“Yeah I been climbing a couple years now. With spurs and everything”

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When the bikes keep blowing passed your flagger

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I climb trees and it’s my cake day! Shower me in Karma please!!

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Nice tree pruning I did in the back of a property on a summer rental that no one is ever going to appreciate

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Help me get my buddy to the front page. He passed away today. Was a great guy and one of the greatest climbers I've met... adios cochito

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My best advice to new arborists and foreman running a crew

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PSA: chainsaws don't care what they cut

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Female tree climber here: I swung from one palm to the other for the first time yesterday. Hope y’all have had a great week so far swanging in the canopies

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(sick)amore

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Our crew for last Monday

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Let’s get this guy his gear back

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look at me go

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One handed bowline

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Said he wanted to try it out.

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Enjoying the Stillness of Winter

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Up a poplar here in manitoba! Wishing a safe season to all of you.

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Welp. Got all my trees felled safely, now the next three days of cleanup have me wishing one of them killed me.

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It’s not too much money if it can save your life.

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My first real climb. Finally made it to the top of my sweet gum tree. I've been making it about 20', getting shakey and coming down. The air almost felt different up there. Best part was Going to take a picture and realizing I left my phone in the house. Awesome day.

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Spending a few nights in a treeboat

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Dexterity -4

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When your throw ball game is on point but for an entirely wrong reason.

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Hustlin’ and Grindin’ till I can afford that dump truck. 🤘🏼

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I get by with a little help from my friends.

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learning to tree climb with dad

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Got tired of putting chain wrenches in my pocket.

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Hanging my gear up for the last time, after 5 years.

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After 5 years at the same company. The only tree company I've ever worked for. I decided to quit and move on today. I am excited for new opportunities. And to learn some new techniques. And see how others do it. Already found another job the same day. Don't let these companies treat you like crap!

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I made a retrievable rigging sling/ultra sling hybrid 😎

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Would you have power cut to these service lines for removal or just go for it?

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Bought this baby today. Converted to 1/4 pitch on a 12 Panther bar😄

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yuhuh

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Ready for a day in the Costa Rican jungle.

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Who else has an Arbdog?

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Reductions in a Silver Maple and Mulberry today.

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Climbed my first tree with gear

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Probably the hardest limb walk I've done. Not ashamed to say it kind of kicked my butt. 0/10, would not do again.

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Chainsaw bar wrench holders for my arborist coworkers, Happy Holidays!

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Picked up my starter kit yesterday :)

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One of those “climb up, cut two limbs” jobs.

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I'll be honest, glad to have this one behind me

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Cuz it’s a long way to the top of ya wanna rock n roll....

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Anybody else got a crew like this?

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New shirt came in the mail today

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Shoutout to the unsung hero who dropped that 50% off code. $75 ($200 originally) you a real one 🤙🏼

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Installing Cobra in a big ol cottonwood

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Uhhhh. That’s not a DMM carabiner, Amazon. Wtf

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Please don't top trees! Birch in a undisclosed embassy park, Oslo

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Oak work is the best work...

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Gotta get down on Friday

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So what do you do?

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RIP sweet prince

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Some rainy work days... imagine if you will... a special smell ☠️

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Coworker and I almost died today

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A man and a 3,200 year old sequoia tree in California’s Sequoia National Park.

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A lil’ live oak action today...

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Mattress+tree=dropzone

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Enjoying the sunset

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My climbing saw and ground saw for crane work

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SRT ... 3 trees, 1 rope

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My friend and I got certified in DRT (double rope technique) 4 years ago,so we could facilitate recreationally at a camp we worked at, how did you get into tree climbing, what techniques do you use, and what do you use it for?

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Silver maple limb walkin

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First climb

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If anyone's interested: these are the trees the subreddit banner photo was taken from. Twin bur oaks, 6ft pole saws for scale.

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Been a groundsman for 5 months, got to do my first real climb today. I’m ready for that high life!

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Big oak

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Wild that we get paid for this.

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Who says PNW climbers can’t limb walk?

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Got me first spikes

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Tallest weed in in Santa Cruz

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Love tree work. It’s where I belong

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newbie: think I learned a valuable lesson about rope quality

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Love Oak season

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Love throw lines with a passion

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Professional team roper in the tree rodeo

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Here's the stump, and the reason it was removed

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If your workplace have the budget for, get some of these babies, they work like a charm and make communication so comfortable, 17h autonomy, bluetooth, telephony, FM radio, open Mic and PTT. Stihl Advance ProCom

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Storm damage past two weeks has been easier with a crane

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We do tree work differently than other companies here on Cape Cod

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Completed my first climb setting and tying all my own rope in a beautiful White Oak! Very excited to be able to explore the worlds forests on a much more intimate level.

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Could Have Been Worse

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They came! Talons for under 300$ took a chance on ropemaster.com they seem perfect, came in the edelrid box with paperwork and tags still on Shipping was prompt and on time. they used fedex.

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Look what my boss just bought 👀

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Just hangin around on a nice spring Friday

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This was a good mental challenge to start last week. Acer Macro.

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first time tree climbing

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Some utility work

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can you spot the climber?

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Happy four day work week...... 🙃

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Nothing crazy, but my first time removing a tree over hazards. Love this!!

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Winter is slow but we still gettin’ jobs

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Feelsgoodman

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This would sure ruin your day

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Nice sassafras removal setup

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Throwback to when I first started climbing trees... with rope I got for $10 at the dollar store, a rock climbing harness, and paragliding carabiners... Oh god

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Dropped a 100ft cottonwood. Let the trees quake in fearbefore me

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Successfully completed my first eye splice. Sampson Velocity 11mm

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I like to keep things real simple

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Big beech climb

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Love that crisp fall air

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Gotta love the view from the top

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Geocaching is not a common post on here. Figured I post something different.

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Photo my groundsman snapped mid job yesterday. Monkey pod tree. SRT and DRT

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Crown Thinning on a Cottonwood

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Which knot would you rather use?

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First rope wrench setup. I usually use a petzl rig as a treehouse builder. This one is for fun.

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The hackberries in my yard find some way to frustrate my climbing every single time. Not the oaks, not the pecans, just the hackberries. What's up with that?

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New device

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End of a large multi-stem oak

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Just got this, good reading for tonight, hoping will help me start tree climbing by doing the right way. Was told it would a good book to have around.

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New Gear on A Friday afternoon

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we call him el choppo ( Old school )

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I'm a professional tree climber, arborist, and lighting technician. Pictured are my daily climbing tools but no electricians tools or arborist rigging is shown. AMA! Lets see your climbing setup.

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Tree “climbing”

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Last night when I got home from work I got an emergency phone call...

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Storm damage work 💨 The entire neighborhood was trashed.

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Convenient little usage of a figure 8 for SRS (SRT) redirect.

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Treestuff bag-o-rope came, anyone recognize these so I can read about them?

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*POP* on ascent, you bastard

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Got a new toy at work. I was almost afraid to pull it out of the box...

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I grew up calling these bucking spikes but have had others look at me like I'm crazy for calling them that..What are they called where you're from?

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A tree I did last week.

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Fun pick.

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Second climb line splice, not a big fan of yales instructions on thinning the core, but looks good and done to the book

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I removed this monster sugar maple for my friend as a house warming present!

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Canopy hang out

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Good afternoon from the Cottonwood

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Worthy First Post? Monster White Oak Removal!!

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Side job Saturday. Stuff. Cut. Stuff some more.

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Descending to the base anchor is better than the middle of a road=)

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Cedar tree storm damage removal

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Been following on here for a few months because I really want to climb my own backyard Oaks and do some trimming. Here is my daughter and I on our first climbing learning the ropes. Cannot wait to lose some weight and get my own equipment!

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Gettin out there

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Got a brand new Zigzag via the recall after I’d already used mine for almost two years production climbing. :)

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I think we all know the feeling...I'm at the end of my rope.

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Here’s my everyday harness

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It’s officially hell season

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Good throwline day, anyone else?

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Another Maple Removal

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