Introducing myself to the forum

[Rosscraddock]

Hi, my name is Ross and Im 36.

 

After being made redundant 6 months ago I decided to do something that I wanted to do when I left school. Tree surgery!

 

I recently passed my cs30/31 called something long and difficult to remember now, at capel manor.

 

I am currently in the middle of my cs38 and I'm loving it. Considering I have no climbing experience, I think I'm doing ok.... Not very quick, but I get there....

 

As soon as I have done the 38 I'll be booking the cs39 and then I'll be looking to gain some experience being a go for! And booking some of my own small jobs.

 

If anyone has any advice, please feel free to offer it up! I'm loving it so far and the best part is meeting other people with experience as they seem to be very willing to help.

[Steve Bullman]

Hi, my name is Ross and Im 36.

 

After being made redundant 6 months ago I decided to do something that I wanted to do when I left school. Tree surgery!

 

I recently passed my cs30/31 called something long and difficult to remember now, at capel manor.

 

I am currently in the middle of my cs38 and I'm loving it. Considering I have no climbing experience, I think I'm doing ok.... Not very quick, but I get there....

 

As soon as I have done the 38 I'll be booking the cs39 and then I'll be looking to gain some experience being a go for! And booking some of my own small jobs.

 

If anyone has any advice, please feel free to offer it up! I'm loving it so far and the best part is meeting other people with experience as they seem to be very willing to help.

 

Welcome Ross, and thanks for taking the time to introduce yourself As for advice....where to begin! I'm sure you have already discovered the forum is a wealth of information and most subjects can be pulled up with a simple search...but don't be afraid to start a new thread if you don't find the exact answer you're looking for

[Coletti]

Welcome to the forum Ross. I have been climbing a little over a year now and it's been a steep learning curve but im tackling some large jobs now, a little steadier than others would but I get them done. Some advice I would give is to take your time, don't feel pressured or pressure your self into doing anything your uncomfortable with. I would take time to learn to climb with a silky and on recreational climbs before diving in with a chainsaw, good work position is key and I think the best advice I can give you is learnt to climb the tree and not your rope (obviously make sure you tend your slack), it's much easier and also try and learn to balance as best as you can. Work positioning is much easier if you have good balance, I still use my side strop all the time when work positioning but the majority of the time it is slightly slack and there as a fail safe. Hope this helps and makes sense

[Steve Bullman]

Some advice I would give is to take your time, don't feel pressured or pressure your self into doing anything your uncomfortable with.

 

I'd actually disagree with this, up to a point. When I first started climbing, the boss would always give me the option of if I wanted to climb the tree. If it was particularly tricky, or if time was an option, I would often step down from the job. It wasn't until later on when I was subbed out to other companies, and found myself out of my comfort zone, that I really started to see improvements in my climbing.

[Coletti]

It wasn't until later on when I was subbed out to other companies, and found myself out of my comfort zone, that I really started to see improvements in my climbing.

 

Fair point I and I can completely agree, my experience has pretty much been the same. I was meaning to start with take it steady and don't push your self until you get more comfortable, then when your comfortable and more confident in your ability, push your comfort zone a bit. This is pretty much what I did. Recreational climbs are pretty much where I built my confidence, you have the ability to do as much or as little as you want with no time scale and no pressure to get a job done

[Steve Bullman]

i've always found with tree work, no matter how much you threat about things, and think its too hard/impossible, by the time you have finished the task in hand you end up wondering what all the fuss was about

[eggsarascal]

I'd actually disagree with this, up to a point. When I first started climbing, the boss would always give me the option of if I wanted to climb the tree. If it was particularly tricky, or if time was an option, I would often step down from the job. It wasn't until later on when I was subbed out to other companies, and found myself out of my comfort zone, that I really started to see improvements in my climbing.

 

^^^^ This.

 

I worked for a big company for many years it was a doddle. (Apart from doing standby/call outs.)

 

Call another one of the gang! call a tanker. When you subb out. The pressure is on. Bigger companies get you there because their engineers can't do the job, or haven't got the resources to do the job.