Mikelawn

doesnt help when you have unqualified people under quoting you for cash!! and doing dreadful work. think we all know who i mean!

Nice one mate. You getting on well over there?

now then dan...yeh getting on well mate i absolutly love it. dont know why you dont come out as earning some really good money. im working 3 weeks / a month in sweden and a week home. when go home i have been doing some work for a local company as couple days with him then pays for the stay at home which means can save money earn here. life if good here mate really chilled out and the work is all good. no conifer hedges or trees covered in ivy haha hope all is well your end mate

Working in sweden cleaning out some mature limes and our company hit the news as its not every day they see a man climbing about on the ends of limbs here :-)

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this is the site that i got my job in sweden. send your cv out. If they have a number then ring them first to have a chat with them ( sell your self ) then send the cv again. be a eager beaver.

hey nick, im currently working in sweden and have done for a little time now. been a climber for 8 years and always wanted to work here. now im here i wish that i had came years ago i love it. people here are so friendly and laid back. the country is beautiful, also the money is really good. i thought that that coz i didnt speak swedish it would be a problem but it turns out that everyone here speaks english and they think its cool to do so, so it makes it easy. the work is very varied to where your stayin in sweden and what company you work for. at the min there is alot of train line work and electic work which is easy but not the sort of work i like to do as its abit of crash and burn and i have worked for only aa approved companies so i dont really agree with what you have to do to the trees. the private work on the other hand is same as back home. oh if you do come here stolkhome is very exspensive...i have a friend who works there and he doesnt like it that much but thats only his opinion. i will upload a picture oif me on the front page of the telegraph :-) this town i was working in had never seen anyone go out on limbs of trees befor ha we was cleaning out 8 mature lime trees. tryin to think what else i can tell you but its late and need my bed ha if you think of anything you need to know then i will do my best to help you

Yeh accommodation is payed for. Indian people was really nice and friendly just the place wasn't that nice. I'm of to work for a company called Avancerad Trädfällning i Nora AB.

Tree works a piece of pish over here, i guess you mean Nyköping, you might find it a bit quiet, but cheaper than Stockholm, beautifull though

look on Blocket.se - Sveriges största Köp & Sälj marknad for rooms or small flats to rent normally short term for flats, between 1-6 months, Stockholm a room goes for between £250-400 per month, a furnished studio flat for 1 between £400-600 per month

Heres a link for Nyköping, Södermanland (county), Lägethet (flat) uthyres (for rent) Lägenheter i Södermanland Uthyres | Blocket Bostad

thanks mate, and yes i did mean Nyköping

SWAMPSTER... i see that in the second image....looks like a seals head, even has the dots where the whiskers are hahaha

Chicken of the woods i think. Older brackets become pale and brittle almost chalk like, mildly pungent, and are often dotted with beetle or slug/woodlouse holes. Maybe why its not so yellow with sulpher.. probs got this wrong and some one will correct me. ha

been climbing 8 years and only worked for AA approved companies (2) so without blowing my own trumpit i think there up to scratch. thanks for the advice though, something for me to make sure i do right 100% every time still. hopefully i like it as its a bit of a gamble. But i supose if i love doing it here then i dont see why i wouldnt there. Staying in a hostel dosent sound to great but there cant be worse than the ones i stayed in india ( fingers crossed ) ha

Hello, was just wondering if anyone has worked in sweden previously? If they have any tips for me. Will be flying next Monday to stockholm and working in the nykoing area. Going to take harness, rope, spider jack and spikes with me. Any advice would be brilliant.

There was a link posted a few weeks ago for Kev Binghams article in Arb Climber issue 2, but I can't seem to find it now. If you can get hold of a copy its worth the read to anyone using SRT be it access or work positioning[/QU

 

honey brothers sell this artical

I must be the only person who hates the petzl with a passion aha I found it never sits on my head right, feels really sloply aswell, I use the stein which I thinks great really comfotable and fits really well; although it can can hot which is an advantage with the petzl as said above the sweat band gets smelly, but you only have to wash it and the newer stein helmet uses a different material which i think is an improvement! all down to personal preference try to have a go with both if possible .

 

Ollie

I agree with you. I hate petzl helmets. U have said the exact same I was going to post. Stein all the way for helmates.

Council = law to them selves

Nonsense, I openly admit that MEWP's scare me, I feel its less dangerous to use the tree.

 

The tree has been stud there for years, through wind and rain, a MEWP will be set up on the day of the job, realistically which is more likely to fail???

I agree with you here.

hello, was just woundering if any body has worked in this region or italy itself? my cousin lives out there and want to take 2 weeks holiday there but work at same time possibly. anyone know anything about rules and regs there or if there is work out there? would appreciate any information at all....thanks, mike

Thanks guys I will look them up and get them ordered. Keep reading the daily star at dinner and that doesn't really teach u much lol.

Appreciated...mike

Has anyone read any really good indepth tree books? On all aspects of trees ect. What's the name of the book and author ? Thanks to anyone that could help...mike

hey, i just got one last week. Im so happy with it. i have had the Austria Duo 2 but changed for the skylotec kol 2d and so much happier. i feel like i can move more in the skylotec. this is only my opinion and when it comes to harness's its each to there own. try popping in to a store if there is one near you and trying it out. its a must from me :-)

Hiabs help.... I can work my buns off and get a monster down in quick time then spend the next day and a half sliceing the bugger into managble bits to hand load onto the truck, oh, then handle the stuff off at the other end as there is no room to "tip and tidy".

Tight boss refuses to up grade to truck with lifting gear.

 

Rant over.

I worked for a company for 6 years and was constantly slicing big trunks to get took away. Wheel barrow after wheel barrow. My back used to always hurt. Company I work for now have a hiab and the amount of work it saves u is unbeleiveable. It's rare my back hurts now. Every company should own one haha

Confidence comes with time mate. Took me a while to get mine, I can remeber first starting and having shakey legs when was at top of just 30ft trees .You have the right frame of mind though as u are going out in your spare time and climbing. Wish I was closer to you as I would happily teach you some of the things I know for free and any other climber with spare time shouldnt charge u either in my eyes. What I did find which was encouraging ( if time at work ) is get one of the other climbers to climb up there next to you. For some reason when I was learning I found this helped me loads.

Mike

 

I really like that reduction, made the tree look good without hammering it - well done.

Thanks mate

Been looking forward to the show for ages. But just my luck my baby is due on the 15th. Do I chance it if it has not popped out on the correct day. I think it mite be worth the risk ha

Black pops are not the easiest of trees to reduce,

 

Here is one i did 5 years ago the bit in the top middle was our anchor point, the regrowth has been minimal probably one of the hardest trees i,ve had to reduce, would of been much easier to just tonk it.

 

Sorry to hijack yr thread

cracking job mate. there a horrid tree to reduce

They where done a month ago. They should have never been done till summer as u all know prunus family should only be done then. This is a council tree and we sub contracted to them. We explained this could make it vulnerable to silver leaf ect but they insisted it had to be done.

thanks mate. i dont understand why people dont like reducing. its a buzz to come down from tree and admire what u have done. think its called pride