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Yuck! These days, I price them so that I can afford to take the following day off to recover.

Taking down some sketchy AF dead pines this morning.

That's a new one to me. Can you explain how that works and how it makes the job easier?

A couple of oaks we removed last year. At the time, I was told to leave the stumps high so they could get someone to carve them. Now, they just look like this guy:

Years ago, whilst pruning a palm, I had a large rat jump onto my chest, run up to my shoulder and then bail out to the ground. Good thing he was fast, or I might have sliced my arm off trying to get rid of him. And Kaveman is correct; all kinds of nasty things habitate in palms.

Depending on the species, palm fibers often tear rather than cut, especially if your chain is anything less than perfectly sharp. Multiple plunge cuts work well if your bar is getting pinched. They also tend to have an abundance of embedded sand and other debris which will quickly dull a chain.

When I started my tree business in 1985, we pretty much took any kind of tree-related work we could get. My first wife and I built these retaining walls around 1986 or so. The developer hired us to save these two Live oaks. One was getting about three feet of fill around it and the other a four...

A basic, entry-level physics class should be required for anyone using a crane.

Based on the angle of the cable, it looks like they were planning to stand it up. Did the cutter just start cutting before the crane guy tightened up?

Start at the tips and shave off an inch or two at a time with a nice smooth sweeping motion. All those little bits will rain down through the canopy with very little getting hung up.

Right? Never thought 40+ years ago when I answered that Classified Ad for "Tree Climbers Wanted. Will Train" that I'd still be doing it today! I love my job!

And an emery board! Stihl gas hedge trimmer. The biggest cut was maybe half an inch diameter. Trust me, I get it, B. Let me play devil's advocate for a minute here. Do you have hedges at your house? Or a lawn? Do you let them grow as nature intended? Never cut them back? How about pollarding...

Two hours of hedge trimming this morning. We've done this Live oak once a year since 2018. One of my least favorite jobs. Forgot to take the "before" pic, but it was about one to two feet bigger.

Crown reduction on a mature Quercus laurifolia. I recommended removal but they wanted to keep the tree for a few more years.

We typically have 8 months of summer, 3 months of spring, 1 month of fall, and 1 day of winter.

Looks like you knocked the phone wire down?

I've done a couple where a little bitty bit like that nearly ruined the day.

Location dependent too. Here in Florida, almost any tree can be cut down to a low stump and will try to grow back. Pines being a notable exception.

That's how us old timers knew which line to cut for an aerial rescue.

Please, keep your political views out of the Work Pictures thread. Thank you! Carry on.