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abby_singh•3d ago

Stopped climbing with a rope I tied off to the trunk and switched to a running bowline on a 60 foot red oak in Tulsa

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brian_kelly91•4d ago

Dropped $400 on a Petzl Sequoia saddle in Portland and it pinched a nerve in my hip on day three

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christopher_hunt•4d ago

Spent 6 days chasing a root girdling problem on a client's 40 year old maple in Bend, Oregon before I found the real culprit

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williams.diana•6d ago

Spent 4 hours chasing a lean on a red maple before I checked the obvious

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anthonyh85•6d ago

My old foreman told me to quit flushing cuts on maples in August, took me 3 seasons to believe him

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the_lee•7d ago

Vent: a customer in Tacoma told me my pruning cuts looked like I did them with a hatchet

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perez.mia•8d ago

My climb line got nicked on a dead oak limb last Tuesday and I almost didn't catch it

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wilson.jana•9d ago

Question about hand saws vs chainsaws for limbing dead oaks

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michaelw26•10d ago

Watched a 40 foot ash split down the middle in a windstorm because of a bad co-dominant union nobody caught

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kelly.noah•10d ago

Update: the 60 foot sugar maple in Burlington I've been watching since 2021 finally dropped its big dead limb, and it missed the fence by about 2 feet

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ryan_flores•11d ago

Vent: A homeowner in Tacoma argued with me for 20 minutes about topping his 40 foot Douglas fir

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the_willow•12d ago

The old climber at the Salem job told me to stop spurring up trim jobs and I blew him off

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amyb54•12d ago

Appreciation post: the old timer who said to quit pruning oak in spring

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murray.nathan•14d ago

Hit 412 hazard trees on my removal list this season and the one that messed with my head was a 60 foot silver maple in a backyard

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fiona_fox56•14d ago

Dropped $400 on a silky pole saw last spring and it paid for itself in one storm cleanup

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