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Two bandanas, a Kershaw rope knife and a cell phone, while aloft. I'm a minimalist while climbing. However my tool truck's packed to the gills with a Bailey's foresters industrial med kit, pneumatic arm and leg splints, surgical tubing etc. Stay in this biz long enough and you'll be glad your med kit's well stocked, including an aluminum stretcher/gurney for hauling 200 lb plus crew members out of remote areas. Jomoco
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First time up in a heli Reg? Jomoco
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Funny, long hair'd climbers generally prefer Samson ropes! What the Yale you tryin to pull here Reg? Your vid belongs in the Metropolitan museum as a work of art mate. Jomoco
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I've noticed that proper pollarding leaves one leafed stem intact until the other pollarded stems have suckered, before it too gets whacked back. Kinda like one pump primer left alone and working until the others are recovered. Jomoco
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Looks like you're throwin goodly size chips Ben! Good stuff mate. Jomoco
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I've been using a couple of 20 lb CO2 cylinders to blow out my saws with and charge my pneumatic throwbag gun for many decades now.
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My 020T's carb has been on dang near every 200T I've worn out! My saw today's a veritable Frankentein's monster, but has three adjustment screws!
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I believe internet connectivity among climbing arborists will result in far more than just better tools and techniques enhancing our safety and production capacity. There's something about a fully equipped 4X4 tooltruck chock full of sharp saws, rigging gear, industrial medkits, backboards and pneumatic arm n leg splints, and of course, modern communications gear. Every journeyman arborist that's equipped this way and ready to rock night or day? I've always thought the ISA was a quasi Union taking baby steps rather than nice long strides. Jomoco
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I was thinking in terms of the ISA executive boards and committees that write the rules n such. Jomoco
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Do the same leadership characteristics apply to leading an entire industry, like our's? Jomoco
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A willingness to personally perform whatever task is making them nervous or uncooperative. Night contracts during storms with rocks and boulders washing down onto your road clearance work site, closed to traffic. When your bucket operators threaten mutiny before operating in such conditions? You hop in that bucket, take it over center and set it down right next to them, then politely request they hang tough and get back to work. This of course only applies to contracts where failure to finish results in fines and progressively larger monetary penalties for each day the work goes unfinished. Most every state highway contract contain such clauses. The reason state licensed contractors must be bonded. It can be like night time jungle warfare at times when deadlines n storms collide IME. Jomoco
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What song is on repeat in your head whilst aloft?
jomoco replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in General chat
Tuesday afternoon's it's the Moody Blues. The trees are drawing me near, I've got to find out why? Jomoco -
Those tools were powered by a compressor via an integrated hose and lifeline. A dynamic form of SRT, a winch acting as a Hobbs. The climber has no tail. An old climber's salvation in the making? Jomoco
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I'm more of an "other stuff" kinda guy. Lazy push button good for nothin climber.. Jomoco
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How have you older climbers changed your style in the last few years.
jomoco replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in Climbers talk
Depends on the situation Steve. It humbled the hell out of me to have an old bearded hippie chain smoking Marlboros stay right on my azz operating a big tracked skidsteer! Final cleanup was a bit rough though! Jomoco -
How have you older climbers changed your style in the last few years.
jomoco replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in Climbers talk
Such an Alladin's rope exists already in the marine industry, rated and approved for lifting and lowering personnel suspended from a bosun's chair. Can deliver up to 200 psi of air pressure too as icing on the cake! Hose reel / motorized / fixed - EMCÉ Now that's my kind of SRT. Jomoco -
How have you older climbers changed your style in the last few years.
jomoco replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in Climbers talk
The concept of SRT's more alluring when the ropes dynamic and the climber has no stinking tail encumbering them whatsoever. I want a single rope to do the up n down, in n out for me! I'm gettin old, weak n feeble, I need help, all I can finaggle! Jomoco -
Plenty savvy Matty! The term journeyman rigger leaps to mind quite readily. Jomoco
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A bit of fuel oil resistant Marine Tex epoxy! And you're good to go! I do love my Husqvarnas! 254's 262's 365 Special's and 372's All fantastic and very durable saws IME. Jomoco
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That picture fascinates me. The uniform layered lateral branch rows vertical proximity to reach other. As though the spacing' just right to allow its vertical neighbor to act as backstops in high wind gusts. Funny, because in Seattle they like to "wind firm" tall conifers by cutting every other row of lateral limbs off! Makes me suspect mother knows best myself. Wonderful shot Mario, you momma's boy you! Jomoco
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I got a dermal contact case of the dizzies whacking a huge oleander hedge back without long sleeves and gloves, despite wearing my bandana as a respirator! Some Oleander tea my pretty? Jomoco
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They filter better when wet of course. Try it Mick my friend! Sycamore can be pure hell without them, friggin Oleanders too. I won't leave the ground without them. As far as their ability to filter on a micronic scale, I'm clueless. Jomoco
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You guys'd make Cowboys turn over in their graves at such silliness! I take two bandanas up top religiously, for two very common sense reasons, both as respirators and cut binding, be they minor handsaw knicks or serious requiring tourniquet action ASAP. I do know SoCal climbers that breathed too much bird crap pruning fan and date palms. I'm somewhat shocked any climber would climb very long without them. We stole from sailors relatively wisely. Cowboys are fair game too IME. Jomoco
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I'm a big believer in technique and method applying at all times Jesse, particularly craning large trunk picks with a medium saw. Nothing more embarrassing than a stuck/pinched saw when the whole operation's waitin on you to get unstuck and cutting again! I'm a pusher when it comes trunk release cuts, cutting with the top of my bar, right about head level. From a clock face perspective looking down, with the crane's kingpin location at six o'clock, one continuous cut starts with my back to the crane starting at three o'clock walking it past Six and up to nine and 12 o clock till I'm facing the crane as I reach three o'clock for a smooth bind free release almost every time. Works well for me at any rate cuz I'm on of those cowards that use lightweight medium saws with twenty inch bars to cut three foot diameter crane picks! Nice vid and pickin mate, very smooth and controlled. Jomoco
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Your release cuts seem to work well enough Jesse. But is there method to your technique? When I'm releasing large trunk picks with no nearby targets? I aim my cut toward the crane's kingpin, almost like a felling cut with no hinge, but the same pattern. What's your method mate? Jomoco
