Burnham
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Now Andy, that WAS a closeout price. Still, the regular prices were half or less what you have to pay...amazing.
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I guess it depend on your use of words . It does auto oil, with the additional manual/aux. oiler there too.
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Here ya are, Andy. 60 inches on an 084. Note the manual oiler button on the left of the handle.
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Or more! That is a different kettle of fish...
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Might y'all not be money ahead to do some proper road work to your drive, then be able to use a less costly vehicle? Just a thought .
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That's for certain. Any set of spurs can be either comfortable or ungodly painful, depending on the pads. I've been very happy with my aluminum Bashlins with caddy pads...might be a USA thing, those pads.
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Official "Yank'" Picture Thread
Burnham replied to GASoline71's topic in International Arborist Forum
Two names that I know of...bearpaw knot or becket hitch. Old school, but bombproof...only for use with large D's and stiff cable-core. -
You've always been so generous in letting me use it, Lee
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There are some awfully pretty places, here in the western US. Some of the folks here, like Big A, High Scale, and Steve have seen some of the pictures I've posted over at the TH.
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USA, western Oregon. I work for the US Forest Service on the Mt. Hood National Forest. http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/mthood/
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Time to get out and close some gates for the winter recreation crowd.
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Same here.
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Comes in a hi-vis version now. I rather like it, lighter than full 1/2 inch rope but not so skinny to grab as the 7/16. It milks some, but not too badly, and splices well. I continue to have some trouble with my hitch twisting it on quick descents. Not too badly, though.
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Let's see...if that was 1987, I was 33 years old then...yup, you are most likely right, Steve. Any of those fellas still in the game?
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Aww...and here I thought this thread was going to be about climbers of my age
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14 inch on mine, but over here on this side of the big water it's not uncommon to see a 16 inch bar on a 200T. I find the 14 gives neutral balance at the top handle...12 is ass heavy and 16 is nose heavy. Not by much, but I feel it.
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Me! Pleased with how slick it went.
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Some more.
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Several years ago (4 to be exact, so that was in one of Butch's earlier TreeHouse versions) I posted pics of the installation of an antenna and solar panel for a temporary com radio system repeater. I put it in a 70 foot Douglas fir. Ha...temporary. Now the com geeks say that the original panel is undersized for the job and they called on me to remove the small panel and replace it with one 4 times larger. The original panel and brackets weighed 25-30 lbs. The new one is 3 times heavier and much more awkward to work with. I decided to rig a high lead and carriage to get the old one down and the new one up. I controlled the lowering task with a rescue 8 in the tree. I rigged a 2:1 haul system for the groundies to pull the biggun up to me. Here's some pictures. First removing the old unit, then placeing the new one.
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Official "Yank'" Picture Thread
Burnham replied to GASoline71's topic in International Arborist Forum
That's the general gist. Across the landscape, a drainage may well have fewer than the average number of snags because so much of the acreage has been logged and replanted. Younger stands tend to be healthier and thus have fewer natural snags. So there are plenty of trees, as out reforestation program is quite successful, but not enough unhealthy, dying, or dead to support the desired level of snag dependent species. Yes, I have put up a bajillion bird and some bat boxes. The problem with them is that squirrels, chipmonks, and wasps like them alot, and annual maintenance is needed for them to be effective. The $$ never seems to be there for that, unfortunately. -
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Burnham replied to GASoline71's topic in International Arborist Forum
In that case Steve, I was infecting healthy trees with phelinus pini so that rot pockets develop. These then can be exploited by cavity nesters...woodpeckers at first, then neo-tropical songbirds like mountain bluebird. We do this in stands that are deficit in natural snags from past mnagement practices. The process is to drill a series of holes about 3/4 inch in diameter, about 6 inches deep. You then insert an inoculated dowel into the hole and then top it off with a short length of plastic pie that keeps the tree from pitching the hole closed. We do this at about 75 feet up the tree, or in some cases about 40 feet. I spur climb to do this...the biologists consider the gaff damage a side benefit to the prescription. -
Official "Yank'" Picture Thread
Burnham replied to GASoline71's topic in International Arborist Forum
Here's pics of me in a couple of mature Douglas firs, doing wildlife habitat work in a shelterwood harvest unit. -
After college and cattin' around for a few years, took a job with the US Forest Service as a reforestation technician in Western Oregon, USA...and it turns out you need seed to grow trees...and it further turns out that you have to climb trees to harvest cones to get seed. The FS trained and certified me in climbing, rigging, and chainsaw use...still does on a repeating basis. I do alot of things besides climb, but it's just about the most rewarding.
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I'm about the same as Stumper. Part of my job is to keep up with new and developing equipment and techniques, so I have tried much of what is out there. But I often have work where there is no advantage to using all the bells and whistles, like Ed says. So I pick and chose as the day demands. The down side to this is my gear bags are overly large and I'm always re-doing my harness and kit arrangements.
