Channel 5, 7.30, Chainsaw Kings

[John Shutler]

the old proclimber forum

[kipperfeet]

Ahhhhh. looks like a just a rush job to me. Maybe there was only £50 on it!

[Mr Ed]

Ahhhhh. looks like a just a rush job to me. Maybe there was only £50 on it!

 

Dont jump to conclusions.

[Peter]

Some jobs are done fast because they are underpriced.

Other jobs are paid very well because they have to be done fast, and to exacting requirements.

[Mr Ed]

Some jobs are done fast because they are underpriced.

 

Ah yes, like the poplar felling in manchester:blushing:

 

Other jobs are paid very well because they have to be done fast, and to exacting requirements.

 

Like the job in the video, working for national grid, where one of the power circuits in the substation can only be shut out for bare minimum of time.

Edited December 26, 2008 by Mr Ed

[mdvaden]

Clearly it does require balls, I didn’t hear the tale of the chap who ripped one of his out marching off to the hospital gonad in hand.

 

Interesting to note the rejected "paduan" cutter was currently working as the first aider.

 

Andy.

 

I sat through a slide-show that John Deere tractors did for the city of Portland Park Bureau workers years ago.

 

There was a guy that simply jumped down into a grain silo, where only soft grain should be.

 

There was a pipe down there aimed upward that got into the grain somehow, hidden, that rammed his groin and did a complete cookie cutter of his genitals. They showed all actual injuries. The frame prior to his injury, they showed 2 cherries dangling as a preparation intro to the image of this guy at the hospital.

 

Goes to show that if you can't see it, don't assume nothing is there.

[Lancstree]

I know I'd probably find it hard to do that big fell the guy who was 'trying out' did, especially as you've only got a plank to stand on. That is something of the size that I'm pretty sure we don't commonly come accross in the Uk so I'd be suprised if there's more than a handful of people who could walk up to a tree like that and know where to start. The 'rookie' in the programme did ok in my opinion but he'd likely become very good if he had the chance to fell more that size and where else would he have the opportunity than on the job. I reckon they are shooting themselves in the foot if they don't take young people on to work up the ladder and create a pool of skilled loggers like there would have once been. All those lives have been lost out there for the sake of the almighty dollar and not for the love of the job