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Agree on the Silky...I have several and the word "dull" with a new one has never crossed my mind. Some limbs over three inches have made me want to cry "Mommy". Sometimes I'd start a limb with the Silky cause I was too lazy to crank the 200T. After seeing how long it was gonna take by hand I...

Well put, Stephen. I broke an ankle once stepping off a cross tie...onto an asphalt parking lot at the kids' school. Didn't realize there was a pot hole with a rock in it...the six inch step to that rock and the roll of my ankle when it hit the rock was brutal. I heard a "pop"....was...

Watch videos of August and RegC and try to notice how often they make a cut and then subtly adjust their position to accommodate where the gravity and rigging made the cut piece go. They pre-plan their moves and do a dance in the trees sometimes to stay out of danger. It has to some degree for...

A big point here, Robert, is that when doing anything that has danger involved you have to be able to learn to "see" the what-if's of possible scenarios...then decide if you have the means to deal with the what-if's. Most important is awareness...being aware of the possible dangers gives you...

I HEARD an ankle break once when a girl took an 8 inch fall...eight inches. You got away with it this time...that's how I see it. You got some experienced folks to share their take on it...learn from other's mistakes or from your own. It hurts less to learn from the other guy's mistakes.

:lol: That's gotta be in the quote thread.

That got my attention, too. It sounds like a perfect set up to get hurt. Pushing and pulling a pole saw seems like it would be real easy to unbalance the step ladder. Glad you made it work but you will be better off finding a more stable way to do that work.