senior climbers

[skyhuck]

Not quite in my seventies yet (50), but started climbing in '79... Seen some changes.... Lifelines, ballistics, chainbrakes, Health&Safety,chippers, blowers..the list goes on... I still climb and my Dragonfly is like sitting in an armchair, the spikes like comfy superglue boots and the saws lovely... The down side is mobile phones giving you stress and so many tree surgeons competing for work, pushing prices down and making you go faster (not so safe or enjoyable)... Still, gotta grow old sometime, and there's some good young ones coming through now.. Generally love where the industry is going and am proud to have been a woodsman all that time..

 

Good post, I'm a new comer compared to you (started in 94) but I totally get what your saying. Chippers were still rare back then, lots of burning and habitat piles.

As you say so many lads working for buttons:thumbdown: Ah well I'd rather stay home than match their prices.

[maria warwick]

Just starting climbing at 54 !

[TIMON]

Been climbing two years at 50 years young.

[s.varty]

You climbers that started at 40 plus,,,,,what did you do before climbing?

[maria warwick]

kitchen fitting 25 years

[TIMON]

Drove a telehandler on construction sites. Commercial window cleaning and landscaping to name a few.

[Taupotreeman]

I've just turned 40 a few months back, got a few aches and pains! I'd welcome some tips from a 50 year old

 

 

Here's some advice from a 45 year old. QUIT while your ahead

 

Seriously though, when I first started out I worked with a guy who was in his early to mid 60s. Awesome awesome dood, started with axe and cross cut and taught me a whole lot about how to work methodically and safely. Be an interesting thread to follow will this one.

Edited February 15, 2016 by Taupotreeman