Bad habits

[ArborClimber]

Cutting and holding is a skill, I agree, within the boundries of not being stupid, i.e. leaving the stump only 5 centimetres long and then cutting and holding (yes, i have seen it)

 

If no cutting or chipping is being done, just lugging logs and brash around in hot weather, I take my hat off. But if any "work" is being done, climbing, cutting or chipper, than hat must be on, no exceptions. If you dont want to wear the earmuffs on your hat, your decision to get tinnitus, not mine...

 

My bad habit is having too much slack in my rope, I have a bit too much confidence in my own strength...

[treequip]

Climbing without an effective aerial rescue climber or climbing without any - no difference IMHO

Not many could rescue anyone in decent time so just plan for the worst.

I often climb with just brash draggers onsite - not ideal but needs must

 

I have rescue climber exemption because I was climbing before they invented rescue climbing:laugh1:

[devon TWiG]

I often free climb ( lower in the tree ) especially in conifers , leylandii etc and climb above my anchor point ( rolling on to branch and standing on it ) , I use old climbing ropes for dismantling but not on heavy stuff , and if it is hot and I have a large log to ring up I do not wear chainsaw trousers ..... apart from that I pretty much do things by the book ..... mostly because it is how I do it anyway !!

[Woodcrafter]

Yep loads of cut and hold don't really ever use a secondary anchor point unless it's a monster.

I do from time to time go through phases of aspiring to be the perfect arborist but that's generally around the 2yr re assessment 😜😎.

[billpierce]

I do from time to time go through phases of aspiring to be the perfect arborist but that's generally around the 2yr re assessment 😜😎.

 

re what?

[Paul Cleaver]

im guilty of a lot mentioned - oh and sometimes using a ground saw left handed - but im still here - been at it over 25yrs

[Thesnarlingbadger]

I often free climb ( lower in the tree ) especially in conifers , leylandii etc and climb above my anchor point ( rolling on to branch and standing on it ) , I use old climbing ropes for dismantling but not on heavy stuff , and if it is hot and I have a large log to ring up I do not wear chainsaw trousers ..... apart from that I pretty much do things by the book ..... mostly because it is how I do it anyway !!

 

 

A free climbing as another one I think about, we all do it (I think) but I doubt we do it 60ft up a big open ash. I do often think we'll I did this as a kid and I used to get bloody high up those trees back then.

[Woodcrafter]

re what?

 

 

Arboricultural Association

[peatff]

A free climbing as another one I think about, we all do it (I think) but I doubt we do it 60ft up a big open ash. I do often think well I did this as a kid and I used to get bloody high up those trees back then.

 

I'm 63 now and there's a rookery here where we used to climb up to the nests when I was a kid. We used to take 6" nails to get up to the bottom branches and knock them in with a brick, sorry if anyone ever gets the job of taking them down. I don't know if it's an illusion but they look taller now than they used to then.

[Billhook]

Mick, you'll find as you get older, that happens regardless of the temperature unfortunately.

 

Also this urgent need to go as you become older is amplified by the sound of running water, or even worse as I found out when filling the chain saw, the sound of pouring petrol

Just filled to the brim when that urgency occurred.

No time to screw on cap and it the hurry to unzip spilled some fuel on the active hand.

The blissful relief of the bladder was followed by a fiery stinging sensation in a sensitive place.

 

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