David Goss

Ok here is the start of my fungi pics thread. Seeing as my fungi ident sucks beyond suckyness I decided its best that i put up the pics, and the myco psychos can flex their fungal ident muscles and show off a bit:thumbup1: First couple of fungi coming right up (hope its not too difficult for you:001_rolleyes:)...

Sometimes i give the branch/twig a warning that if it does that again i will kill it. 9 times out of 10 it doesnt get a second chance.

always

wow that cut through way faster than i thought it would!!!

yea that would be just the ticket for getting the boxes upstairs, i am seriously thinking of the oap's shopping trolley with those wheels though.

Never done it but i guess its possible. However you would need to be either drunk or completely mental to cut through it without noticing IMO

do they have the special wheels for going up and down stairs? that could be another good option:thumbup1:

You might want to try freelancing to start with, try any companies you have worked with before and while doing that keep looking for your own work as well. Nothing like the freedom of working for yourself but you gotta be committed and work hard at it.

I was actually thinking of one of those trolleys that turns into a beach sun lounger type thing and stacking boxes on it. One of the guys in italy used one and it seemed to work well, plus its a good seat for having lunch time munchies on. hmmm choices choices:confused1:

och no fair we want action! Looks like it was a good job anyway:thumbup1:

haha you must be joking! i have to help her up the stairs with her bike and it weighs less than my 460 She is normally still at work when i get back anyway.

thats why i was thinking of 2 or 3 boxes, i have to do 2 to 3 trips anyway to and from the car depending on how much stuff i have with me that day, and the plan was for something sturdy enough i can just bump up the stairs. I will still need to carry it down in the morning, cant see the neighbours being pleased with me thumping big plastic boxes down all those stairs at 6am.

funny but justified:thumbup1:

Chinese moustaches they are and very good examples at that:thumbup1: Its the welding seam between branch wood and trunk wood.

Cheers guys but i really need something with wheels cos i cant park my car close to the house and carrying all that gear is killing me, i have yellows and double yellow lines all over my street:thumbdown: hate staying in the city but the wife is happy and thats better than her complaining every day, but i swear my arms are about 5cm longer with lugging all that gear around and up 3 flights of stairs!!!

I agree and the occasional unforeseens become less unforeseen the more you do it.

Never used the 441 but i do have a 460 with 20" bar and i cant say 1 bad thing against it... except maybe its a beast

Yes Paul is spot on. As for our job being "Dangerous" and getting "Danger Money" i think i may have mentioned this before (possible dig at me perhaps?) The thing is that our job IS dangerous or hazardous if you prefer and it is our skill that stops us from being killed or injured. I think my point about danger money in another thread was more tongue in cheek than anything else but it is valid. Do you think we get paid enough for our skill? I certainly dont think we get what we are due and the danger money was just a way to try and bump up our price. Anyway thats not what this thread was about, it was about injuries. I think the most valid point Paul mentioned was about training but how can you train someone how to do something that takes years of experience to do in the safest and most economical way. Simple answer is you cant. What can be done is to train people as best as possible and make sure they understand simple things like exactly where tensions and compressions are, how important it is to have a stable work position, an understanding of where the hazards are and how to avoid them etc etc. My point before about people i have seen working is that they have no clue where the danger is and to me this is why we need to make sure they DONT pass chainsaw tickets unless they can show a degree of common sense, which automatically points you in the direction of seeing hazards and avoiding them. I see AA Teccie's point in the accident book and all the other guff that goes with H&S but it is more useful to the robots than anyone else IMO. We have our PPE, we have our chainsaw tickets, we have a brain so let us get on with it. I worked with a guy that was very appreciative of advice that i gave and the best way to do this and that blah blah which sometimes he listened and sometimes he didnt. The times he didnt and something went wrong he explained to me that he prefers to make his own mistakes because that way he learns better. Now that to me sums it up perfectly. I read an accident book once and i just pissed myself laughing at some of the stupidity in it, i learned nothing from it except there is more stupidity in the world than i thought. Anyway i am going on a bit again:blushing: Before i go AA Teccie i am getting on a bit in arborist terms and i do have aches and pains from a physical job but i regret nothing. My working life has been full of excitement and wonderful things and i learn more every day, including the fact that i am more dangerous with a silky in my left hand than with the right. So to avoid cutting myself more i use my right as a preference and the left is used only when cutting full stretch, or is helping the right:001_rolleyes:

Every day is a school day for all of us

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as above, not a skidder expert but welcome to the loony bin err i mean forum sorry yes forum

In Rome we used the big black plastic plant pots with the handles in the same way, for rigging kit but my climbing kit was always in a big climbers rucksack with the rope inside in a separate rope bag but was always a struggle to get the thing closed so i had to have a seperate box for all the extra bits. I just want to get everything together for each type of job in a box each, with wheels cos i am getting old

those tubs would be good for keeping rigging rope in.

very good point

congrats to you and your good lady