Bodean's Video?

[High Scale]

Sweet Deva!! That chipper is a monster.

[Deb]

All great vids! You get to do some great work over there!

 

Do you get many women on the crews?

[Bodean]

The chipper is Huge, Carl.

 

We had given up on it about a year ago. Just wouldn't pull brush in.

So we (they) changed the feed wheels to ones with inch long blades on it.

That chipper devours brush now. Twice as better as it was.

 

Deb:

Women on my crew? We had two women apply and try out.

Objectively they didn't have what we were looking for.

 

A friend of mine worked with a woman on a treecrew,

He said she held her own, just fine.

 

I've seen women on fire crews run circles around some guys.

It's about heart, grit and determination.

[S N S Trees]

amazing job i would love to do a job with a crane but not never had the chance yet any way

 

great job guys

[Deb]

Women on my crew? We had two women apply and try out.

Objectively they didn't have what we were looking for.

 

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What were they missing? Experiance? Speed?

[Jason James Gairn]

Having been in your neck of the woods Bodean, I gotta say you have a sweet job and the vids show it. Great stuff lovely gig timber. Bet it gets hot in the summer. Notice you dont always wear protective `pants' as you would call them?

California Dreaming for sure.

[Bodean]

I'm sorry Deb, Jesus, I thought I responded way earlier.

 

They really didn't have the skill set, I think they were gardners wanting to try out

for something else, So yes, experience.

 

I've seen some young women at seminars here in California tattooed both sleeves

footlocking and jamming through the tree. I'd love to work with a female climber.

Just to see how they interpret and react to the daily dynamics of a tree crew.

 

 

 

Manson,

I work on the Pacific Ocean no less than a mile or two, sometimes up to the bluff/cliff/shore. Bottom Line, it's cool all year round. Further inland it's perfect.

I've worn hoodies and jackets in August here in the city.

 

Chaps? We call protective chainsaw pants, Chaps. Like Cowboy chaps.

ummm, can't comment on that, I'm not sure where I stand with it.

 

Cutting line/trail in chest deep scrub brush manzanits, Chaps for sure.

Dumping a tree, probably mostly never. falling, bucking and limbing, Chaps for sure.

I like the 28's. These green Forest Service chaps, about knee high.

Climbing, I've never worn them in a tree.

 

Chaps, Chaps.

 

Though, one time I threw the chain off a 42" bar and caught the chain with my nuts full force, It made like a fist with razor nails clenched into a ball.

 

 

California Dreaming for sure, all the way. Mate.

[Deb]

I'm sorry Deb, Jesus, I thought I responded way earlier.

 

They really didn't have the skill set, I think they were gardners wanting to try out

for something else, So yes, experience.

 

I've seen some young women at seminars here in California tattooed both sleeves

footlocking and jamming through the tree. I'd love to work with a female climber.

Just to see how they interpret and react to the daily dynamics of a tree crew.

 

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What sort of experiance do you ask for from climbers? A year doing the work? Or does fresh out of college do?

[Bodean]

WoW, I haven't been here in awhile.

 

Fresh out of college would be acceptable for the apprentice position.

Though journeyman level experience 3 years would be:

Tap those 8 numbered flags in that tree with your handsaw.

Show me like 12 knots, start an 066, spike up that tree and set a block.

 

Practical things I suppose we look for in Experience.

 

The apprentice position should have at least a year of climbing exp.

 

Sorry for the late response.