Moss, you are nuts!!! Those trees just plain stink. The first one I ever climbed was in NJ. I climbed up, tied in, then was about to descend and my coworker said from an adjacent tree, "what are you doing?" He then looked at my TIP, then pointed to a limb on his tree, confirmed with me that I thought my TIP and his branch were the same size, then he snapped the branch in his hand.

That was a quick lesson for me!

I despise this species of tree for a couple reasons. 1- the smell. I get nauseas from the smell of the leaves or the stench that wafts from a broken twig. 2- weak branches 3-you put it in a nice manner, focusing on the strength of the tree, but where it grows...it GROWS. If there's one, look around. You'll surely find babies growing in multitude nearby.

At least, that is how things are here in los angeles. I see them growing by the hundreds along the freeways, between buildings that are too close for the tree to grow, in the cracks of the sidewalks, in window sills...

THERE'S ONE NOW!!!!



love
nick