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post your injury while using chainsaw Left hand little finger cut from tip back to hand, Kickback. Don't work tried hold on tight Left hand index finger one handed cut cut into bone of #2 knuckel. No one handed chainsaw use. Not to bad fore 32 years , all the rest small stuff

Best Rope for natural crotch Rigging Samson TreeMaster Three Strand has worked for 30 + years 1/2 at 7000 lbs $ 92.95 for 120 feet,$405 for 600" Give or take a few $ $ plus 5/8/& 3/4

Getting a job with ACRTinc I was doing tree work for 20 years ,been with ACRTinc last 12 but as an Instructor for the Job Corps program (Urban Tree Workers program). Best job I have ever had just love it. No telling why you have been overlooked. You seem to have all the Certs.??

ACRTinc Urban Tree Worker at Job Corps , Complete with a chance to take ISA CTW after three months or so Not the 18 months ISA would want + full set of gear and a JOB doing tree work. . Have one in Vermont,one in IL, two KY.,and a job corps in AR, out West in OR, Get the Training and Career...

ISA Woes I am about to do the renewal$$$ but most of what I have read here seems to be the truth now days, ISA is for the suits TCIA (NAA) was always for the working Arborist. As for me I have to ahve the ISA CA for work so I gave them the $$$ and burn the book dam slick paper burn it outside...

Dam you must live fight, Glad you'rOK

Am I Screwed I would say NO, First any co. needs the experenced Climbers, Go on and get the CA.In the long run it has been one of the best things I did after 17 years of climbing. Now that I have 32 years it still is one of the Better things. Any City that wants to be Tree City USA needs to...

Lowering with a Munter Hitch Good way to lower from up in the Tree, you can set up and tie it off than cut have drop below you , put the saw up untie and lower away. Used to do this when the Dumas groundworkers could not do it right or untie any good knot. I used to love to see the looks when...

After HS you could look into Job Corps the Urban Tree Worker program gives training in Climbing as well as Bucket truck training Complete with ISA's CTW at no cost to you just the time to complete it 4 or 6 months. good start for a yong person 16 to 24. 1 in OR, IL,AR, two KY & 1 in VT

For the most they I think are good+ with the Steel rings the small ring will fit through thr large ring If you have a tree with no croches left after storm you spike up the tallest Lead and set this Steel friction saver chocker rope into the small ring and work the tree, after spike up to and...

wh was your worst injury Husky 35 cut into left indext Fingur saw bone (No One Handed Cuts)

GOOD on Yea, Having been somewhere just like Him , I can relate Well done

Bought this 298 XP new 1986 with 1984 paperwork $646.00 28" bar and still working it. It has been up to 48" bar, I have had to Climb with it, use it from Bucket trucks, going to remove dead Elm woth it this weekend, tried to make pic bigger

Try a good Rope Bag or plastic bucket on the Ground or even in the Tree Loop Runner and a Carabiner above it a twoFeet or so. Rope feeds out and up from the Bag throught the Carabiner and on to you, Rope going down through the carabiner and on onto the bag. I have been through this over just...

If your chainsaw was a gun what kind & why I have a Husky 298XP from 1984, so I guess a Springfield .45-70 or Sharps Falling Block .50

Music that gets ya pumped up ..Or when you hear it makes ya wanna climb Just took two of our ear muffs cut small slots in the bottom split small headphones put the speakers in muffs in fome the plan was use them with our two way Radios but would work just fine for any music. but just like...

X mass bonuses That sounds Fair, When I was still doing the Climbing, removals a weeks pay was the norm X mass party, Smoked ham . more than fair, But sadly sence I am doing this teaching bit more like a ( one per year)Arborwear shirt ,Flashlight, hand crank radieo, lunch box. don't get me...

You know you heat with wood when May have been said but wood will warm you Three times, when you cut it, when you split it, and when you burn it. most of these saying go with any Tree Person

I have been added up the stiches I have in the past 32 years only around 27 but add up the times I should have could be twice as many still I have been Lucky, cuts from Polesaws falling , Hand saws, two chainsaws, climbing spurs those you can't stich up. all in all 13 you are off to a great...