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hey guys, I don't know much about the cammed ascenders but it looks like it's a bit easier to climb than with the traditional body thrusting method. just wondering though, what do you guys use as a backup for fall protection when using ascenders?? I know you can use the Prusik friction hitch...

can people really be that stupid??? If someone blows through cones or doesn't heed warning of danger I feel they give up any compensation rights that they feel is just after an accident in which they placed themselves in harms way!!!!

if you see a crew removing a tree wouldn't common sense tell you to keep away??? How was he allowed in the drop zone? Where there any cones put out around the parameters?

boy canola sounds alright!!! I smoke my own meats and usually I'll hand cut the ends because I don't want any off tastes are scents going into my meats. But if canola works and there is no excessive friction on the bar or chain won't have to do any hand cutting!!!!

any of you guys go "gaffless" when doing take downs and removals when climbing is necessary?

can you guys make sense of this??? He he cut a branch and it fell and broke another branch he obviously didn't start at the bottom and work his way up. whether it entagled his ropes or not how does the rope crush you??? I mean if he was tied in correctly branches caught wouldn't pull you down...

I don't buy hundreds of dollars worth of equipment at least not yet. but if I did it would be through sherrills. I wouldn't even shop around! It's call customer service and supporting those who take care of you. good customer service is worth more at times than the product itself!! You don't go...

hey mike thanks for the input I appreciate it. I'm only working weekends with my friend since the lyme disease and (i'm staying at home with our 11 month old daughter) I hope to look for full time work as soon as next spring but I'm hoping to have a game plan sooner this way if I need additional...

I would think it would have been covered, although I don't know where I was bit, so it might have been difficult to prove it was work related... I don't know

Dan, Yeah the lyme disease had me pretty scared!! It's worked out well though, I'm just itchin to work full time again!!!

Dan, I'm no pro but what we do is pretty much what you had stated about tying half way with a hinge that lowers slowly which tighens the rope. When the limb is free we usually lower from a break with a fluid hand over hand motion, no jerking, the climber really doesn't have to worry about...

thanks for your comment greg, I appreciate it!!! There's alot more that going on with him but I don't want to get into that and I don't want to trash my friend/boss but after having a couple of comments from the pro's including yourself, it only confirms what I was thinking. I think it's...

guys thanks for the support and I don't want to sound like I'm trashing him hellva guy!!! It's his company, he's the only employee technically and he is looking for cheap help. He does go through a ton of groundman and I stayed with it last year because I was thinking of making a career out of...

Russ can you elborate on a line mechanics duties? Do you work on buckets, trucks and chippers? Are they union too?

I make a bit more than $8 It's $100 a day sometimes I work 7 hrs sometimes I work 12 hrs. I run ropes, chipper, brush and handle the saw. Picture 2 guys one in the tree and me! As for the bite it took about 5 days before my back started killing me, I mean it felt like I burnt it on a muffler...

ya the tick thing sucked. I couldn't use my hands at all. Do you know how embarassing it is when you are grocery shopping and you are running into displays I couldn't close my hands, my grandfather was out working me and because of the lay up I gained 30 lbs. I was useless!!! We already talked...

that's the problem I feel guilty asking for more money, I hope and wish he would just offer because he sees how I work and I still believe that should speak for itself. If a groundman makes $7-$8 then I'm ahead of the game and I need to take the next step whether that's learning to climb or...

Hey what are your opinions on bucket trucks. I know absolutely nothing of bucket trucks and was wondering what the concensus is amongst the arborists finest. Are they safer than climbing? (obviously I mean from a playing it safe standpoint not that you can be careless and it will be okay). What...

greg I agree and totally understand your point, but i'm under the table, so there's no worker's comp and he is on his wifes health insurance policy, yes he has a truck and chipper payment along with biz insurance and probably 5k in saws but he also made 6 figures last year do you know how much I...

actually I didn't get any of that wood we had to call in a local tree guy who had a logging truck to take that wood away. Right after that big job we did another large one 24 maples again that was around 5k. Don't get me wrong I love the guy, comes over for picnics and he's the first one I would...