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Gr8Scott and I were chatting about our little skid steer machines - his RC30 and my Bobcat Mt-50. It's pretty amazing what these little machines can lift and move. It's pretty amazing what chippers and stump grinders and all the technology we have today can do.
My girls are into the 'Little House on the Prairie' books. We read a chapter every night. When you think about what the settlers had to do to dig out a stump or to cut and move logs 150 years ago, it's just crazy how much easier we have it today compared to then. Chainsaws, forestry harvesters, tub grinders, spider lifts - just having aluminum and plastic as materials to build tools with vs using heavier wood and steel.
It's somewhat mind boggling to think about the technology that will be available in another 150 years..."Hey, Joe, hand me the ms3000 light saber will ya. Oh, and crank up the particle deatomizer so we can get rid of some of these branches. Careful not to deatomize yourself..."
That would be a good discovery program for Mike Rowe to look into - "Dirty Jobs of the future."
Other than spaceship mechanics, did anyone notice a single service person working in any of the Star Wars movies? Apparently, George Lucas doesn't see much of a need for arborists in the future. Now, wouldn't it have been interesting had Luke Skywalker been an apprenticing arborist rather than a farmer - flying around with his jet pack on hacking away at trees with a light saber. After all, wouldn't that have made more sense as to why he was good with a light saber as a Jedi? Yes, I realize that his planet had few if any trees. He must not have been much of a farmer if he couldn't even keep a single tree growing around his house. :monkey:
So i pose the question - where will arboriculture be in 150 years? What cool new tools and methods will we have at our disposal that will make today's arboriculture practices seem as antiquated as digging out a stump by hand or moving logs by mule? (which I realize are both still done today...)
My girls are into the 'Little House on the Prairie' books. We read a chapter every night. When you think about what the settlers had to do to dig out a stump or to cut and move logs 150 years ago, it's just crazy how much easier we have it today compared to then. Chainsaws, forestry harvesters, tub grinders, spider lifts - just having aluminum and plastic as materials to build tools with vs using heavier wood and steel.
It's somewhat mind boggling to think about the technology that will be available in another 150 years..."Hey, Joe, hand me the ms3000 light saber will ya. Oh, and crank up the particle deatomizer so we can get rid of some of these branches. Careful not to deatomize yourself..."
That would be a good discovery program for Mike Rowe to look into - "Dirty Jobs of the future."
Other than spaceship mechanics, did anyone notice a single service person working in any of the Star Wars movies? Apparently, George Lucas doesn't see much of a need for arborists in the future. Now, wouldn't it have been interesting had Luke Skywalker been an apprenticing arborist rather than a farmer - flying around with his jet pack on hacking away at trees with a light saber. After all, wouldn't that have made more sense as to why he was good with a light saber as a Jedi? Yes, I realize that his planet had few if any trees. He must not have been much of a farmer if he couldn't even keep a single tree growing around his house. :monkey:
So i pose the question - where will arboriculture be in 150 years? What cool new tools and methods will we have at our disposal that will make today's arboriculture practices seem as antiquated as digging out a stump by hand or moving logs by mule? (which I realize are both still done today...)
Really the software and tech is available to do this now.. its just the $$ holding it back
