5thelement
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How are they separated out then, do you show the nurse your tickets?
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And folk have given you their opinion based on their experience and work practices, what more do you want?
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That’s because all injuries a lumped into one wether it’s a homeowner on a ladder, travelling wilbury or professional, anyway HSE and the AA have already covered that for you and produced TG1 for you to then ignore. One thing to consider, after nearly 30 years in this industry I have never heard anyone say, “Thank good for fat Pat the groundy who’s dexterity and speed putting in his harness and accessing the tree saved my life”.
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Let’s see next week then 👍 Dan Maynard has just stated he doesn’t climb on two ropes everyday or do aerial rescue every six months, thats the general view of TG1.
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I’d be interested in the data showing the numbers of fatalities that could have been avoided through aerial rescue practice too.
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And you got your answer, the vast majority of UK Arb firms don’t conduct regular Aerial Rescue Training despite what the AA and TG1 states, and no one on here has come out and stated that they do them as a matter of course either, seems pretty conclusive.
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You are now becoming tediously boring, especially with this whataboutery. No one is going to do it the way YOU want, it’s been the same for the last 30 years, despite TG1, end of.
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Scots pine is pretty good at dealing with drought conditions, and respond well in the following growth seasons.
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Surely hardly anyone gets their aerial rescue just to remain a groundy? Most people with climbing tickets are climbers and should be climbing most days, or at least regularly. Unless you are seriously injured you will get yourself down quicker than any rescue attempt, fact. Have you ever timed a rescue from a decent height? Forget it, self rescue is what you should be equipped to do, and you should think about possible descents as part of your work plan in the tree. The vast majority of Arb teams in the UK aren’t working to, and couldn’t give a toss what is written in TG1, you do realise this, right?
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Send a sample to Alice Holt for analysis.
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So you ask that question, they say “last week”… are you going to demand written proof or get up that tree you are being paid to dismantle?
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The implications are obvious, same as knowingly allowing your employees to work on one rope. Your Insurance will use it as an excuse not to pay out and HSE will use it as a lever in any court action. All any employer has to do as part of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Act is to run regular refreshers/updates/training days, call them what you want. No trainer has to be there, no course fees, training can be done ‘in house’ and recorded on the back of a fag packet if need be, it’s not hard.
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The FCA proposed going back to basics a while back in regard to Forestry training. An employee could do a 5 day training course in say, CMCC & felling up to 380mm (CS30/31) and then consolidate these skills under the guidance of their employer, getting a logged journal completed, hours on the saw per task etc, before sitting the NPTC assessment, can’t see why this couldn’t be carried over to Arb. FISA and just about everyone else rubbished the idea, claiming it would be too difficult to manage, I can’t see why, that’s how it was when I started out, anything is doable with the right management, people just can’t be arsed.
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I’ve worked with a couple of small outfits who would practice aerial rescues in slow weeks and use up all the short dated First Aid stuff practicing their application, although these outfits where very few and far between. Most Arb firms I’ve worked with don’t do any of this and the contents of their First Aid kits are useless, if they have one at all. I carry a Cat7 Tourniquet and a celox z fold on my felling belt and harness and rely on my own ability to self administer and self rescue, anything else is a bonus.
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A few of them had started to flower whilst Ive been working away, once dried these will be eaten straight away. I have a larger batch that I staggered that will be lifted later on for storing over winter. I don’t grow whites here as they are dirt cheap to buy, reds and shallots are generally very expensive in comparison.
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Off on my holidays this week so lifted a barrow full of red onion and garlic to dry them out before storing away.
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How to run a job site, do’s and dont’s
5thelement replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in Business Management
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How to run a job site, do’s and dont’s
5thelement replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in Business Management
When I was landscaping back in the early nineties I worked with a gang of about a dozen, four sets of three that switched around depending on the job. On Friday afternoon we used to knock off after lunch, head to the fuel station and fill up the trucks, power wash all the vehicles, trailers, rotorvators etc, the vans where kept clean inside because the owner inspected them prior to getting the wages out. All the hand tools would be cleaned and counted ready for the following week. There where two pints waiting behind the bar at the pub round the corner for each employee. After about an hour the boss would arrive and have a chat about the weeks jobs, any problems with kit, staff etc. The two pints where just enough to wet the whistle and get people opening their gobs, but not enough to start argy bargy, this meant that nothing really festered amongst the employees as things where nipped in the bud.- 30 replies
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How to run a job site, do’s and dont’s
5thelement replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in Business Management
I used to work with a gang when I was up North. We had an agreement that if anyone started griping on the job they would be called Susan (as in Sulky Susan) for the rest of the day, they would be introduced to anyone including customers as Susan, even in the pub on the way home, griping soon stopped.- 30 replies
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Ornamental Cherry, possibly Prunus padus from the upright growth habit.
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I plant my carrots in between rows of onions or shallot, not had a problem with carrot fly so far.
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First Aid + Forestry 3-day course South
5thelement replied to _-Mike-_'s topic in Training & education
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This street party is shit.
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First Aid + Forestry 3-day course South
5thelement replied to _-Mike-_'s topic in Training & education
I don’t want to either, it’s been thrust on me from NPTC to continue being an Assessor. I have a current Emergency First Aid +F that covered catastrophic bleeds, crush and impact injuries as well as the usual CPR etc, so totally relevant to the industry, the course was excellent and run by a working paramedic. The last 3 day one I did was full of office bods discussing paper cuts and scalding themselves with coffee whilst falling asleep at their desk, no tourniquets, no celox, and next to no point.- 15 replies
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In my experience, without the use of herbicide, established Cherry Laurel is hard to kill. Last year I cut a section out of my own hedge to install a rose arbor, grubbed out the roots and threw them on the compost heap where they sprouted new growth.
