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Caught this again last night, must say I was impressed with the safety audits they ran, and the general approach in tough terrain. With the local safety audit minimum score of 170/200, the boss expected his crew to maintain a score of at least 190/200...or they lose their job, regardless of time served or experience. This keeps standards high, and a full appreciation of the risks involved. Quite a difference from the Axe-men series:thumbup1:

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its alright, but a bit tedious.....

 

"and after the break, jonny is gonna cut down some more trees that look the same as the last ones - its a mighty dangerous job and he might get seriously hurt, but he won't"

 

all these shows do is play on the fact that its potentially dangerous and something might happen, but never does.

i spent a whole season of ice road truckers wishing that prat 'ice road rick' would fall into the water below.

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its alright, but a bit tedious.....

 

"and after the break, jonny is gonna cut down some more trees that look the same as the last ones - its a mighty dangerous job and he might get seriously hurt, but he won't"

 

all these shows do is play on the fact that its potentially dangerous and something might happen, but never does.

 

I think that it can only be good that its on TV IMO. What would you like to happen? He hit himself with the saw? I think that Andy hit the nail on the head. The Health and Safety was so on the ball it can only be commended.

 

These are the sort of programmes that should be on TV instead of that prat with the motorbike on watchdog making everyone think that they're being ripped off. Hopefully people will watch this sort of thing and realise that we belong to a highly skilled industry and that this isn't the sort of thing that they should be trying themselves. (Not that many folks have 150ft trees in their back garden and a B&Q saw, but you get the idea!!)

 

Tom:001_smile:

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I think the programme shows the glaring difference between the average climber, and those in that setting. Working in 40degC temps on rough terrain, with 18 trees between 2 men to climb and knock the tops out would test many of our climbers. Much skill there, and made to look easy by the good men there. Imagine climbing those trees, while calculating the length to get the weight right for the heli, get it wrong many times and you're out of work pronto.

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