sycamorephobic

Hiya all,

I was wondering if anyone had ever worked for Davey in Vancouver. Or for Davey anywhere for that matter... or indeed for anyone in Vancouver.

Just putting the feelers out; standard/variety of work, good/bad points of doing a stint in Canada.

Cheers

thanks all for the tips. very helpful. particularly like the cheeky stick idea

could anyone give some advice on gettin nice accurate straight parallel hinges when fellin medium/large stems? been in the game a couple of years and most of the time i get it right but the odd time when it feels right but i look at the stump after and think jesus! thats awful. i.e back cut is slanted/hinge is way off. where are you looking when you start the back cut? is it just a matter of practice? its not the kind of thing you wanna get wrong really.

cheers

i think us army of unemployed north westerners should set up together and take over.

hi all

im doing an arb degree and im on work placement year at the moment. ive done work abroad and now after work experience in gtr. manchester for up to 6 months. im 27, hard working and have ground and aerial experience. i have all my own climbing kit and protective gear and transport. willing to work anywhere in manc or surrounding area. WILL WORK FOR MINIMUM WAGE.

if anyone could offer me anything please send me a pm.

cheers.

cold turkey, best way. i was a gibbering wreck for about 4 days when i tried. but just keep thinking about how good it feels to be able to breathe properly again. you will have more energy, bigger appetite and a clearer head if you can last that 4 days. best of luck.

great job mate. grudgingly very envious. i got to climb a kauri the other week. alas it was only about 5 metres tall.

that was inspiring mate. smooth as ya like. cheers for that

also helps to have reasonable degree of mechanical nouse. something of which, i might add, i have about as much as yer average blonde.

has to really enjoy what he does and be able to take shxt on the chin. and have a sense of humour, otherwise youd just get too fxxked off with it.. mi thinks

i still dont consider myself a tree surgeon as ive only been climbing a year (plus 2 years on the ground and 1 year at college) and there is so so much more i have to learn. if someone asks me what i do though i say 'i do tree work'. they usually think im some kind of lumberjack but i can be axxd explaining what a tree surgeon/arborist is. in the UK 9 out of 10 people wont have a clue what an arborist is. in NZ though evryone seems to know what arborists do for a living. weird.

got one across my ankle a bit ago. had my foot hooked under a branch as i cut it to try and flip it over a shed as it fell. the branch just hit the shed and i ended up booting the silky blade. bled for ages. felt like a right tit./

gotta be the red beech

35 degrees yesterday in picton. haha. :thumbup1:bliss

amazing trees. the ones growing around the bay of plenty area are incredible. theyre massive multistemmed monsters with loads of mad aerial roots. think theyre highly protected. if theres one growing too near your house, you move your house, not the tree.

'Sados'? Don't you mean 'Saddos'? Shurely shome mishtake?

innit. i was expecting a thread about the sadomassaccistic nature of tree folk. highly dissappointed.

brutal mate. a guy i worked for (very good arborist) once started up the chipper with the chute pointing directly towards the infeed. got mulch blasted in the face. fxxk me was it funny.

i was on the end of a lowering line the other day. the load (big big load, best part of a ton- heavy gum as well) drifted more than expected and smashed a big branch off along its course which sent it hurtling toward me. there was five turns on the portawrap and i instinctively hit the deck and held that rope for dear life. i would have let go and legged it if i had anywhere to go but there was a bucket truck right behind me. anyway the load swung about a foot over my head, slowly lost its momentum before hitting the truck and swinging the other way. i then let go and the section thumped to the floor.

i came seriously close to being creamed that day and it was easily the scariest thing that has ever happened to me in this job. my eyes where like piss holes in the snow afterwards. but as ridiculously stupid as it sounds i got a serious buzz out of it through a heightened sense of being alive.

we were all having a good day before that, having a laugh and enjoying the work which is probably why it happened as we where all a bit off guard and not concentrating enough. myself, the truck and the pully where all positioned in a silly place even though it looked right at the time. never had any issues with lowering operations in the past and it made me realise just how dodgy it can be if youre not fully switched on to whats happening.

in some ways im glad it happened because it will never happen again with possible worse consequnces. defo gonna stay a bit more frosty from now on

anyways sorry if that bored anyone, just thought id share it with you.

cool,(he's well known in nz) how long you been over here? did u come down 4 the comp in sept?

yeh hes a really good bloke. only got here late september so missed the comp in christchurch, couple of the lads from here entered.

im in blenheim (David James). maybe taking a job in wanaka though next month. lovin the speights

i am of them. was never expecting or told id get paid megabucks by anyone at myerscough and appreciated its gonna be hard work. im currently doing the placement in new zealand working as a climber, gettin paid peanuts, gettin battered everyday and loving it. if i get paid enough to live and eat through tree work then im happy. shame theyre scrapping the placement as you learn loads and is a proper reality check. up the campaigning to keep the scheme.

Hey, us new guys have gotta start somewhere. Give us a break, huh? College is cosy and you're right, they don't teach you how to crown reduce or thin or whatever. They show you how to use a saw 'safely' and climbing technique. It's up to you experienced guys to show us how the jobs done. Surely you don't really expect anyone to come out of college and be fully confident at all aspects of the job? It takes a special teacher to instill confidence...

here here

its mainly after big clean up days of cross cutting with big saws rather than days of just climbing. if it gets even slightly cold half my fingers turn white and lifeless. sometimes have to swing my arm round, pete townsend style to get the blood back in em.

ive never worn gloves so will invest in a decent pair and cut down on the bines mi thinks.

stilts for tree work! haha. thats a great idea. might look like a bit of a prick but will save a fortunate on climbing rack and be a damn site quicker.

ive only been in the industry two years but already gettin serious white finger, tingling, numbness. i think its partly genetic. bad news, not just cos im a guitarist. anyone have the same issues or know of any prevention methods and ways of reducing symptoms? cheers

nice one. cheers for the info. im hopefully off to tauranga in a month to work for a big arb firm. should be a good crack. dont have HGV license but nevermind.