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I've got too many threads open I think.... I'm confusing which one I'm on.... The info on the Silver Maple removal should have properly gone in one of the other threads..... (oh well?) :smileyface:? wishing everyone a nice evening!

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Thanks Levi! :)

Hey Tim. Thanks a lot for your kind note. I still haven't taken the plunge on buying my climbing stuff yet.... but that "two complete climbing systems" idea sounds just like my speed! Since I am not a "production" worker and have the luxury of going more or less at my own pace, that might be...

haha, hi Levi and all. Went on a little vacation and then I figured it was enough talk and time for work before posting much more, so I started on the job with the dead/dying silver maple(?) in the small front yard. .....I was planning to make a little compilation of some of the work when it...

:thumbup: wow, great advice, reminders, warning, instruction for a nooby

Thanks Sam, that's what I was wondering about it slipping by itself. Thanks Brocky, to me that is very interesting that they address the COD in a 2002 catalog.... but nothing about it (that I saw) in the newest catalog (?!) Thanks Marc-Antoine -- that is sort of the basic concept I had been...

great warnings, Stig! thanks for the continued good words of experience, Sean, Mick.

cool pic, Butch. Probably reason they won't use this pic is because you are smoking ...politically incorrect, right :)

stig, Sean, Mick, Sean --- THANKS! (now back to 3 days ago and continue catching up)

what does "once is none, twice is one" mean? thanks. (been busy... I'm at stig's story from 3 days ago, but I glanced down and saw Mick's comment about remembering Butch's "once is none, twice is one" saying, so I jumped ahead to ask this quick question) thanks.

Thanks Kyle

Amazing how quickly all that mass moves up the stem. Would you please elaborate on this? Thanks ...... "...When I'm chunking a bigleaf maple that was very bent over and weighted down, I cut about a crotch as I chunk..." (cut about (around) a natural crotch in the tree?).

On the 18" or up, if it's leaning and your do a good face cut, bore cut, etc. then things should go ok? and if not leaning, if you nip the sides (e.g.) an inch below the hinge... then it should go ok?

Thanks Merle! This is a really good bit of practical instruction! In retrospect, just trying to learn, if you had undercut the limb before the top cut it would have been ok? And in this case, even if the limb hadn't broken, it might not have squeezed your insides enough to damage you, correct?

Thanks a lot, Kyle! There is a pine tree at my mother-in-law's that I am debating to be my initial "take-down" if I move forward with climbing. It has a slight lean, it is about 18-24" at DBH and 40-50' tall. I would never want to violate the double tie-in when cutting rule. "...You are...

Do y'all ever have, say, an 8" diameter top? ..... and would you wrap a chain around even something this small? Just trying to learn/understand if there is a danger of this on smaller (e.g. pine) tops. Thanks.

Sobering. Amazing video. The effect on that tree as well as you swinging away at that height and watching it go over. Are smaller tops and diameters less risky than these larger ones? Is it mainly the topping that one must mostly watch out for the barber-chairing or bark splitting vs. chunking...

Sean, would you elaborate on the "rope lanyard without a stopper knot" .... would this allow the lanyard to expand/adjust bigger if the tree was to split?

This seems to sum up a lot of the posts about cutting the lanyard in an emergency. Being older and slower, while hoping to be 100% aware and reactive --- I want to do whatever extra stuff necessary to be prepared. So is an "expandable" lanyard with both ends attached to the saddle bridge a way...