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treevet

Look forward to going through your new toy book Tobe. One of my favorite pastimes.

White Oak Willie

Well, I guess you'd say WOW is feeling sort of tired. Mostly from having to dry out all the ropes and stuff every night because its been raining here in the southern U.S too. I've been cutting and stacking firewood after work but its starting to get too hot for that kind of work and my old Poulan chainsaw needs a rest a tuneup and a new chain. Summer is right around the corner but you guys down there are jsut getting ready for winter. At least I can see which limbs are alive now, so I don't trim out the wrong ones. I'll start supervising some line clearing work soon but I'm hoping the electric membership cooperative I work for has some better stuff for me to do this year. Now my wife's calling and saying I need to mow the grass. She never seemed to boss me around much when the kids were young but now they're gone so she picks on me.

Eric Frei

Hi ya Tobe, I see Sean's around too. If your ever over this way we'll spill quite a few together I say. You know how many people across the world have those Sherrill's catalogues? Lots!

Did you see the couple of video's I put up of the "boys" in town, good show, hats off to you guys going over and above.

Hey Willie, mowing the lawn sux! They sell some growth retardant stuff give it a try. We got spoiled with a drought and only had to mow once a month but with the recent rains was bout once a week ... certainly SUX.

Cheers

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TOMMY1

its good , 2 days of rain this week so far.just enough to not work in it

treevet

Welcome Tommy1. We ve been getting drenched too. Got soaked 2x yesterday. 2x is usually it for me. Used to go to the bar but had to find another plan. Cheers

maverick_sr_1999

thanks for trying to make me not as shy, and thanks it may make me post or reply to some. And it's going not so bad...Thanks for asking

Eric Frei

See you guys, not so difficult to post.

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arbdog

Hi every one! just come back from a week in Portugal (clementines country),l It was great and nice to have a break but really looking forward to going back to work (my misses thinks im sad). seen palms for the first time in close up and also seen a very low standard of tree pruning as you do every where!

treevet

Take some picts. next time Arbdog.

White Oak Willie

There ain't a cloud in the sky and the trees here are getting green real fast, that means I''l have plenty of work when all the bosses see all the limbs hanging over their electric lines. We had a storm that lasted only a few minutes yesterday but it took out about 20-25 trees and the electric line along one road in my area. I got about seven hours of over time pay for it, so I guess the wife will want the money for our vacation and she'll want to go to Flordia again. That dang Disney mouse gets all my money.

Eric Frei

Florida!

That place is expensive they say.

Me, I'm happy to just go anywhere where there's NO BLOODY PHONES!

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White Oak Willie

Yep. Every time the wife wants to go to Flordia it costs me lots and lots of money. I looked at what Quantas charges and I bet I can fly all the way from Nashville to Sidney and stay for a couple of weeks for less than what a long weekend at Disneyworld costs. I'm getting worried because there will be some grand kids coming along soon, so she'll want totake them there too.

The good thing is that the electric cooperative I work for has an agreement with other cooperatives and we help each other out, so if theres a hurricane in Flordia this year I'll maybe get to go for free. I like helping people who have to get tree limbs off their roofs and power lines and those hurricanes can sure put a bunch up there in a hurry.

newguy18

i was in dade city,half hour north of tampa]during a nice little catagorey 3 hurricane.Lots of downed trees.

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Jenjoe

Hi all Im new to this so will take a while to get it together. Im in Melbourne and were still waiting for some meaningful rain. Had heaps of wind a couple of weeks ago 100kms per hour. Saw a Liquid amber destroyed about 30feet of it lucky for the owners it landed on their car and not their house.

Am studying a degrees in Hort at Burnley partime am in my 3rd year with only 3 more to go (lol). Am doing Arb at the minute so am finding that really interesting.
Thanks for your help today Eric Ive been reading the articles which is why I didnt realise there was a thead to reply to sorry about that.
I have a better idea about a tree report now.

Does anyone want to have a guess of the age of a Eucalypyus cladocalyx that has a diametre at brest height of 4.9 metres Im guessing at least 100 years old anybody else have any ideas.

better go and got the 11yr old to bed look forward to hearing back.

Cheers Jenny

Eric Frei

Jenny, if you can load pics up that'd be great, start your own thread for it.

4.9m DBH for a 100 year old tree ... man, must be on steroids!

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Jenjoe

How old do you think it would be

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jacraw

thanks for the welcome.
still dry down here typical Autumn cool morns and mild sunny days. we need rain badly.
are you going to the ISAAC conference in Brisvegas?

newguy18

I'm not sure how quickly eucs grow but i would say 50-65 years old.Just a guess.

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southsoundtree

Seems things are slow here for me. don't know exactly why. In the US, April 15th is the income tax deadline. the people that get a refund for overpayment usually file earlier, but those that have to pay--seems to be those with more income--those that can more afford treework may be forking over a chunk to the federal government. Hope that this will pass.

Since we are freeing, or is it liberating, or... Iraqis, our country's economy, except for George Bush Jr. family and friends in the defense and oil businesses, has gone downhill. Hopefully things will pick back up with spring weather.

Enough to stay reasonably busy day to day, but it would be great to have work booked a week out, maybe two, if that's not asking too much.

Just got a stump grinder and F600 with a mancab and 12yard dump box. Excited about that. Now give me something to use it with.

Hope business is safe and productive for most out there.

bstewert

Hi Eric,
I'm from Oregon, USA. Just into tree climbing one year and love it. I can post a pix of the Octopus Tree in Cape Meares, a really unusual Sitka spruce, but would you tell me how to do it?
Bob
Portland,OR

Sean Freeman

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malcolm

My kids are still on holidays and it been raining for day now

Done it

Hi malcom, we've sure had some rain, what about last night, washed out my job for today and I wanted to use my new saw.

Eric Frei

Far out, I have no idea, it's a low rainfall species from SA in Vic, so faster than expected, I go the 100years.

No I'm not, too much $$$$$$'s for me, but I tried to hit the boss up for it and got told to "get a grip".

Well, lets see some of your toys in action ... and dont worry about Bush, his days are over.

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newguy18

and in come either hilary mcain or obama.Take your pic they're all liars.

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TreeDimensional

Hi all. In the last two days, we recieved about the same amount of snow as we got ALL winter. The temperature is -7C with a wind blowing, giving us a windchill of about -23C. The trees started bud break last week, this will definatley alter what the foliage will look like this year.

A neighbor stopped in late last week, and was telling us he was going to start seeding sometime this week. I think those plans are delayed!

newguy18

Take care in that freezing weather td,i feel your pain too.
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TreeDimensional

Uh Huh, I REALLY feel sorry for you! I hope you get a RED-NECK. LOL

newguy18

Its only gonna get worse for me,
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TreeDimensional

April25/08 Ya think we might be getting ready to go seeding!

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