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Show us the bill for dat puppy!

Cory it just missed tearing him out of the tree. The log planted itself about 2 feet into the ground, plumb. He was pretty upset about it. To be honest, he seemed totally tongue tied when I spoke to him that night.

Well, that's hard to say. Even with a wet summer, it does take place. I never noticed it as much in tree work. But with logging, the surface of the logs are getting pinched/gripped a lot by various machines (mechanized faller, skidder, landing loader), and the slip bark season is unmistakable...

My uncle had a big tulip poplar log slide right out of its own bark last summer, as the piece moved past his back. Inches from death up in the tree. A trees bark slips off of it very easily during a certain part of tye summer each year. Loggers know it as slip bark. Steel chokers are a wise idea...

Crane removals are a hard thing to pull off in my area. First off, our area is so strung out in utility wires, that crane access is just so hard to gain. Second, we don't have too many large trees. Some, of course. So the price of tree work in this area, even on the higher side of the scale...

This business is packed with morons and losers Brian. I know you agree.

Ha! I used to love being a groundie on crane jobs. I have had fun doing it. A nice situation is to have multiple slings on the job. That way when a pick comes down, unhook, snap an empty sling on and off it goes up to the tree. Take the sling off the pick, and process the material. Repeat...

Ground work on a crane job is easy peasy often times. When the pick gets to you, hurry up and get it back on its way into the air. Even with a bangin climber, you should have down time between picks to eat, talk, file saw, poop, text, whatever. Minimal rake up. Set the job up to haul away the...