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tree md said:
Wow, three coils, I have never seen anyone use less than 6. Learn something new everyday...
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I take it you are talking about the timber wraps? I think they say 3 for 3strand rope and 5 for braided but I use it all up mostly. I also keep my gap between the block and cut pretty slim. Like no more than a foot from the block to the marl. That would equal about no more than a foot of rope coming out of the block to the first half hitch on the butt. I keep my climbing ropes tucked under the block, not above.
I had a climber do some work with me the other day. First of all he was worried about using my newer but thrashed 12 strand to block down the trunk. He was impressed to say the least. I told him " its all in how you handle it". He was throwing pretty big wood down on and had to block the trunk down pretty low. I was on the porty and he never felt a thing, neither did the rhody. I think I might have heard that 12 strand crying just a little though but that's its problem. Really though, there was very little shock. All in all you can lift a small block v8 with starter cord if you do it right and I know that for a fact.
So he gets into a smaller tree and still blocking down wood though it was thinner. He was using a red alluminum block with a eye and a timber on the first tree but was using web straps and alli beeners for the second. I looked up and I thought he was using two beeners so I let him go until a piece of beener sailed past my head and a log dropped to the ground. That is when I realized he only had one. I don't know what that BS was about, I'm sure he knew better. I saw him rigging it up and it looked like he had two up there.
 
oldirty said:
any pics of this lovely daughter tv? is she into the arborist type? lol
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Here is a pict of the fam (2 daughters missing) yesterday. Not the best pict of her. Have to look for another. Be great to have her meet a great guy like yourself but she just met someone and they seem to be talking marriage.

She is super high maintenance if you know what I mean.

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treevet said:
Here is a pict of the fam (2 daughters missing) yesterday. Not the best pict of her. Have to look for another. Be great to have her meet a great guy like yourself but she just met someone and they seem to be talking marriage.

She is super high maintenance if you know what I mean.

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Nice looking family tv you did well.
 
treevet said:
Here is a pict of the fam (2 daughters missing) yesterday. Not the best pict of her. Have to look for another. Be great to have her meet a great guy like yourself but she just met someone and they seem to be talking marriage.

She is super high maintenance if you know what I mean.

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Hey Goober! Ha!, Hey where did you take that pic? Have you been to Quail Botanical Gardens? San Diego Zoo? You wanna move here, huh!
Jeffy:)
 
treevet said:
that thang's awful perty Doc. Why the erasure?
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See thats how you tell if an arb has ever worked on Phoenix caneriensis. They are only pretty until the first time you prune em and after that you lie awake at night dreaming up new and inventive ways to chip em!

Jokes aside they actually look very smart when they acheive mature height but that palm was about 4 metres too close to the powerlines. In the photo you might just make out a frond resting on the line which of course means if the insulation is worn that the tree is "live" in a heavy dew let alone rain.

My new trainee helped me spend $3k in medical bills when he got an inch of spine in his calf that fragmented and had to be cut out by plastic surgeon after the gp and the 1st surgeon both gave up. Thank goodness for workers compensation insurance! Jason now has a passionate dislike for these palms....
 
outofmytree said:
See thats how you tell if an arb has ever worked on Phoenix caneriensis. They are only pretty until the first time you prune em and after that you lie awake at night dreaming up new and inventive ways to chip em!

Jokes aside they actually look very smart when they acheive mature height but that palm was about 4 metres too close to the powerlines. In the photo you might just make out a frond resting on the line which of course means if the insulation is worn that the tree is "live" in a heavy dew let alone rain.

My new trainee helped me spend $3k in medical bills when he got an inch of spine in his calf that fragmented and had to be cut out by plastic surgeon after the gp and the 1st surgeon both gave up. Thank goodness for workers compensation insurance! Jason now has a passionate dislike for these palms....
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this is an awful attractive unit you must admit tho....

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outofmytree said:
See thats how you tell if an arb has ever worked on Phoenix caneriensis. They are only pretty until the first time you prune em and after that you lie awake at night dreaming up new and inventive ways to chip em!

Jokes aside they actually look very smart when they acheive mature height but that palm was about 4 metres too close to the powerlines. In the photo you might just make out a frond resting on the line which of course means if the insulation is worn that the tree is "live" in a heavy dew let alone rain.

My new trainee helped me spend $3k in medical bills when he got an inch of spine in his calf that fragmented and had to be cut out by plastic surgeon after the gp and the 1st surgeon both gave up. Thank goodness for workers compensation insurance! Jason now has a passionate dislike for these palms....
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I know what you are saying. I had a spike go thru my forearm and it was pulled thru all the way as to not make it worst. Also most don't know that it is best to remove only the dead fronds and the fruit if needed. I don't like customers that feel like they are ( "paying by the pound", :)

Jeff , CTSP
 
jefflovstrom said:
I know what you are saying. I had a spike go thru my forearm and it was pulled thru all the way as to not make it worst. Also most don't know that it is best to remove only the dead fronds and the fruit if needed. I don't like customers that feel like they are ( "paying by the pound", :)

Jeff , CTSP
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Lol its by the ton here friend :cheers:
 

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