Pete Mctree

I have climbed some absolutely horrible Ash trees over the last year. My justification was simple - I could not get a MEWP to a single one of them - why take the risk if you don’t need too?

Between rain shower….

Self employment has been the best choice for me, as I found being an employee frustrating and oppressive. In many ways, like others, I am not employable. Would I ever work for someone again? Very unlikely, but I never say never - it would have to be an exceptional company to tempt me.

We have been running the Stihl comms for nearly a year now. So far, in addition to the increase in safety, we have noticed a massive decrease in stress, due to the lack of shouting and misunderstanding. Increase in productivity and we have also been able to bring climbers on quicker, as we can quietly and calmly talk them through tasks outside there comfort zone, or simply give them helpful feedback. It is easy to become a gobshite and try and micro manage everything when running a site, however if I feel like I am, I simply turn the mic off and only reply to questions .

Nothing wrong with 3 strand for rigging, just use it appropriately. I buy it 200m at a time cheap from trawler suppliers and melt it for fun. I think you need another LOLER inspector to be honest.

I think we all need to stop feeding the troll - hopefully he will disappear back into his hedgerow from whence he came

Refresher training is a positive in my books. I did last year and things change, you forget things and what is the cost of doing 2 days every 5 years, to keep you refreshed on both aerial and ground based units? It’s been 29 years since I did my original tickets and keeping up to date by upskilling and refresher training has done me no harm at all.

Bad luck 👎

That looks like a lot of hard work- good job. Was it decayed or did the customer have the usual obsession with trees being too big and need “controlling” 😆

No worries and good luck

North east is a bloody big place. If you’re in Alnwick no point asking you to work in Whitby!

Hi Lofty, where are you based?

There was a Panorama program about it and even the BBC conceded that it was an unmitigated disaster. If I remember correctly, it is so inefficient that the emissions and associated carbon produced would be reduced if it was reverted to coal. It is a typical greenwashing exercise ☹️

I am sorted for now. Thanks

Yes - not blunt, but not too sharp if that makes sense @Mark Bolam I deffo am 😂