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Any particulars? i can see the lock stitching, but shrink wrap? I would prefer not. I dont think i could pull a shrink wrapped splice out of my FC. Id have to load it backwards, then pull other end to remove. That would suck!:(

Brian, can you please email me a copy of the instructions for splicing the fly? Thanks tried emailing you but not sure that it worked:rolleyes:

Lots of money pushing snow? Not me plowing sucks royally. besides up here in MN winter has not even begun. The twin cities has had 5" of snow all year! Today was near 50 degrees, felt like summer. Im sure we will still get plenty of snow yet though. March and April have been known to be our...

After reading another post on PPE, someone had questioned the ability of chaps to actually stop a turning chain. Sidestepping from that a little, my question to my fellow arbos is this. How many of you who actually climb everyday and who also cut on the ground take the time to put on chaps. Do...

Forgot the weight rating on the crane, but with the jib on, it had a 130' side reach. MONSTER crane. Truck crane shows up with operater and spotter, a second truck shows up with just the counterweights.

Here it is all finished up, man was i beat!

heres a pic of a big ole silver maple i had removed for a family member---$1000.00. Took me and my wife 2 days , chip on site, leave all wood. It is hard to tell from the pic but most all of this tree had to be rigged. There was a septic field just below and there were 20-30 pvc tubes sticking...

Here is a pic from my office. Nice view aye! (downtown St. Paul, Minnesota)

retrieval Tom, Is that set up retrievable with a throwline, or does all that hardware free fall when retrieved? Iguess I still dont know why a puck is used instead of hitch made out of cord. That set up is almost exactly the same as my home-made system, and the only hardware on it is the...

Im pretty much with tom on the dress code, but regarding shaving,Tom would be reprimanding me almost weekly( I hate to shave). but mentioning beard length brings up an intersting story for me. Have any of you guys seen a climber who had accidentally sucked up the full length of his beard into...

herscel, my mistake i said they were white faced hornets, but now i see the pic you posted those ARE exactly the little %$#$ers that got me. And funny you should mentioned being buzzed by one and they calvary following cause thats just how it happened. After i heard the one buzz by and...

bout 2 months ago, I had to prune a med. sized sugar Maple. Beginning in the top I had no problems, when getting into the lower crown I all the sudden was attacked by several white faced hornets.After feeling the stings of 2-3 of them i decided to bail. I jumped out of the canopy and hit my...

I too use a distal hitch for my lanyard, cept' I use a 3 over 2 distal so it grips and holds from both directions if i need to use the other end for alternate lanyarding technique. I do not use a pulley for tending but the lanyard is placed thru a biner behind the d ring directly behind the...

bulk tenex JP, HOws it going? Do you have a good source for purchasing bulk tenex? or do you have an excess which you are looking to sell some? JSirbasku pS- will we see you next month at the MNTCC?

yea but you dont have to start up your knife, just grab and cut. When i hear someone say that they would just use their chainsaw I have to laugh because realistically if you depended on the ability to retrieve and start your chainsaw simply to cut a rope youd most likely be hanging there stuck...

JPS, you're pruning red oaks this time of year? They must have needed hazard pruning pretty badly, or Oak Wilt doesnt exist in the land of cheese:p

A friend sent me this pic last week. Hopefully this guys truck was paid for:p

I once found a mature rabbitt carcuss bout 30 ft up a large red oak. Best i could figure was a large bird of prey had stopped up there for dinner after going thru the drive thru.( fly thru) A racoon would have also been a possibilty I guess.

How are the knives maintained? Personally i made a decision to run through many sets of new knives first before i would start having dull ones sharpened. The advantage here is that the anvil requires less adjustment, rather than adjusting for each set of sharpened knives use several sets of new...

Tom , Im going on 2 years and still starting strong. Some advise if you will, those portable battery jumper packs cost around 80 bucks if it gets you going just once it has probably paid for itself. Another trick i learned but have not yet implemented, run some heavy gauge wire along the...