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Naaah... Golf courses already have fleets of turf-tired Gators or Mules, and squads of $10 an hour help to run them. Truck and chipper stay in parking lot, I climb, my groundman runs rope and the golf course worker bees shuttle branches to my truck for me. Heck they even do the final rake-up and...

It's a lot of work, but I've run a good length of black PVC pipe through a recoverable hedge to give an internal structure to tie back to. If you can get it through five or six stout neighboring partners, you can get really good strength. Once you get it tied back, have some one top that...

If you go snaps, captured eye 'biners, fit a split- thimble to increase radius of rope bend.

TristanD: Knows sweet FA about trees, knows sweet FA about climbing, doesn't want to start at the bottom. Who raised this ####? Beowolf: Excellent essay, well written. Brilliant. I went to a college for climbing instruction, knew zip when I started, pushed every day for more. Along the...

I work within restrictive bylaws all the time. All removal restrictions I meet are DBH. Industry standard, no grey area. Height, without a surveyors transit is a bit loose. I can just see a bylaw officer trying to line up firewood in order of drop to get an idea of height, then...

DIY, If you haven't figured it out already, getting up into those newly regrown tops is where this project can get a little sketchy. What you've often got is a top or tops attached only as strong, or even less strong, as a branch attachment. By all means, examine those attachments with a...

Often overlooked, avoiding the road tax on fuel. Check your local regs, often chippers, bobcats, stumpers can use "farm gas". Way cheap. Even saws that require Hi-Test can use marine fuel, 97 octane, no road tax. I am fortunate that I live where all of these options are available...

Got to agree with JohnPaul: 1. Glad you came out with just a WakeUp. 2. Retie your hitch every time you climb, VT, Knut, Distel, Blakes what have you. It's not just glazing that can set in undetected, but general crustiness from yesterdays sap, sawdust, honeydew, get in to the fibres...

I have a client with a 50-year-old, 10-11" Dbh Douglas Fir that is about 12' tall by 16' across. As a single stemmed hedge, it suits her purposes perfectly, a screen from traffic and a visual barrier. It has never been given a chance to be what a Douglas Fir can be. As a Douglas Fir, it is an...

I have my Pantin adjusted so it sits a bit high in front of my anklebone. I really have to kick back quite a way to release it. Trade-off is is doesn't slide rope on it's own till at least 15' up. RedlineIt

Few years ago a climber on another crew who used a CMI heard I was using a Pantin and asked to arrange a swap for a week. After two days he wanted his CMI back and I was happy to oblige... ...for all the reasons pointed out in this thread. I like how I can easily kick out of the Pantin, he...

What you've got there is an overabundance of aphids. Aphids are tiny, really tiny soft bodied insects that have piercing mouths that suck sap from the trees leaves. Like any living creature, they then poop, and this is the sticky waste that you are dealing with. It's called Aphid Honeydew...

Only bad that you list owning two 018's pal.:) It's really just that when you get stupid old like me (and Vaden) that listing what you got doesn't matter anymore. If I got enough fibre at breakfast, way more important than all my chainsaws combined. Way to shoot on your ISA test, you're...

beowulf, If I nicked my steelcore, there'd be a fuzzy lump that would be hard to slide through my prussic/cam/grab. Can't have that, and I'd be embarrassed to show up with $2 worth of tape wrapped on a $150 lanyard. And if the is the "wear" that treeclimber101 says will "tear up your...

I run into this mostly while retopping hedges, wading through cutting alot of two, three inch stuff but lots of twigs too. Best i've figured out is run the chain rediculously tight. As I figure it, as the chain rotates it tries to describe a circle, only the bar and tension keep its shape...

cnice, If it's a "big kids" swing, ages 7 and above, you can hang the ropes almost parallel, just slightly wider at the top than the seat width. This gives bigger kids the chance to spin and wind the ropes up and experiment with getting dizzy. If it's for little guys, 5 and under, space...

Good Pics will tell the story. Also recent your recent weather history. I recently worked with a client with almost the exact same query, I was there to ameliorate some wind damage to some larger trees. The wind had come up just as the small maple had been setting leaf, the exposed side...

Anthony, Steelcore fliplines predate chainsaws, so you can't say they were designed to give you safety from being cut, they were made to be easy to flip up the back side of large diameter trees as you spur up, and for that, there is nothing else. I've used 1/2" and 5/8" and settled on...

NP Hemlock, Man that one took a hit! You say you've called some treecutters. Call an arborist who is qualified and prepared to give you a risk assesment. From you photos alone, it looks like you might have to prepare to call that tree a total loss. However... I've worked similar...

Treecuttr, You look a little panicked when the top dropped. If you'd just sat back, parked the saw all calm like on your hip, there never would have been a problem. This job is all about control: Control of the tree, control of your body, control of your saw. At least one of those...