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Hey lads thanks for that, sorry for the slow reply was without the web for a few days:001_smile:

hey there folks, i'm having to move home to ireland next week, was just posting to ask if anyone had a few days work for a climber/groundy, i have a couple of years experience doin all manner of work including crane work and rigging, reducing council trees in london and worked in new zealand for the guts of a year doing some monster trees! i have a full licence, and experience driving unimogs, i also have the all the basic cs's 30,31,36,38,39 plus poisoning tickets, chipper ticket, current first aid cert and street works (chapter 8) plus all my own ppe, climbing gear and a i just bought a top handle aswell,, i'm happy either on the ground or in the tree,(preferably climbing though!) i'm moving home for personal reasons, not economical, as my mam isn't very well, and i am aware that there isn't a whole lot of work around but basically need some work to keep me going, full or part time,, anything! i'd be happy to travel to other parts of the country if needs be but would prefer to be around tipp as i need to be close to the homestead:) if anyone has anything, please give us a shout on here and i can pm you my phone number/private email, and can send you references if you require them, i'll be based between terryglass in north tipp, portumna and galway, thanks for reading nev

i used degreesar stuff for the dishwasher before when i wwas doing alot of conifer work,just a tiny bit in the washing machine with the ropes daisy chained up,worked a charm, i've bought a new rope since but its still the finest:)

hey mate, i always admire a bit of home engineering! fair play to ya, its coming along very well:thumbup1: i just wanna ask with the pulley rack on a ddrt set up will it self tend once there is rope weight? N

hey mate, are you still taking cv's for these positions? cheers nev.

my mate at work glazed up a bit of his velocity from a big swing when he was mesin about on the zz..

just threw my zing it line in the bin last week!, all i had to do was look at it and it would go into the most headache inducing uberknot i'd ever seen, e everytime more compicated than the last! had enuff of wasting time untangling the stuff..bought marlow braided, cheap and cheerful and the few times it does tangle up its a breeze to undo:thumbup1:

i know this fella workin in the video, and he is a brilliant groundie! the speed you have to work at just to make target and the intensity of the work which leaves you completely knackered all the time, unfortunately means that corners are cut alot of the time. They aren't proper excuses but at the end of the day we have to make our money, the teams are generally 2 man jobs because if we have 3 it means we have to do more trees, i like having a really good site set up for more peace of mind but it never ceases to amaze me just how ignorant the general public are, i had a woman push her pram into the drop zone last week while my collegue in the tree was doin the back cut on a 12m legnth from the top of the tree, she protested sayin she ws in a hurry, i just got her to go back when the branch landed right where her pram had been a couple of seconds earlier! no matter what you do it always seems like in london its never enough.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZl27v9JPsU]Single Rope Technique SRT Setup - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SpQ1AC0Ikw]ATRAES MicroFrog SRT System - YouTube[/ame] hey man i just found these vids today, dunno if there any use to yu or if they've bin posted on the site before, i found them interesting anyways..just gettin into srt with the lad i work with, mainly for acess but i'm interested in usin a hh set up for workin off,,,i really don't like the idea of working off a base anchor tho, accidents do happen and how easy is it to cut a tensioned rope!! think i'd prefer the second set up he uses in the video but then yu don't have the rescue options of the base anchor..dunno lovin learnin new stuff anyways!!

cheers for that, greta thread!

hey folks, kinda a werd question, but i'm dyslexic and have terible trouble lerning the theory side of things, thing is i really want to lern more, it piss's me off that i know little of what i shud know, but books and me dont get along!! and was wonderin if ther was any one used the ISA cd roms? if there any good? or if there's any one in the same situaton could give us som advice, point me in the right direction... cheers:)

cheers lads! the weather drove me to drink! ended up gettin pissed with me buddys frm back home via skype as you do! i'll get out soon enough though, it seems to be all hedges and akward reductions at work at the moment, no decent climbing!

hey lads anyone on here working in welly? i wanna go out for a climb somewhere this weekend, practice footlockin and a few things..any suggestions where to go? theres plenty of trees here i know! but somewhere you won't get hassle or a crowd as somettimes happens:) anyone fancy joining?

hey bro, i'm from ireland livin in welly, work is good here, good mix of everything from big gums to annoyng multi stems to just about everything in between! i was thinking about going to perth, my buddy is living over there and earning exactly double what i'm on here! you do have to watch the penny's here but we have found the weekend markets great, cheap veggies and stuff, you have to get into the habit of doing alot of your own cooking rather than picking up food on the run cause your wages just vanish otherwise! there's plenty of work for arborists here, british trained in particular as they've only just started proper training in the last few years it seems, you apparently get alot of cowboys tryin their hand at it with no clue what they are at for instance before i started work at my current job they had to do an emergency take down after some gardener tried to fell a giant pine next to a couple of houses on a step ladder with a electric chainsaw! ! aside from the money thing its a great country to live in enjoy!