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Agreed and "tenacious" is a treeman requirement. MDS also makes me think of the word, "sober". Life is all about figgerin schit out....cheers as well.
:cheers:

I don’t even miss that stuff anymore. I don’t look back much, I just keep moving forward. There was my life then, and then there is my life now. Not that hard to change if you’re ready. Some of the old days were fun for a while, but an entire life of it would’ve been a real drag (and short). Good to break it up, in my opinion.
 
So... speaking of addictions...

Got the financing all lined up for the new wood truck yesterday. Just working on getting the details of the truck spec’d out and I’ll be putting a deposit down and doing the paperwork.

Yes!! I am f’n insane!!!:rock:
 
So... speaking of addictions...

Got the financing all lined up for the new wood truck yesterday. Just working on getting the details of the truck spec’d out and I’ll be putting a deposit down and doing the paperwork.

Yes!! I am f’n insane!!!:rock:
Brand new? You are r nutz! You are nutz because you have all this stuff but no crane! Open up that check book just one more payment ;)

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I don’t even miss that stuff anymore. I don’t look back much, I just keep moving forward. There was my life then, and then there is my life now. Not that hard to change if you’re ready. Some of the old days were fun for a while, but an entire life of it would’ve been a real drag (and short). Good to break it up, in my opinion.

Spot on! Couldn't have come close to saying it even a tad better myself.
 
Don't know why it ^ posted up twice but look in the cavity and you can see rocky raccoon. He was in my way for a while but I just worked around him. Another day in the hood. Where are all the other tree cos.? Did I win?

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Thought this might be of interest to....just about anybody....



This is good, and true...
Begin forwarded messageHere is a little more information on the virus that may help explain a few things that people don’t understand. This is from an immunologist at Johns Hopkins University.
Feeling confused as to why Coronavirus is a bigger deal than Seasonal flu? Here it is in a nutshell. I hope this helps. Feel free to share this to others who don’t understand...

It has to do with RNA sequencing.... I.e. genetics.

Seasonal flu is an “all human virus”. The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by the human immune system. This means that your body has some immunity to it before it comes around each year... you get immunity two ways...through exposure to a virus, or by getting a flu shot.

Novel viruses, come from animals.... the WHO tracks novel viruses in animals, (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1) (birds in the case of the Spanish flu). But once, one of these animal viruses mutates, and starts to transfer from animals to humans... then it’s a problem, Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity.. the RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t human, and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it so, we can’t fight it off.

Now.... sometimes, the mutation only allows transfer from animal to human, for years it’s only transmission is from an infected animal to a human before it finally mutates so that it can now transfer human to human... once that happens..we have a new contagion phase. And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, thats what decides how contagious, or how deadly it’s gonna be..

H1N1 was deadly....but it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu. It’s RNA was slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too.

Fast forward.

Now, here comes this Coronavirus... it existed in animals only, for nobody knows how long...but one day, at an animal market, in Wuhan China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people. At first, only animals could give it to a person... But here is the scary part.... in just TWO WEEKS it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human. Scientists call this quick ability, “slippery”

This Coronavirus, not being in any form a “human” virus (whereas we would all have some natural or acquired immunity). Took off like a rocket. And this was because, Humans have no known immunity...doctors have no known medicines for it.

And it just so happens that this particular mutated animal virus, changed itself in such a way the way that it causes great damage to human lungs..

That’s why Coronavirus is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1 or any other type of influenza.... this one is slippery AF. And it’s a lung eater...And, it’s already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have two strains to deal with, strain s, and strain L....which makes it twice as hard to develop a vaccine.

We really have no tools in our shed, with this. History has shown that fast and immediate closings of public places has helped in the past pandemics. Philadelphia and Baltimore were reluctant to close events in 1918 and they were the hardest hit in the US during the Spanish Flu.

Factoid: Henry VIII stayed in his room and allowed no one near him, till the Black Plague passed...(honestly...I understand him so much better now). Just like us, he had no tools in his shed, except social isolation...

And let me end by saying....right now it’s hitting older folks harder... but this genome is so slippery...if it mutates again (and it will). Who is to say, what it will do next.

Be smart folks... acting like you’re unafraid is so not sexy right now.

#flattenthecurve. Stay home folks... and share this to those that just are not catching on.
 
Had to do this one with no crane or bucket yesterday. Fun times.
I had a couple customers “postpone” work due to this virus but more importantly the phone calls slowed down considerably.



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Had to do this one with no crane or bucket yesterday. Fun times.
I had a couple customers “postpone” work due to this virus but more importantly the phone calls slowed down considerably.



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Could you support to anything opposite the lean? We been doing a lot of uproots and fractured stems lately too.
 
Could you support to anything opposite the lean? We been doing a lot of uproots and fractured stems lately too.

Actually wasn’t an uproot. At least not one that happened in the past ten years. It had grown that way from an oak tree next to it and the people preserved it. I just rigged off the oak.
 
**** you SARS virus,, Casadei Tree shall survive!!! (Even if it means pruning a previously lions tailed oak as an unexpected add on!) Other than that,, rock on you ugly mother****ers cuz we ain’t dead yet!!!!:rock:
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Thinking about unretiring. Talking with my old boss and he wanted to know if I would be interested in coming back and helping him out. I anticipate my current job will start reducing my hours in another couple of weeks seeing how our patient census is getting lower. I am actually considering it.
 
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