MarkH

I would say that making sure you know all your kit is in order, your knots are holding, everything is checked and you're prepared for work by the time you leave the floor (and certainly before you reach 6ft) - sets you up to work with a good mind set at any height. Getting up 100ft and wondering if you should have actually replaced that prussik is not a good place to be. Being prepared in advance of work will really calm anyone down, for example - climbing a 200 for the first time? Get some notes down on SRT and figure out the do's and donts rather than winging it for sure! It'll eliminate the 'is that supposed to do that?' mentality

The aluminum ones have an adjustable shank on them which is cool if you don't know your exact size and can't try the carbons on. Velcro top and leather bottom for me, rad spikes

Working out here in canada I've got my gear covered in cedar, pine, spruce and fir sap. I asked one of my team mates what a good remover was. They told me just give it a good coating of margarine (to which I laughed and thought he was messing me about being new on the teams) and wash it off with water. But I tried it after a few others telling me the same thing. Worked a treat. I'd buy a separate tub mind if you use it in your cooking too : )

Good skills Giorgio! Bravo!

Yeah I did, one of my team mates dropped out on the tuesday before and I got his spot. I'd never even been to a climbing comp let alone compete! In at the deep end, best way to learn, had a blast though. That fir is a top climb, we had a great day on it. Although we did get fined by park rangers for 'dangerous and disorderly conduct' in public. $100 each! I'll come say hi in Seattle at the next comp mate, get a big gang together and go film some big stuff! We've got some plans in the pipelines.

One of the lads I work with used to be a heli logger and he was telling me about the tough working conditions, and once he had his lunch robbed by a bear. wonder if that was on the risk assessment?

Looks like a top job bud! Glorious weather for it. Did I spy a bit of footlocking from Agassiz in the intro too?

If you are going to be using spikes, you'll need the longest gaffs you can get 'cause it'll be like spiking a sponge!

Thanks all! Atree are you out here working or for play?

Not quite tree related but I thought I'd share some experiences with everyone. Myself, Jacob, Jason and Tiger from our Canada day tree climb went out to the Chief in Squamish and found this gully between second and third peak, thought it would be pretty fun to rig up a line traverse/zipline across it, so we had a go! Views were brilliant and even though the weather was a bit rubbish we still had a top day out. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhLUkuLtIwY&feature=plcp]Playing In The Rain - YouTube[/ame] Cheers!

Had a rummage and found the blurb about the helmet, vizir is compatible with 2011 vertex and alveo helmets onwards. Anything before that and it won't retro fit it, sorry bud, new lid for you! (this is where one of the shops comes in makes you a cracking deal on a new lid with vizir etc....)

I've had one for just under a year now mate and it's brilliant. I just got so angry with safety glasses steaming up but this is ace. If i'm doing reductions or going through dense treework/hedges then I won't bother with a mesh visor at all as the vizir is great on it's own. I won't go back to specs now. I'm in a vertex vent 2011 with MSA sordin ear muffs/mesh visor and it fits under them no problem. There should be two small holes in the helmet just in front of where your ears are under it, this is where the vizir screws in. I've not used a stein one so can't comment on the comparison!

I think I remember one of our kiwi brethren mentioned somebody epoxy resin'd a pantin to one of their spikes?

If you've got time and money you could wait until the Pfanner helmet comes out eventually Kind of like a hi vis robocop lid. There was a thread a while back about it. I'm on team Vertex Vent though, great lid, and the petzl vizir is better than the kask top gun eye pro in my opinion.

Looks like a fun job, smash and run! And you don't even get in trouble for it either :thumb up: