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laura189•18h ago

Saw a climber drop a 20oz silky off a red oak on Elm St and I will not shut up about it

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sullivan.finley•1d ago

Spent $210 on a pole saw last spring and it paid for itself in one storm cleanup

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jennyb67•2d ago

Shoutout to the guy in Bakersfield who told me to stop topping my young oaks

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jennyb67•3d ago

My old crew lead called spike knots 'widow makers' and I laughed until a 3 foot limb landed 6 feet from me in Tacoma

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paul251•9d ago

Tried deep root watering on a dying maple and the ground cracked open

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felixfisher•10d ago

I finally got the throw line over that 80 ft oak limb after 2 hours and a broken big shot

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clark.robin•11d ago

Thought climbing spikes were cheating until I watched a 68 year old guy limb a red oak in Louisville

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adam_thompson53•12d ago

A climber in Bend told me to stop running my saw at full throttle in the cut, and it finally clicked

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alice_palmer20•14d ago

Saw a 100 year old oak in Savannah last week that got me thinking about how we prune now

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victorb17•14d ago

Wrote off pole saws as a gimmick until a storm job in Tulsa changed my mind

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iris574•15d ago

Guy at the supply yard in Boise said topping is harmless, my old foreman called it a slow death

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paul251•16d ago

Am I the only one who had to pick between a bucket truck and a grapple saw for storm cleanup in Wichita?

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sandrat24•17d ago

A climber on my crew changed my mind about rigging the whole crown in one go

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rowan_roberts49•17d ago

That girdling root at the base of the maple on Elm Street is why we lost it in the storm

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uma_johnson•18d ago

Saw a crew in Bakersfield top a 60 foot sycamore with no climbing line, just spikes and a ladder

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