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allen.amy•14h ago

Appreciation post: tried pruning sealant on a red oak last spring, and the callus growth surprised me

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brooke_nguyen65•2d ago

Trick for finding the root flare on a buried maple, saved me 40 minutes with a shovel

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harris.uma•3d ago

TIL I've felled 1,002 trees since 2019 and one number finally made me slow down

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roberts.troy•4d ago

Took the honey locust on Highland Ave from half dead to full canopy in 14 months

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ray_patel27•5d ago

Cut a 60 ft oak in a tight yard by tying a $3 pool noodle to my pull rope

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rowanbennett•7d ago

Vent: a stat sheet from a Boise conference says 1 in 3 climbers gets hurt in their first 2 years

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barbaraschmidt•7d ago

A climber in Bend told me my back cut was too high and honestly it stung

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wright.sam•7d ago

Chose between a bucket truck and climbing a 90 foot cottonwood in Boise, and the spurs won

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nancy_price82•7d ago

Cut a 60 foot oak in Ridgewood last Tuesday and the hinge wood gave out on me

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brookef73•9d ago

Showerthought: a climber in Tacoma asked why I always cut my hinge at 1 inch and I did not have a real answer

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clairem38•10d ago

Watched a Bradford pear split in half after 7 years of bad pruning cuts

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tarah57•10d ago

Why does nobody warn new climbers about dull handsaws until they're 40 feet up?

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taylor_mitchell80•11d ago

Spent 4 hours last Saturday on a Siberian elm removal that should've taken 90 minutes

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milap35•14d ago

I stopped cutting flush to the collar and my oak splits dropped from 20 percent to almost zero

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jennifersmith•18d ago

TIL the reason my hinge cuts kept pinching is that my chain was on backward

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