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I am going to get some more gear just in due time. I have spent copious amounts of money this year alone. I do not want to fail so I am spending carefully. and always looking for another angle to either save or make money. Like today wasnt wasted even though I never had a saw in my hands today. I helped a buddy on his dozer got paid for that and put a price on falling that big maple. Paid for my last dozer move and talked the same guy into renting me that forwarder.
 
I am going to get some more gear just in due time. I have spent copious amounts of money this year alone. I do not want to fail so I am spending carefully. and always looking for another angle to either save or make money. Like today wasnt wasted even though I never had a saw in my hands today. I helped a buddy on his dozer got paid for that and put a price on falling that big maple. Paid for my last dozer move and talked the same guy into renting me that forwarder.

cool everything gotta be in balance lol
 
HA HA! How far up in Missouri do ya visit?

Do you travel with yer saw? Heck bring it down, or if you're vacationing...do ya hunt, fish, hike, bicycle, ride dirt bikes??? LOL!

Most times haven't been traveling with a saw, but those still running back at the family farm are wee fellers, so will likely tote one or two larger saws along to speed up the chores.

It'll be a KC, Jackson, MS., Muscle Shoals, Ladson, SC., western MA, then head back towards the barn, stopping once again in KC. A stop in Michigan MAY be added to the trip, and if so, it'll be run in reverse order.

Enjoy all of those pastimes, though it's been years since I hunted and I'm primarily a road bike rider. Growing up out in the sticks, while friends had dirt bikes they rode locally, I wanted to GO PLACES and road bikes let me. Most of my dirt bike riding was during the couple years I owned a motorcycle shop. We worked on everything, including dirt bikes. I of course had to "off-road" test them, and that began to give me an appreciation for the endeavor. I've been thinking that a combination off/on road bike may be in my near future, because out at the coast there are lots of old logging roads to explore, but just one paved road in or out of town, running north and south for some distance before one can head in any new directions. Dirt bike, just grab and go. I'm even considering an electric if I can get one with a 100+ mile range. That would suit 95% of local riding and let me sneak onto and along some ahem, "closed" roads that a louder bike would be apt to draw more attention to. We'll see..., that's a ways off yet.
 
Have any of you guys used ....I dunno what to call em lol..........so I'll describe them ........I found a guy here who has made kind spikes that are threaded with a footplate that ya can screw into the tree to climb on (dunno if that makes sense) ......

reason I'm asking is I'll have to climb a codominant shortly that is limb locked has rot in one side and I can't fall it in one due to lean and where the lay would be will smash a very mature hedgerow. I will have to climb I really don't wanna use spurs as well it real awkward and I can't find em lol.........

so if any of ya used the things I described I'd be obliged for views
 
cool just thinking it could add to your business in future.....ie line clearence or if ya get a pig of a stand sometimes it easier to climb to get ya outta situations. Also is you ever get into restricted places ya can top out and then fall

He'd need to climb special trees spec'd for his size:hmm3grin2orange:
 
Randy puts in an appearance...,

and it's like switching the light on to see butt-clenched roaches racing for the shadows...
 
Have any of you guys used ....I dunno what to call em lol..........so I'll describe them ........I found a guy here who has made kind spikes that are threaded with a footplate that ya can screw into the tree to climb on (dunno if that makes sense) ......

reason I'm asking is I'll have to climb a codominant shortly that is limb locked has rot in one side and I can't fall it in one due to lean and where the lay would be will smash a very mature hedgerow. I will have to climb I really don't wanna use spurs as well it real awkward and I can't find em lol.........

so if any of ya used the things I described I'd be obliged for views

Never heard of them.

Is there enough money in the job for you to buy enough to reach the height you must, so you can then report back? Seems they might make climbing in the Kilt more comfortable...:msp_tongue:
 
Never heard of them.

Is there enough money in the job for you to buy enough to reach the height you must, so you can then report back? Seems they might make climbing in the Kilt more comfortable...:msp_tongue:

LOL wear pants when climbing lol...........just in case wind blows
 

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