Alexthetreesurgeon

Hello McGill, my 3 cents if they’re worth anything: 1)it sounds like they are fobbing you off. 2)if you can afford the basic tickets I would say get them yourself. Either cs30/31 and 38 if you’re interested in climbing. 3) Then with your tickets and a couple years experience start asking around for days at other firms. depends a bit on where you are and that for how much work is around. but good to get experience with different firms anyhow.

Yeah, either get a shorter prussik 75 cm or try a few different knot configurations. Lots of folks like a distel or knut cos they can get pretty compact. I tend to use a vt or xt. Deffo worth it, way smoother than a rope grab.

Put a pulley on your flip line under your Prussik and you can tend it real easy and one handed.

The SRT kit i use daily and recommend: 60m rope, rope wrench, maillon rapide, foot ascender, neck tether, and 2 old I to I’s with larger biners for munters hitch redirects. I also have hand ascender which is great with a pulley or revolver attached to set up mechanical advantage system for downward sloping branch walks.

I’ve found a non-rope solution that works really well..... be careful if someone’s got the backpack blower out though, it’s not fun being blasted all the way down the road hehe Angel Wings costume Christmas day costume Wings photo prop | Etsy WWW.ETSY.COM Charming wings for your costume for any event. Wings can be a great costume for the artists, dance...

Hehe. 👍👍👍. Wait til the aa wade in with their standard stop calling it “two ropes” malarkey..... I think you mean “one rope and a suitable back up”

Ask Paul Poynter (softbankhawks) for more detail.... but basically it’s srt with two slightly thinner diameter ropes(8mm) through one device. So you basically can carry the retrieval leg with you and traverse through a million conifers easily. Amongst other benefits....

TRT is something slightly different though....

Nice one for creating this poll, really important and interesting. I hope HSE are paying attention....

Well done. My 2 cents is.... get a decent helmet, some chainsaw trousers, boots and a silky. Don’t worry about a chainsaw for a bit. It’s likely you won’t be chainsawing for a little while and if you are, you will prob start off doing a little processing with the firms groundsaw. Asking questions is groovy, the most important one being... “ is there anything I can do to help at the mo.” Sometimes groundying can be a bit stop start and will take a while to know when to go full beans or when to chill. Another thing I think is important is don’t be afraid to say “I don’t know.” Clients may ask you awkward shit sometimes, like the scientific name of a species or more likely “ while you’re here can you just” and the worst thing is when a nervous groundy makes up some bullshit or talks you into work. Just be truthful. “I’m new to this, ask the boss” Ask sensible relevant questions and colleagues will appreciate it. It sounds like you have a decent work ethos so It sounds like you’ll do great. Get paid for it. But don’t ask superstar wages yet. Work ethic and willingness to graft/learn are far more important than technical knowledge at this stage. Alex

Great idea.

So the training videos show “a working solution?” Can’t wait til my boss asks me to go to the clients house and “just go up and down a metre or 2 on the nice Beech stem” Im interested? What are you other arbs charging folks for that kind of technical work??

Please please don’t say safety net just in case HSE get any more bright ideas!!!!

But like others have said before.... this 2 rope “safety net” approach is not “understandable” and very easy to “Argue (disagree” with. This is because It seems many arbs feel that it maybe less safe overall due to number of factors: 1) More time spent working at height, and the fatigue that accompanies this. 2) increased mental and physical fatigue due to increased rope management. 3) higher risk of falling/thrown debris hitting a larger target area of rope in the tree. 4) increased likelihood of rigging ropes and climbing rope entanglement. Etc etc etc. I suppose “we are where we are” but I’d rather keep discussing the implications of this decision with my fellow arbs so that if/when the next accident happens and the discussion is reignited with HSE, fellow arbs feel like they have “back up” hehe and all the information and opinions from the “coal-face.” Furthermore if we properly discuss the “actual” reasons people may be falling from trees we might be able to move towards a more positive future with less falls instead of just hoping for it? ?