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pollywoggin

Piute Junior High, Antelope Valley High School, Palmdale Jr. College. Then I moved to Florida, and went to Miami Dade College.
But Gino and I find ourselves missing the West coast, pining for a more mountainous scene, with people of a more open mindset...so are seriously contemplating moving to Oregon or Washington state. I really miss the west coast attitude....
Nicci

treevet

I ate a bunch of frogs at a bar one time when I had had a few too many.

Quite tasty but a little on the greasy side.

pollywoggin

lol Tree!
Nicci

Victor Lindsay

Well done on the port-a-wraps.

They'll mind if he tries to sell them, but you can copy anything for your own use.

treevet

I wasn't aware of that. That is good info to have.

backwoods

well my old saw bit the dust.
blew rod out bottom.

whe i get my hands on another one il have new project saw.

backwoods

i am working on a sthil saw project.
o31 av

jlloxley

Really slow last week due to all the rain. Lord willing next week will be better. I was disappointed to see cursing on the site. I thought the postings would have more taste. Thanks and God Bless

Victor Lindsay

Trying to get a photo up of a coos bay felling cut i used on an extreme leaner today. It was a small db, but great to practice with.

Has anyone used this technque before? The key word is EXTREME leaner. If i tried a bore cut, chances are it would have snappped, or barber chaired before it was ready.

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Victor Lindsay

Is it called something differant in Europe or anywhere else?

newguy18

I thought the coos bay was made one third of the way in,on each side paralell to the lean,then trip the strap by cutting towards the lean[learned from Beranek's book fundamentals of general treework].

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Victor Lindsay

Sounds like a good book to have. Any websites?

newguy18

Yep.
A Tree Story: books and videos by Gerald F Beranek

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judylou

Spent the day raking and lifting plane tree leaves from my garden. We have one either side of the front of our house on the council verge, and of course they drop every leaf on us. However, you can't have the trees without the leaves. One or two more big clean ups should see us through before starting again next autumn.

Apocalypsse

Driving down the Nepean Hwy around Brighton area today. I could swear at least a dozen of the trees on the traffic islands between the tram tracks and service have been been topped not so long ago. They are just starting to grow back from it and are looking f*cking horrible.

allenn

I'm trying to find a source for a 55 gal drum of a wax emulsion end grain sealer (preferably with freeze protection) for the Rocky Mountain Woodturners wood bank in northern Colorado.

So far I've talked to a guy at UC coatings about Anchorseal, and a gal at ISK Biocides about Sealtight 60. Saw a reference about Mobilcer-195, and can't find any more aout it yet.

Any and all help - suggestions, comments, this-stuff's-pretty-good, Stay-away-from-this, try-these-guys, these were good but they've gone outta business, and such - thanks in advance. PMs welcome.

allen norris

Ignorant, not ineducable

mic687

On the books are two 70' sugar maples one complete take down and lim over the house and power line on the other. Just picked up a 18"dbh ash in our richest neighbor hood in town. Also just bid on 16"dbh red pine and birch next to a house in town and am doing a small prune tomarrow. Been slow up untill this week and it all breaks at once but I will take it. Got a 92 Ford Superduty with a 7.3 liter diesel and flat bed last week and am looking foward to using it.

Bob Tooley

Cities and towns need to get competent people on their tree care committees or they can start kissing their trees good-bye... They want their older trees kept alive, but forget what conditions have been degrading in recent years... Most of the old elm trees grew well when everyone had their own septic systems in their yards which became a continual source of water and nutrients for these trees, but the cities later removed these resources, dug up tree roots to put in sewer lines and covered the holes thinking everything was going to be the same for the trees... Paving, underground utilities, excessive use of road salts, and the list goes on, contributing to leaf burn from 'light bounce', and heat off paved surfaces, reduced local ground surface humidity, and of course canceled nutrient recycling through clean up efforts while at the same time, increased harmful soil contaminants... Fungicide-use in drinking water supplies has killed off soil fungus' responsible for nutrient breakdown, and mature trees are expected to survive in postage stamp sized ground areas...without anything to work with. This isn't rocket science...it's simple supply and demand...whatever a tree is above ground is a mirror reflection of availability underground...and nothing from nothing equals nothing... Until people start to see trees as living, breathing biological objects, and 'not' mechanical structures, this problem will persist...

Apocalypsse

W000 got my Medium Rigid truck licence today! I dont think the other guy got his tho, I hope not, he sucked hard at driving.

Eric Frei

Well, least now you're legal to drive a truck!

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Bob Tooley

I thought that truck was just scratching it's back on that tree !!!

Victor Lindsay

Lots of noise and rain from the clouds today. Sent off a permit to do a navagational prune on some mangroves. got the go ahead for two estimates today, but will schedule for Monday. Life is good!

Apocalypsse

Nah, the truck was scratching the tree!

stargazer

You still have old elms? I thought they all died off from dutch elm disease. I've seen two very young planted "resistant" elms in a customer's yard, right on the New Hampshire border. Hard to tell if they will survive, I think they have to grow a bit to get the disease, but nothing around to carry it. I think a beetle carries it, not sure.

Any old elms left are doomed, no matter how good their care. They tried widespread spraying back when you could use strong poison, had to mark the trees with warning signs. Even that didn't stop the spread.

I wish I was wrong, and would love to be corrected.

Bob Tooley

I still have some in Castine, Blue Hill and Bar Harbor that I take care of, but the disease is now taking out the former disease resistant varieties. I worked on the first elm disease program with the DDT and Mathloxiclor combination, and took 192 of them down in Camden in 1972 as well as a bunch in other locations.
The insect is in slight remission right now, but it will be back... The new control measure is to inject the trees with Merit in the summer for control the following spring... if you get through June 15th...you're in the clear for the season..cross your fingers...

stargazer

I'm sorry to hear the resistant varieties are not holding up. I loved those beautiful old elms.

You certainly have a lot more experience than me, thanks for the reply.

Ever make firewood with any? My Dad had me cut and split the one in our yard, many years ago. First I would split it with wedges, then chop the pieces apart with an axe. They were connected by strong wood fibers. Man that stuff is tough! Think I once read they make wagon wheels out of it because it didn't split easy.

Bob Tooley

The elms are a very stringy fibered wood and it use to take as much human energy to split it as the energy you'd get from burning it. The stringy fibers also made take downs hard because even a small piece left uncut could control the direction the cut went in... Not my favorite tree... I hated climbing them, and every other aspect to their existence...but they were beautiful for others, besides me..to look at...

If you come over to the coastal part of the state to the towns I mentioned you'll get to see some of the oldest ones let still standing.......I wish I could ship them over to you, but it wouldn't be long before you started looking at them the same way I do...

treevet

You could duct tape it to the box and cut it off at the ground and you don't need to paint a sign on your truck.

stargazer

So right. I remember my Dad sawed it almost through then used a rope and truck to pull it down. Only it wouldn't go down. Cut more, try again. And again. Pull till the truck spun out. When it finally went down I could not believe the tiny little bit of wood holding back that truck spinning and straining in the pasture.

Next time I'm going through that area I will keep my eyes open for some oldies. Any towns or roads offhand? Rt 1? Think I saw a shagbark hickory around Portland/Yarmouth area years ago near the shore. Didn't know there were any in this state, although common further south. Have seen some young planted black walnut around here. Planted some nuts and the shoots survived the winter (barely) in my backyard. I expect the deer to eat them soon as they start to grow.

stargazer

Good one!