Tattoos and company/staff image

[Joe Newton]

5 hours ago, MattyF said:

Battery’s go pop too dude , and that’s with out smoking tabs ... like I said earlier I’ve never seen any saw explode ... there was a time I heard of a lad who I showed a trick too that if you emptied a tiny bit of fuel out your saw tank on some dead pine needles and fanned with the exhaust it would get a bonfire going real quick with out a blower and litres of diesel.. unfortunately his saw went up when he put the exhaust up close after dumping half a tank on some scotty needles, I guess petrol vapour on a naked flame ... I’ve fuelled up daily with a tab going as break is a tab and refuel and get cracking again and never ended engulfed in a ball of flames , not saying it’s a bright thing to do ...but there it is.

You're missing the point Matty. If you smoke while up a tree, you will certainly die. 

[Gary Prentice]

I wonder how far a bigshot will lob a fire extinguisher, one of the small ones?

[stihlmadasever]

I remember my small felling  course our tutor had a hard on for setting the refueling area away from sources of ignition.The day of the assesment the assesor ( an old forestry fella called graham) sat puffing a rollie as we topped up the saws in the designated refueling area....

[Gary Prentice]

6 minutes ago, stihlmadasever said:

I remember my small felling  course our tutor had a hard on for setting the refueling area away from sources of ignition.The day of the assesment the assesor ( an old forestry fella called graham) sat puffing a rollie as we topped up the saws in the designated refueling area....

Strictly speaking, it’s advisable not to start saws near refuelling areas. 

Ive has one saw combust after refuelling due to a small tear in the fuel line and a loose fitting plug cap. Can’t get much unluckier than that. 

 

Melted the bosses coat smothering the flames on the saw. 

 

 

[Gray git]

Smoking on fueling I don't know about but saw a bloke set himself on fire after spilling fuel when filling up a cut off saw and cutting some mettle, think he needed skin grafts on his legs after that.
Drugs testing, we have had 2 in last 4 years on site for 2 separate big clients, one it's just the offender who is off site the other and larger of the two has a 3 month time out for whole company should a member of staff test positive for drink or drugs which could be very costly indeed so to say I'm carful about who go's on this clients sites is a understatement.

[Mick Dempsey]

 

4 minutes ago, Gray git said:

Smoking on fueling I don't know about but saw a bloke set himself on fire after spilling fuel when filling up a cut off saw and cutting some mettle, think he needed skin grafts on his legs after that.
Drugs testing, we have had 2 in last 4 years on site for 2 separate big clients, one it's just the offender who is off site the other and larger of the two has a 3 month time out for whole company should a member of staff test positive for drink or drugs which could be very costly indeed so to say I'm carful about who go's on this clients sites is a understatement.

Wow, that’s heavy.

 

Finding a drug free tree guy can’t be easy.

 

This job is mostly staffed by young men, a large proportion of whom party hard one way or another.

[Gray git]

 
Wow, that’s heavy.
 
Finding a drug free tree guy can’t be easy.
 
This job is mostly staffed by young men, a large proportion of whom party hard one way or another.

Easy if they want continue employment as its instant dismissal if court!

[Luckyeleven]

Tattoos are a great d*ckhead finder, those who don't want to talk to people with tattoos are identified instantly 

[Gary Prentice]

10 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

 

 

 

Finding a drug free tree guy can’t be easy.

 

 

That's a hell of an advert for the industry  

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Yes, generalising a bit.

 

I guess having knocked about a bit and worked with a quite a few.....

 

I would have failed those tests way back when.

 

 

Edited April 7, 2018 by Mick Dempsey