What do you expect!?!

[cerneARB]

My boss has got me doing the chipper,clearing brash,snedding and a little felling in low risk areas and when time allows the lead climber lets me do some climbing and cutting.He knows im slow and not that experinced but when were ahead on a job he will leave me a few branches on a tree and says 'get your harness on then and up you go'. he will watch me and guide me.

 

Glad im getting some experince in all aspects of the job.

[Rod]

-im glad you brought that up!

 

im gonna be in this situation soon as im finishing college in a months time.

i love climbing, but we didnt get chance to do much at colllege so i lack confidence and im still quite slow!

some lads at college were great climbers but got put off it when they were pushed too far in their work experience and scared themselves cos, obviously theres a great difference in climbing at college and climbing at work!!

i really want to climb but dont want end up like those lads!!

 

nicely done:congrats:

[Stephen Blair]

i struggled to find work when i first wanted to get into tree surgery, i had done felling in the woods and hacked away at plenty trees around the edge of fields for farmers. i owned my own climbing kit and used to play in the woods every night until it was dark practising. i applied for a job and said i was experienced. first day i go dropped off with a jcb to fell 50 pops in a car park. job done, second day got left to section out 20 more pops at the side of a college. bricked myself all day, had to go to the bog a few times but got it done. with in 3 months i was in charge of the squad as lead climber. i didnt drag nowt, i was the tree killing machine that got sent infront of the kit to get it on its arse. lasted another 3 months chucked it and started myself and never looked back. if you are scared up a tree you will hang on pretty tight. if you have what it takes, ask the boss for the job sheet and go, work your nuts off and just get on with it. adrenaline and nerves is great. no point going to college to drag branches and make tea mate if you ask me.

[MattyF]

adrenaline and nerves is great.

 

ha that has got to be quote of the week !

[Stephen Blair]

ha that has got to be quote of the week !

 

keeps the bowels regular:001_tt1:

[gibbon]

They do an NC round here. Been through it many times. I find it easier to not employ them at all.

[Ooops..]

so back to the first question:

the general idea is drag brash/feed chipper for a while then give em a go climbing and take it from there?

 

am i right?

 

...my college is great for giving you lots of knowledge about trees and how they work, ive learnt some amazing stuff but when it comes to practical work they really leave you in the dark!

 

i learnt more in my six month work placement than i did in my two years at college!

 

cheers for your replies!

all advice is good advice!

[john@arbtech]

We would chuck him up a tree with an experianced team, see what he's capable of. He's come to you as a climber, wants climbers wages etc!!

[ozy vince]

I draged brash fed chippers, cleared powerlines from EWP, never got to climb much but I came from nothing, i did'nt even know you could climb trees for a living, i'd never seen a tree surgeon working from a rope and harness, before I started with The Tree Specialists Australia, I was nothing, in a way I owe them a lot, they gave me a go at climbing but I was'nt as good as the other guy "daisy" so I ended up at the bottom of the pile, it was'nt until I was a supervisor that I could put my self up the tree from time to time...

 

But mostly ive been lucky to work for climbers who started in the bussiness for the same reasons as me, they let me climb. mainly because it stops me complaining so much, and its a good laugh to see how seriously awful I am up a tree.. you think i'd be able to climb a tree with out ending up tangled in my own ropes hanging upside down. but then again I can never figure out which boot goes on which foot... so why they let me near a tree a chainsaw and some rope, I have no idea....

[White Noise]

Give him job sheet and keys and send him out on a 'simple one day job' that you have 3 days on.

 

Tht's what used to happen to me!

 

Thats so funny but true .