John Shutler

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been working on this bugger for the last 2 days.off to fell the stem in the morning.its out the back of a jewsons builders merchant, found a pigeons nest made out off wall ties

25.been working in the arb industry for severall years now,and decided i would be able to keep contracting as a climber and be able to develop my professional qaulifications at the same time

starting the arb foundation degree in september at sparsholt

im after a single cab really.

had 5 days in auckland then got the tranz scenic down to wellington.picked up a couple of vans and headed down the coast for a bit then through wanaka etcto queenstown,then back up to cristchurch via the gates of haast,fox, arthurs pass.didnt see any tree work though which was dissapointing

so after my 7 week jaunt around new zealand and bali, i have returned. i have some interseting tree pictures that i will post after ive worked my way through the several thousand posts that have accumulated durring my time away(showing how well this forum has taken off).

anyway new working year and time for a nearly new pickup. any ideas?

cheers john

yep im in

if you cant seperate your social and work life you need to take a step back and ask yourself some serious questions

yeah i highly recomend the stretch airs.had a pair when they were red and they just fell apart.after that i moved over to the hiflexs but after my last pair only lasted five months and a conversation with nod im back on the stretchairs, great trouser very comfortable and durable. thumbs up from me

rest of the pics from the job

got some more pics from the job which i will post soon

it almost looks like hes slipped

i was just trying to work that one out

everybody has the basic guidelines of what needs to be earnt, or what they want to earn in the day.theres so many factors to consider.its all about getting a feel for it

i climb on marlow chameleon with the herkules (from proclimber)10 mm hitchcord with 4 wraps and 2 braids.it self tends after about 30 ft

interesting stuff

im coming over in two weeks, for a look around with a view to moving over in a year or so with my girlfriend

once agian a cracking vid reg

yeah i was bricking it,first to admit it.the reason the tree was coming down was that it was sheding limbs.parts of it were unclimbable and unfortunately all of these sections needed to be rigged down to avoid demolishing the shed ,fence, pristine hedge and garage underneath it

i hate to think the extra weight added by ivy sometimes,last ivy removeal job was nearly a full truck load of chippings.not good

max has hit the nail right on the head,from the ground the structural problems of this tree of this tree could not be seen,ok there was a bit if dead wood, but no more than would be expected from a tree that had been previously cut so badly.

its a beast about 3 and a half foot at the base

all the stems bar part of1 were very soft,also 95% needed to be rigged down to avoid the garage fence shed and hedge below

there was lots of disscussion about how to deal with it,i wasnt convinced about the safety of it and thought we should get a platform in.rob came up after lunchtime and decided to take it on minuss platform