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Nobody gonna mention finding elm bark beetles on windowsills and curtains? I cant be the only one... Usually when splitting dead elm I find lotsa borer larva under the loose bark.

Nuthin accomplished today (flu). Climbing dead oak in Costa Rica last year

X2 Bird feeders and milling. How does it get any better than that?

Bark beetles + fungi cause a pruned tree to succumb rather than an unpruned one that is immediately adjacent to it? Or both of em done for? Do we have a winner here if tree B only lives a year longer than tree A? And tree A that got pruned attracted 5500 beetles, whereas tree B only 1280?

Dig the hole, and that tree croaks... Mebbe yer lawyer will give you a break on account of you being a repeat customer.

Getting shaken like a chew toy in the jaws of a Rottweiler is far far worse. After the fear subsides, commission of homicide enters my mind. Rage. Tossing lsundry down the basement stairs sometimes results in the sensation of me falling. Not good.

Yeah...Let him bite you. Make sure it is an unprovoked attack with lotsa witnesses. Let that hound have a piece of you. I'll send you some flowers.

I don't know how it works, esp. when it isn't clearcut black or white. Can the patient be partially pregnant? I was told once (by a cop) that insurance co's like to apportion a percentage of blame (responsibility) to both parties in a dispute. Mebbe they make more $$$ that way, and it has...

I dunno how you do it, Doc. I think a sand filled hose would pack more of a wallop.

How likely is it that your pruning contributed to the death of that tree? 100% certainty seems impossible to prove, as per ATH's pertinent questions in his post. Unfortunately, so does 0% (given the timing of said pruning).

Ian Bruce is the guy you need to contact, imo. Please let us know what the outcome is.

Patience, grasshopper. The good Doctor is from an alien universe.

Death ray machine...Gu is up to no good. I knew this would happen.

YES. (I've done the exam 3X in 17 or 18 years) The industry standard has gone from being a high school to a primary school diploma. Sad. Took their TRAQ thing last year. It was ok, imo, ($700 cash cow), but I think much of that material should be rolled into the CA certification.

Yes. The monster is always hungry.

Sugar maple.

Reckon it was somewhere around 8-10 minutes a slice. Logs were sugar maple 9-1/2' long. Didn't measure dia, but saw has 47"bar. Stihl ripping chain.

We took a few slabs off on site just for easier loading onto trailer. Will make something out of them someday, if I live long enough ;)

MS880 came outta hibernation for a little while today.

Miniskid (SK650) was invaluable, Jeff.