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Why does nobody teach new climbers to check the tie-in point on dead ash before they leave the ground
Last month I was called out to a job in Aurora where a two-year-dead ash had a limb come down on a fence, and the crew that bid it before me had planned to climb it straight up like it was healthy. I made them drop the whole thing from the ground with a pull line because ash that old snaps at the union, not at the hinge. I've been climbing 19 years and I still put a hand on the trunk and listen for hollow before I trust a single branch. Start telling your greenhorns to poke dead wood with a probe before they strap on spikes, it takes 30 seconds. How are the rest of you screening dead ash bids when the homeowner swears the tree was fine last spring?
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