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  1. jomoco

    Trimsaw Saddle Scabbard

    So I've been messing about with lithium battery powered trimsaws of late, and found them useful for pruning only so far. Pruning usually entails more scrambling about in the canopy. As an old climber, I've scrambled about in thousands of trees using a bare bladed trimsaw, and the inadvertent...
  2. jomoco

    Trimsaw Saddle Scabbard

    So I've been messing about with lithium battery powered trimsaws of late, and found them useful for pruning only so far. Pruning usually entails more scrambling about in the canopy. As an old climber, I've scrambled about in thousands of trees using a bare bladed trimsaw, and the inadvertent...
  3. jomoco

    The Danger of Climbing With Unsheathed Blades

    Some homeowner just asked about the dangers and risks involved in climbing with polesaws? My answer being yes, it's very dangerous to mix the two, if the blades unsheathed when not in use. While it's undeniable polesaws have their place in this industry, there's always room for improvement...
  4. jomoco

    Novel Staking and Guying Method?

    Growing trees from seeds n seedlings is common to commercial nurseries, however their staking methods vary to a degree that's detrimental in too many outlets, IME. They vary from a single stake straight jacket, where the trunk couldn't bend if it wanted to bound so tightly to the stake, to more...
  5. jomoco

    Calamity Macho Sufferage

    So hot summer live pine removal, multi multi main leaders all over an automatic gate mechanism. Not huge, 65-70 footer. Multi refuel on the 200, so I leave saddle n saw, above the wall n gate mech at six feet up, disrobe, and March down the trunk on gaffs alone to the ground. Unclip my saw n...
  6. jomoco

    Arborist Rigging Pistol

    So this idea's been knockin about in my head for many years now, an attachable handle for unwieldy hard to grip n hold branches you wanna cut n chuck, rather than lower with a separate line. At first just usin cinched to the branch speedline loops as branch handles, worked fine to swing the...
  7. jomoco

    Another dead climber suffocated beneath Wash Fan Palm fronds.

    Too many rookie Palm climbers have met their fates unexpectedly climbing under Washingtonian robusta Palm frond bags. Probably killed more climbers than any other tree species in CA. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-tree-trimmer-killed-san-diego-20141125-story.html My condolences to...
  8. jomoco

    A Safer More Efficient Tree Industry Future?

    It has long been my contention that today's tree industry leaders, or powers that be, are an old boys club that does not represent the best interests of the average tree worker. A glaring proof of this grisly reality dealing with life and death issues for average treeworkers is the rising...
  9. jomoco

    Evolution of an Invention 2 Counterweighted Power

    How much does a gas powered air compressor, hose reel with 100 feet of 3/4 inch high pressure hose weigh? Less than 200 lbs? How much do you weigh in harness with all your sharp tools? If that compressor/reel combo were used to counterweight you from a pulley at the top of your tree...
  10. jomoco

    Friday's Speedline Removal

    Did a fair sized euc removal Friday, and my friend had just got a new digital camera for xmas, and took over 600 pics of just one euc removal. jomoco
  11. jomoco

    Why do groundmen like or hate you?

    I'll start off with my habit of taking down trees in chipper ready portions that one man can handle, without needing to cut it again with brush, trunk wood is a different matter. My chipper truck drivers all love me because I have an assortment of hitches on the front of my 4x4 tooltruck that...
  12. jomoco

    The Evolution of an Invention

    As soon as I saw a vid of the wraptor powered rope ascending device dragging a climber up a single rope, something started in my head that led to this pathetic self powered contraption. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDHkcqTY4CM But like many inventions will do, it led in turn to a little...
  13. jomoco

    Ancient Coast Live Oak Death Sentence?

    One of my very favorite trees in the world are the indigenous Coastal Live Oaks(Quercus agrifolia) of SoCal. These trees while not particularly tall, 75-85 feet, can grow laterally as much as vertically and even further. On the Indian Res today I spent the entire day on a very very old...
  14. jomoco

    Why it's a good idea to take a wrap in certain situations!

    I'm fairly certain this poor fool face planted hard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwodQchPkLo&feature=related Nasty. jomoco
  15. jomoco

    Passive lowering line retrieval tool for climbing saddle?

    About a month ago I was doing some fairly serious speedlining and getting a bit frustrated at having to leave my way out there lateral position on a major leader to retrieve my speedline after each limb or piece of wood was sent down to the LZ successfully. Being an older climber that's...
  16. jomoco

    jomoco helmet cam test on speedline

    I obviously need to orient the cam downwards to capture the action and cuts. I should've gotten the pov wide angle! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=a4hcNYEoXdA jomoco
  17. jomoco

    Do particularly dangerous jobs make you grumpy?

    I woke this morning with a very grumpy attitude, got unjustifiaby snide responding to Thillmaine's excellent thread on dueling cranes and OSHA, and in a very general sense was a complete jerk until I got today's job safely on the ground and cut up. It wasn't until I left the job waving at very...
  18. jomoco

    Professional Cabling in Large Trees

    I have about 20K worth of cabling to do before xmas this year in less than 5 trees. These are large historic trees here in San Diego, the bulk of which are repairing amateurs screw ups in trees that should never have been cabled in the first place. But as all journeymen know, once a tree has...
  19. jomoco

    A little input from the pro loggers please?

    Hey guys, I just want to make certain that my understanding of boxcuts and their purpose jives with yours. My first exposure to this technique was watching a veteran pro screw one up big time and crush a nearby high value oak into the ground, at which point I said screw boxcut felling cuts...
  20. jomoco

    Excellent Video of Pros Working a Hobbs

    Sorry about the goof up earlier. These guys are pros, it's the best work footage with a Hobbs that I've seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq1p4xc1GtM&eurl=http://###############/forum/showthread.php?t=1769 jomoco
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