Pruner Poles?

[JimL]

How many do you guys combine at a time? I use jameson poles and marvin head, I had 7 stacked up a while back and lost it an snapped the 2nd one in line.

Any better poles?

 

[JonnyHart]

Seven?! Jeez...
The most I ever went was 4 six foot poles. Usually three though.

 

[JonnyHart]

Any better poles?

If you're using foam core, no. That's as good as it gets. They're more rigid than hollow core. I still wouldn't recommend going over four. That's gotta be a pain walking around a tree with a 35 foot pruner.

 

[JimL]

I can usually handle 5 6'ers by myself pretty well, 6 or 7 it helps to have someone else around.

Im talking trimming from the ground. No since in climbing to nip 2 or 3 small branches..

 

[Koa Man]

I have never used more than 3 6 footers. Over that point there is too much flex and to me, easier to climb up the tree a bit or if you are on the ground, an orchard ladder.

 

[Stumper]

I have put 6, 6ft poles together for going after one high cut-but that is pretty awful. I'll do 3 and the headpole with regularity, and consider 2 and a head pole "normal".

 

[pbtree]

Never been over 3 6 ft sections - anything beyond that I prefer to climb...

 

[046]

seven high... small wonder it broke

rarely go pass three high

 

[begleytree]

I usually don't go more than 2 myself.
A hint, try wrapping the rope around the pruner so that the pull on the rope holds against the middle of the bend in the poles.
-Ralph

 

[treeman45246]

That works, Ralph? Anyone else use this method? I rarely use the pruner head, but both times I've snapped poles this year it has been with that attachment.

 

[Trignog]

ploe saws can be a big waste of energy, I ngot good a limbwalking that way because I would rather shimmie out on a limb and use a hand saw that pole saw someting bigger than what I could snap off clean

 

[begleytree]

Treeman, I haven' broken one yet.
-Ralph

 

[Tree Machine]

Beef stix

I've gone as many as 5, but not too practical for more than one or two nips.

There is a type of pole from Jameson called the BF Stick, or Beef stiks as they call it. Thy're like the yellow ones we know and love, but the fiberglass wall is thicker, and thus heavier.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I like a 12 ft basswood pole for most uses.

The longer the section the less slop in the system. Most of the flex you get is slop in the joints. When they do break you usually have some pole to cut down and move the ferrul.

I like dedicated poles too, so you do not have the tool head moving around on the joint. I'll jam a shim in so that it sets in firm when mounting. Then put 2 eye screws in the pole to guide the pull ropethen the bend in the pole is towards the top, notin the middle.