possibly worlds greatest trainee climber!!!

[Stephen Blair]

cheers man, got a trail day for a company down in Bristol next, fingers crossed!

 

Explain your signature please:biggrin:

[edwood]

well, you go to a show, say the arb show, get a tshirt, write on the front "trainee climber seeking full time employment" then stick your c.v. on the back, it nearly worked too!!! ill stick a picture up if i can figure out how to upload one off the phone!

[Stephen Blair]

Good stuff, I am a visual person, :001_smile:I am looking at your avatar, I see you are working on a prusik, only tied in once and close to power lines.

Apart from the prusik, that picture has alarm bells ringing to me as an employer. Now I bet there is a lot more to that job than I can make out from a small picture on my screen, but without the full story I just think, cocky new lad:001_rolleyes: Talk us through it:biggrin:

[Hodge]

Nice one stevie:)

[Dan Curtis]

well, you go to a show, say the arb show, get a tshirt, write on the front "trainee climber seeking full time employment" then stick your c.v. on the back, it nearly worked too!!! ill stick a picture up if i can figure out how to upload one off the phone!

 

I think I saw you at the bar on Saturday night at the arb show, certainly caught my eye:thumbup1:

 

Stevie, you must have eyes like superman to see those cables, I had to squint and peer close to find them!

[sean]

those cables are miles away.

[edwood]

yer the cables where quite far away! i didnt know they where their till you mentioned them!tree was a collage job, massive butchering of a supposedly dangerous ash over a foot path! that branch im on is the last limb left except for the main stem which was dropped later so their where no other limbs to secondary anchor off and i was about 10 foot off the ground when my teacher told me just to nip out and take off a branch, so i walked out and took off the branch and their is a side strop on the harness for 2 anchor points! and i dont climb on a prusik but that was a horrible collage kit i was using, i suppose its not the best picture to have, but its the only one of me up a tree, so it was either use that or take one of my lunging over an 880 and i think that might of set off bells of a different kind

[Stephen Blair]

Was the side strop attached?

On that type of limb I would have it off my side ds and chokered off my front.

What you need to remember when trying to get a job, is most employers are cutters and climbers, forget the Boss label .

Most will of cut n climbed thousands of trees ,7 days a week for years, long before it was the new cool job to have.

So we are tough eggs to crack, and we have more to offer than an inexperienced newbie.

I am not telling you this in a negative way but from the other side of the coin

[kev7937]

Is a prussik considered bad practise now then ?

 

Or is it just slow, old fashioned and knackering.

 

 

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[edwood]

not at that moment but it was before cutting, and what do you mean by chokered off infront? it was realy a very simple branch walk their was never a point when i thought i might slip or that a second anchor point was needed, but hay your the pro and im the trainee this is all educational and helpful for me:thumbup: thats ok, i was cool before the job was:cool: