Treeslaying Illinois style

[treevet]

when we gonna see the fire truck do some tree work?

 

[treeslayer]

when we gonna see the fire truck do some tree work?

Soon I hope, we have 2 big weeping willows top remove and will be using it then, or the first chance I get knocking doors.

 

[treeslayer]

Here's Karlee the photographer with one of the 2 baby squirrels we found. well after the 460 found one. they are cool, now we got pet squirrels.

and here's today's crew.

 

[ozzy42]

Does she know you are going to cook them after she fattens them up awhile?:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[outofmytree]

Damnit I am soooo jealous. We can't ride the hook here, well not legally anyway, but that lot was some serious work done in one day. Keep em coming.

 

[treeslayer]

Does she know you are going to cook them after she fattens them up awhile?:hmm3grin2orange:

The one that the saw found turned out quite nice, marinated in bar oil, and grilled on the chipper exhaust, very tasty.

Can someone suggest how I can reduce the "size" of some of these pics if they are around 500-600KB? gotta be a way, I have tinkered with paint, but only cut portions out.
best answer will be to lower camera resolution, but that's hindsight.

 

[outofmytree]

The one that the saw found turned out quite nice, marinated in bar oil, and grilled on the chipper exhaust, very tasty.

Can someone suggest how I can reduce the "size" of some of these pics if they are around 500-600KB? gotta be a way, I have tinkered with paint, but only cut portions out.
best answer will be to lower camera resolution, but that's hindsight.

I use Microsoft office picture manager. I fooled around with both cropping and compress untill I got the sub 300k result I wanted.

Best of luck.

 

[blueatlascedar]

The one that the saw found turned out quite nice, marinated in bar oil, and grilled on the chipper exhaust, very tasty.

Can someone suggest how I can reduce the "size" of some of these pics if they are around 500-600KB? gotta be a way, I have tinkered with paint, but only cut portions out.
best answer will be to lower camera resolution, but that's hindsight.

If you have Windows OS, you should have a software bundled in called Microsoft Office Picture Manager. A very easy way to resize a pic is to open the pic in this app and you will see at the top toolbar "Edit Picture". Click that and on the right hand side you will see sizing options. You can key in the exact pixel dimension you want or downsize by percentage. It only takes a few seconds and I use it all the time. Keeps everything in proportion.

 

[treevet]

I go to "paint" and "image" and "stretch and skew" and reduce usually 25% works.

That looks a little like an old Don Blair Eucman saddle you have?

 

[treeslayer]

I go to "paint" and "image" and "stretch and skew" and reduce usually 25% works.

That looks a little like an old Don Blair Eucman saddle you have?

Cool, I can do that.


Its a Buckingham saddle, that I added a pair of upper straps to, (from my Bashlin aluminum spikes)
and I have had nearly 15 years (?). I could be wrong, when did the bashlins come out?
was a big deal then, being made of beer cans.

I have a master 2 (?) from sherrills, that I bought at TCI baltimore years ago,
a sweet nylon rig that weighs nothing and is a size too big.
I think I need need to sell it, and go hi tech. I can certainly afford it.

But anyway, I strap on my leather, and load up.
And then I think of Justins gear aloft, :angry2::hmm3grin2orange:
and I have to shake my head and thank God above,
for all the miles I put in running.

Always a treat to watch someone pick it up and get that look.

 

[treevet]

Cool, I can do that.


Its a Buckingham saddle, that I added a pair of upper straps to, (from my Bashlin aluminum spikes)
and I have had nearly 15 years (?). I could be wrong, when did the bashlins come out?
was a big deal then, being made of beer cans.

I have a master 2 (?) from sherrills, that I bought at TCI baltimore years ago,
a sweet nylon rig that weighs nothing and is a size too big.
I think I need need to sell it, and go hi tech. I can certainly afford it.

But anyway, I strap on my leather, and load up.
And then I think of Justins gear aloft, :angry2::hmm3grin2orange:
and I have to shake my head and thank God above,
for all the miles I put in running.

Always a treat to watch someone pick it up and get that look.

Justin's sheat is different, my stuff is different as is yours. Just what we like and get used to ....or not and change. I love gear. I have 5 saddles now. One, the cheapest, gets the most use, but I have a lot of expensive stuff attached to it.

I am a runner too. Kept me in the game longer than most I think. Good for the head too.

 

[treeslayer]

Justin's sheat is different, my stuff is different as is yours. Just what we like and get used to ....or not and change. I love gear. I have 5 saddles now. One, the cheapest, gets the most use, but I have a lot of expensive stuff attached to it.

I am a runner too. Kept me in the game longer than most I think. Good for the head too.

My reference was to Justins LACK of weight, maybe one day he will post what has to be the most efficient crane wear I have EVER seen.

 

[ropensaddle]

Run forest run lmao heck I am still pissin green no need to run

 

[treeslayer]

Good reasons to use a crane

After the tree comes apart you find this, and think, damm, I climbed this :censored:

 

[ropensaddle]

After the tree comes apart you find this, and think, damm, I climbed this :censored:

Well ya, but how many thousands have you climbed like that and worse before using a crane?
I know I have climbed many over the years, some I might not climb today. One I look back and think I had to be partial crazy to have climbed.

 

[treeslayer]

Well ya, but how many thousands have you climbed like that and worse before using a crane?
I know I have climbed many over the years, some I might not climb today. One I look back and think I had to be partial crazy to have climbed.

Every one I met.

 

[treeslayer]

But if given a choice, I loves to slam em. we pulled this one over using a pulley, bull rope and the chipper truck.

Microsoft office picture manager, compress for webpage is easy.

and another view of the hollow wood, this was a 3 meg pic.

 

[oldirty]

My reference was to Justins LACK of weight, maybe one day he will post what has to be the most efficient crane wear I have EVER seen.

i was just looking at that pic treevet quoted. look at all that gear man. saddle must be heavy! and those heavy spikes too! and nevermind that flipline. LOL.

 

[ropensaddle]

But if given a choice, I loves to slam em. we pulled this one over using a pulley, bull rope and the chipper truck.

Microsoft office picture manager, compress for webpage is easy.

and another view of the hollow wood, this was a 3 meg pic.

Heck yeah, it is fun swinging on the line lol. I climbed a leaner yesterday should have post pics down and loaded one day 90 foot pine

 

[pdqdl]

Here's Karlee the photographer with one of the 2 baby squirrels we found. well after the 460 found one. they are cool, now we got pet squirrels.
...

Many years ago, one of my guy's girlfriend raised a squirrel. My veterinarian buddy neutered it and de-clawed it, in an attempt to keep it a bit more domestic as it got older. Several interesting points to this saga:

1. You can't de-claw a squirrel. They grow back, no matter what. Done two times to it's little paws, they just kept coming back.
2. Neutering does not keep them from getting wild as they get older, it just slows down the process. As this one got older, it got so cross that only the girl and I could get near it without getting bit. (The secret is to avoid grabbing, holding, or "petting" it)
3. An angry squirrel is so fast; humans are defenseless against them. That little sucker could run up your leg, bite you anywhere it wanted, and then run away before you could swat it. Fortunately, it left me alone until later in it's life.


Good story: I got along fine with the squirrel until it made a mistake. I was visiting one day to be served a favorite meal: pinto beans, fried 'taters, and cornbread. The squirrel, standing on the floor at my feet, seemed to think that it wanted to visit, so it jumped up...into my plate full of beans. Then it slipped onto its back, and desperately tried to turn upright again in the middle of my plate!

So here I was standing in the middle of the kitchen, with a plate full of live squirrel doing a maniacal back stroke, with beans and 'taters flipping like little bullets to the 4 corners of the kitchen. In just a moment, my plate was mostly stripped, the bean-dipped squirrel had jumped onto the top of the refrigerator, and I had now become squirrel enemy #1.

Squirrels have a good memory too: that little sucker never came near me again.