The toughest trees to remove

[Altissimus]

Of course the Dead ones of any species if you are the lucky climber....personally I dislike a Day in a Blue Spruce complete with red arms....also developed an allergy to Elm, I will still bid them but if I get the job I get the snots and sneezes too

 

[Altissimus]

I sometimes find myself in Large Poplars...brittle, dying....tough to trust...sometimes scary to look at the crosscuts later on the ground and see what you did trust

 

[Tucker943]

I don't like boxelder. It hangs on for dear life when you want it to come free during the cut. That and its full of bugs.

 

[Maximalist]

Silver poplar, ash, willow my opinion...

 

[Mick!]

Nasty big wobbly brittle poplars.

 

[HolmenTree]

Poplars........lots of small ones in -30 F. with snow.

 

[Mick!]

Out of curiosity, what's that blue stuff around your 372's casing?

 

[cory]

I think it is a cold weather damper. Seeing that, now I know how that blue thing attaches to my new Husky

 

[Page]

Any tree with poison ivy all or halfway up it!

that sucks for you. I don't get poison ivy

 

[Adam_P]

Page, you've never gotten it in your entire life? Not even as a kid?

 

[Grendel]

I don't like cutting poplar. Almost always leaning, and I've had poplar snags split and move faster than my eye could follow. . . kinda creeped me out.

 

[Page]

Page, you've never gotten it in your entire life? Not even as a kid?

never, around here PI is on everything, thick hairy vines up the trunk with 3 foot branches off it. I've sawed my way through with all the dust in my eye's and throat, and never even got got an itch.(I don't where gloves either)

 

[cory]

wow!

 

[Tucker943]

I get it a few times a year. My wife has it now. I was in it recently and while I didn't get it, she got it from me.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Actually, not having a reaction to PI means your autoimmune system is outta wack.

 

[Altissimus]

Actually, not having a reaction to PI means your autoimmune system is outta wack.

...and climbing Trees for a living means your brain is awhack...BaHaHa!

 

[Page]

I get it a few times a year. My wife has it now. I was in it recently and while I didn't get it, she got it from me.

Thats funny, I give it 2 my wife all the time, she knows it's me 'cause there will be two poison ivy hand prints on her butt!
oh and butch, that's just not true

 

[Grendel]

I get Poison Ivy every summer. Seems like I don't even have to touch it, just look at it. Horrific when I was a kid. Two summers ago we had a lot of wildfires, and setting and dragging wild land hose through the PI had me fighting it for months. Cursed plant that.

 

[Adam_P]

If I don't take Oral Ivy regularly in the summer I swear I can get PI just by looking at it.

 

[Page]

did a removal last week with PI all over it, had a crowd watching me, when I was done they were out there picking up logs and throwing them around and what not acting like they were on axe men or something. well 5 of them got it on their faces. I laughed. serves them right for messing up my nice log pile

 

[Page]

If I don't take Oral Ivy regularly in the summer I swear I can get PI just by looking at it.

you talking about eating the new growth in the spring or some pill. I have a friend that does that. one day of feeling kinda itchy all over, then she doesnt get it the rest of the year.

 

[Adam_P]

It's a homeopathic thing. I think Nick B uses it too. http://www.amazon.com/Oral-Ivy-Liquid-1-oz/dp/B0001APXWY

If I ate new growth in spring I'd be in the ground and you guys would be calling dibs on my gear.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I don't know where I read that, but since I can't find any documentation to that effect I'll have to stop saying it.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Actually, not having a reaction to PI means your autoimmune system is outta wack.

...and climbing Trees for a living means your brain is awhack...BaHaHa!

Yeah I am definitely whacked

PO pr PI reaction is your T cells fighting the chemical in the sap.
T cells are part of the auto immune system.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I'm pretty sure I'm correct, I just wish I could find something to back it up.