get rejected, do the fake turn, then come back with a counter offer. Girl behind the counter wasn't budging of course. It was hilarious to watch.
Treeaddict
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Most eastern cultures buy and sell virtually everything by negotiating. Every transaction is done through haggling. It’s a foreign concept over here in most areas of life. Although there’s exceptions. Car buying seems to be a quintessential haggling task.
I got the Indian food restaurant to deliver 5 miles outside of their delivery radius by offering a $10 to the driver and $5 to the house. I would have given the driver $5-$7 anyway. They certainly delivered.
Contrasting the American owned pizzeria where I was 1 mile beyond their delivery radius, no reasonable amount of money could change the rules. Just different culture.
The Chinese and Indian Americans can push to get a lower price when I show up to do their plumbing. I don’t budge except for a coupon which I would have done anyway. It took me a long time to not be so agreeable. I almost say in my mind “I dare you to not accept my scope of work and price!”
I got the Indian food restaurant to deliver 5 miles outside of their delivery radius by offering a $10 to the driver and $5 to the house. I would have given the driver $5-$7 anyway. They certainly delivered.
Contrasting the American owned pizzeria where I was 1 mile beyond their delivery radius, no reasonable amount of money could change the rules. Just different culture.
The Chinese and Indian Americans can push to get a lower price when I show up to do their plumbing. I don’t budge except for a coupon which I would have done anyway. It took me a long time to not be so agreeable. I almost say in my mind “I dare you to not accept my scope of work and price!”
Burnham
Woods walker
Last two automobiles I bought, I told the salesman what I would pay...a price I'd calculated from extensive research before ever walking on the lot. Well under advertised price. Both times, they accepted without quibbling.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
You got taken IMO Ryan. Not cool. As an adult, take note, try not to let it happen again. I remind folks all the time that we are in the top 5 of the most dangerous occupations in the world. At what price my life ?
