The she surgeon

Took down some holly trees in the back. He never asked me to quote for that. I reckon that beech would have had a TPO on it anyway (I hope)

I was asked to quote the other week and when I got there it was a mature, healthy beech tree 'perfect'. It was road side and if I'd quoted I would have gone in for 4men, 1 day. I knew this guy had already got another quote in. The customer was at work so I called him to ask why it was he wanted the tree reducing and his response was- well it was reduced around 5 years ago before I moved in so I thought I should look after it and get it reduced again. I told him that the tree had never been reduced and explained why there was no need to have this tree reduced, it had been crown lifted in the past and if anything could do with one limb sorting out that was crossing and rubbing with another limb. He thanked me for being honest and said he would recommend me to others. Then I found out he still got the other tree surgeon in to do other works! That guy offered him no advice and would have carried out unecassary work for around £900 and he still got him in, huff! Some people 🙄

Here's a summery of my last two days. Four take downs, Ivy hell!

Not really but it was quite windy and it creaked a lot, it took me half hour to relax lol.

Beech take down for me today

Hello Everyone! Just got started on here and thought I'd introduce myself. My names Anna, I'm a tree surgeon and looking to learn some more on SRT and generally have a mooch.

Yes. I think I may make do until AA Trade fair and then have a real good look and go for a different harness this time:thumbup1:

I think its the fact that the screw potrudes and the fact that the D-ring of karabiner is constantly catching on it must have caused it to loosen quickly.

Yes it worked out. No I have never put loctite on it, I didn't realise you were ment to I thought that part of the harness was never designed to come apart. It had never come loose before and was not loose at the start of the day.

The little metal shackle bit, it screws in at the side. The D ring always hooks/catches over it. Does that make sense? I'd been climbing in the harness all day taking down a Cedar so it must have worked loose.

I have climbed in the Treeflex for years now and always been really happy with it, however recently I've had a horrible experience when the bridge fell apart when I was climbing!!! Luckily I had my strop on at the time but if it had been mins earlier I could have fell 40 odd ft out of the tree. Not to mention I was left up a tree with no way of getting down Waiting for the harness to be returned (now fixed) but have lost my confidance in the design so looking to buy a different harness, anyone want to buy mine LOL