the 'todays job' thread

[Mark Bolam]

RC your weight increase reflects mine pretty much exactly through my climbing career.

 

I generally think reductions are pointless though.

 

Someone has just dropped over a grand on that tree Joe did (very well) just to make it look prettier.

It hasn’t helped the tree at all.

 

I know he would agree.

 

Climbing in non-ppe with a silky is always fun, but the voice in your head telling you the physical graft involved just to please someone rich and ignorant whose house has been built in the wrong place isn’t.

 

 

[Joe Newton]

2 hours ago, Retired Climber said:

Strange how we are all different. I love a good reduction. I'd have probably done that whole thing with a silky so no need for chainsaw trousers or boots. A day scampering around a tree in a comfy pair of trousers and some old comfy boots is a great day. I'd much rather a technical climb, than dragging a big heavy saw around the place and rigging big heavy bits of timber. 

I didn't wear saw boots or trousers...

 

Sod using a Silky though. A mini topper is hardly a lot of weight to carry. 

11 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

RC your weight increase reflects mine pretty much exactly through my climbing career.

 

I generally think reductions are pointless though.

 

Someone has just dropped over a grand on that tree Joe did (very well) just to make it look prettier.

It hasn’t helped the tree at all.

 

I know he would agree.

 

Climbing in non-ppe with a silky is always fun, but the voice in your head telling you the physical graft involved just to please someone rich and ignorant whose house has been built in the wrong place isn’t.

 

 

I don't even think it looks better tbf. A lot of money (and graft on mine and @treeman 's behalf) for naff all difference to the client.

 

Personally I would've recommended a deadwood and that's it, but that's the nature of being a contract Climber. 

 

My arms were cramping big time in the afternoon. I generally don't hydrate enough and pulling yourself through forks on srt really takes its toll on my grip.

[Mick Dempsey]

Was it a TO spec?

[Joe Newton]

9 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Was it a TO spec?

No TPO surprisingly. 

 

Spec was 3m, but I usually ignore that. 

[Mick Dempsey]

Very surprising.

[Joe Newton]

1 minute ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Very surprising.

This is what I'm told. 

[Retired Climber]

38 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

RC your weight increase reflects mine pretty much exactly through my climbing career.

 

I generally think reductions are pointless though.

 

Someone has just dropped over a grand on that tree Joe did (very well) just to make it look prettier.

It hasn’t helped the tree at all.

 

I know he would agree.

 

Climbing in non-ppe with a silky is always fun, but the voice in your head telling you the physical graft involved just to please someone rich and ignorant whose house has been built in the wrong place isn’t.

 

 

I don't really see it like that; I was doing tree work because I enjoyed it and it was what I wanted to do at the time. I never did it as an employee, only ever on my own terms. I could pick and choose the jobs I wanted to do, so only ever did the jobs that would be appreciated. 

 

I knew at some point I'd have to grow up and do something else, but I enjoyed it whilst I was doing it. 

[Mark Bolam]

This is what I mean about RJ’s.

Everyone with a brain knows m specs don’t work, especially on oaks.

You might have an 11m limb with all the action at the end so you can’t drop crotch.

Hence seeing so many shite ‘rollards’ about.

[Ratman]

DAF shite again! Shat it’s coolant at Carlisle coming south on way back to base, driver stopped at Penrith and put 7 litres of water in, stopped again at carlisle and added 5 litres, stopped at crooklands/lancaster added 5 litres, got it back home though [emoji106] diagnosed it to be split on n/s lower section of radiator! Stripped it down and found exhaust manifold cracked too so chuffing its black smog everywhere [emoji849]🥴 just waiting for bits now, parts are a nightmare to get hold of at min.....

[Khriss]

I like Dafs, one i drove was faultss  😕 3 years n just cab jack seized. K