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TheTreeWiseMen

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  1. Doing some canopy work on a big ass silver maple the other day and came across this unfortunate little chap. "While you're here, if you could just........"
  2. Well, there ain't enough room on that boat for my bucket truck....
  3. Back out again yesterday......
  4. Here ya go Lee....a 41", 33lb striped bass caught by a mate of mine yesterday out near the east end of Long Island...
  5. I agree, it was a bit of a broad statement....
  6. ....and put your rope in a pillow case, stops it getting tangled up around the drum in the machine. And yes, I speak from experience! I agree, nowt worse than a job site covered in dog scat.....mind you, racoon and coyote scat is just as bad, and ain't no-one gonna clean that up for ya before you start!
  7. I like trees...but I like Special Brew better.
  8. At over 2000 years old, El Arbol del Tule, is amongst the oldest living trees in the world. With a 10 meter (33 feet) diameter trunk it is also considered by many to be the broadest tree in the world. The circumference of the trunk is an amazing 54 meters (178 feet) It is over 40 meters (130 feet) high, boasts a foliage diameter of over 51 meters (170 feet), and weighs over 500 tons.
  9. The 'Arbor del Tule' (the Tule Tree). A Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum)
  10. Nicely done Mr Bullman! Impressive piece of arb work.
  11. Get in it and work it out!
  12. Another thing I've really got into since being Stateside is sushi.....and the sake (saki).
  13. Mexican food.
  14. Some of the stats here do make for interesting reading though... http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=18
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  16. Dr. Feelgood - 'Milk and alcohol' [ame] [/ame]
  17. Todd Rundgren - Bang on a drum. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SGTT4sV2VE[/ame]
  18. It depends......
  19. Fatboy Slim- Apache. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaZJ7DFVMDQ[/ame]
  20. Very dead I'd say!
  21. Austrian? (Pinus nigra) I'd call that a Black pine over here mate.
  22. Aerosmith -'Pink' [ame] [/ame]
  23. That's a big ol' pine you're on there Carl! Looking good mate....
  24. I was 19, remember it well....worked my balls off clearing up that mess. Never forget seeing roads where every tree was laying on the floor all the same way.
  25. Reminds me why I left the UK.....well, one of the reasons anyway.

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