Dave
ArboristSite Guru
This one worked real good for me about a week and a half ago..... Go to a logging show ( the one in Springfield, Mass. is a good one). Find the Vermeer dealer ( that would be the one with the Sherrill Big Shots propped up against a chipper chute). Decide you're tired of playing "one hundred tosses" with the throwbag. Think about how your favorite groundman rolls his eyes and says "yeah, sure" when you say "what I really need here is a Big Shot" (he's heard that one for two years now). Fork out your money and spend the rest of the day carrying around a huge slingshot on an eight foot stick. Watch as no less than a hundred people come up to you and ask what it is. Anyone with a tree service T-shirt will not ask. Start out explaining how it's used to get a climbing line into a tree. When you can't stand to explain it one more time, start making stuff up. ( Well, you see, we're having a little trouble with squirrels and when I catch 'em, I send 'em to the neighbor five houses down) When that one wears out, my cat caught a baby bird that I nursed back to health and tomorrow he's going to learn how to fly (or not). When a good looking blonde (you know who you are) inquires, it's now a clothes line for a thong bikini bottom. At the end of the day, throw it in the van, making a mental note to bring it with you next time.
