Tree blinkers - where can I get some?

[janey]

... Preferably of the varifocal type, that prevent me from looking for dead trees and at completed work!

 

I have always been the anorak who wanders about staring upwards, but since i have started working for the LA where i live, i have become terrible for it. There has been more than a few occasions where i have been on the bike, not looking at that van in front that's suddenly stopped i'm coz craning my head to get a look at ongoing tree works / dead trees / that public enquiry that came in last night... Try explaining that to my insurance company

 

And now i'm finding i am spotting all the past trees that i worked on when i was young and naive and didn't know any better .

 

AND getting home is taking sooo much longer as i just detour for one more wafer thin inspection.

 

ARRGGGHHHHHHH!!!! Blinkers. Please. And soon.

[Dean Lofthouse]

It doesn't get any better Janey, we're all geeks I'm afraid.

 

Even those die hards who say they never do, you'll catch straining their necks at other peoples work every now and again. It's like an unknown invisible force that compels you to look no matter how much you try and resist it, it will win in the end.

 

Bit like not chewing fruit pastiles

[skyhuck]

Yes I have that problem.

 

In the car with all the family, shouting "thats one of my stumps!" or "I pruned that!."

 

Or "look at those cowboys!"

 

I wish I could say they fain interest, they don't.

[janey]

Yes I have that problem.

 

In the car with all the family, shouting "thats one of my stumps!" or "I pruned that!."

 

Or "look at those cowboys!"

 

I wish I could say they fain interest, they don't.

 

... Strong feeling of de ja vous when reading that! Why don't other people get all excited about spotting a really good beech reduction ???

[atree]

once an arborist always an arborist,

 

i have the very same problem and i suppose every one else on arbtalk!!

[Lurcherman]

Too true, especially for me in Janey's borough as I was on Ealing '88 - '92, back for a bit in '95 then returned '04 - '06. So have worked on nearly every tree in the goddamn borough!

 

It's strange to see trees you remember working on like 15 year's ago realising that it's probably been 'attended' to at least twice since.

 

The nicest thing is seeing trees you planted 16 year's previously and knowing they're doing well.

 

I think you can only get 'Tree Blinkers' from the tool boxes of some of the less reputable 'Loppers and Toppers' that ply their trade around West London