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The wood loaded on the trucks get sold to ceramic brick factorys for fire wood. The tree with the climber (which is me)in the pic is a ficus elsatica which is a monster of a fig tree that they have here. All the pics are of local domestic tree work, there are plenty of trees that get cut in Brazil both urban and of course forestry but there is not a large culture for tree care work or not many people care to much about trees and there are almost no qualified tree workers so the quality of work is quite poor but its on the way up hopefully.
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I am Australian married to a Brazilian, moved here 1 year ago, work full time for a private arb company and am hoping to strat climbing and pruning courses for city councils ect. The wheather is perceft at the moment 28 everyday with a nice clear blue sky, give it about 2 months and it will be pissing down but yeah it gets hot.
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Got around to getting some pics, well this is tree work in Brazil. Not sure how the qaulity is hope its ok.
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Not familiar with the species but do the trees show/not show vigor? are the trees without yellow leaves grown faster/better? Dig one up look for water logged roots and check soil conditions.
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If you gave one of the groundies I worked with in Oz the amount of his weight in gold he wouldnt come back to work, he wouldnt need too.
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What species tree is that? look like a Euc, nice pics, top job.
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There is a here that they call "Paineira" Chorisia speciosa, I think the comun name in english is floss silk tree, tall growing, lovely pink flower, popular brazilian tree BUT its full of spikes alot like the Robina but worse, absolut nightmare, I worked on 4 massive ones on a farm and my arms were covered in scratch marks and bleeding, its is actulay almost impossible in touch the wood of the tree with your hands.
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Where in north london are you?
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G'day Jarno thanks for coming on mate, I think that hearing storys like this is a good way to retrain your brain as to how dangerous our job can be and still with all safety precautions in place accidents can still happen. It just a shame that someone, yourself in this case, has to go through the pain of the accident and later tell the story to send out the message of safety to others. I am trying to collect photos of work acidents and show tree workers in Brazil how dangerous this work can be, if its allright I would like to use yours as example, Hope that it all heals up soon and you get better quick. Oh and mate take a few days of work and get some rest. all the best
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No worrys, I am trying to collect pics of accidents in tree work to show some locals how dangerous it really can be. hope he is well now, sound like he did a good job to get back and finsh up the days work.
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Any Pics of the injury?
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10k jog with the odd game of cricket thrown in for good measure.
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Does your mate that works on the rigs have other quals? what exactly does he do?
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Looked into it here in Brazil it is the same course by the same people IRATA. I am still not sure how it works finding work after or if you need other qualifications to do some of the well paid rope access work like on the oil rigs, it is something interesting I think but I am in the same boat dont know alot about finding work after you do the course and so on.
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Blaze with 8mm bee line goes well for me
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Last lot of good I orded from wesspur got stuck in bloody customs and sent back. Did you have to pay any import tax on that? just out of a matter of interest!
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Did I see scott sharps name there on the vid? hows he doing these days?
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Mine too, any one want to buy them???
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Depends, does your mate look after his gear? keep his rope in a rope bag? these sort of things, inspect the gear if it look alright then it might work out cheaper for you. Some of my gear I bought from fellow work mates but I knew the way that they treated the gear, some gear brand new is cheap aswell. Shop around but having your own kit is the way foward for sure.
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Sorry off the subject but are the rope access courses worth doing? Do you do 50/50 tree work and rope access work? I looked into it and was just after some views from people that do some of this type of work. Is it worth getting into?
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Was it spain????
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me too prussic loop slipping really gave me the shits for a while untill going for the better option of the frenchy, lowering out tops aswell gets me sometimes and when first starting out getting to trust the gear is a bit of a barrier
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can ask a stupid question what is a "saddo", coz I think I am aswell, love a bright rope, also something that does not stretch too much when loaded. Blaze for me is a prefect climbing rope but love trying all of them.
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Yep, I agree the double ascenders are tops to learn double footlock but yeah it cost money.
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Footlocking on douple lines can be (if done right) the quickest and most energy efficient way to access a tree (with out SRT), if you grab 1 meter of rope you climb 1 meter of rope. Footlocking tail end of the rope you will only climb half the distance, but what ever gets you up the tree I guess. I would only footlock the tail of the rope when I am already in the canopy and the line hangs in free space and you need to ascend. Secured footlock takes time and practise but when mastered, is a great skill to have.
