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Out on a limb.....literally......

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  1. Scotty Overkill

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    Finished up a job last night that I've been working all week, local guy had a pole barn scheduled to be built in March and waited too long to contact me, because the Amish crew showed up a month early and built it already! Had 4 separate red oaks, each with several long, heavy limbs (from 16' to almost 35' long) overhanging the newly built pole barn.....

    Almost every single one had to be rigged out, except for a handful of deads. Didn't get many pics, it was all work in the evening and I was short on time all three evenings, in the tree til dark on two occasions....

    But blacksmith snapped a cool pic last evening of the last two limbs we had to take out. I was around 35-40' up the tree, around 8' out on a limbwalk when a snow squall blasted in......fun times indeed, but we love that tree life!!

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    Nice limb walk.

    Sent from my moto g(7) using Tapatalk
     
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    Thats looks like fun, getting to climb trees and use a chain saw and getting paid for it and getting free firewood (most of the time)
    Great pics and thanks for sharing Scotty Overkill
    Be safe and hoard on!
     
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    This new equipment is amazing, but it does take some learning to get used to it, and to trust it.....


    I bought the whole new Petzl ZigZag/Chicane combo and also a Petzl Zillon long lanyard, they are amazing tools for limbwalking! I like the Zillon so much, I'll be buying another long one this week (they are great for quick redirects/tie-in points and adjustable with one hand).
     
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    The pole barn survived I hope. Did you charge him extra for the inconvenience factor? I know, I sound like your wife ...
     
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    Pole barn didn't get a scratch.......and I need to have my girls looking after me....lol
     
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    Geez. You climbers sure have some serious guts!! I can’t do heights anymore since a ladder fall a few years back. Even before then though, don’t think I ever had it in me to climb and cut. I forget which member here posted last week about being wayyyy up in a tree cutting but I took one look at his pics and said, “nope!” Great job working with that barn below you. Sounds like one heck of a job.
     
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    I do believe that was Scottie.
     
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    Not a lot to go by there .
     
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    Sorry, just not very good at recognizing backsides.
    I'll leave that to the experts.
     
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    Midwinter ?
     
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    Good work there Scotty Overkill! Out on a limb is Cleaner than walking on egg shells. :D
     
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    Well she isn't the only female out here. Calling wildwest. :rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol:
     
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    After that snow squall put a layer of snow on the limb I was on, egg shells would have been more stable.....lol
     
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    They started it.:rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol:
     
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