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Hello all. I'm in the same boat here, looking to get a new saddle to replace my old faithful ba!!buster, the 4D Wideback Weaver. I've been climbing on it for close to 6 years now, and I feel like I've outgrown it. I end up with bruises every time I climb now. I'm trying to decide between the...

In my classes at the University, we learned that Yellow Pine was a group of about five species that grow in the US southeast. Virginia, Table Mountain, and some others I can't recall now. But that's why it's not in any ID books. I second the Loblolly votes too. More on topic, I've been up...

Heh, we were out working today, and saw these beauties :censored: across the street, and my first thought was to this thread. :jester: Anywho, I'm not sure what species they are, but they've obviously been hacked at for years. There's another tree that's gobs worse than any I've seen posted yet...

Ok, here's my $0.02, as an inexperienced climber who has the knack of footlocking. I'll assume you know the basic idea of footlocking and focus on the technique. When you put your "on top" foot on top, stick it between the standing line, and your leg, that way the rope helps hold your feet...

Hey all, another Virginia treehugger here. I'm down in the Blacksburg area. I just started working for a small tree care company, but I've been climbing for a while and have my own equipment and stuff. Not that I'm terribly good, but I have a lot of the theory down. Oh, and I have an Ashley Book...

That's pretty impressive! Is that your version of a stump fence? :rock: Taylor

Heh, this topic makes me thing of my first day on the job last summer. within an hour of getting to the apartment complex, I'd had a limb dropped on my head, and the bucket truck busted a hose and showered two of us with hydraulic fluid. I guess you could call it my baptism by fluid ;) The limb...

I like that, man! Something I noticed.. (just my opinion and not bashing your design in any way, you're there and I'm not :-D ) The handles seem like they'd want to pull the drawstring apart when you pick it up, from the weight of the rope. If I'd made 'em (and I am pretty handy with a Singer)...

They distributed this job announcement out at Virginia Tech. That sounds like an awesome job, and a great cause too (ALB is nasty!!) I'd apply if I had more than a few hours experience and didn't already have something going.. Hope you find some people! Taylor

Wow, that really is a lot of wood! Somebody asked about the sprayers on top of the piles. We learned about this in our harvesting class. It is to keep the wood from drying out, but what's really cool, is that the logs get a gray "slime" (that's the technical term) on them that preserves them...

That's pretty cool, man. I have a college buddy that grows all kinds of trees from seed. He's like a dendromaniac or something, he has several hundred trees in his backyard and then sells 'em for $20 to rich yuppies. :laugh: Pure genius, I wish I had the patience for growing stuff.. :( Grow on...

Good point Mark, it is a very fine line between protecting the rights of the innocent (using that term loosely) and depriving the citezenry of their rights.

Okay, gonna have a stab at this and try to not offend anyone... The technical term for that is a perverse incentive. In our society, we have decided (one way or another: the law, indoctrination by the big corps., taught by our parents, etc.) that certain actions/things aren't good (eg: pr0n...

Yeehaw Wow some of you guys have boatloads of stuff, but I'll put my freshly changed cylinder count for everyone to laugh at. :laugh: 1 - Poulan 1950 Yup, no car/truck/nuthin. I'm a wannabe, I was a groundsman for Bartlett last summer and fell in love with it and now I'm graduated and...