Climbers disciplined for refusing tree

[Mat]

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Stone dead horse chestnut freaked me out at times!!!

 

Not sure I'd do that again?!?!

 

Nice reduction there, well done.

[Olliebradbury]

Nice reduction there, well done.

 

Haha one of my better ones lol ;-)

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

to answer Mesterh, every tree is climbable, humans have proved this! maybe not by me, but if it stands and is made of wood, someone will get up it!

as far as objects are concerned beneath, then there has to be a desicion made to avoid, move, protect or replace that object.

Its all part of the assessment when you look at the job.

If i get to a tree and the most important thing is to get it on the ground, then thats priority.

Would i make th same desicions if i worked for someone else? no!

 

 

 

Cool vid! A true Herculean example of man's determination to overcome hardship!

 

Tete would have bottled my challenge last night though....

 

In an attempt to satisfy my desire for sugar, and keep the Mrs sweet, I had to replenish the exhausted stock of Aldi cherry & chilli chocolate.

 

Temp traffic lights at Addington, the massed crowds of 'bargain hunters', the irresistible draw of looking at the crappy cheap tools, insufficient till staff, the 'take your shopping to the packing area' war cry of the tribal hag audible in the distance..... Prime time Friday evening shopping (even for just 1 item).....

 

A truly harrowing test of a man's love and dedication to his family.

[Tim Stobart Tree Surgery]

How is a tree climbable if it falls over when you try to climb it?

Good vid mind, I love honey.

 

 

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Surely if it falls over as soon as you climb it, then you've got your job done very quickly. The skills in the landing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[treequip]

I used a mewp on a morbidly dead Beech tree the other day

 

It was climbable but without the mewp it would have needed rigging it down and the rigged parts would certainly have broken up as they swung in.

 

There would have been bits of timber and damage all over the show.

 

Was it unclimbable? No

Would it have been a mess? Yes.

Was the mewp the better option? Yes

[TIMON]

Cool vid! A true Herculean example of man's determination to overcome hardship!

 

Tete would have bottled my challenge last night though....

 

In an attempt to satisfy my desire for sugar, and keep the Mrs sweet, I had to replenish the exhausted stock of Aldi cherry & chilli chocolate.

 

Temp traffic lights at Addington, the massed crowds of 'bargain hunters', the irresistible draw of looking at the crappy cheap tools, insufficient till staff, the 'take your shopping to the packing area' war cry of the tribal hag audible in the distance..... Prime time Friday evening shopping (even for just 1 item).....

 

A truly harrowing test of a man's love and dedication to his family.

 

 

Fair play, you're a better man than me. After numerous successful attempts at "sabotaging" the weekly shopping trip (multiple expensive and completely unnecessary purchases. Deliberate time wasting, mild disagreements etc..) It was decided some time ago that it was better all round if I remained in the car while the missus went in on her own....

[Sully]

imagine this situation where you have been up all night on call outs, very little supervision, done the best you can. You take the risks required because that's the job you "signed up to do". Your at breaking point, your knackered, your bodies knackered. Then the phone rings...another call out. You turn up and its a row of big trees that all need to be dealt with one way or another. You phone for help, your told get on and do it , their climbable etc etc is the response. What would you do?? Man up?!! Its not always about the size of your nut sack.

[Mountain man]

Is this what happened? Had they been working all night?

[scotspine1]

who'd climb the tree below to dismantle? I'd be happy to do it, I wouldn't need a MEWP, however I wouldn't force another climber to climb it if they weren't happy to do so or didn't have the experience required.

 

On Graham McMahon and Tahune Day 3, the most important thing you should take from that video is that it was he himself who did that tree, he didn't send an employee up there, he carried the risk on his own shoulders.

Edited January 24, 2015 by scotspine1

[Tom D]

My guys refused to do a job last week, but it was because there was so much dogshit in the garden....

 

In the past I have tended to do the nasty ones myself, partly because I like the challenge but mainly because if you ask someone to do something they don't want to their mind won't be in a good place and that makes them more likely to screw up..

 

This was the last nasty one I did..

 

The view up:

 

The view down:

 

Felling the stick: