Would you climb it.

[stihlmadasever]

So what brand o bucket yu flyin mate?

 

Will it reach high enough, leave tracks n divots wherever it wanders?

 

Number one rule's to keep it simple n quick, licketty split, no extraneous chit.

 

I've flown more than enough buckets in my career to distrust them a helluva lot more than a healthy green tree, any day of the week.

 

One of my best mates had a Holan bucket truck collapse and slap him by the lanyard rather rudely against the cab cage, busting him up for quite a while.

 

Cranes are friggin dangerous too, IME.

 

Jomoco

 

We hire ours in so they vary to our specific needs for the individual job.Mostly Genie s65x,the 4 wheel drive suits most of our mewp work.

[eggsarascal]

Off topic!

 

If you lads work in MEWP's do you get motion sickness?

 

I used to spend a lot time in them years ago, and always felt sick afterwards.

[Daythe trees]

Hardly used a mewp, either because one couldn't get there when the job could afford it and other times because I live in the dearne valley and to mewp everything I would like to would see me out of business and driving for eddie stobbart or his competitors and I don't want to do that (nothing against those that do).

[Joe Newton]

We hire ours in so they vary to our specific needs for the individual job.Mostly Genie s65x,the 4 wheel drive suits most of our mewp work.

 

 

Ah, that makes sense. Cost is not a problem in a taxpayer subsidised company.

 

 

 

Off topic!

 

 

 

If you lads work in MEWP's do you get motion sickness?

 

 

 

I used to spend a lot time in them years ago, and always felt sick afterwards.

 

 

I hate them. Scares the hell outta me.

[Daythe trees]

Sturgeon is the answer for a day in a mewp for me mr egg. So yes same effect for me sometimes.

[stihlmadasever]

Ah, that makes sense. Cost is not a problem in a taxpayer subsidised company.

 

Said with a tinge of bitterness there joe?

I take no joy in what councils do with OUR taxes,i just work there.

Truth be told id rather climb than use a mewp.

I feel safer on a rope up a tree.

[Goaty]

Climbing is skill that needs to be practised. Going by the mewp 1st theory. Council should get pros in to climb. To tick boxes. Avoidance etc.

I prefer to climb just about any tree to ladders and man made contraptions as impressive as they are. I'm more reassured of options on the way down should it happen.

Not tested that out yet. But have come a cropper with machines and equipment a few times on terra firma.

[devon TWiG]

It is pretty rare I would get a MEWP in , most unlikely in this situation from what I can see , also customers often say the lawn can not be damaged etc etc which would require rigging every thing down instead of just dropping it , when I inform them of the extra cost, suddenly the lawn is not so precious any more .... it does not cost much or take long to sort out a few patches of grass !!! Were you going to rig it down from a MEWP ?

[stihlmadasever]

Climbing is skill that needs to be practised. Going by the mewp 1st theory. Council should get pros in to climb. To tick boxes. Avoidance etc.

I prefer to climb just about any tree to ladders and man made contraptions as impressive as they are. I'm more reassured of options on the way down should it happen.

Not tested that out yet. But have come a cropper with machines and equipment a few times on terra firma.

 

Are you sayin council tree surgeons are not pro's...?

Theres 2 guys in our crew who could keep up with any climber on these pages.

Im the first too admit the council have a lot of failings but our guys are skilled,experienced and work bloody hard.

Rant over

[Mark Bolam]

It is pretty rare I would get a MEWP in , most unlikely in this situation from what I can see , also customers often say the lawn can not be damaged etc etc which would require rigging every thing down instead of just dropping it , when I inform them of the extra cost, suddenly the lawn is not so precious any more .... it does not cost much or take long to sort out a few patches of grass !!! Were you going to rig it down from a MEWP ?

 

 

Word.

 

 

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