Frankie Lawrence
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Latest on Chris Headdon injured climber
Frankie Lawrence replied to TREELINE's topic in General chat
My mate quite recently had a massive mbike crash and because he thought he was only going round the corner he didnt strap his chin up properly.. Doctors said thats it gave him 12 hours...gave him 24... gave him 48.... then they said although he has survived hes going to have severe mentally disabilitys effecting his physical abilities. This boy I can now say is fine and only 6 weeeks out of time too. Im sure hell be fine heads and chin straps up. -
If you are up for doing the free labour swap etc why not phone one of your local firms? Say if possible you give me half a days climbing practice ill give you a day and half of free labour if your experienced a few firms would jump at it.
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As much as anyone can reccomend utility and why not from what I hear its better monney but like tommer said you pick up bad habbits and weve had Brockwells in on jobs for us and they leave trees in an awful state to be honest and I can see why geting paid by the meter aparantley so they gota make there monney Im not sure if utility work is for you if you ahvent got the tickets its more to get more monney to pay etc, just hang tight maybe offer some free labour to get in with a firm show em your good enough and the position will come eventualy. I Dont mean any offence to any utility arb guys here just stating the facts as I know.
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Proberly would yes. The genral rule is not to climb alone there was a thread on it a while ago, Im not sure wat other more experinced people would say but I think its a no go. Maybe if you just got some rope found a limb about 10 meters about chucked it over and practiced your knots etc itll be a step ahead if you get round to doing your 38/39 Theres a kent met in a weeks time I no its not ideal but its a thought.
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well done w what was it like the assement and training? am I write in thinking you have to do pa1 first? got this coming up at sometime in the near future.
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I feel confident on my 31 well I say confident I feel I will be a little more relaxed on 31. Ive ben useing a saw for a while under suprvision and been felling trees for 6 monthsish or so. Can you not get in any practice maybe not out in woods but just practice your cuts on a high stump or somthing similar. Good luck on your 31.
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Yeah as someone above said revise everthign Keep getting someone to sk yu all the questionsand obiously just practiceon the saw as much as ossible. I was quite cofident on sharpening and done it quite well and didnt ask to much questions on the chain components. Revise revise revise is al you can do. Good luck
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Can I reccomend you keeping an eye on Arb jobs a website advertiseing arbjobs maybe your best bet. Arbjobs.com - Tree Jobs! - Home
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:confused1: Didnt see anything like this in new catalouge.
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Cheers Ay of course doing apprentership and its all involved free of charge to think it will be around June or so time.
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The Mighty Oak V's The Beautiful beech
Frankie Lawrence replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
I do love big oaks look amazing trees But I may have to go with beechs I love there big arses and horizontal branches dont no why but always been a fan of beeches and big arses for that matter:001_tt2: -
It depends what carreer you want weather it be arb/forestry/consulataiion the list could go on. Ive heard that some people doing higher education in our industry mat end up behind a desk rather than in the thick of it. make of that what you will if you want that then dont worry but like I said if you want to do tree surgery/forestry day in day out then go for that.
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Passed it with no worries, assesor was a realy good guy put us all at ease. Was a right mess last night then woke up this morning with a stinking cold. 31 comes monday and I feel slightly more comfortable with that.
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Nice on thanks alot again. I mist go now revise for the big cs 30 tommorow. abserloutley cacking it
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You might but others might not, I know you are in the technical right here im just trying to point it out from less expeirenced lads views here
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Thanks to Nick im in if thats ok plippy. Would it be ok for someone to show me the ropes (excuse the pun) on the day?
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Royal oak? used to be the snail I think. Pretty sure it is royal oak is this the place to get picked up...?
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With respect sir less experienced lad( I include myself in this bracket) would do as there told because work is going to be hard to find for them if they kick up a fuss there not going to be argueing about health and saftey. I do agree this isnt safe working practice im just pointing my opinion on your bit of less experienced lads.
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Cant your girlsfriends sister just have a party in the woods? lots of men there and its alot more fun than pass the parcel.
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Does anybody drive through hawkhurst on the way there or any of surrounding villages? Will be great if I could cacth a lift with some. Cheers.
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I think because alder grows next to river/streams/wet stuff its got more moisture than most wood so takes longer to dry out. Think that is correct. Ive found seasoned alder great wood.
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Toridge 2 mins away and easy to get to on train and tunbridge wells is about twty mins and a bugger to get to. Plippy whats your views on a novice? ( not tickets some experience) reckon anyone will be able to look after us as it were? If its a problem no worries can understand H&S stuff just dont get to climb on jobs much ether.
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Sorry only just read this properly. The apprentership I'm doing whcih maybe different to were you are im not sure. I go to college once a fortnight and obviously when you do your tickets you do the normal days of trainng as you normally would. The tickets I'm gaining is 30/31/38/39 Pa1/pa6(chemcal spraying) the minimum wage is 95 quid a week and maximum is 200 qud a week but the latter is obviusly down to the discretion of the employer. Home - Opening doors to a better future for anything ive missed.
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Appretership idefinatley the way forward especially if you have experience. I started right atthe bottom once a weeek work experience when I was at school worked weekends holidays etc the got apprentership, its basically a 10 week corse strectchedover a year mybe 2 if you dont do the work. You learn the job, the day to day life of a hairy arse tree boy and get monney aswell its win win good luck
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think im ging down the same lines as you harness wise I tried on a skylotech and felt realy comortable. But its each to there own Everyone reccomeneded me a harness that this bloke had and said it was comfortable and that and tried the blokes on and I hated it. take what you feel comfortable in. As for climbing kit ill relay the message from here and other tree guys is not to be tigh on monney with your kit as youll only end up buying twice. Got my first kit last month ish and got 37m of line, 10m line, 4 karabiners, petzl tin, flip line,3 prusik loops. No were near you so cant help with the climb
