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If the company is so bad off that employees have to go parts of their workday unpaid to benefit the company than there is bigger problems than "how many hours are we gonna call it today?" If ya can't afford to pay the help their travel & prep time (the ones showing up a bit early to get things...

I think once you show up at the shop, you're "on the job", being on the jobsite isn't all that it's about. In order to do something you must do something else first..i.e getting trucks and gear ready, being sure lights & trailers all connected properly, systems checks on machines, with so many...

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I have a 01 toyota corolla with more than 230k miles still runs great

A wooden rope wrench? I'm going to have to look into that.. I live close to the beginning of the buffalo river, it's my areas biggest tourist attraction. Awesome place usually, but this year it has been way hotter than usual here and no rain in the last 2 months...so going on a canoe trip is...

I want to get a wrench and try working srt out one of these days, but for now I'm happy with drt, and the business isn't really booming here in hicktown, so I've been trying to focus on picking up more rigging gear so that I can have enough hardware to do the job, instead of investing in a new...

Thanks for the input guys, I'm somewhat new to all of this, trying to get my systems figured out. Reading around this place has taught me alot of valuable info

that's crazy, I had heard of the secret weapon before but had never looked into it. A false crotch to hang from your srt line..that's cool and all, but is a little too much for my application. The tallest climb you can get around here is near 80 feet. There's a few older trees that may be...

Yeah the figure 8 below the hitch works great, I tried something like that before getting on here but couldn't get it functioning right. Once I slack up the hitch, it's pretty much all on the 8, I can let go of the hitch and stop, rapelling with an 8 but having a secure brake is nice. Beats the...

@PCTree: Yes I have an 8, I figured if I mentioned what other gear I had it would help. I like to go rapelling from the bluffs around here and bought an 8 for a simple and light decender to carry through the woods. I thought of this method earlier while I was trying to build my system, with no...

I'm sure this has already been addressed about a million times, but I'm having no luck finding anything about it. I ascend srt to access the canopy, and switch to drt to work. I have a 1/2" arbormaster and a 7/16" blaze climbing line. I can srt ascend with the 7/16" blaze using a grigri, a...

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I swear I keep getting poison ivy over and over again, just from using the same gear I used in poison ivy covered trees. What do you guys reccomend the best way to wash gear after getting poison ivy covered? Ive never had a need to wash my rope and saddle but I am half tempted to after the job I...

Calamine lotion works good. Rub it on real thick and let it dry. It'll stay like a thin layer of crust on you so it looks a little odd but works very well

If I have a tree job coming up that I know is gonna be a pita I almost always have dreams about it..especially when I'm about to have to climb and peice down one of these big nasty spongey dead oaks that's all by its self, no other t.i.ps and bark coming off in chest sized sheets...We seem to...

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Yeah I have learned a tremendous amount from reading through these forums. Those books are definitely on my shopping list. I am pretty new to the scene.. I wish I could say that I did this kind of work every day but people just don't care about it around here. When I'm lucky I usually get around...

Haha now I wouldn't say that. Back when I was in highschool a friend and I started doin groundwork with a man in my town that's done tree work for almost 40 years. Started climbing right around the time I graduated in 09, I'm 20 now and stay pretty busy doing jobs around here, there's not many...

I grew up in a family of carpenters and have been on hundreds of roofs..not saying that I like it at all, but it sure as hell beats crawling around under the house! I do alot of independent roof jobs, I've never had to turn one down because I didn't want to get up there...although I have turned...