Mick Dempsey
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I don’t know if that’s a dig at people on here, but it serves no purpose. These larger outfits are where newly qualified guys get the chance to get time in the saddle straight away, very few smaller outfits have the time or inclinatIon to spend a couple of years training someone up to a decent standard only to watch them start up on their own as soon as they can. For newbies it’s the old conundrum of BSing that you can do something so you get the opportunity to get experience and hoping it’ll be ok. It is that that is a recipe for an accident, both of personal injury and major damage to property.
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Of course something happened, but the question I’m posing is not what happened but why? When you start out and you’re scared and out of your depth you make mistakes and poor decisions.
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Like Dave says, anecdotally, I have heard a lot of falling out of trees is down to larger companies in the sector and utility firms pushing just trained youngsters up trees they’re not experienced enough to do.
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Low impact forestry services in Devon and the South West
Mick Dempsey replied to Big J's topic in General chat
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Portuguese laurel?
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Not really the point Matty. Its a poll, not a trick to find people out. What I’d really like is some peeps from utilities and the big boys who are using it weighing in. Sadly they’re all on FB calling anyone who reduces trees not to their liking as worse than serial killers or paedos.
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I think the clapping thing is over now. From what I saw on FB it became a shitshow of folks telling others they weren’t clapping hard or loud enough.
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Tbh I find the stick Paddy Numbers is getting is completely out of proportion.
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In which case I doff my cap to Saw sick and VI.
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He recovered and started an exterminator company specializing in Asian hornets. Took it personally I guess!
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Poll fairly one sided at the moment. Perhaps because of the demographics of this forum. More SE climbers and business owners than large company employees and utility workers.
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Guy in the next village to me got attacked by Asian hornets, hundreds of stings, spent weeks in hospital, lost his sight for a while.
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It shouldn’t happen though, I am against using those injuries as a kind of badge of honour.
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I know.
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I have longer ropes.
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Tbh, it’s bees and wasp nests that scare me most.
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I’m a short rope guy, very often call for the ladder to get out or re anchor half way down.
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But that means for a 20 mètre tree you’d need 80 odd mètres of rope to reach the ground on ddrt, which is a lot.
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I’m not certain that counts as a separate attachment point, I know it’s been done to death on here so can anyone answer that?
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“If you feel like it”
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Just vote almost never.
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I didn’t want to be absolutist about it.
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Sounds like a warbler, willow or blackcap.
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It has been a while since this was introduced, I’d be interested to know what sort of proportion of pro climbers are using it. Votes are anonymous, but feel free to enlarge on your vote if you feel like it. Personally there’s no directives or legislation here (that I’m aware of) so I don’t.
