The Loggers Needed a Climber for this MASSIVE Tree!!!

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  @user-pk2fg8im4u · 3 months ago

  Jacob, you're one statement before you started climbing "my costs keep going up and my clients have less money." That is something self employed people have been fighting for several decades now. You buy equipment, supplies, fuel, basically all your inputs, those things come from corporate suppliers that charge prices that cover all of their expenses, salaries, pensions, insurance, whatever, plus the profit that they control. I farmed all my life, was successful, mostly by the grace of God. I always said, I buy everything I need at retail, and sell everything I produce at wholesale, and pay the shipping both ways, with no control over the price I receive. Self employed people in any profession have my greatest respect. I wish you the very best, stay safe, honest and fair, humble, and remember where your blessings come from. I would love to shake your hand one day.

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  @spelunkerd · 3 months ago

  You articulated the limitations of the hinge for branches better and faster than I've heard. It's a real art to speak to the breadth of the audience and keep everybody's attention.

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  @davevillaire2990 · 3 months ago

  'Guilty of Treeson' coming soon to an IMAX theater near you. I can't wait. What's the plot? Who's playing Jake? Big Flav? Isaac doing a cameo?

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  @morphyox6453 · 3 months ago

  It's so funny. This channel keeps introducing people that I instantly love. Jake, Randy, Jed, Gordy, Flav.... Today it was Dan. By the way, I'm 50 and I climb trees every day, you chopped uncs better shape up.

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  @sporranheid · 3 months ago

  Maximum respect to all involved. 👍 ✌

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  @michaelyounger4497 · 3 months ago

  Jacob, I saw the sweetest way to protect a drain field when dropping a couple giant pines on top of a drain field. The crew cut off the limbs much like you did, but they layed them in a criss cross pattern of a layer of North/South, then a layer of East West branches on top of those. The bottom layer was about double the density (a limb every foot) and the upper layer was about a branch every two feet.. the trees were both about 36 inches across... a tool to file away for future jobs.. it worked perfectly and the deepest any of the branches were pushed down was about 2 inches

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  @NOFKINNUMBAS · 3 months ago

  biggest 261 i have ever seen

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  @happycamper6352 · 2 months ago

  You mentioned getting older and beat up. Reg Coats once said we&apos;re all built differently and I couldn&apos;t agree more. &nbsp;I know guys that left tree work and logging in their thirties and on the other end of the spectrum my dad was still cutting some of our stuff into firewood from time to time at 90 with his 362. &nbsp;I personally prefer not to do long 10-12 hour jobs anymore, unless there&apos;s a major weather event that has too many emergency jobs at once. &nbsp;You don&apos;t notice it on the job, you notice it if you get up in the middle of the night to use the restroom and you have aches and pains all over. &nbsp;Most 8 hour days don&apos;t do that to me, so many times I can tape off the site and come back the next day if I can&apos;t do it all at once. &nbsp;I have to do that on days when I finish early and start the next job late too anyway. &nbsp;In my late fourties, I switched from just dragging stupid heavy stuff on my own to going and getting the skid steer even if it meant waiting for it to become available. &nbsp;Smarter, not harder, etc. Plus it helps to take a day to get away from it like I am today.<br><br>As far as feeling greener the older you get... that&apos;s what keeps you and the actual green kids alive. &nbsp;The more you do it, the more you see exceptionalities and events that are super rare and you have more possible outcomes rushing through your head as you assess the situation. &nbsp;It&apos;s a good thing as long as it doesn&apos;t let details overcome your concept of the big picture and overall situational awareness. &quot;The more you know, the less you know&quot; captures the humbling realization that as your knowledge expands, so does your awareness of how much you have yet to learn, but again, it&apos;s a good thing, and it keeps the job from getting boring or monotonous.

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  @AndrewTheFrank · 3 months ago

  It is good on you Jacob to teach Dan everything he already knows. Such a great and kind guy.

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  @NMFTree · 3 months ago

  At <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z80qAY_TY8&amp;t=2025">33:45</a> I literally paused the video and went ahead purchased and picked up a ms201 lol. I have the t435 I purchased used back in 2014 I have been using till this day. After seeing all issues with your gloves getting stuck in the trigger and the idling issues, That was enough to make me just go buy a damn 201 myself. Keep up the good work brother, stay safe out there!

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  @stihl0256 · 3 months ago

  We used to take logs to the mill quite often. &nbsp;Always a struggle to get them out of a back yard and loaded with the limited gear we had. &nbsp;Sixteen foot lengths were as big as we could handle and still get a decent price. &nbsp;The mills got pickier, didn&apos;t want to pay for open grown logs, we would bust our butts to get a load to the mill and just not get enough to make it worthwhile. &nbsp;So it all goes to firewood now.

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  @JohnMarciaShackelford · 3 months ago

  Wow. That tree. The saw skills of Mustang James. He looks so calm, like it&apos;s no big deal to cut that huge tree. Wonder if he still gets a bit antsy felling. Like you said, he does this all the time. Loved the video. It showed stuff we don&apos;t get to see much on your channel (but I love your channel!). Measuring out the logs and grading them takes me waaay back to forestry school. The market and the mills were going whole hog back in the 70&apos;s. Then the 80&apos;s put a screeching halt to the industry. Great video Jake!

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