PROTECTING YOUR PHONE WHILE CLIMBING

[Watercourse management]

After the last apple phone died I replaced it with a ule fone,still going strong after months of abuse.

 

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, josharb87 said:

A Griffin Survivor case doesn't help when the phone gets left on the back of the pickup the tailgate gets shut . . .with the phone in the way.

 

An Otterbox doesn't help when you leave the phone on the chippers tracks, then drive away.

 

An Otterbox doesn't help when you drop a dumbbell on it.

 

 

So yeah, in the truck is safest!

Comprehensive test then Josh

[Timbermcpherson]

Not answering your phone when people call will cost you in time and money. Many dont come up with ID and dont leave messages, I have been climbing and taking phone calls up in the tree for the last 2 decades with little trouble. It can be annoying but sometimes every job counts.

 

Big gucci phones dont do well in our type of work, especially when the screen comes all the way to the edges, Its like buying a porsche and asking how to make it work as an arb truck. 

You want to be an arborist and have a phone, pick a phone that will better suit and SURVIVE the work. Its something that is smaller in frame AND has decent cases available for it. My staff have collectively gone through many thousands of dollars worth of broken phones in the last 10 years, and I have not broken one

 

BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY

 

Carry your phone somewhere its less likely to get broken. One option is to make a pocket in your workshirts that will hold it and not let it fall out. it could be on the inside of your shirt where the breast pocket is. Easy to hear and reach for when you need it. 

I carry mine in a side thigh pocket of my chainsaw trousers or shorts which sits just below the harness leg loops. I got over 5 years from my Iphone 4 in life proof cases. killed 3 or 4 cases but the phone is still fine. Im now using a Iphone 6 for over 2 years. (I dont like apple but they have survived very well so far)

 

 

 

Edited September 6, 2020 by Timbermcpherson