Rupe
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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.
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The only thing I do that is any where near skilled is selling tree work to my clients and the public. After that I only deliver what has been sold, thats the easy part.
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Hama, could you take a physically fit and keen chap from the job centre, with no academic qualifications or consistant schooling and train him into an arborist, within 5 years with a bit of profffesional input regardign NPTC tickets etc?
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Hama, who have you got with you to administer the drama kit? Invest in them not the yellow box.
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I agree.. When I said earlier about improving work methods and risk assessments, I didn't mean ticking some boxes at the begining of the day, I meant assessing everything you do as you go along. So, when using a large saw up a tree, every single cut must be assessed to check that if it skips or jumps or kicks back it is not goign to cut you, at all, let alone on a major artery. Work postioning can be changed if you are not sure. There is alays a safer way.
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Thanks for saying that. I wasn't offended by anything you said, but still its good of you to post this. Cheers!
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You can use a quick release lanyard if your are roped in to another tree.. As Graham McMahon demonstrates here.........
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Its not shuttleworth, and I don't know who the architect is, I could find out?
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Thanks. I feel very lucky! I do some scummy council work too thoug just to even out the balance! Rarely take pictures then though! Yes, same gaff as before. This is at one of the entrance gates.
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Yes, stunning day, I think I'm sunburnt! We only got the limbs off it, got the trunk to do tomorrow.
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Not much showing the rigging aspect so just some nice pics really. Yet another flippin Beech tree removal.
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Yes? What have I done now?!
