Old Monkey

Its all situational. I do not think there is a right answer. A good climber has a large bag of tricks and pulls them out as they are appropriate. Sometimes getting fancy with ropes and rigging equipment works best and sometimes simple blocking down works best.

Nice puppy. What shrub is it made out of?

I am a small business with just one guy working for me. I wanted to break my own chains, so I offered to sell chains to my old and much larger tree service to underwrite the venture. They save money and I do as well.

Nice work guys. How much did you take off that Beech Steve?

That's cool, if you see a good example take a pict and post it. I'd like to see what they look like later. I am assuming that trees grow fairly rapidly there with all the precipitation you guys get.

I used to do more external shaping of trees. Now I only do it to fruit trees. The whole "is it topping" debate aside, shaping a tree while standing inside of it is hard work. You guys are very good at it. There are some excellent shaping job picts on this thread. How long do those trims last? I know its different tree to tree but on average?

I was undercut by half on a job by an all Albanian crew. The owner got cold feet about their lack of insurance and came back to me as the next lowest bidder who had insurance. I am awaiting a driveby on the jobsite by some angry Albanians.

"Nice shaping," was me not trying to pick a fight. Tree work is different in GB and I am not going to tell them what to do. It just seems surprising to me.

A lot of folks would love for me to do that to their trees here in the states. If I did the ISA would take away my decoder ring. Tree work is very different between the States and GB. Nice shaping.

I'd go for a stand alone. I don't think the second book lends itself to a movie.

People only say that because they go on to defeat the armies of god in the book. That's not exactly what happens either, so I am not giving anything away.

How do you think this will turn out now that you've read the book? http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/thegoldencompass/ Personally, I've been in love with Eva Green since Casino Royal and will be happy if they put her in enough scenes.

Did you ever? What is or was the tallest native species of tree in GB?

It sounds more like how you are sleeping than running chainsaws to me. Try a few night on the floor or some other hard surface.

I use one every time. I have seen what happens when you don't and it is not pretty. I was running a big Morbark chipper for my old company when it ate one of the blades. It did quite a lot of damage.

That's one heck of a back massager Ed. It would sure get the kinks out.

Having worked in two very different markets I know first hand that what goes in one place certainly does not work in another. I used to work in the San Francisco Bay Area where Deva lives and works. Out there, most of the big trees I did were over structures and on steep hills where chunking wood was usually not an option. We used a Hobbs lowering device for most of our jobs and it paid for itself many times over. I have never been fortunate enough to use a GRCS although I did get to meet its maker at a job Frans put together. I find that one of the advantages of a roping device that can take up tension is that with a slight face cut the rope can help you pull the piece over. I always pu a face cut in on 4' or longer pieces, then had my guys crank it up as I cut my back cut. When my holding wood was parallel I would clip the saw to my side and push the piece over. I got quite good at it and it usually went quite smooth. Now where I live I just tell people there will be some lawn damage, which no one here seems to mind, and then bomb everything to the ground. It ain't pretty but folks around here are unlikely to pay for a day of technical rigging.

It might be a great saddle but their is something inside me resists buying the latest greatest thing. Anti status or something.

Not when it is new. I just mean after it wears out. I am on the big side of things and can wear out bridges rapidly. I have a Glide saddle and the original way to change out the bridge was nuts. I cut the rings off of it and replaced them with the clevices from the Butterfly. I am looking for a new saddle and I want to make certain that I can in fact change the bridge without much effort.

Looks cool, I wonder how easy it is to change the bridge?

I don't know, we are inherently different men and women. More so than blacks and whites. Maybe it isn't PC to talk about differences but they do exist.

I used to work for the Forest Service over here in the States. We had a coed fire fighting crew. We trained everyone who was interested in running saws how to run them. The problem we ran into was the old Stihl 044s were hard for the women on our crews to start. They could run them and use them fine but starting was always difficult. Now with decompression switches I don't think that would be much trouble. As for female employees hiding out from tedious ground work, I've seen a lot of guys do that too.

I just bought another MS200T because my older(little over a year old) is running poorly. What problems are you finding with yours? Mine doesn't want to stay running unless you keep gunning it. I had the carb rebuilt, fuel filters and fuel lines changed and the engine boot replaced. It still does the same thing. I used to get this problem with my old 020 but I would run it full bore on some logs for a tank or two and it worked itself out. Now that trick doesn't seem to work.

I figured my nose trimmer remark wasn't too far over the line.

Arbtalk is a fascist state, I've been deleted! You are all out to get me.