A day in the life

[dexta]

Thanks guys:thumbup1:

 

 

 

Well, wherever you move there'll be some stuff that you miss, goes without saying.

 

But in a word, Freedom. That be a sense of spacial....especially on the road. Freedom at work.... the red tape in the UK especially is just off the scale, with people making money out of inventing more and more red tape to tie up and choke the lads on the tools. None of that here. When you get out, and look back at it from afar, you see how twisted the whole mess has become....but when you're in it, you sorta just wade through it all.

 

BC is wild. I see eagles, buzzards and vultures most days while driving to work....but what you dont see is the bears, cougars and wolves. But its cool to know they're out there. Big Foot too if you believe that:biggrin:

 

The climate is beautiful, the scenery is breathtaking.

 

I mean, its hard work, the tree industry is very tough and competitive....but if you are too then you'll find your feet.

 

There's some cultural stuff that I miss about the UK, places and people too....but there was far more that I was just glad to see the arse-end of. Thanks again.

 

Sounds a great place to work. Take my hat of to you, I admire anyone with the guts to move half way round the world and make a go of it. Keep up the good work and posting your videos I think you will soon be having your own show on discovery channel. A year in the the life of Reg Coates tree climbing and felling. Very entertaining, a lot better than axe men and with a English man at the helm.

[Arran Turner]

Awesome video. The target is to get out to BC in the future, these video's just make me want to get out there more and more. Like the scenery, the type of tree work and the way of life out there..... God dam.

 

Its a real help to be given a first person insight into tree work in other countries like this.

 

Thanks Reg for your time

[Rich Rule]

Great vid Reg, I really enjoyed that.

 

Did you get a chance for much winter sports during the snowy months? I know that would attract me to a place like BC.

 

Then again, I would probably nail myself snowboarding and not be able to work.

[TreeswingerPerth]

Superb Reg , keep up the good work !

TS

[Greg]

Great vid as always Reg!

Touring Vancouver Island so hope to see out on the road around Victoria.

[Mark Bolam]

Really enjoyed that Reg, thanks for taking the time to put it all together.

 

I should make more vids, but I was hedgecutting this morning then edging borders this afternoon. Weather was similar to that at least!

 

I hear you about the red tape, it really is getting silly now.

[scotspine1]

Freedom at work.... the red tape in the UK especially is just off the scale, with people making money out of inventing more and more red tape to tie up and choke the lads on the tools

 

When the British Empire shrunk after WW2 1000s of ex pat British bureaucrats who'd spent their lives administrating and ordering the natives about in far off lands like India and Africa had to come back home. They then set about inventing jobs for themselves and regulations to inflict on the native peoples of Britain. Over the decades this spread like a virus through all parts of national and local government creeping into society to this very day where you now see the legacy manifest itself in the most pitiful, petty and obstructive ways.

 

You see.....these people, the state, the regulatory bodies and training providers make up more and more rules to justify their own existence and charge you top dollar for taking their courses and achieving their 'certificates'. Take the 'refresher' training for 'experienced chainsaw users' the HSE advocate - it's a perfect example of training providers lobbying the HSE to endorse this type of pointless 'update' training in order for the training providers to fleece money out of perfectly safe and highly experienced treeworkers who don't need 'retrained'. THIS IS A MONEY MAKING SCAM.

 

It's basically a protection racket on a huge scale, you pay the training providers or you don't get the contracts. It's not really about raising the awareness of safety in the industry (although they'll always tell you it is), it's about raising the bank balance of the training providers, colleges and the HSE and keeping them in jobs.

 

Don't get me wrong I strongly believe that there should be an emphasis on safety in all places of work. Most reasonably sensible people are born with a certain instinct for safety, it's is a state of mind your either born with or your not, if your not then you'll be found out very quickly in the tree business regardless of how many NPTC units you have. Take LOLER for instance in relation to treeclimbing equipment - if you can't recognise faults or dangers in your own climbing equipment without the need for a so called industry expert to identify them for you, you should seriously consider getting out of the industry, you hang your life off this stuff for Christ's sake.

[mistahbenn]

Cool mate. Good production! Shame about the tripod eh? Hows the broken tooth doing?

[Stephen Blair]

I thought I saw a gold tooth!!

I just thought it was part of the long hair free and easy Reg these days

[likeitorlumpit]

I know it can't always be like that but how calm and relaxed the whole thing was. Having no pedestrians/traffic is like living the dream. I particularly liked the tripod bit- you actually left it in the edit which says a lot about the reality that sometimes things do go wrong and you just got to smile about it.