How have you older climbers changed your style in the last few years.

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Passed out from exhaustion was the last one I let slide. I won't be so soft next time mind...

 

If I had a groundie spending time lying on the ground unconscious, i'd charge them a camping fee and dock 1hrs wages!

[jomoco]

Ground work is harder than climbing IMO

 

Depends on the situation Steve.

 

It humbled the hell out of me to have an old bearded hippie chain smoking Marlboros stay right on my azz operating a big tracked skidsteer!

 

Final cleanup was a bit rough though!

 

Jomoco

[Arran Turner]

I find older climbers seem to look slow but are actually fast..

[silky fox]

Good observation Arran!....and in many cases true

[Stephen Blair]

How did I miss this thread before?

I work either by myself or with a Groundie who doesn't use a saw so it's hard work over climbing stuff or thumping out big!

I do a lot of zip lining now which saves a huge amount or work and labour.

If money and work allowed I would have a team of another 4 guys again and rig everything big and let them deal with it on the ground and I'd enjoy the view more.

I've tried VT, spider jack, zig zag and tbh I am at home with the Prussik, which is ok because most of my stuff is pine takedowns so I'm rarely pulling up where all the work is.

[Mattarb]

I find older climbers seem to look slow but are actually fast..

 

this really struck me recently as well, the more experienced climbers don't stress about as much, but they still get the work done in a shorter time.

 

I've tried to stop stressing and working more on getting the technique right and efficient without trying to go fast recently, and I'd say I'm actually going faster with less stress, so I think it's good to slow it down a bit and think it all through.

[redmoosefaction]

Yeah...I've got rid of the cargo shorts and birkenstocks....

[Mark Bolam]

Everyone hates a quitter Moosey!

[redmoosefaction]

Such an Alladin's rope exists already in the marine industry, rated and approved for lifting and lowering personnel suspended from a bosun's chair.

 

Can deliver up to 200 psi of air pressure too as icing on the cake!

 

Hose reel / motorized / fixed - EMCÉ

 

Now that's my kind of SRT.

 

Jomoco

 

Electric winch / man-riding(!)...oh yeah?

[jomoco]

Yeah, IMO it's simply a matter of time until a big tree outfit goes full on CNG powered vehicles for their entire fleet of vehicles.

 

Waste management firms and metro buses have been the forunners to date

 

No real reason our industry can't do the same, including air compressors generators etc.

 

Pneumatic loppers n chainsaws are the lightest and best cutting tools around for fine pruning IME.

 

For takedowns? Not so great, yet.

 

One day I'll get around to converting an old vas tape of me pruning a euc on my property hanging from an SRT airline/rope combo way back twenty years ago. Pull trigger heaven. Three cuts in three seconds, pow, pow pow, Maibo pneumatic hand shears.

 

The future can be better n faster n cleaner to the point we're spoiled rotten, like crane assisted removal climbers.

 

Jomoco