How fit should you be ??

[Gary Prentice]

If you can't drink, smoke, climb trees and do all the other things you want to do, pack it in.

 

Or persevere until you can

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Not really mate.

 

We get to stand around alot,have Tea breaks,sit in the nice Truck Cab between jobs.We are out for about 8 hours a day,actually work for around five.

 

Anyone who thinks that this job is "incredibly physically demanding" is a bit of a "Noddy" or has just left School/Home/The Post Office.

 

You should come over and work with me then Mike. We are out for eight hours but do 9 hours of work in that time.

 

 

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[Stephen Blair]

The fitter the better imo.

[stew_t27]

Definitely worked for guys who expect you to be onsite and start as soon as the engine is off and then squeeze 10hrs into 8 hrs and then moan why things are tidied up properly!! Well head torches can only do so much haha!!

 

But fitter the better. Nothing more frustrating than a lazy/ unfit person on a team that everyone else has to carry all day.

[Mike Hill]

You should come over and work with me then Mike. We are out for eight hours but do 9 hours of work in that time.

 

 

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Sounds like I am better off over here.

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Sounds like I am better off over here.

 

You're dead right mate.

BTW I had John the ex-para working with us two weeks ago. Good bloke and apparently he was out with you for a bit.

 

 

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[Mike Hill]

You're dead right mate.

BTW I had John the ex-para working with us two weeks ago. Good bloke and apparently he was out with you for a bit.

 

 

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He answers to "Unicorn".

[Mark Bolam]

He answers to "Unicorn".

 

Is that because you gave him the horn?

 

 

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[Danavan]

You should be able to run to work from 6 miles away, not stop for lunch, branch role up 17 20 meter trees climb on 3 strand stretchy rope. All by half 3 in time to clear up and run home again..or is that me being nostalgic or to expectant..;-)

[Old WoodChip]

As most active people will tell you there is fit & fit?

I knew a football ref that could run all day and was very fit but was so tired trying to climb a tree I thought he was going to faint from exhaustion. Any bike rider will know there is bike fit meaning you could last an enduro in a welsh forest as opposed to riding 200 miles on a motorway. I worked with a body building weight lifter who couldnt lift a bag of cement!

I dare say if you put a bag on each end of a pole he could lift them but a single bag with his hands he just couldnt lift it.

So you have to be fit for the job/work, that only comes by doing it.. enjoying doing it.. and enjoying it before your body wears out :-)