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wrenstone•19h ago

Spent 6 years spiking every tree before I figured out I was basically injuring them on purpose

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willow732•3d ago

Appreciation post: the 7 foot cedar stump that took me 3 days and 2 chains to split

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faith_lopez48•3d ago

Why does nobody talk about pruning sealant making things worse

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thomas_young•4d ago

Unpopular opinion: I stopped hinging my back cut on every takedown after a close call in Eugene last month

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jesse_barnes37•4d ago

Just realized most climbers I watch prune way too close to the branch collar

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charlesj46•5d ago

Serious question, do you spike the top of a removal cut or leave it flat?

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taylorcarr•5d ago

TIL from a 30-year climber in Boise: never trust a spur cut on a lead that's been dead over a year

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parker_bell•7d ago

A climber in Boise showed me a 3 to 1 rope trick and I've never gone back since

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jackson.sarah•7d ago

PSA: I pruned my 20 year old Japanese maple in August and half the branches died back. Am I the only one who was taught this was fine?

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the_james•7d ago

Hot take: a 45 minute climb in an old oak taught me more than any class

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dylan_green58•8d ago

Hot take: I stopped mulching my pruning cuts and the trees did better

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dylan_green58•10d ago

Update: fixing that lightning-struck oak took me 14 months, not 2 weeks

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johnfoster•11d ago

Shoutout to the guy in Tulsa who told me to stop staking my transplants so tight

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charlie_lane85•11d ago

Watched a guy in Bend save a 90 foot ponderosa with a ratchet strap and a piece of inner tube

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noahs82•11d ago

Took me 2 full days to figure out why my saw kept stalling, and it was a $3 part

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