So whadja do today?

[RedlineIt]

Hey, I use part of Jeff's new saddle.

But I got the fast clip leg straps rather than the bosun's chair. Petzl's got a really good leg strap system that don't squish the eggies one bit! But chair or straps is a climber preference, neither is better, it's just what you want, like, or are used to.

What is awesome about the upper belt is the spread the splayed webbing takes around the small of your back, such excellent support for extended stays up on spurs.

What I don't like about the Penzoil: Available 'biner gaps are too close to the "D's" and the wee black plastic loops at the top of the belt have no use that I can figure out, I mean what would I want to hang off of the top of my belt?

RedlineIt

 

[Tree Machine]

Here's a front view of the Pencil Miniboss. I'm not certain what you mean by the black plastic loops at the top of the belt.

 

[vharrison2]

Jeff took the petzl home last night to try it out, he said he did not want to get down out of the tree. He said that after being in trees all day long!!

 

[Tree Machine]

Bosun seat and wide back support; those are a couple of basic wishes on my ideal saddle wish list. And definitely fast-buckles.

 

[darkstar]

yo we modify our petzl rigs so they have sliding d's cool trick ....

 

[Tree Machine]

yo we modify our petzl rigs so they have sliding d's cool trick ....

Picture? Description?

 

[cannoneer]

what i did today

Friday, I cut down several Banana Trees, trimmed some Lugustrums (sp?), affected a repair to a broken Birch, trimmed some Washingtonians without spikes or a bucket (joy!!), and utterly annihilated a Crepe Myrtle (sp?). My saws and my crew were sharp, It was a good day.

What I learned: Always cut the soft Banana Tree with the top of the chainsaw blade, in order to direct that 'rooster-tail' forward. The rotten ones smell horrible and have a slimy, unwholesome texture, and getting a crap-fountain in one's face tends is no bueno.

 

[vharrison2]

Good deal, Ligustrum are wonderful. They make great hedges and beautiful little trees. I forget, Crepes bloom in the winter, so you cut them back in the summer? Cannoneer, tell the growers up there to quit growing washy's, Ekka thinks they are sheet, and I agree!!
Banana=machete

 

[Jumper]

Two more pickup loads of wood for my aunt and uncle left by hydro in the ditch...white ash which is OK, and what I later ID'd as Black Locust, which after some investigation has one of the highest BTUs per cord. Anyone out there ever burned this stuff? I am going back tomorrow to finish bucking up this stuff as I got a little slowed down as my Stihl refused to start, no spark thanks to a broken wire, which is surprising given the age of the saw ie almost new. So I used the Echo instead. Got one more standing tree to take care of-they pruned every last living branch off it and for some reason left nothing but a 25 foot stick under the wires.

 

[geofore]

The locust burns well, a little slow to light, will spit sparkes across the room so a screen needs to be infront of the fireplace to catch the occasional spark. If you're cutting a lot of locust carry a file to touch up your chain as it is hard on chains. You'll see sparks come off the chain in broad daylight cutting locust, it's that hard. You might feel like you hit a nail but it's just a knot in the wood on locust. I cut 600 10' posts 12" on the big end 8" on the small end to fence my place a few years back. needed 440 posts there. It took over 700 to fence my uncles place. That was a couple of miles of locust. It left a lot of firewood. Where you would burn two loads of ash it would only take one of locust. Locust burns longer and puts out more heat. I'm thinking they left that stick standing because it wouldn't fit through the chipper easy and cutting it lower than the lines they don't have to worry about it taking the lines down if it falls in a storm. Someone like you will be by and take it for firewood.

 

[geofore]

What I did?

Stood under a Catalpa tree listening to what sounded like rain falling. Caterpillars were pooping up a storm, raining down droppings. Little fellows, an inch long, yellow, double black dashes down their backs. Their larger brothers were there, yellowish green with larger double dash down thier backs, about 2" long and their full grown brothers, 4" long and big around as a #2 pencil, greenish yellow under side with the dashes gone and replaced by a solid blue black stripe nearly covering their back and a stinger looking growth on their tailend. Eating and pooping up a steady rain of digested Catalpa leave droppings. Every leaf had it's own caterpillar and the full grown caterpillars could eat nearly an entire leaf in a day. They hang on the underside of the leafs to avoid the birds picking them off for a light snack. Thousands caterpillars on one tree alone and only two trees side by side had them. It sounded like rain when the breeze wasn't blowing. I told the owner the tree will survive this attack but if he doesn't do something (spray) he'll lose all the Catalpa on his place to the caterpillars next year. Short of a hard winter knocking the population down there will be millions of offspring next year. Not often have I seen these in such numbers dropping dropping loud enough to be heard as the droppings bounce off the leaves. It's not all that quiet out in the wood anymore that you'd be able to hear such thing as raining poops.

 

[texasnative]

No need to spray for catalpa worms. And they won't kill the tree. Even if they come back year after year. Catalpa worms are actually the catapillar of a moth (hawk moth?...it's that great big one that sounds like a hummingbird with a slow wing beat) that lays its eggs only on the catalpa tree. The moth feeds primarily on the nectar of four o'clocks, honeysuckle, and datura and brugmansia species. If the owner of the tree wants them gone, locate the food sources for the adult moth and eliminate them if that is an option. The adults won't be back if there isn't anything for them to eat. I think that would be more effective in the long run than spraying IMO.

I like catalpa worms in my trees, they make excellent catfish bait. And with all of the four o'clocks and honeysuckle in my yard, I don't have any problem producing catfish bait, unless we have an exceptionally dry summer. Put them in a ziplock bag with some Karo syrup and put them in the freezer, then go fishing when you get the time.

 

[vharrison2]

then go fishing when you get the time.

Hey, that is all you needed to type!!!

 

[darkstar]

catalpa worms love ummm tasty ...... my grandpa used to freeze ummm they come back to life after thawing .... good bass bait as well , if they wiggle alot, but [you need super glue 4 that ]

 

[Jumper]

The locust burns well, a little slow to light, will spit sparkes across the room so a screen needs to be infront of the fireplace to catch the occasional spark. If you're cutting a lot of locust carry a file to touch up your chain as it is hard on chains.

It will be used in an air tight stove. No kidding-every refuel I had to sharpen the chain...You are right about lots of BTUs, not bad for a tree considered a weed.

I cut 600 10' posts 12" on the big end 8" on the small end to fence my place a few years back. needed 440 posts there. It took over 700 to fence my uncles place.

I read it is naturally very rot resistant.....


I'm thinking they left that stick standing because it wouldn't fit through the chipper easy and cutting it lower than the lines they don't have to worry about it taking the lines down if it falls in a storm. Someone like you will be by and take it for firewood.

My gain I guess...Must have been a pretty puny chipper or very lazy crew, as everything bigger than 6" was left in the ditch, including a huge pile of alder, which is prety much junk. Finished the job before 1000 hrs this morning and the 95F heat.

 

[kf_tree]

to make it interesting, we removed this tree later that night under a full moon.

 

[kf_tree]

under the moon........

 

[geofore]

Catalpaworms

You did mean www.catalpaworms.com kind of fishing? Didn't know there was a market out there for catalpaworms.

 

[Jumper]

Another load of firewood for my aunt and uncle, white ash this time. Seemed pretty dry so must have been there for some time perhaps. Went back to location number one to look at the ash remaining there, but will have to speak to property owner as it fell into his bush off the right of way. Shortly off to donate blood, my 78th time. Mind you all they want is the plasma as I was exposed to malaria last year in Kabul..

 

[R Schra]

i dropped these and found this

No gold, No catalpaworms, No ????.....

dropping some dead poplars, topped in past and ????