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Again, it might be the reality (and I've definitely been in this situation countless times) but that doesn't mean it's acceptable or OK. To rephrase my opening post then - how can we make aerial rescue practice (and provision) more than a box ticking exercise?

That just sounds like a situation where there is no adequate rescue plan in place - if the designated rescue climber isn't competent and able to undertake the rescue then there's no rescue provision in place? I assume that's what the regular rescue practices is meant to remedy? Boxes need to get ticked, yes, but why not make it worthwhile? An access line in the tree and a properly trained rescue climber with, say, a combat application tourniquet can definitely improve the chances of climber with a catastrophic injury surviving.

The Arb Associations' Technical Guide 1 states a requirement for aerial rescue to be practiced (both scheduled and impromptu) at least once every 6 months (Section 16.2). It offers a few suggestions for considerations, and says the practice scenarios should "seek to simulate authentic situations". How are people finding implementing this? Are you getting it done every 6 months? What scenarios are you training? I was very pleased to see this included in TG1, I think its really important, but then there's no corresponding requirement to record or document the aerial rescue practices - are folk doing this anyway?

What are the salary ranges for the 2 positions?

I've started reading through this epic thread but have only got to page 67 so far, so sorry if this question has been asked before... How do the cs100 and m250/300 compare for disassembly and reassembly? I'm thinking if I have a wee chipper it would be good to have one that you can take apart and put back together reasonably easily so as to be able to take it places with tricky to no access for even a small chipper. I'm also leaning towards a cs100 as I'd like in the future to be able to tow it behind a small tipper and be able to shoot straight into the back. To begun with though I'll likely have a small panel van like a berlingo or kangoo, which I believe will fit an m300 (as in @Spoonz set up) but if I wanted to get a Cs100 in a kangoo I'm assuming the hopper and spout would need to come off. I'm definitely not expecting daily use and therefore reassembly and disassembly, either that would get really annoying or you'd get really quick at it (or both).

What salary are you offering?

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.