jonnylovett

Being fast and efficient is only one aspect of competitive practice and certainly not the be all and end all. I will focus on craftsmanship, there isn't a contractor in my area who knows how to thin and reduce a mature Broadleaf with a Silky and a pair of croppers. The real skill is selling the value of that as the way forward to the customer and I'm bloody good at both. That enough to counter the doom and gloom?

Good to know Stephen thanks, I'm not sure about the latest ropes with a prusik, can only seem to find kermantle type with a core and they're useless, or at least I remember them being so. I tried a few devices back in the day, I remember the clogg and some other gadgets but always thought them too risky as rope could pop out. I'm going to stick with the my old bowline & prusik combination with a waist strop for change over. Just need a new rope. I have spotted Beau Jo micro chippers and they look good, not ready for that yet. Stuck in the tickets / insurance major cash outlay catch 22 at the moment so slowly slowly for the time being. I'll get there.

Thanks for the info on internet, I have a site for my grounds maintenance business. Finding GM boring and grass cutting does not bring in the cash.

No comment, there might be a tree officer I need to keep sweet on here.. ;-)

So I quit arbing for a living back at the millennium, anyone remember that? Since then I've been poncing around in local government making everyone's life a misery with health and safety gone mad and being in an office blah blah! But last year my contract ended and fed up with the cuts, the stress, the lack of appreciation, the office politics, the toxic environment .... OK you get the picture, working for the council sucks... I started a little grounds maintenance biz. Having done a couple of small tree jobs I'm thinking of dusting off the old harness and bringing the 020AV out of retirement. But... my god things have changed a bit, what are all these gadgets? You can't even buy green fleck multiplat anymore and then there's tickets tickets tickets, my old NPTC Blue Book doesn't seem to count for anything these days. I feel like a grandad and I'm only 45. So I wondered if there's any moral support and even anyone from the Merrist Wood class of 89/90 to catch up with. I've still got the green t-shirt. I recon my old knees have got another few years left in them.