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Old habits die hard... Jomoco

Nice hedge work mate! Jomoco

I get paid relatively well to hang galvanized drop forged steel n stuff into trees just right! Jomoco

One of the reasons I cut lower trunk wood last, or sometimes not at all. Removing older than you are fat boy tree species can hold big surprises. Ancient old Cal Peppers with their heavily buttressed but hollow trunks are a prime example. Once into them about 18 inches or so, wham! From any point on the radius, on over a dozen downtown removals! Finall brought in a big trackhoe to tear them out. Turns out each hollow stump was filled with about three feet of fist sized rocks, put there by some horrendous flood back in the 50's! Jomoco

You'll be goin back jack, to do it again, wheels spinnin round n round... Jomoco

Did yu do your client right? By poisoning the stump too? Jomoco

Ancient Ice Box to keep wine cool? Jomoco

You guys notice how a hot chain files easier and sharper than a cold chain does? Jomoco

Two galvanized steel rods and one EHS steel cable, anchored with galvanized steel through bolts. Cost about 750 bucks installed hereabout. Jomoco

How's it feel to be a serendipitous hero mate? I like your technical vids Benn. Nice to be good at what you do eh? Jomoco

You sure there were no lines attached to that pole Benn? Something powered that pole over. Perhaps the tips of the branch you cut slapping an intact laundry line? You must be Irish or somethin! Jomoco

Looks a lot like mine. Do you run 325 pitch chain n bar on your's as well? Love both the 254XP and the 262XP, both great lightweight mid size screamers. Mine's all original still, even the crank seals n carb! Feed em high octane racing fuel with a good synthetic mix? And they love you long long time Joe! Jomoco

This post's reminiscent of my teenage years in the 70's, hauling 14 ft long tandem axle rental trailers, full of palm logs, with my 68 Chevy El Camino big block 396. It's true that you can accelerate out of a down hill fish tailing catastrophe, provided the down hill section levels out, or quickly turns into an uphill situation, IME. But if it's an extended down hill scenario? Your best bet's easing off slowly, and concentrating on steering the straightest course possible, and braking in incremental well timed intervals. Loading the back of My El Camino with palm logs as well solved my problem. Tow vehicles with light rear ends are problematic any time they attempt towing a heavy load. Glad you learned your lesson relatively unscathed mate! Jomoco

I know a few experienced chainsaw operators who did just fine, until they got their hands on a saw powerful enough to bite back. Most of them occurred after turning over a log not cut all the way, and using the upper bar to cut the straps, pushed the saw back into their upper leg, where the lower back most part of the bar, bit them but good, one of them nicked their femoral artery, luckily for him we were close to an ER, and he lived. Operating an 044 Stihl. Chaps are a must regardless. Personally I make a habit of cutting with the smallest saw I can get away. Which is why I've worn out so many MS200's, and so few 372XP's! Industrial forestry medkits come in handy if you cut for a living like I do. Work safe mate! Jomoco

Human controlled tree climbing robot. HCTCR about a decade away IMO. Soon you'll wake up in your bedroom as usual, but simply stroll across the hall to your robotic control room module, harness yourself in, go online realtime, and get to work! Numbers of destroyed robots will tell the tale of your skills, and appropriate hourly rate. Remember I told you so first! Jomoco

Dynamic Arboreal Mooring Line. Coming soon to a tree near you! Mechanization marches on relentlessly. Jomoco

Nah Mick, today was an easy fell. One of those days when you nail the exact crotch you wanna put your pull line through first shot! Had to winch a fair sized non functional van with a flat tire out of the fall zone. Dang thang outweighed my truck, so it took four wheel chocks and a two part winch line to drag it where I wanted to, to anchor my redirect when I winched the old obliging dead fellow over. Didn't even need to put my fancy new gaffs on at all.

Yes Sky, each step extends the inner needle up to half an inch, depending on whether or not you put your full weight into the step. I find myself tiptoeing about with a very light step. Remember I'm a 160 lb munchkin that only weighs in at about 200 lbs with all my gear on including my trimsaw. You big boys may require a 7/16ths inner needle in a 3/4 needle housing cone!

Vultures too, are an integral aspect of the natural world mate! Consoles me no end! Jomoco

There's an outfit that casts titanium right next to me here in Ariz, Phoenix, I believe. Just the basic bare shanks n pole/tree gaffs from Buckingham's 420 bucks a set! Super lightweight and worth the money. But 75 bucks a pop every six months for replacement gaffs gets old, and kicking out cuz your gaffs are too short sucks. These gaffs sorta go against the keep it simple rule of design, but in a good way, like a cat's ability to extend n retract it's claws makes them far superior tree climbers, compared to say dogs who can't? Jomoco

That's my dread though, charging serious coin, to deliver a seriously crafted product, without any product liability involved? Kinduva sold as is clause? An iron proof disclaimer? Jomoco

In the field.

Fully extended.

A few years ago I shelled out serious coin for a set of Buck Titanium pole gaffs hoping they'd solve an age old beef of mine about setting both my gaffs securely, at acute angles, when way out on a lateral, with a high TIP. One foot sets good, but the other cuts and runs with the wood grain, slicing rather than setting, annoys the hell out of me. I'm a firm believer in razor sharp gaffs, as well as chainsaws, and was thoroughly disappointed when my brand new BT2's suffered the same old inability to set securely at certain acute angles. A few years of experimentation with round pencil point gaffs, led to the idea of an extendable and retractable inner 3/8ths needle, housed in a static cone shaped 5/8ths housing to support the inner dynamic needle, which is simply a long grade 8 aircraft bolt that costs about 7 bucks apiece. My first set solved the acute angle setting problem, but the dynamic components had a tendency bind up with sap n stuff, and the inner needles not retracting from simple spring pressure. The addition of grease zirts to the needle housing to lube the inner needle tract solved that problem too. These are the first set of Inoculators, and I'm very pleased with their performance in hardwood trees, particularly dead and still standing petrified deadwood. They're about an inch and three quarters long when retracted, and two and a quarter long fully extended. The next set will incorporate an inner needle with up to 3/4's of an inch of adjustability as the needle wears and is re sharpened. My thoughts are that supplying two sets of needles along with a sharpening jig, even at a higher initial cost, will pay off for guys who take their gaff performance as seriously as I do? Would you shell out 750 bucks for a set of these, complete with sharpening jig?