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    Online ISA TRAQ renewal class. Have you taken it?

    Sorry to take so long to reply. I haven't been on the site for a while. I took the online renewal class late spring. The exam for me was administered by a 3rd party proctoring company (Pearson Vue). You have do download their software, which takes over your computer while you write the test...
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    Walnut shell skin reaction..

    Awesome, someone has to get medical aid, which means accident reports, investigations and untold amounts of paperwork. On powerline contracts, the power company gets a copy of all accident reports The crew loses about $700 in revenue due to retaliation. Someone's getting suspended or fired.
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    "McGuyver'd" Lifting devices (IE for adding-on to a Porty/etc type bollard....or in-place-of!)

    GRCS is a tool, but there are 1000's of companies out there that take down thousands of trees daily without one. There are always other ways to skin the cat. How many rigging take downs have you actually done?
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    [Palm Experts!!] Have a Palm to remove, but can't just drop it where it wants, and afraid trunk is too-weak to rig from...need advice!!

    If you've ever seen a palm fail, usually due to erosion, they have an amazingly small root ball, considering the high wind stress that they can be subjected to in the Caribbean or Gulf Coast. The likelihood of that toppling is very low. Just based on what I see around it, and unless its an...
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    Tree health

    Wasn't carpenter ants that killed them. The carpenter ants nest in decayed or rotten wood, but they won't kill the tree. Carpenter ants feed primarily on insect honeydew, plant and fruit juices, insects and other arthropods. Inside, they will also feed on sweets, eggs, meats, cakes and grease...
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    Upgrading chippers

    You have to check your truck full of chips, with the chipper against your GVWR. Its not the pulling that will get you, its the stopping.
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    How to cut the ends of high branches that overhang a house's roof and gutter.

    Make sure your climbing line is high. Don't try limb walking, rather be a little lower, sitting in your harness and pull yourself out on the branch. That way you're always secure in your harness. Use your lanyard to secure your position on the limb. Now you can get further out on the limb, and...
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    I'm 'hunting' for beginner advice please

    Amazon Welkforder fall arrest harnesd
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    I'm 'hunting' for beginner advice please

    https://www.amazon.ca/WELKFORDER-Industrial-Protection-Detachable-Compliant/dp/B088WD54RR
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    Cherry tree pruning HELP

    You can prune ornemental cherries back to almost the old cuts. I cut back to a lateral, but may cut back to the old cut if there is a sucker or two at that location. My philosophy is trees are like teenagers, driven by hormones, so the growth hormones need a place to concentrate so they wont...
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    Most profit in a day?

    We're a tree service.
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    Most profit in a day?

    I was doing some rough calculations and we target $160/day profit per crewman. An $11000 profit day would require a 68 person crew (and the corresponding amount of work).
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    Drilling Trees To Check For Decay

    Remember the drill is only useful if you hit the rot pocket. You may want to drill some stumps so you can get a calibration of whats sound and what is decay. The resistograph does that. If you just wind up the drill and go, you may not feel the transition point, and thats the important factor...
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    When to make the decision to postpone a job due to weather?

    We never call it unless the trucks cant drive due to snow. If we didn work jn the rain, we would never work. Working with wet ropes is a given. We rarely get lightning, so no issue there, and like Jeff, if the crew marshalls then gets sent home, they get 2 hours.
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    Is this tree healthy?

    Call the electrical utility. They may deem it a risk to their system and pay for it's removal. I can see secondaries but not sure if there are primaries there. Around here, BC Hydro is willing to remove trees hazardous to their system, whether the tree is part of that trimming cycle or not.
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    Red maple leaves dried up. Is this scorch?

    Could be drought stress. When you say new house, is it new construction? If so, the roots could have been compromised in some manner and is now showing up in the canopy.
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    Moss and splits in bark on Maple trees

    It looks like algae and lichens rather than moss. Depends on the site, usually a function of higher humidity. Not a concern. Tough to tell you anything about the cracks. Could just be bark getting older. As the tree increases in diameter, the bark doesn't expand so will develop cracks, again...
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    Identifying Tree in Painting

    The way the leaves are painted leads me to think some form of ash. Keep on the straight and narrow path to the light at the end of the tunnel. That's the most thought I've put into interpretting art, since I had to interpret poetry in English 100 in university.
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    whadja do today?

    Is your spider lift like sitting on top of a fly fishing rod?
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    Yale Double Esterlon reviews

    We us 5/8 stable braid, works fine in a porty. We beat the piss out of it, natural crotch or blocks. Only time it failed, the rope probably should have been out of service.
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