MasterBlaster
TreeHouse Elder
We ain't heard from that handsome polecat for awhile!
Where's RBTree???
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MasterBlaster
TreeHouse Elder
Yah, what's up with that???:alien:
Nickrosis
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He was just browsing this forum about 10 minutes ago.
MasterBlaster
TreeHouse Elder
Well, he needs to fix her up with a username, then!
Nickrosis
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That's what you'd do to any girl you hooked up with, I bet. 
Guy Meilleur
Addicted to ArboristSite
Didn't he stop posting about the time there was so much flame and muck around here? Coincidence or...
Ax-man
Addicted to ArboristSite
Wasn't he also having trouble with his workers, maybe he fired all of them, and decided enough was enough and crossed over the line that all self- employed arborists think about from time to time. Just throw in the towel and close the door on the business and find some thing else to do, without all the headaches and stress.
Larry
Larry
MasterBlaster
TreeHouse Elder
Nah, I don't think that's it.
Newfie
Addicted to ArboristSite
Heck, he's probably working, instead of just talking about working like the rest of us. Imagine that!
P_woozel
ArboristSite Guru
He's busy with offshore business ventures, and wondering why his crewmembers are such chronic f...ups. I've offered several times to remedy that situation for him but he's too nice.
DDM
Addicted to ArboristSite
Maybe He has taken up a Position of a tree Sitter in The Ukraine and does not have internet Access?
Chucky
ArboristSite Operative
RBTree's one of a handful of Arboristsite members whose posts I search and read every single line and every single word. A lot of meat in his posts, and some truly fabulous pics to top them off. But that one job where they landed that huge conifer between the fence and the house absolutely blows me away! I know he's the consummate professional arborist, but geez, it had to take a little something extra, beyond mere confidence to pull that stunt off. I'm thinking sorcery!
Chuck
Chuck
Nickrosis
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I think about that job from time to time..... It was absolutely awesome.
MasterBlaster
TreeHouse Elder
Well, whut tha hail...
Gypo Logger
Timber Baron
Further to Davids post, I heard Rogers now a tree sitter in Seattle volunteering his love of trees to Green Piece.
I know, cause I was there and I saw him ekeing out a meager existence in a large Monkey Tree.
John
I know, cause I was there and I saw him ekeing out a meager existence in a large Monkey Tree.
John
Nickrosis
Manned by Boderators
That's it.
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Chucky
ArboristSite Operative
Rocky,
There’s no taking away from the vast amount of experience RBTree’s accrued over the years. RB’s clearly in control in all of his pics I’ve seen him in. He’s in charge of managing the biggest trees on the continent for his clients – and he apparently doesn’t skip a beat in his management of them. That comes from the confidence of a couple decades of often working some 100’ or more higher than the average arborist.
But that “between” takedown I have to think is on the far edge of his margin of safety. It’s all statistics in tree climbing – minimizing risk, while maximizing efficiency, and I think RBTree in this case went to the extreme side and maximized efficiency, while sacrificing some safety. It seems the job had to be an exception for RBTree, especially since he wasn’t in control of the saw taking it, and because in the long haul, multiple risks like this would almost surely end up catastrophically, even for someone as skilled and capable as he is. Yet RBTree is still around and still in business, so I chalk this absolutely spectacular job as a statistical outlier, a rare success that I’m wondering if he was praying over as that tree fell, and one that fortunately was caught on camera for us all to marvel at.
Chucky
There’s no taking away from the vast amount of experience RBTree’s accrued over the years. RB’s clearly in control in all of his pics I’ve seen him in. He’s in charge of managing the biggest trees on the continent for his clients – and he apparently doesn’t skip a beat in his management of them. That comes from the confidence of a couple decades of often working some 100’ or more higher than the average arborist.
But that “between” takedown I have to think is on the far edge of his margin of safety. It’s all statistics in tree climbing – minimizing risk, while maximizing efficiency, and I think RBTree in this case went to the extreme side and maximized efficiency, while sacrificing some safety. It seems the job had to be an exception for RBTree, especially since he wasn’t in control of the saw taking it, and because in the long haul, multiple risks like this would almost surely end up catastrophically, even for someone as skilled and capable as he is. Yet RBTree is still around and still in business, so I chalk this absolutely spectacular job as a statistical outlier, a rare success that I’m wondering if he was praying over as that tree fell, and one that fortunately was caught on camera for us all to marvel at.
Chucky
P_woozel
ArboristSite Guru
Remember Roger decided to bring me in to cut that pig, now was that sound judgement or a gamble? come to think of it, where is my helmet Rog?
MasterBlaster
TreeHouse Elder
When someone asks me to do what RBTree did with that tree, I give them a 95% probability that I can fit it in that tight hole. Those are relatively good odds, but that also means 5 times out of 100 the house/ fence will get smashed.
At that point I will tell them I will do it, but they cannot hold me responsible for the 5% error. I can proceed with their way, or I can do it MY way which will assure 100% accuracy.
Of course, my 100% accuracy will result in a loss of mill wood, which was important to this particular job.
In my career I've made maybe a 1/2 dozen of those calls, and all have fell into the 95% range. Knock on wood. That 5% is still out there, waiting to bite me in the arse.
At that point I will tell them I will do it, but they cannot hold me responsible for the 5% error. I can proceed with their way, or I can do it MY way which will assure 100% accuracy.
Of course, my 100% accuracy will result in a loss of mill wood, which was important to this particular job.
In my career I've made maybe a 1/2 dozen of those calls, and all have fell into the 95% range. Knock on wood. That 5% is still out there, waiting to bite me in the arse.
P_woozel
ArboristSite Guru
I was 100% certain that I could get that tree in the lay, right up until it was breaking wood, then I thought as I always do, "Is everything right?" It was but I am aware that sometimes things go wrong, Roger could have done that tree no problem, I think he just felt like taking my picture for voodoo purposes.
