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  1. SeanKroll

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    Multi-prong approach. I have wedged some big trees. A bottle jack, if you don't have a real tree jack is a whole lotta 'go over there" with plenty of tight wedges. I've only jacked big trees with Silvey jacks. He called for more rope force which went from whole lotta (insufficient) pull to...
  2. CurSedVoyce

    The Joke/Funny Pic/Video Thread

  3. davidwyby

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    The monster thin steel wedges they used to tip the redwoods before jacks. I’m not dumb enough to think you could wedge a tree with essentially cedar. I’ve tried euc and it doesn’t hold up.
  4. CurSedVoyce

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    Sitting too hard back, you would destroy a redwood wedge before you would get it to sink. So. Still no. Or did you mean "redhead" And still, hard head would serve better or magnesium IMO
  5. davidwyby

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    I just meant if you were gonna insist on wedging, that’s all that would do it.
  6. CurSedVoyce

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    Fug no
  7. davidwyby

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    Maybe some old redwood wedges
  8. cory

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    Wedges probably aren't the answer for that hog
  9. SeanKroll

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    Wedging trees is an art that many are not familiar with. Instead of pulling harder, more wedging!
  10. stikine

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    The Dunning Kruger Effect comes to mind.
  11. CurSedVoyce

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    Or rent it. Or take the bosses gear out for a side job......
  12. SeanKroll

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    I doubt that they are brand new. Just saying... Easy to get a new truck and vehicle wrap, hi-viz and PPE'd out and look pro with minimal experience. Easy to have the same reliable equipment for a long time if you aren't breaking or losing it, if you bought quality, and have it look...
  13. SeanKroll

    How'd it go today?

    Congratulations on the progress!
  14. Dave Shepard

    How'd it go today?

    I made good progress on the tractor today, despite frozen fingers. One of the battery nuts was seized, I've never seen that before. Now the stud just spins in the battery.
  15. Burnham

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    The trick that can be hard for some operators on the ascendant side of experience is actually realizing when they are wading into dangerous waters. Without that, the "rethink and do whatever needs doing" that @Mick! speaks of will be hard to stumble unto. Like @davidwyby's grandpa says, "they...
  16. Cobleskill

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    Just like accidents. Usually a number of things combine.
  17. Mick!

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    I’m a little less black and white about these things, most people aren’t just good or bad at this job, these guys may have had a good rep before this. As @Dave Shepherd said, maybe underpriced, maybe it seemed doable. It’s rarely one mistake, rather a series of poor decisions leading to this...
  18. SeanKroll

    The Official Work Pictures Thread

    Yep, agroforestry.
  19. cory

    The Joke/Funny Pic/Video Thread

  20. SeanKroll

    Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

    With the right debtload, a person could buy all of that gear in one day.
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