Climbing time ends

[topchippyles]

A question that i have often wondered reading various posts over the years,

 

I know one of the oldest climbers on here is Mr Dempsey (62 years young) 

 

I remember steve bullman saying by the time he hit 42 his body was knackered. 

 

What have others done once they are unable to climb any longer job wise. 

 

Some train up younger guys and step back and run the business but not everyone is in that position. 

 

 

[Sviatoslav Tulin]

Climb till you die …. FFS …BE A MAN! Stop crying there … it’s annoying! Snowflake ❄️! Go to gym… get tablets but don’t surrender! We need to fight PUTIN  soon….. Country need you to be ready …. Go sharpen your chains it is work day tomorrow !  ………………… I hope I motivated you enough!

[Sviatoslav Tulin]

By the way LIDL IS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR WORKERS , but it’s only after you 72.

[topchippyles]

15 minutes ago, Sviatoslav Tulin said:

Climb till you die …. FFS …BE A MAN! Stop crying there … it’s annoying! Snowflake ❄️! Go to gym… get tablets but don’t surrender! We need to fight PUTIN  soon….. Country need you to be ready …. Go sharpen your chains it is work day tomorrow !  ………………… I hope I motivated you enough!

I'm a carpenter not a tree climber 🤣

[Sviatoslav Tulin]

9 minutes ago, topchippyles said:

I'm a carpenter not a tree climber 🤣

What………and you crying…. Your last work day will be nailing your own coffin cover at 92 ! ❄️ 

[Mick Dempsey]

Good stuff Svat, never surrender!
 

@topchippyles it’s a question that I ask myself more and more.

 

I’m training a young climber atm and he’s taking huge leaps (not literally) week on week.

So for 85% of the stuff we do he’s as quick as me or near enough, this leaves me on the ground, running the ropes and feeding the chipper and guess what?

It’s harder work than climbing especially on my rather fragile back, but he loves climbing and every day he’s in the harness and up the trees he’s happy, who could deny him that?

But to get back to your question, what’s next for me?

In an ideal world I’d just hire another fit young person, let them do the grunt work and  just run the loader and grinder.

Employing another body is too much of a risk though.

I’ll just carry on, hopefully stay working (in treework) till retirement, mechanise as much as possible, try and get the work that suits us best, head down to the finish line!

 

[Rich Rule]

51 and still climbing most days.  A mixture of contract climbing for others and my own work.

Embrace innovation and crack on.  Keep fit with my hobbies.

 

the thing as I am realising as I get older is the work I do to pay for my hobbies is restricting my ability to do the said hobbies.

 

No idea what I will do after this is up.

 

Im kind of stuck in a rut as I live in Norway and language difficulties limit opportunities.

 

Plus I’d be bored shitless not climbing or doing tree work.

[Tree monkey 1682]

I know of two maybe three  climbers still climbing in there 70s   but its a hard demanding job ,everyone will be different.  Think alot of it is down to how you look after yourself. 

[5thelement]

I stagger my jobs so that I don’t climb every day, I tend to choose the enjoyable ones and get another climber in to do the ugly, ivy covered monstrosities over swimming pools. 
I work alone quite a bit too, so I am climber and groundy, I just price and pace the job out better. 
Eating well and keeping active outside of work is essential for me, I had back issues when I first moved out here due to inactivity, the harder I train the less issues I seem to have. 
I’ll keep climbing until the kids leave home then look at winding up, buy an over lander and just set off. 

[Rich Rule]

13 minutes ago, 5thelement said:

I stagger my jobs so that I don’t climb every day, I tend to choose the enjoyable ones and get another climber in to do the ugly, ivy covered monstrosities over swimming pools. 
I work alone quite a bit too, so I am climber and groundy, I just price and pace the job out better. 
Eating well and keeping active outside of work is essential for me, I had back issues when I first moved out here due to inactivity, the harder I train the less issues I seem to have. 
I’ll keep climbing until the kids leave home then look at winding up, buy an over lander and just set off. 

I’ve got 4 years till my youngest is 18 and we can dump him LOL.

 

Overlanding sounds like a nice thing to plan for.