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Too late on the starter fluid. Good news is that it never actually ran on the starter fluid and now it's long evaporated. I put the saw back together after work and tried to start it one last time before taking it back to the dealer for warranty work. The thing started right up! Frustrating...

Yesterday, I was in the process of flush-cutting a Cherry stump when my 576 XP quit on me like someone flipped a switch. I took it over to my gassing station (tailgate) and noted the gas was low..low enough for me to think it was empty but in retrospect I do not think it was empty. I fueled...

Sorry to waste a new thread on this, but does anybody know what happened to Ben the one and only TreeManDan (TM)? Tried PM'ing, emailing, and voice mailing, nothing in months. Is the dude OK?

I use my MS-260 for light limbing, trail blazing, and small tree felling. I like its light weight, it's my preferred saw for doing anything over-head for sure. My 361, while an awesome saw, it a bit heavy for what I use my 260 for. My only complaint about the MS-260 is that it could just...

Thanks. Where can one purchase Imprelis? Would I need some sort of license? Also, does anybody sell Triox anymore? I know that Ortho GroundClear has Triox in it however GroundClear is very overpriced and so heavily diluted...one quart only makes a mere gallon of spray.

What could cause literally half of a tree to die? By "half" I don't mean "50% of it is dead wood", I mean that if you were to divide the tree into two equal parts left-to-right with a line towards the sky, one half is dead. Could this be caused by poor soil on one half of the tree?

Getting crushed by a flip-line after a split must be every climber's worst nightmare. Actually my worst nightmare is the tree I am working in falling over while I am in it...considering that many of the trees we take down are not exactly 100% healthy in the first place...

Now that the Hitch Climber device (treemagineers) has been around for a couple of years, I am curious to know how well it has caught on. I own one of these devices and really like it. How many of you pro's out there use one? Actually, the main focus of my post is to figure out what people's...

Wow, what a story about your flip-line. I was warned about flip-line crush hazard a couple years ago at my local arborist store. The owner of the store had seen a climber killed in a similar way. The climber was on spurs, bombing down 8 foot lengths of a stick. On his final cut, the tree...

Ha funny you mention that. Several weeks ago I was working DRT with my Petzl ID. About halfway into the job I was like f___ this, next time I am shedding all this gadgetry and going up light and SIMPLE with just a split-tail Prusik setup. I should have listened to you guys about all those...

The limb is maybe...5% the total mass of the tree, I estimate. When I say it's "huge", it seems huge to me, but you guys have taken off MUCH larger limbs I'm sure.

Cool, any idea where I can get that?

I have a huge beech tree that I need to remove some limbs from at my parent's house. One of the limbs is enormous. It basically sticks out of the trunk at a 90 degree angle ans goes out maybe 45 feet. I cannot simply bomb the entire limb in this case for various reasons, but I can dismantle...

Hi guys. My first post in a LONG time. If any of you remember be, a shout out to you. Long story as to where I've been. I hope this is the right forum for this. Weed killers... What do you guys/gals think the "best" selective (i.e. the grass lives) weed killer? What I mean is...

No it has to be dismantled. Felling it would be a Hail Mary drop given the location.

I'm quoting the removal of a ailanthus altissima and need some guidance. We are not using a chipper on this job, but rather leaving the outer extremities of the brush in a pile; the customer will deal with it. My ground guy is taking all the firewood. We'll be working in somewhat tight...

We should call you Ms. Bermanek from here forward!

I recently got finished with a 7 week tour of duty in Kansas for work, based at a PET packaging plant. Man, 7 weeks, THAT sucked. And leading up to that, I was hella busy preparing for it. Just quoted 2 jobs yesterday and have another 2 lines up plus a bunch of misc. ####. How's work up your...