jimbomags

I love climbing trees..do it with less effort than ever since changing to Spiderjack and pulley saver...im nearly 46;)

i enjoy being in trees too. Feels much safer hanging about in a tree than using scaffold and ladders while building. I find my back pains disappear as well. just wish legs wouldnt shake so much. Only climbed a few for fun but wanna do it properly and get paid for something i enjoy for a change.....

would never give up on property maintenance all together but the more skills you have the better. Need to do tickets soon though COS MY LOG PILES RUNNING VERY LOW !!

gotta agree with above.. 3 weeks with no work and all the niggling pains are creeping back again... need to do some digging methinks !!

wish i had some tickets... only 30 mins away and work really quiet at moment.

How do I found his E-mail address or even just send him a PM, I have not used this website much!

just click on his name and the options are there...: i,m a newbie too just gotta keep clicking and find your way around..

my advice is book yourself on a coarse.. do the week, and at the end they will tell you if ur ready for an assesment... im sure ul be fine.

cheers for that. got save a few pennies and do 30/31 first so should be pretty confident by then !

For CS38 I think we were up about 40ft. I got marked as 'tentative' on my ticket for CS38 but speed and confidence surely comes with time. I had big disco leg - kept making me laugh

thanks for that glad im not the only one !! they must see it all the time.. I'll just keep finding taller trees to practice in till i get more confident.. good luck with your cs39.

jim

just out of interest [decided i'm gonna get myself qualified this year] how high do you usually climb for your cs 38/39. i've climbed in past to about 40ft and got bad case of disco leg !!!! i know it only needs boundary pushing but one step at a time.

Your are asking guys and girls who do it by the book, everyday we jump through hoops, pay for insurances and training, this is all money we could stick in our pocket and hope for the best.

We don't , we pay our taxes, collect vat, offer employment and put money back into our community.

We get undercut by the have a go guy everyday, the full timers doing a weekender with the company kit.

Who's to say you will pass your tickets, it might not be £1500 well spent, 20 years of doing it your way and you might not be good or safe enough.

Are you man enough to step up to the plate?

Welcome to the forum, it's the first step in the right direction.

Happy new year

till i came on this forum i hardly knew about all the training required. I only realised recently when i read through my public liability documents carefully that i'm not covered for tree work of any kind. I can demolish a 3 storey building but cant cut a tree down?? i've had no demolition training either but still insured for that.

I dont consider myself an expert with a chainsaw just learnt over the years how to be safe while using. I've only ever felled a few small trees in gardens i've maintained and cut logs from fallen timber for my woodburner.

I dont consider myself the have a go hero type , thats why i was asking whether people think its worth getting certs for someone my age. i have a big mortgage so dont want an uninsured accident.

the general opinion seems to be to go for it so it looks like i need to save some pennies,get my certs then some kind soul on here could possibly give me a little experience.

thanks for your comments and all the best for 2013

Don't know if its doable but a few years back I found an assessor for my machine driving tickets he assessed me without training as I'd been using swing shovels dumpers jcb's etc for years with no tickets! I passed his assessments and got my tickets!!

I'd try that route first as it'll potentially save a fortune!!

Good Luck

gotta be worth a few phone calls. Thanks

I'm winding down the tree climbing now at the ripe old age of 32. though I'll still be using a ground chainsaw when im 64 im sure!

Is that through lack of work around or just because you dont enjoy? almost £1500 for certs at moment is a lot of money to me. I enjoy working with trees but struggling with spending that kind of money if it cant be recouped

so you'd consider it money well spent ?

been advised to go for cs certs so i can do tree work legally ! I'm 45 years young now, been using chainsaws for about 20 years. I've been very lucky and been accident free. No certs no insurance so would like to be able to do the odd tree knowing im covered just in case. My question is as per title as i know tree work is considered a young mans game. Can you ever be to old to learn ?

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL

I bet you wish you'd never asked now mate dontcha ??!!!!!!

didnt mean to stir up hornets nest on first post. Had a pm offering to do the job if they still want it doing.... still confused though cos i can use an axe to cut it down but not chainsaw????????????

as regards to me getting cs qualifications i'm 45 years old and it seems big expense for something i may never use and at my age i dont think i would get many job offers with little experience.

Think i'll be leaving it to the pros from now on !!

thanks forall the replies Jim

If you weren't being paid for it, but were simply taking the tree down for your own benefit as logs, you could do it under your household contents insurance. This covers pretty much anything you may wish to do with a chainsaw unpaid (and is how I am covered for my own felling/milling for my own use).

 

Alec

my household insurance would cover me on somebody else's property ??

I'm a bit fussed over this one...

 

Do you mean fell as in cut at the bottom and fell it over or climb and dismantle it???

 

If its climb and dismantle it then I would go back to a case before where a gardener was done for dismantling a tree from a ladder and got a huge fine for it.

 

If its straight cut and fell then no law exists, not until it all goes wrong and some damage is done.

all top growth was removed a few years ago ive been told so its just a straight fell. I've got gear from rec climbing..... seen to many accidents on you tube to use ladders !!!

hi there my first post so not sure if this will make sense. I'm self employed as property/grounds maintenance and been asked by nursing home to cut down a 30ft ash. I have no cs certs but have used chainsaws for 20 years. am i right in thinking its illegal for me to fell the tree without certs. My insurance excludes tree work but i can demolish a 3 storey building. ??????

If i wasnt getting paid for the work but just cutting for firewood is that acceptable..? any opinions please.... should i take it down and take the dollar or pass the job on?

thanks in advance. Jim