saw a truck on my way in to work this morning.

[BlueRidgeMark]

I own a brain surgery clinic where you can get your oil changed while you're having surgery. I call it PHIL'S BRAIN AND DRAIN. I'm very successful but it's the only one in town. Once I start franchising it will be bye bye to tree work.
Phil

Hmmm. You've been doing a lot of work for Congress, haven't you?

 

[rarefish383]

Baaa-zing! Wait, what the hey are you talking about? Hooking green to... what? I feel really old, and outta place, or a like a foreigner,lost in a crowded metropolis with your crazy slang...hooking with a polesaw, as apposed to climbing, and tying stuff off, or something much more sinister?Like climbing with spikes/gaffs on a LIVE tree? You kids and your terminology...

Sorry Zig, I'm 54, so not exactly a kid. Yes, I mean spiking a tree. Maybe it's just in MD we call our spikes, Hooks. The Gaff is the little pointed piece on the inside of the foot that sticks the tree. There are pole gaffs that are short, and tree gaffs of various length, to go through the bark and hit wood. So in my twisted way of thinking, if someone were to say they gaffed a tree, the picture that comes to mind is a guy holding 2 little pointed gaffs in his hands trying to climb.

Just for fun I googled Karl Kuemmerling to see what they call those things. Not spikes or hooks. They are refered to as "Climbers". Mine are a pair of Bashlin Aluminium Offset Climbers, with tree gaffs.

Yes, by Green, I mean live. Although if I take down a Green tree and split the wood, the wood would still be considered Green and the tree would be considered quite dead. I think I refered to the tree in the first half of the sentence as "live", then in the second half as "green". I guess I did that so I wouldn't be redundent by using the same word twice in the same sentence.

Now I'm starting to get a headache from trying to psyco-babble the reason I used the words I used to make a point some one already made.

In short a Jack of all trades is a Master of none.

A case in point. I spoke with a landscaper a couple weeks ago. He was checking out 86 trees he planted for a beach comunity. He lost 6 trees in the first year, not bad, I think. Then he showed me several trees bent from the prevailing winds off the water. His solution was to take a hook billed knife and cut grooves 1/3 the way around the trunk on the opposite side as the wind. He made a cut about every inch for 2 feet up the trunk. He said when the callus tissue formed it would be wider than the bark on the other side, hence, straightening the tree. His landscaping was beautiful, but I wouldn't want him around my trees.

See ya, I'm going to bed, Joe.

 

[mr. holden wood]

I see it like this, if I know how to do it and do it right then what's the problem, I advertise tree work and lawn care and a few other things, does that make me a hack, I think not.........

Hacks top trees and spike prunes both of which you have defended. So I would say if the shoe fits, wear it .....