Set the bar high!

Here's my dear 86 year old father setting up to do a little tree pruning.



Now that he's stone deaf he always wears hearing protection! Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?

You park the loader just so, lift the bucket to max height, set up the extension ladder, and you're good to go!




Dad's tree-pruning expertise has been honed by trial and error over decades. I remember when he was first experimenting with the bucket & ladder method, he had his John Deere crawler-loader parked on an incline to get at an offending branch.

While he was up in the bucket doing his chainsaw work, the brake slipped and the loader slowly meandered down the hill with nobody at the controls and Dad in the upraised bucket hanging on for dear life.

Now that would have made for some great family photos!