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robertsmith•2m ago

Pro tip: skip the $60 stump grinder rental from the big box store

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evan_anderson•1d ago

One mature oak can move 100 gallons of water a day, and I had no idea until a client showed me her meter report

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thea_carter•1d ago

Guy at the job site in Tulsa told me to stop topping that oak, and he was dead right

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benc23•2d ago

Watched a guy spike a 90 ft oak in Sandusky without a single tie in, and it scared me straight on my own climbing

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felix_chen10•3d ago

Walked the old elm rows in Boston's Public Garden last week and half of them have that V-shaped crack at the crotch

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logan_white59•4d ago

Wrapped my chainsaw chain backwards and ran it for 3 tanks of gas, the tip-off was the smell

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oliviac22•5d ago

Spur pruning oaks in summer now, not winter, after what our crew saw in Raleigh last August

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skyler_baker•6d ago

Pro tip: don't buy the $60 chainsaw file kit from the box store, it's the same file as the $8 one

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avery_fox93•7d ago

Unpopular opinion: my 24 inch bar on a 60cc saw is stupid and I finally admitted it after 3 months of slow cuts

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the_evan•7d ago

Dropped $400 on a used stump grinder and it's been both the best and worst buy of my career

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christopher67•7d ago

A climber in Portland told me my hitch was too short, I figured he was just being picky

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ryan_kim63•9d ago

Deadwooding a live oak in July: worth the risk or just asking for sunscald?

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foster.dylan•11d ago

Trimmed a hackberry for Mrs. Alvarez in Lubbock and left the branch collar alone instead of flush cutting, that little bump is what saved the tree

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the_john•16d ago

A retired climber in Bend showed me his thumb trick, and my forearm pump is basically gone after 3 weeks

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hugog43•17d ago

DAE have a silver maple that bleeds sap like a faucet every March

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