climbing when its raining

[John Shutler]

turn up and get on with it without moaning and going on about it,show lots of willing, ie "yeah it bloody minging but ive done those 3

everyone has a soft side

[kipperfeet]

Not alot of choice but to work in the rain up ere in Lancashire, if it starts whilst working then we'll stick with it but if its lashing down before starting i'm getting a bit reluctant to start nowadays.

 

I worked in Austria for a while and for a week over the winter in got down to -20/25 deg c ! The ropes froze so we had to thaw them on the van heaters before climbing, then whip up the tree super fast to warm up then get back in the van quick and drink tea.

 

Great fun and i much prefered that extreme to the dreary constant rain of the north.

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risk assessment if in doubt don't do it tell them its a tree for another day its your neck and by the way I'm paid on price so no work no pay

[Frank]

I like your Grandad's sayings. Have you anymore wisdom from him?

 

Yeah he used to do a job then say " well you can't see it from my house".

[cerneARB]

i worked in the rian a few weeks back , just topping down a small cherry. But if its a large job and im clambering over wet branches, think id give it a miss if it was heavy rain...im neither north nor south...im east so want does that make me then soft or hard?

[Jason James Gairn]

er..Its better to have tried and failed than not tried at all, surely.

or as Homer puts it "if at first you fail...give up"

[Dean Lofthouse]

I've had an Austria II harness for nearly two years and it's never been wet, nor has my rope.

 

One spot of rain and I run for cover

[Mark Bolam]

Alright lads and lasses. First timer here (thanks Ross).

 

Wet and cold = go to pub

Wet and smooth-barked tree = go to pub

Just wet = break out Goretex jacket, crack on as fast as possible. Then go to pub.

 

No arguments, please. You know I'm right.

 

Cheers!

[conkers]

We just swop jobs around, make calls and pull in work which better suits the conditions.

If we did not work in the rain we would be working about 6 weeks a year!

Once made myself ill taking down an Ash for 8 hours in January rain so I try to be a bit smarter now.

[munkymadman]

200 days of rain on average here in Bergen.No choice but to get on with it.

i heard it rains alot in norway, so i was curious to how much it does here. on average ireland gets 187 days a year, but certain parts get 225 wet days a year. woo hoo we won, we won. actually hold it thats not something to celebrate.

only if it was an olympic sport then maybe we'd win a medal