will.morris

Good stuff Attitude is half the battle getting into this game, sounds like your already half way there bro

Cool! I'm not in a position to go for this at the moment but if anything else comes up when I'm back from NZ I'll send you an expression of interest. Free bump for you anyway

Sequoia for me, 5mins spent having a play getting it set up a bit better for you may help. One of my old lecturers used to climb with a sequioa and switch to a treemotion when he was going to be using a big saw for a decent length of time. Must be down to how they sit on each individual I reckon because I have no problem hanging a 66 off mine for a long time.

Haha cool What does it say on the bar? Can't make it out. I got the tree spirit/elemental and oak leaf in mine for a bit of an arb reference

There is definately a difference between a proper groundsman and a labourer. The rigging element comes with experience/tuition obviously but a lot of it is good iniative, I'm sure many will agree with me how frustrating it is when a bad groundy sends you up a blunt saw with little fuel or gets your line caught up on the ground etc. All avoidable situations with just the smallest amount of thinking applied. A climber can be extremely annoying when your grounding as well though by doing stuff that creates more work on the ground like not cutting back to a union so branch won't go through a chipper without being cut up more or not thinking about where they drop stuff. My point being both climbers and groundsman need to have common sense and be able to work together logically and methodically How this is at all relevant to the thread title I'm really not too sure sorry

Cheers dude I'll post another pic when it is finished. I had a short session yesterday filling up some of the smaller gaps between pieces and I got the oak leaves with acorns like I wanted While to go yet though my artist wants to add white highlights throughout the sleeve once all the blanks have been done. Glad this thread has taken off, great artwork guys!

Good on you bro awesome attitude Stay safe and don't rush your learning.

We use magnetic ones that we put on the side of the chipper so that you can file at chest height stood up. Saves your back and its a lot easier then bending over a saw.

Elwapo - It was a really cool job! Big macrocarpa dismantle with a hiab in a tight confined area with 3 houses in the dripline. Made a pretty impressive pile of sawdust once the lump had been crosscut into liftable pieces ...I nearly sprayed my laptop with coffee just then with the queefing remark

Awesome thread I quite often do the rock n roll devil horns and a lot of kiwis do a closed fist with the little finger and thumb out and shout 'yowza!'

Good stuff mate That scalpling idea sounds nasty lol and I heard that stretching them from piercing rather than having them punched out makes them way stronger in the long run. Here's a little preview of mine so far at 15hrs, it looks rough because it's all at different healing stages. I use this spray on plaster stuff that works really well, and it flakes off after about 7-10days leaving fully healed ink ((Hopefully no religious at'ers take offense to the pentagram )). On the back I have an evil looking bird, the grim reaper, a large skull with a snake running through it and a rose at the base, a cross with a rose and vine wrapping around it and a swirl/cherry blossom on the elbow but no battery left on camera to show I want to finish the wrist with an oak leaf and 2 acorns to fit in nicely with arb and the existing tree elemental Not sure about the rest yet though and I'm also going to go back and fill in some of the gaps that look too light atm.

Yeh definately mate, always good to meet people from AT

Oh right sorry bro misunderstood you Good advice

I run a ljs with 11.7mm bluetongue and it's really nice, way smoother than when I used it on my 13mm xtc. Invest in some sort of pulley based cambium saver as well if you haven't already and it's better still , mine's just a made up system with an art link 1 pulley, length of rope, retriever catch and a soft link to make it adjustable.

Still struggling to get used to that in Nz... keep falling up trees

I can already speak enough German to get by as a tourist but that's totally different to being able to communicate in everyday life I'd imagine so plenty to learn if I do go there. One of the asplundh supervisors is German and he was saying English is probably ok to get by initially with most germans but he said the older boys may not speak it. I worked with a german guy back in the UK and he came over to England to attend an arb college not speaking a word of english so had to learn it whilst doing the course ... Stories like that do make us seem very lazy as a nation! I suck at learning languages, I have to repeat a word/phrase 1000s of times before it sticks but I'd at least like to show that I'm making the effort, when in rome!

I'd say get yourself on a course, buy a basic kit and get some practice in It's all well and good saying get some work experience but in reality that will probably result in you doing the ground labour side of things most of the time and occasionally get a small climb in when the boss is having a good day and not against the clock or in a position where experience is vital.

Glad to hear it bro!! Have fun with it and what a cool gf

Thanks for clearing that up I'm calling it BOATOTCBIHRT from now on (Bit of a tricky one to classify but its helpful rope technique)...

I'll check it out! I'm just weighing up my options at the moment and giving myself plenty of time to do things properly. Interesting that you say you didn't think much of the work in NZ? I've done some pretty big climbs out here so far and decent felling like in my avatar. Tickets are just something I'll have to pay up for, I'll need them at some point and I don't want to turn into another winger about how much hassle they are, I'll just get them done.

Awesome thanks dude, I will send you a pm Nz to Germany post related thread in less than 24hours ... arbtalk never fails to amaze me/help out hugely

...reading that back, is footlocking classed as drt rather than Ddrt?

Very small trees - I bodythrust (Ddrt) Small trees - I use a pantin (Ddrt) Medium trees - I footlock ... badly (Ddrt) Anything bigger I use an SRT access line then switch over to Ddrt

Please post up saying that those knots were just for display, you're making me nervous until I see a reply!

Cool I'll have a look thanks mate! ...remind me what beech trees are again? Sounds like I'll have to do my 38/39 then lol I'd thought I'd managed to sidestep paying money for a piece of paper that says I can do what I already do