Hello fellow CB members! I hope everyone is having a great summer.
I had a couple tree limbs that needed to come down because they were getting in the way of my internet receiver when the wind would blow from a certain direction. I was able to get all but one with a ladder. That last limb was just too high and at an angle difficult to reach with my extension ladder.
Crow pole to the rescue! I attached a saw to the pole with some electrical tape and let 'er eat. It was a pretty good upper body workout trying to saw something with 4 pole sections extended and holding onto the fifth section and pumping it up and down to cut. It took a bit but I got the job done.
Bob A...I wish I could have used #6's on this branch but it was just too big!
Thats my 3 year old girl holding the pole. Time flys, she'll be break'n clays and bust'n bandits before I know it.
Nice scene & place; real cutie (my granddaughters are in GA--I'm suffering from granddaughter deprivation).
Don't you mean:
Alternative use for "power company technology (hot stick)" adapted for "crow hunting (sentinel bird)," adapted as "arborist/cheap upper body workout technology?"
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You are very resourceful taping the saw to the pole the way you did.
Yup, I used two more # 6's that Gadget Bob & Texas Matt gave me on there visit to Kansas last summer. One ounce loads, they work pretty well on larger diameter limbs. Had 60 mph winds here in Hutchinson two days ago. My two dogs love loading up and driving to the landfill to drop of brush.
You have a nice looking place.
Bob A.
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I shot a limb in two that was slightly larger than that with a No. 4 Mk. 1 Enfield and soft-nose ammunition. It took 3 well placed shots, but it snapped it right in two. They make a pole pruner with a nice saw blade that is sharp, and very aggressive. I believe I've also seen one that had an electric chain saw on it that would work nicely as long as you have an electric power source nearby. At any rate, you did a very good job of adapting and succeeding.
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"When you have shot one bird flying, you have shot all bird's flying. ...the sensation is the same, and the last one is as good as the first." E. Hemingway "Fathers and Sons"
