l2edneck
Small Job Specialist
I had time to troll this site.......
A new thread for oldies.....Check in if you remember when.....
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ozzy42
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I'll bite.
I remember when tree work used to be highly profitable.
Will await your reply with your 1000th. Congrats in advance.
RAG66
ArboristSite Operative
I catch the eye from customers all the time when I tell them tree service prices have not increased much in 20 years. I do remember the late 80's when the money we made was quite good!
beastmaster
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I remember when saws didn't have brakes or compression releases, and three strand rope was acceptable to use as a climbing line. You had to be a man back then to start a 064 or 084 up in a tree.
SquirrelMan
ArboristSite Operative
I remember when a false crotch was something you accidentally brought home from a bar.. 
dumbarky
ArboristSite Operative
I remember when we used old army 2.5 tons for skidders. And my dad had a side loader instead of a knuck boom. Early 80's logging. No diesel engine trucks. School bus gasoline engines were worth something back then.
The way I was taught in the late 80's was as such:
1. Smoke a doobie pre-flight ( the bigger/ nastier the tree, the more you smoked).
2. Free climb until your a crotch below your TIP.
3. Feel free to throw dull/ hard starting saws from 50 ft.
4. Climber takes a "smoke brake" and rolls his rope before helping chip.
5. Rinse repeat.
1. Smoke a doobie pre-flight ( the bigger/ nastier the tree, the more you smoked).
2. Free climb until your a crotch below your TIP.
3. Feel free to throw dull/ hard starting saws from 50 ft.
4. Climber takes a "smoke brake" and rolls his rope before helping chip.
5. Rinse repeat.
RAG66
ArboristSite Operative
I have an 084 with a 40" bar. I have had it in the tree two times about 20 feet up. No room for a log so I had to chunk it down. I do not take those jobs on any more I have nothing to prove....
beastmaster
Addicted to ArboristSite
I said I remember them, don't think I would want to start or use a 084 in a tree anymore either, But back in the day.............
Three strand manilla rope (1/2") was standard issue for climbing, 5/8" manilla for bull rope and OSHA acceptable. Three points of contact for climbing was accepted by OSHA. Homelite Super XL 925 was a mean saw (still have one in a 5 gallon bucket in the barn). You had to sweat thru the uppers on your boots before you could say it was a hot day. Spray pesticides on all trees and shrubs when you went on a property, whether they needed it or not. I'm old so I'll probably think of more.
RAG66
ArboristSite Operative
Wow some of the stuff we are getting is sounding like normal everyday for me. I just gave one of my ground guys a Yale maxi-flip and macro grab. He was using a manila wire core with a prussic. I started with a wire core manila knotted through the D ring. Not even a real knot just a slipper through the D ring... Even today I rarely tie in more than a flip line unless my old bones need the extra stability. I am awakened to the fact I am actually getting older and there are people who are better than me....:msp_mellow:
Haha, I think that still applies at a lot of companies today.
treemandan
Tree Freak
I saw a wooden pole saw once.:msp_ohmy:
I wasn't able to use it because I was afraid a splinter might tear my rubber coated gloves.
I wasn't able to use it because I was afraid a splinter might tear my rubber coated gloves.
RandyMac
Stiff Member
you could buy 1/2" chisel off a roll at any sawshop.
beastmaster
Addicted to ArboristSite
All they had were loud chuck and dive chippers. I applause the man who invented the self feed for chippers!
sgreanbeans
Treeaculterologist
020t and 056, course that was old for me, that might be still new to some of you elders!
treeclimber101
UNCLE BUCK
When I had a full time job , and would work weekends and make my paycheck in less then a day , and think wow I should do this full time I will be a millionaire quick , shah yea right !
Treetom
ArboristSite Guru
Bailey's sold woodsman supplies out of Jackson, Tennessee.
squad143
Tree Guy
Having to pump a button to get oil on the bar (we're talking chainsaw
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)ROPECLIMBER
ArboristSite Operative
all metal 020T with 1/4" fast chain it "walked off" probably still runs still have a brand new 14" bar for it in sleeve in garage,
Rimmington ground saw with a pump oiler with case cracked so it would burn the bar oil and fog the whole back yard,
minalla 3 strand buck strap and arborplex climb line,
I sold by chunk and dunk last spring and miss it already
and ya no raise in 25 years but cost of living and eqipment has quaddrupled,
Rimmington ground saw with a pump oiler with case cracked so it would burn the bar oil and fog the whole back yard,
minalla 3 strand buck strap and arborplex climb line,
I sold by chunk and dunk last spring and miss it already
and ya no raise in 25 years but cost of living and eqipment has quaddrupled,
