In Desperate times...My Silky saves the day!

[silky fox]

I showed him how a cambium saver can be installed from the ground and then the rope and finally a ZigZag it set ready to get to the first branch.I could see he was eager to give it a go.....I did ask if he wanted a helmet.

[silky fox]

Last time he was up this tree was during our blue book assessments.

[silky fox]

Fast forward a couple of months......and he has not wasted anytime in carrying on from where he left off all those years ago! And I am very pleased to say that he asked me to climb for him while he got a team together.

[silky fox]

It,s been my Saturday job for a few weeks.

[TreeswingerPerth]

2 hours ago, silky fox said:

But more about that later...

The wee fella is the spitting image of his dad Paul .

[Rough Hewn]

When are going to start teaching climbing?
I've got a guy who's going to need a top instructor in a few months.
[emoji106]

[silky fox]

I,m almost at that bit.Remember I completed this course at the time of my 50th Birthday last year? I just couldn't,t find a way in to my local college.It was a very closed shop and jobs rarely came up so I continued to work as a tree surgeon but I still knew what I wanted to progress to More about that later.

[silky fox]

So me and Eddie got to work together again after almost 25 years.First job was abit of an odd one.Someone had decided to set fire to a rather large Beech tree..

[silky fox]

We continued together up until now with Eddie doing the falls and me dismantling and over the weeks he put a team together and added kit.

[silky fox]

We,ve had some interesting jobs....