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The Edinburgh Botanic Gardens are recruiting an arborist for a full time position, would be a good fit for you career wise if you have 2 years experience, salary seems to have parity with other salaried positions in the private sector.

The following is crude and imperfect, but it’s just meant to make a broad point. We can compare the average base salary data for arborists with other manual jobs (requiring a similar level of skill and training IMO) available on another large recruitment site that also serves other industries – I’ll use Glassdoor.co.uk as an example for consistency; Arborist £28,302 Forester £29,218 Tiler £31,445 Painter Decorator £32,791 Bricklayer £33,222 Rope Access Technician £36,140 Scaffolder £36,952 Given that Arborists and Foresters are more likely to suffer from injuries, fatal and non-fatal, than any of the other professions above, what incentives are there for people to enter into the industry? Or return after recovering from an injury? Also, as an observation, the benefits offered for salaried arborist positions in job advertisements very rarely go beyond the statutory entitlements all workers have and that employers must legally provide i.e. 28 days paid holiday per annum (for a standard 5 day working week), statutory sick pay (£109.40 per week for a maximum of 28 weeks), enrolment on a pension. These statutory entitlements are often presented as perks. @CTC Recruitment will have access to much better data on salaries offered for arborist positions, does the above figure seem right to you?

Looks pretty dead too, the top that landed in the road just turned to mush

What was shouted? Think it was "when I said go I meant GOOO!". Cutter blaming the guy in the truck?

I'd find some folk on Instagram and reach out to them to ask, I follow a few Finnish arbs, try @uskajoonarmas for starters

Sounds like you are describing Disguised Employment

Have seen folk on instagram using Courant Rebel and Sterling HTP, both in11mm. Search for #Tazlov3 on instagram and you should find someone to ask who uses one

Will the Arb Association have any presence there or have any staff members in attendance ?@AA Teccie (Paul) @AA Teccie (Simon Cox)

Anyone going this year? Last week of April https://www.deutsche-baumpflegetage.de/en/

I always found mine to be super bouncy, making a long ascent on SRT was like getting up a bungee cord. Also milked about 1.5m of sheath off the end of a 60m length, found it to be very baggy.

I thought that if there's no CE mark then there will be no LOLER cert? Do you have any info or resources to share about using non CE stuff as someone self employed? I'd assumed that HSE didn't really differentiate between employees and subcontractors for this kind of stuff. Not to say that you wont be totally fine using the RRP pro that isnt CE marked, enough folk have used and are still using the OG RR, just that if SHTF you might find it hard to justify using it for an insurance claim etc. and it's good to be fully informed.

I think the SRT "Single Rope Technique" accronym came from caving, where it is a single rope, but from where we borrowed lots of hardware and techniques. This was then ammended to Static or Stationary in the Arb accronym to avoid confusion and differentiate between MRS/Moving Rope Systems (which in turn is a clarification for "DRT" which most people take to stand for "Double Rope Technique", though this is just a single rope "doubled"). Or at least that's my understanding of it Single Rope Techniques (SRT) | StartCaving.co.uk WWW.STARTCAVING.CO.UK Descending into deep, sheer vertical pits is one of the most thrilling aspects of caving. Rope work is what allows cavers to...

...for which SRT is ideal! As you have no rope drag from passing over branches and stems, and you can use redirects for great work positioning, amongst loads of other reasons

LANTRA do an Award in SRT that will be pretty comprehensive for the basics. Myerscough run it as a 2 day course with assessment on day 3 for £450, which is a bit pricey but will be belt and braces for being properly certificated, and a good place to start if you're completely new to SRT. Again, another chance to try lots of kit and work out what you do and don't need to get started. I've not heard any feedback of the course at Myerscough though. You might find someone else running a 1 day Intro course. Otherwise I'd recommend familiarising yourself with the basics, get a Ropewrench and a knee ascender set up, and then using SRT for access with a base tie. You'll see the benefits immediately, and can then work the tree from an MRS system. In terms of stuff on youtube I found the Treekit SRT Intro series really useful and well produced (for an arb youtube video) LANTRA Level 3 Award in Stationary Rope Work Positioning and Rescue | Myerscough College WWW.MYERSCOUGH.AC.UK LANTRA Level 3 Award in Stationary Rope Work Positioning and Rescue

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I'd get in contact with a few local companies and see if you can get a shift dragging brash as a labourer, just to see if you like the work. It won't show you everything about tree work but might give you a taste. The Barony college in Dumfries do several courses that are broad and will give you a good grounding in various aspects of the industry, they're pretty heavily foresty based if that's a direction you'd be interested in going in. If that's not an option or doesn't appeal then the quicker but more expensive route in is to just pay for short courses to get your chainsaw tickets. Get some PPE and then see if you can pick up shifts here and there. With tickets and your own kit you can expect to be paid pittance for the first bit, just seems to be the way things are in the central belt ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ . Not suggesting it's any better anywhere else...

Looking for a stump grinder to rebuild as a project. Anything in any state considered but preferably self-propelled if not tracked.

It is a double slic pin which is less likely to pop out. It's nice for a quick alternative to the maillon, such as a base tie for ascent, or advancing your anchor or a simple redirect, but I've not worked off one for the whole tree.

Ah I did mean UltraO, I'm always getting those 2 mixed up

PerfectO are good, you might want to pop a rubber stopper on the far side to stop everything riding round

So was the Singing Tree Quickie CE marked? I ended up getting the Notch one for some reason which isn't CE marked, but remember that one had the mark and t'other didn't though they were the same price. Can't seem to find the Singing Tree one for sale anywhere, and no idea when the notch one will get it's CE marked.

+1 for getting a longer 60m rope, makes traversing or redirects much more doable. I've got 50m of Sterling HTP and it's surprising how often it's only just long enough after a base tie on a large tree. Maybe add a maillon or anchor ring for a base tie and/or canopy anchor. I wouldn't say you're over egging it, it's good to focus on the ascent aspect of SRT systems as that's where you'll see the most benefit initially. Other benefits will come as you gain more experience and knowledge of the system. Gear for redirects can easily be found in stuff you'll already have (HMS karabiner, sling, e2e hitch chord etc.) (At first read of your post title I legit thought your wife was leaving you and you were buying some SRT kit to cheer yourself up...)

Wow talking about the bend radius of the gyro takes me way back to the beginning of the thread. What a journey it's been.