Old Monkey

Its hard to pick. I would say redwood because I grew up near fabulous redwood forests. The I would say japanese maple, then dogwoods, madrone and then maybe redbud trees.

My wife and I lived in Japan for a while and one of our favorite festivals is the Koyo Festival that celebrates the fall colors of the japanese maples. Imaging a whole hillside of japanese maples changing color in succession as you come down slope.

Nice work and great video. You can cut a flat notch into the tree to keep the Hobbs from sliding on big pieces. I think you were doing it but pretensioning the rope while taking out trunk sections helps a good bit.

Have fun with the new toy. I've used a Hobbs quite a bit but my new boss is too poor to buy one. Stupid bugger.

Is that way of feeding brush faster than two or three guys feeding it? It seems like if the chipper can move to the brush that two guys could have that machine chipping as fast as it could chip.

Hey they need chimps in politics too. Good luck liaising.

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You got it. Its a great movie. Carey Grant was too cool. He died when I was in college. My roommate and I watched two days straight worth of Carey Grant films in his honor.

Have you ever seen North by Northwest Steve?

My guess is bad gas or maybe moisture.

That's cool. My daughter roamed around the house saying dadadadadada. When I came home I'd sneak up to the living room window and knock on the window. I'd always get a big "DA!" and a smiling face. Those were good days.

I love Led Zepellin but I HATE HATE all the hair band wanna bees they inspired. In some ways I think Led Zep set rock music back for a long time. I like folks who do their own thing.

And here I thought it was something about flogging the little lumberjack.

the compay i work for.

Do you have any picts of those trucks loading wood? Its a very interesting design. I'd like to know how you like them and what type of cabovers those are.

Red Rider - "Lunatic Fringe"

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Golden Earring - Radar love

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And now a personal anthem of mine:

The Rolling Stones - Monkey Man

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Treejumper, try cutting and pasting the web address of the youtube video you want to embed instead of trying to cut and paste the embed code.

Cool stuff guys. I love the Led Zeppelin and Spirit. I have both on vinyl.

Spirit - "I Got a Line On You"

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"Wax lyrical?" Is that a British euphemism for something?

I like American's individually. As a group there's something to be desired.

language barrier here old monkey......sycamores here are acer pseudoplatanus

Oops.

Recently applied for consent to reduce three 90yr old ish Sycamores among a stand of Oak in domestic gardens.

Local planners met customer and told him he can have them removed. Reason: weed trees!

Despite local opposition the application has been re submitted through pressure from customer, not a lover of trees I think as his telly reception was poor:alberteinstein:

So that's our new spec!

Question to the industry. Sycamores Valued or not?

Are they hybrids or true sycamores? I think they are great and horrible trees at the same time. If they didn't have that dust on the backs of their leaves I think they'd be the best climbing tree around, great limb structure, open canopies and fairly reliable wood strength.

does he live on this planet?

Seems like an accurate map to me. I like what they put for Europe. You guys just aren't cowboy enough.

and Mr. Ed Jr. is..... hey look there's a butterfly outside. Well look at that!

ed, im pretty sure when ben was telling me about this a few weeks back he said its a cut & drop job

Sweet! But with that much tree on the ground it'll be hard finding room for all of it.

Did Dutch Elm Disease hit GB? We lost most of our nice elms over here.

I agree. I like this quote, "In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the Earth; while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists."

Its good to know there's a village full of experts out there.

Cool stuff. I like your bear Steve, that's an excellent first piece. Here in the Pacific Northwest you are only allowed to do bears, eagles, salmon, dolphins or some combination of those like a eagle holding a salmon or bear with a salmon in his mouth or a bear pawing an eagle holding a salmon that's jumping over a dolphin.

On most big wood pieces, two wraps is enough. The Hobbs is great. Someone who has the touch for running it is invaluable.

Here is Phil Ochs. He was a 1960's folk singer. He died young. I did tree work for his daughter a few years back.

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