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Also, climbing to place a rope for pulling a tree over--unnecessary. Use a throwline (and a Bigshot) to get the rope in the tree. But yeah, some or most of those look like simple felling jobs.

I run real Huskies here, never been tempted by the Chinesium brands . . . but "fast exhaust"--that's got to reel in some customers.

Sometime last week I finished splitting my scrounge pile. I used to do it all with a maul, but for the last 8-10 yrs it's all hydraulic--don't even want to think about attacking that pile with a maul at my age. Will leave it as is, loosely piled, for a while and then stack in the woodshed...

Morning fires here. 42 when I get up, so I like my fire to take the chill off. Sitting in front of fire right now. We burn right up till the end of May (and I think had an early June fire or two last year). I recall a couple years back when we got a very wet/heavy snowfall, about 4--6", I...

Been too busy to do more than scan quickly thru here in recent days. I manage our fire district's annual Memorial Day weekend garage sale, a large affair---we've been taking in 40 grand in recent years. Today we took in some donated goods from a neighbor, a founding member of Bufffalo...

Don't know anything about Evelyn Wood, but I got put in a speed reading course when I was 11 or 12 (think it might have been my dad's idea). It worked in my case. I can zoom thru text, and I do retain what I'm reading. Sometimes if there's something preying on my mind, distracting me, I may...

My other favorite Gator story (he was Galen Pyle, but known as Gator), you have to understand that Gator was a scrappy little guy, good as gold, but not a patient man. He was my neighbor when we lived in town, but he knew the area where I had lived in my farming and cattle days. One time as a...

Sounds like it might have been a bull snake--in size and coloration they resemble a rattler, but in behavior, more like a black snake--beneficial. Had them in spades when I lived in Oklahoma. You'd find them in the barn, and they'd vibrate their tail in dry hay or whatever. Even knowing there...

All the snake talk reminds me of the time my friend Kenny came up, first visit to my camp up in northern NY where we have no venomous snakes. Kenny grew up on an Alabama farm. Just below my newly built camp was a large brushpile, small limbs & stuff that I had cleared from the knoll where the...

Even after getting to be pretty good filing freehand, I converted to the 2-in-1 and have been using it exclusively for 5 or 6 yrs. or more (can't remember when I started). I have several, one Pferd (7/32 file) and 2 Stihl models (13/64 and whatever size I have for my 346xp saw with .325 chain)...

Found it. Easter 1978

Here's something for you folks celebrating Easter. I'm not religious, though I was for a number of years (1977--'90-ish). But in the summer of 1970 while living on a commune in upstate NY, I took wood scrap from a pile outside the barn and constructed a rough crucifix. To this day I have no...

What I'm splitting has been cut in the last 4-9 months, so drying just a bit in the large rounds. Once split it cures out quickly here. Our mountain air is super dry, single digit humidity readings quite often. Pretty much anything I have split by June will be ready to burn next winter...

If you want your mule deer free of ticks and such, you need magpies. Here's a little buck, a yearling I think. They accept the help from the magpies, but when this bird crawled onto the little guys's head he would shake it off. On his back--no problem, do your thing, bird.

And here’s today. This week I began splitting my annual scrounge for next season’s heat. Mostly ash, lots of honey locust, some elm, and enough pine so that anytime we start a cold stove there’s a chunk or two of pine to get the fire hot. Also, last summer I got a stash of oak, rare stuff...

Other stuff: In 1995 when I sold out of cattle and farming in Oklahoma, besides combine and hay machinery and a cattle herd I sold 40 acres of productive bottom land with two steel pole barns, well constructed hay barns. Each was 44’ X 100’—made so you could drive a full semi load of hay into...

I operated a Woodchuck 12 for years--similar setup to yours, and the behavior is the same as what you are dealing with. If there's too much gap, performance is lousy and you must push material into the machine. The gap between knives and anvil should be no more than the thickness of a dime...

Concentrate on the muscle above your neck. Learn to identify trees, learn work safety habits, etc. Muscle strength will come with muscle use.

Also, your concern that a potential employer might look you over and pass--not real likely. In the arborist field good help is hard to come by. There's always demand for good, reliable, hard working people. If you show skill, determination to learn, reliability, and stamina, you will not lack...

There's an appropriate old saying for your situation: It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.