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A quick reply to her urging that temporary ropes to hold it together be placed 2/3rds the height of the tree by somebody, Bartlett, another tree co, anybody, asap? Jomo

Looks like one of those trees genetically predisposed to have bad crotches in every friggin crotch! Jomo

You're old enough to know that good things tend to require a lot of time and painstaking effort Guy, like say fine class one pruning? Cabling's pretty serious stuff, not like hanging Xmas lights n tire swings, and we both know a whole lotta sub-par cabling goes on everyday. They galvanize that...

But that's the very point I'm trying to make, I've got no beef with PLP whatsoever, have used their dead end grips since the early 90's. Never used their wedge grips, but appreciate their superior design when compared to Rigguy's. You'll note that PLP's design doesn't mess with the cable's...

So Preformed Line Products tests their dead end grips to 100 percent of the rated breaking strength of the EHS cable, and publishes the result as a selling point for their dead end grips, but doesn't for their wedge grips. I wonder why? Believe it or not, I've gotta put my boots on and...

But does it meet the EHS cable's RBS? Even PLP's not goofy enough to make that claim with their superior design wedge grips! Put 10k lbs of pull on Rigguy's termination, and of course the cable fails first, cuz the wedge grip cut it like a pair of dykes! Can a 3/8ths EHS Rigguy wedge grip meet...

There's a world of difference between Rigguy's wedge grips, which suck, and Preformed Line Product's wedge grips, that are far superior precisely because they don't mess with lay of cable in any way, no unwinding whatsoever...

Simply ask Mr. Rigguy whether or not his deally bobs meet the cable mfr's published rated breaking strength? These folks do meet those RBS's, unlike Rigguy, particularly today's EHS 7 strand cable...

My biggest beef with wedge grips is that it unwinds the cable's compact natural configuration, puts 6 of the seven strands individually into a vice and squishes them, ruining the galvanized coating, then hiding all that corrosion inducing damage to the cable's critical anchored section away...

Nah, just the leather cambium saver, comm visor, sky spider, chipper safety gate, tree slave, wind rocker, cabling alignment tubes, innoculator gaffs, and the stand up overhead T bar climbing harness system's my latest endeavor. Jomo

My howling's been published a few times, every other blue moon or so. Ever heard of cabling alignment tubes? http://tcia.org/Digital_Magazine/PDFs/lowres/TCI_Mag_Nov09LR.pdf Jomo

Well, according to my good buddy Tom Dunlap? I'm an outlaw arborist howling unheard in the moonlight! However I'm just another old has been whose 15 minutes of fame was over way back in 92. When I was a somebody, a contender! Jomo

The sad truth is that unwarranted cabling became a fad back at the turn of the 20th century. Ticks me off too, because once it's done and the tree's dependent on it, you really have few options but to continue on with the stupidity. The historic Morton Bay Fig in front of the San Diego Natural...

Watch this ancient old pro climber using a bare minimum of safety gear, fake a fall from height. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o-HIMNVHPvg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Jomo

Driving the freeways is way scarier than climbing big trees in my case. Particularly driving POS fully loaded dump trucks with sketchy brakes! Jomoco

There's a hard edged truth about climbing professionally, or for fun IMO. If you're genuinely scared at any height, you don't belong up there. Nothing to be ashamed of at all, most the millionaire owners I helped make rich were pitiful climbers, but smart enough to accept that fact and pay...

The state champ's gonna look like this unless an arborist puts some steel in its spine! Jomo

This is the Tilia I was thinking of. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alte-Kasberger-Linde-spring.jpg Jomo

Anything much longer than a 2 foot bit while aloft gets its own rope to take the weight of the motor n bit. Building scaffolding around the base works for super long drilling, so does backing your tool truck up next to the base in drilling atop your toolboxes! I go all electric with a...

Hah! I lost a long drill bit in a high profile client's cork oak Q. Suber and left it, just drilled another hole a few inches up n over! What kinda drill motor do you use to push 5-6 feet through a hardwood tree's base? IME it's an absolute nightmare unless done extremely methodically, like...