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Start with a short bar and cut a starter ‘groove’ nice and horizontal. Then place the longer bar into that groove so it guides it and gets you started dead level.

Felled that standing dead black oak today. Half had split away when another tree fell and sheared it off. Weight and lean was toward the apartment building. Had a 3/4” stable braid on it with two 2-ton Come-a-Longs and a 9/16” stable braid 90* to the lay to oppose the lean. Face cut minimal...

Are there feral chickens all over as there are on Maui?

Put two ropes on it, one high, one at main crotch in case the top broke out. Been dead at least twelve years. Back lean (of course!) over the road and wires. Notched into dead hollow. Minimal back cut. No ‘real’ hinge wood - just collapsed as we pulled. Down safe. No cleanup.

Deva, I'm looking into buying flights to Maui to help set up, run errands for, and judge, the Maui TCC over Presidents Weekend in February. Will you be competing?

I texted David (boss/friend) when I left the shop: “As you likely noticed I put the Husky 390 and 260ft rope in the shop and the service body truck key is in the tray next to the helmet comm chargers. Thanks for a fun day.” His reply: “Thank you, I did see them, and thank you for a fun day as...

Fun and beautiful day in the tulip poplars other than a slightly argumentative crane operator. Twice I advised he was up against a limb and needed to “retract 5 ft, boom down, then extend, and he replied, “ I came through this way before”…and continued to push hard against a 6” branch with the...

Exactly! That is a tree that was begging to be climbed - what a playground!! If it wasn’t in the main entrance area of the botanical garden I’d have been tempted to go back to the truck for my climbing gear. 🤣

Deva, I look forward to getting into some of those huge Albizia saman (Monkeypod) trees you have over there. This photo is one in the Waimea Valley on Oahu about an hour from where we stay. Some people were near the base; zoom in so you can see human scale compared to the tree.

Deva, It looks like I’ll be back in February as a volunteer/judge for the TCC on Maui. I’ll let you know when it gets closer on specific dates. Also, I’ll gladly work a few days in trade, as I’ll be looking to carry home a 50lb suitcase of Milo, Koa, Pheasant Wood, Ohia, etcetera for bowl...

I've never used slings without shackles. Shackles take the material vs. material abrasion out of the equation.

Ran into an old-timer today I had not seen for at least ten years. Richard Vorous is 70 years old, been climbing for 50 years. He is a bit of a loner. Always worked solo, and today was no exception. Should have gotten a photo. He was positioning a 40 ft ladder in a river birch to do some light...

Always great to work with my earliest tree mentor, David. Here he is anchoring the Hobbs to the base of a tree with the homeowner. That 1” bull rope ought to keep the oak off the neighbor’s house should it fail before we’re back on Wednesday with the crane to remove it. .

Where are the photos of the Beemers? Back in about 1975-6 I met up with a whole lot of BMW riders in upper state New York, as I was heading to Michigan on my Yamaha shaft-drive 750. They invited me to join them at the rally they were heading off to attend. I've never seen so many Beemers in one...

Hah!! I totally had forgotten about it till you said this, but back in the early 1990s on a very cold February morning we set a fire under the trap door to unfreeze it so we could chip.

Klinger (Jamie Farr) was indeed from Toledo; and attended Woodward High School, as did my father. Both were inducted into the Woodward Hall of Fame, Jamie for his acting, and Dad for his sports activities, playing and coaching.

Juniperus chinensis 'Kaizuka' Common Name(s): Hollywood Juniper Torulosa Juniper The artistic appearance of its twisted, rustic form makes this a wonderful landscape accent. An excellent evergreen for use as a topiary specimen in containers and formal gardens. Well-suited for cooler coastal...

True! Though it seems that the older we get the more our mortality colors our actions.

It is sad when one is ‘suddenly mortal’. One of my best friends died in an auto 🚘 accident. We had done so many things together: working, hiking, long discussions on philosophy and life, dating the women,… That void is still hard to accept.

I wonder if the operator is a sailor. Some call the extension on the davit lift for keeping clear of the hull while lifting your dinghy aboard a dink (dink is also a slang term for dinghy). An operator on a crispy oak job said, ”If we’re going light let me pull my dink out so I can get directly...