A Dangerous Removal ...

[scotspine1]

Aerial Arborist,

 

just watched the first video - how long have you been climbing for?

 

the reason I ask is that it looks like you've not been climbing very long and you could benefit from working with an experienced climber to show you how to find the correct cuts for a tree like that and find the best work position for making those cuts.

 

Experienced climbers would not have approached that tree the way you did, some of the decisions you made severely increased the risk of stem failure and no doubt led to the ridiculous situation where you found yourself at the top of a large mature tree that was cracking at the base. To continue to work that tree down having heard the cracking at the base was a poor decision.

 

You seem like an intelligent guy who would no doubt take this criticism in good spirit. Trees like the one in your video command respect and unfortunatley you showed that particular tree very little respect and were lucky to come out of it in one piece.

 

There are safer ways to get a tree like that down, many people here could help you out........if you need any advice let us know.

 

 

 

 

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Edited January 15, 2011 by scotspine1

[mistahbenn]

OMG that is the most arrogant post Ive seen on here. Shame on you, shame!

[David Humphries]

Aerial Arborist,

 

just watched the first video - how long have you been climbing for?

 

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last post on here will answer that for you, Mr Pine

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/climbers-talk/22631-getting-too-old-climb-7.html

 

 

 

 

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[Aerial Arborist]

Right Monkey-D, I am a rank beginner with a lot to learn about climbing trees. Being an old retired guy I could have taken up golf or shuffleboard at my age but decided that climbing trees would be more of a challenge for me than either of those.

 

I just wish I would have started 20 years ago, at an age when some of you are considering retirement. But I'm learning fast, and although that tree may have been ill advised to climb, I did pull it off and learned from the experience.

[mistahbenn]

I think you're doing brilliantly for the time. Its all a learning curve. Recpeck!

[Aerial Arborist]

... the ridiculous situation where you found yourself at the top of a large mature tree that was cracking at the base. To continue to work that tree down having heard the cracking at the base was a poor decision...

 

And it was at that point that the saw ran out of gas and the camera ran out of battery. Staying up there while the saw was being serviced gave me time to consider my situation for a good while. It never occurred to me to come down with the saw.

 

You seem like an intelligent guy who would no doubt take this criticism in good spirit... There are safer ways to get a tree like that down, many people here could help you out... if you need any advice let us know...

 

Sure, I'm all ears, but you kinda had to be there.

[Stephen Blair]

i heard her say $1200, nice one.

good job, hard to make out the tree cutting but as far as customer feedback goes, well what can i say:laugh1:

[Lorry thompson]

Respect AA there is plenty of lazy young uns about that should take a leaf out of your book:thumbup:

[Taupotreeman]

Seconded. Complete respect even if was somewhat dodgy I'm sure there's many of us on here that have done some dodgy stuff in the past, learnt from it and learnt to do things a different way next time. And we sure as hell didn't have the balls to film it let alone tell anyone what we had done.

[Matt Butler]

luved the film mate, and i dont agree with alot of the things that have been said about it, yeah some of the cuts could have been better, and i probably would have taken it in slightly smaller sections, but i think that overall it was a good performance.