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Mostly of people I worked with back then, not many pic's of our old tools and ropes. But, that avatar of yours could have come right out of those times. The best we had in those days wouldn't even rate today. When the young generation starts knocking old school ways and people who use them I...

Back in 69 I went to a supply house on College Ave. in Santa Rosa, right by the tracks. I think it was Bell Industries. At that time they had the rope that every arborist wanted, one inch manila, Tubbs brand, sold it by the pound. I told the guy there, "Gi'me 200 feet." Man what a heap that...

Safe working load of the GRCS is 2,000 lbs. I often recall a tree that had to be pulled away from the power lines. It was a Monterey Cypress. Serious lean toward the main coastal feed, 60 kv. The company sent me a D6 on a low bed, and I had a young climber in the tree ready to set the...