UK Arb Industry

[Ross Smith]

Don't think I've said it yet Mog, but congratulations bro!

Ross told me you were just a tree killing work climber who would struggle finding his way around a tree without a 660 hanging from your harness.*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* I may have made that up.

 

 

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Love that **** Bolam

 

 

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[Mark Bolam]

Does a felling cut at the base still count as getting the casualty down?

 

 

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Hahahahaha!

I'm not a forester Joe!

 

Steve's a mate.

I'd zip line him into the nearest sixth-form girls college.

 

 

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[Joe Newton]

That's how I want to go...

 

 

 

 

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[Ben Saxton]

Was Jon Turnbull climbing btw?

Haven't seen him for ages.

 

 

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No it was his lads first bday mark

[Mark Bolam]

Thanks Ben, that's a permissible excuse!

Nice guy, hopefully catch him at the arb show.

 

 

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[Craig Johnson]

Swedish chic! should read Boal Hammarstand Swedish ladies champion.(not sure if it was last year though lol)

[David.Robertson]

Swedish chic! should read Boal Hammarstand Swedish ladies champion.(not sure if it was last year though lol)

 

 

Boel Hammarstrand is an incredible competition climber, I can only imagine how good her tree work is!

[dgcunningham]

Hi guys,

 

Don't know if I'm right in saying this but do you think there is also a cultural aspect to this too?

 

We live on a pretty dismal grey island where a lot of the time the weather is inclement and recession has hit our industry pretty hard in recent years. After slogging out 5 long days of climbing in the rain for very minute lolly, the last thing I ever wanted to do was to get my harness on and climb of a weekend to practice for a competition. Mostly I needed to eat and rest and work out how to pay the bills or do a weekend job to subsidise the climbing.

 

I can see the appeal of hanging out in a lovely landscaped amenity parkland in NZ practicing my throwline technique with all my likeminded tree climbing buckos who I share digs with having a few beers. It's just a little different here. Your most likely to get a load of hassle from local idiots and have a partner who has come to the end of her tether hearing about trees and climbing .

 

Through a lack of investment and cuts in sport education, interest in sport as a whole has declined- which is of course a crying shame.

 

Most guys I've met in the industry are dog tired and skint. They love the climbing but would take a superhuman effort to get out and do it without some financial incentive. Which is a shame as they are great at what they do and would put in a fine performance but I can understand why competing is pretty low on the priorities list compared to providing for family etc. Work is work- recreation is recreation, having heard the amount of hours some guys have to put in to make ends meet, it's a pretty difficult balancing act at the best of times!

 

a turn out of 17 sounds pretty good.

[James Atkinson]

Win a sticker to put on your van "19th best in the country" ha

 

 

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[James Atkinson]

Cunningham has a great point there, New Zealand/Australia have sport bred into them, competition is the norm plus of corse the loverly climate, our young ones can't even have a sports day without making it a "team effort", "no losers" policy, but that's a side point, I just want to know when everything is happening in good time, get that calendar up and running!

 

 

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