Marula
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Whereabouts are you?
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👍🏼👍🏼this, couldn't agree more. You get thrashed in oz but the quality of life is better and so is the money.
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Where are you now if I may ask?
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Sorry if I missed it, but how far do you want to currently plant the trees?
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👍🏼, bang on. Pretty much identical setup, this with a few different SRT systems here and there and bobs your uncle.
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If your worried about riots you could put in a root barrier.
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How's that petition coming along...........bro......
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What trees do you want to plant? And what makes you worry about the trees using to many nutrients? As in what's your thinking behind it? Is there certain delicate flowers or plants there etc?
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I knew it!!!!
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Where about are you if I may ask? I have family in San Diego and Texas.
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If Emperical statistics law bothers you so much then may I suggest starting an online petition to stop organisations using it, maybe even wipe it from our scientific finds, I however regretfully must inform you that I have no control over insurance companies.
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It's interesting you used the car analogy, I agree to a certain extent. However, as I eluded to in an earlier post, the onus is not just on you, it's the vehicle you traveling in, other drivers, weather, road structure etc, in our case, living organisms reacting to natural and unnatural forces, which we cannot guarantee will not be a factor day to day. The institute for road insurance statistics states that the longer you drive (day to day) the higher the chance of an accident, which seems logical as this is where the monkey and the typewriter theorem comes from.
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Nice find!
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Been talking to my missus have you?
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I think the problem with a forum, like texting, is the tone cannot be judged. I for example was just responding to clarify my stance, I was sipping on a cup of tea at the time and rather relaxed in fact. But yes, not everyone, I did respond harshly as I had just been insulted from seemingly nowhere, so I apologise for that. Imagine any debate anywhere, whether philosophical or scientific was reduced to name calling when an opinion or statement is challenged?
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Ok, I didn't insult you, I responded to you're observation with a clarification on my behalf. Why is everyone so bloody touchy nowadays?
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Well yes and no, if you're not at work then the risk is obviously zero and while at work the opposite, whatever that factor may be. However, I'm talking tree work as a whole because I was responding to a statement which said, the longer you do it, the more chance you have of surviving. That's factually inaccurate. Car insurance companies use the law I stated as do the FAA.
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When did what become law? I'm perplexed at the fact that this seems to be news to many of you. The law of averages or the law of statistics is not the same as Emperical Statistical Law and in this case, this law applies. Tree work, particularly climbing carries a risk, therefore if I partake in that activity over and over my chances of something happening go up.
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If you are a climber your work is "sequential", that's what a qualification in a profession leads to, "sequential" duties according to said qualification. So as a climber you've never had an accident?
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Ouch! I bet you felt that! I took a fingernail off while sharpening an 80! I was jumping around for a good few minutes cursing everything about my life at that moment...
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I think you've misunderstood the base line to the original point.
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Well I didn't spend a decade as an amateur, tree work isn't rocket science, it's fairly basic on the surface once a good mentor is found. Yes with more experience comes a wiser and safer set of hands, however, Emperical statistical law isn't really debatable, that's why it's a law. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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The law of averages stipulates the more I do a task the more my chances of encountering an anomaly due to or indirectly due to said task. There is not an arborist on here who isn't carrying a niggle of some sort due to wear and tear. Until they invent jet packs with plasma cutters specifically designed for tree work, the job will remain rough on the body. Trees are living organisms reacting to multiple natural and unnatural forces, each tree is different in size and structure and therefor calculations will never be a method of somewhat accurately determining how the day's work will unfold. As for serious accidents there are many a 20 plus year veterans on here who have either had a major close shave or actual accident which could never have been prevented due to their experience or knowledge. I accept its a downer, however it is a dangerous game. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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Actually the longer you do it the higher the exponential risk to death or serious injury, not to mention the sheer wear and tear on the body is in no way compensated by the small amount this job earns relative to its required skills or required equipment. Was that a downer?
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No, you don't have to have your climbing rope in a bag, but as stated, then it should be behind the tree farthest from your drop zone. I keep it in a bag because it makes pulling a line through or rerouting a line easier as I get the groundie to attach the rope to the bag and all 50m of rope comes up in one hit, I also lower the risk my rope getting tangled in brash. I'll admit I am a neat freak and prefer everything organised. As for cost, there are far more expensive things than a rope bag, especially if it lowers the risk of an accident.
