can i ask what this is for

[Highland Forestry]

A little knowledge where tree work goes is probably more dangerous than no knowledge at all!

 

If you want to wear a harness to cut things down - do the appropriate courses and get yourself qualified. That's the bear minimum.

 

Better still, team up with a decent, qualified, reputable loacal arb contractor and save yourself a trip to A & E...

[skyhuck]

here, here. whats the point of us spending thousands on training, insurance,courses,equipment and spending years building a good reputation as pros, if some one gets a harness and a strop and goes around halfing conifers?? unreal.

 

If I thought some one could just buy a harness and compete with me I would quit now!!!

 

I don't need others to pay for training so its all nice and fair.

 

I feel confident that the untrained, inexperience and unskilled cannot compete with me.

 

I share the concerns expressed by others about the thread poster safety, but I don't have any issue with him having a go from a competition point of view, because it will take him a week to do what a skilled crew can do in a day.

[Stephen Blair]

cant really rescue yourself either....

 

i could and i couldnt depending on the situation.

 

Thats a diferent debate, we are talking about insurance, your post is irrelivant to my previous post.

 

If you want to talk about that then i am all ears and more than willing to give you my view on the subject. You could start a thread about it.

 

I would never rely on another man/woman to recsue me and hopefully never will:001_smile:

[Stephen Blair]

well said Dave:thumbup1:

[Highland Forestry]

If I thought some one could just buy a harness and compete with me I would quit now!!!

 

I don't need others to pay for training so its all nice and fair.

 

I feel confident that the untrained, inexperience and unskilled cannot compete with me.

 

I share the concerns expressed by others about the thread poster safety, but I don't have any issue with him having a go from a competition point of view, because it will take him a week to do what a skilled crew can do in a day.

 

I have to agree with that... the competition side of things is not an issue for me either, however the sfaety issue raises an eyebrow!

[Johny Walker]

hello,i do landscape gardening maintence etc and do alot of tree work but more in the line of hedge trimming,removel of hedges,also takeing conifers etc down or reduceing them,i have just aqired a harness, has even though i dont climb that high i think its a good option to wear a harness,rather than work of a ladder,thing i cant figure out is whats that thing i need to hold me to the tree,it connects to the harness and then like goes round the stump?so i can lean back on my harness?any information will be apreciated!

 

i think he,s just laying out some bait, to see who bites & having a lough about it.........

[josharb87]

i done my first climbing job at 17. i had been given an old willans t22 missing the mallion, used a BIG corroded ally caribina, think dad found it on the beach a few years previously but i adopted it and had been using it to skid trees out of woodlands, used a 5m tow strop to tie myself in and topped a row of ash off the ladders using an old 023

[Mark Bolam]

Have you moved on a bit then Josh?

[Stephen Blair]

on this forum we cant be seen to condone unsafe actions because as professionals we should know better, yes a lot of us have started off with old bits of rope, home made harnesses and dodgy saws but if we did have a chance of real training we would of got along a lot better and safer, maybe it was luck that got us through those stages, we will never know. Now that training is so much more available and easier to find with the help of places like this, then the days of D I Y treework should be over.

[penfold]

on this forum we cant be seen to condone unsafe actions because as professionals we should know better, yes a lot of us have started off with old bits of rope, home made harnesses and dodgy saws but if we did have a chance of real training we would of got along a lot better and safer, maybe it was luck that got us through those stages, we will never know. Now that training is so much more available and easier to find with the help of places like this, then the days of D I Y treework should be over.

 

:congrats: