Rupe
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Groundies work much harder than climbers, the climber shouldn't be busting a gut, he's only sitting in a harness cutting some wood, thats why everyone wants to progress to being a climber isn't it? It has a higher skill level (not all climbers are more skillful than all groundies) but ultimatly its easier.
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Thats the one that I upped to a 3 to get a nice round 6 points! I know my trees, but only the main ones in latin and F.all about funghi. Trees are knackered or not knackered, and if they might be knackered I get a consultant!
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In 18 years I have never been spot checked! And if your not employing anyone you can get away with a lot more. The question was "for a tree surgeon to trade". A chainsaw and a pole saw and call yourself a tree surgoen, off you go. Nothing illegal about that. I know lots of "tree surgoens" that don't own any climbing kit.
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Thanks mate! Made me cry a bit there!! I'm not pulling any strings for you though!!! BTW, I gave myself a 2 for ident! Big tree, little tree, conifer and bush! Done me ok!
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Legally, nothing! A chainsaw maybe? Just get on with it. If you employ poeple things change, but the police won't be knocking on your door, and the HSE won't bother until you hurt someone. There are some acts of law that affect this work, insurance is definatly not one of them. You don't have to have insurance to do tree work.
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Well, 5.666666666666 on first go, then added a point in one section to tidy it up!
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I got 6 !
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I was at the Welsh comp that year. I got second in the A. rescue but very average overall.
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Oh, ok, its AV out!
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My older camera (above) has got an extra socket, looks like a tiny jack socket. Would that be for a remote? Its not for an extra flash, its not USB or charging. It could be for a mic for video, but I don't know?
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I've also got a cheap 7MP compact kodak for parties etc. but the colour saturation is very poor for outdoors scenery shots. I just checked it, no time lapse feature. How does the remote work?
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It is old innit!! Takes great pictures though. The thing that really shows its age is the shutter delay and the time it takes to get ready for next shot! Sport mode helps with shutter delay,but your still only able to take a picture every 3-4 seconds which is quite a long time! So for trees and scenery its ok.
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Its my old Kodak DX6490 from about 2004.. A whopping 4MP !!! But good enough lense so its takes good pictures.
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In the last photo you can just see the phone line that ran from the gatehouse parallel with the wall and about a foot behind the trunk of the tree. Luckily we had a front riggin point about four foot away from the trunk so everyhting could be lowered away from the line.
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Yep. My camera doesn't do timelapse, but I agree it would have been good.
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I was a great tree climber when I was the only experienced climber in the company I worked for at the time! Then I went to a climbing comp and got my a$$ kicked! Then I worked freelance for a few years, that made me realise how average I really was. You need to work/climb with lots of other poeple to get a grip of what you are like. Its easy to be the best climber around when there is no one else around.
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Yep, got some cracking shots that day, about 120 I think!! Had the camera on but couldn't find the wrist control! (found it now) so I left it on and running several times throughout the day and filled the memory card but I have had a quick look through it and I don't think I can make it into much. A lot of the rigging is not recorded, and what there is isn't great. I'll have another look at it some time.
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And some decay just above the final pole that we dropped and some pics of the base.
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We went back friday afternoon to take the stem down.
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I shout un fair!! On a scale of 1-10 Graham McMahon is a 12, Reg is a 10!
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Glad someone gets my humour! We are all scraping number 2's!
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I'm sure its not a "legal" term. But in the general sheme of things how important do you think tree loppers are? In a 1-3 scale (un skilled, semi skilled or skilled) taking into account all trades and proffessions in the world, I think we are doing well to scrape upto number 2! We are, after all, only cutting some trees!
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Well we were talking about it today at work. I asked my gorundie (the one that I would want to be with in an emergency) what he would do if I had an arterial bleed. His response was re assuring to say the least! He would not require a drama box!
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Could a doctor, take physically fit and keen chap from the job centre, with no academic qualifications or consistant schooling and train him into a doctor in five years?
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Then it semi skilled work, thank you! If you had said that he would need three A levels and a degree before he could begin training then I might accept that its skilled work.
