The man in the middle.....

[Adam Bourne]

Hi there arbtalkers,

 

 

For those of you that don't know me my name is Adam, and yes Bourne is my second name,

I started being interested in aboriculture back when I was a little nipper, say about 7 or 8, my old man was a climber and worked in house for Lincolnshire county council then became a county tree warden, then eventually going at it by him self, taking on an array of tree work hedge cutting and grass cutting,

I started out working for my old man when I left school and I loved it! No chipper no shiny toys just a 4x4 a trailer, some 3 strand bungee rope:sneaky2: an old sit harness and so blue polyprop rope for rigging:blushing:

 

My old man wanted me to do well and every chance he got to tech me things he would and boy if I did something wrong did I know about it.....

Being shouted at was,.....how can I say? Well put it this way it help drill things into me and he pushed me hard and it made me tough. Made me think, made me look at trees from another angle and most of all made me the climber I am today. After he decided to retire from being self employed and me at still a young age to take on the business he decided to fold and go work for someone else,

I went to work for a friend of mine and dads who had 3 guys working for him 2 climbers and one of the best groundys I have ever come across, after being there for a few years I learnt a heck of a lot, and to all our surprise the company was taken over, and now I was going to be on a very tight learning curve, the lad who had taken over new and used some of the best sub- contract climbers in the world at the time and made me feel like a young lad at his first day of arb college.... after a couple of years I moved on to another company for personnel reasons and that's we're I made my break, I was working along side more talent in the tree industry and we shared tricks tips and fount out new stuff for our selfs and became a great team:thumbup1:, after being there for around six years and taking on new staff and letting others go a was what remained of the original cast, the boss at the time decided to sell the business to a local man who I ran the company for him for a couple of years until I decided to go self employed and open up shop for my self, mainly sub climbing and getting in a bit of work for myself, it's been a very entertaining 3 years alone now and yes I have struggled and yes I have felt like quitting, but I will never quit until the day my body says I have to.....

 

Now I am not saying that I'm awesome and the best and yeah employ me I'll get 3 jobs done to the next guys 1.......because I am not.......

I have been shown to climb and get the job done precisely, efficiently and most of all safely...

 

Arbtalk has also done wonders for me and meeting new people, learning new tricks by young and old, and being able to share my ways views and opinions is what makes me enjoy being an arborist even more....

 

So after nearly 15 years of aboriculture and now 30 years old, and still loving my job, I have a wonderfull fiancée and a gorgeous daughter, who now I wake up for each day, and take them to work with me in my heart just to remind me what I have to look forward to when I get home, ( ok maisy's tantrums not so much).

 

So what I plan to to with this thread is to make a video of the day in a life of a middle man. ( not an amuture but far from an expert). As some of you know but some do not, i lost all my footage from my old computer along with 1000's of photos I was going to use in my rigging thread, but I have started a fresh and am getting them stocked back up....

I have some video footage of a view jobs and the video is coming along nicely, I will be releasing a trailer to The Man In The Middle hopefully mid October so watch this space and hope you enjoy what's to come both for this thread and the rigging thread...

 

Thanks for taking the time to read.....

 

 

Adam

[easy-lift guy]

Thanks Adam, looking forward to the video, could you let your brother Jason know I am still looking forward to that autograph picture of him in action.

easy-lift guy

[RobArb]

Haha Ted!

 

Adam, have you not tried a data recovery service?

 

Sent from my Galaxy S2

[Adam Bourne]

Thanks Adam, looking forward to the video, could you let your brother Jason know I am still looking forward to that autograph picture of him in action.

easy-lift guy

 

Haha nice one ted, I'll tell him to get it done, else we won't hear the last of it will we mate

 

Haha Ted!

 

Adam, have you not tried a data recovery service?

 

Sent from my Galaxy S2

 

Yes mate and very costly, I have a friend who is a wizz with all that stuff and is going to try receive it all back of the hard drive some how.

 

[Rich2484]

Nice thread starter Adam. Looking forward to the vids.

 

Was wondering when I started to read why it was in the video forum.

[mistahbenn]

I thought you were touting for woe mate!

[tuttle]

lost photos and video...

 

have binned the harddrive? or reformatted?

 

its fairly easy to recover data, try a free program....Five Best Free Data Recovery Tools

[Adam Bourne]

Nice thread starter Adam. Looking forward to the vids.

 

Was wondering when I started to read why it was in the video forum.

 

Cheers mate, look forward to sharing it:thumbup1:

 

 

I thought you were touting for woe mate!

 

Haha opinions may vary.

 

lost photos and video...

 

have binned the harddrive? or reformatted?

 

its fairly easy to recover data, try a free program....Five Best Free Data Recovery Tools

 

No Tuttle, the lap top has been smashed and the only way to recover the pics and videos is to use the hard drive

[Rich2484]

You need to jack into he hard drive from another PC or laptop and gain access to the files that way.