How does Coronavirus COVID-19 alter our workflow?


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saving precious TP everyday
I spose these will sell out next

nothing worse than a stinky ass in an emergency :ROFLMAO:
 
OasisTree said:
Why is everyone buying TP? Our local newspaper editorial explained it this way...if people so much as cough or sniffle, it scares the crap out of them for fear that they have COVID 19. Hence the need for TP.
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You thought is was just gas so you let pass
You were driving in your chevy and you felt something heavy
You were walking up the ladder and felt something splatter
Going down the road all a sudden theres a load
Theres no paper to be seen so you used people magazine
Diarrhea
 
colb said:
I just had this conversation with a land conservancy employee. They isolate fairly well at work, but then have to share trucks and tools. They are on a pause to re-evaluate and are supposed to work from home... How do you tell someone who puts on boots to work from home?! Some do that well, some don't. You're strategy sounds legit up until that point where the rigging line gets touched by the climber and the ground guy... You going to saw off ten feet of rope every time you lower? Dip it in chlorine solution, especially if it is nylon?
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We have considered the rope situation, and decided that we cannot eliminate all possible indirect contact between workers, but we are reducing contact as much as possible, both at work and at home. “Acceptable Level of Risk” is the vocabulary term of the day. If someone should contract/appear to contract this virus, then we sanitize ropes and shut down entirely for a time, but we feel that our working together is less risky than a trip to Walmart for groceries.
 
Trader Joe's grocery store closed in the after someone associated tested positive.
I almost went in there the same day, but there was a line, with staggered entry, as it was, and I shopped elsewhere.
 
I repurposed one of those cubic laundry detergent containers. I filled it with clean water and set it in the back of my truck along with a bottle of hand soap. With the addition of a roll of paper towels kept in the cab when they're not being used, it's a great portable hand-washing station.

I'd begun carrying one with me for hand washing when doing pesticide applications, but it's comforting to be able to wash my hands thoroughly before I get back into the truck.
 
Reach said:
We have considered the rope situation, and decided that we cannot eliminate all possible indirect contact between workers, but we are reducing contact as much as possible, both at work and at home. “Acceptable Level of Risk” is the vocabulary term of the day. If someone should contract/appear to contract this virus, then we sanitize ropes and shut down entirely for a time, but we feel that our working together is less risky than a trip to Walmart for groceries.
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Maybe use some salad tongs... :LOL:
 
Reach said:
We have considered the rope situation, and decided that we cannot eliminate all possible indirect contact between workers, but we are reducing contact as much as possible, both at work and at home. “Acceptable Level of Risk” is the vocabulary term of the day. If someone should contract/appear to contract this virus, then we sanitize ropes and shut down entirely for a time, but we feel that our working together is less risky than a trip to Walmart for groceries.
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I don't think "acceptable" is the correct word. It's not acceptable. It may be necessary, but I think there are options unexplored that make it unnecessary. I really want you to know that I'm not chipping at you personally, but trying to process the many different facts and fictions that I am running into in this altered existence.
 
colb said:
I don't think "acceptable" is the correct word. It's not acceptable. It may be necessary, but I think there are options unexplored that make it unnecessary. I really want you to know that I'm not chipping at you personally, but trying to process the many different facts and fictions that I am running into in this altered existence.
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Appreciate the thoughts, and I am not taking it personally. I am up for any ideas anyone has to reduce risk, as I don’t want this, nor do I want to see my employees get it! I realize that 80% who do get it end up with nothing more than a bad cold/flu-like set of symptoms, but the other 20% ends up in far worse shape and I do not wish that upon anyone.

I intend to mandate all employees wear gloves to handle ropes and related equipment, and replace or disinfect those gloves daily; that should help with the ropes problem too. And perhaps laying out ropes under a strong UV light overnight would help too? I haven’t heard what affect UV exposure has on this virus, but if my memory is correct, it’s usually rather lethal to viruses.
 
colb said:
Maybe use some salad tongs... :LOL:
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Now over 22,000 cases and 260 deaths... look at the slope of that curve. Worse than any so far... even China. That's some rapid increase in rate, damn scary. It's building up steam.
 
The virus lives on plastic and metal for 2-3 days, which is most things we touch on a job. Also, even if you sanitize everything and wear gloves and no one touches their hand, the virus can become airborne as someone talks or breathes heavily and likely end up on shared tools.

It’s worth noting that arborists are generally healthy and have strong immune systems and many of us won’t even show symptoms when we have the virus. This means waiting until a crew member is sick is kind of a moot point as far as keeping the virus out of work areas. I’m not sure what the responsible thing to do is. I think it’s easy for us to avoid any contact with clients out of our workflow (excluding those in cities like NY who can only access many trees via the building) but we are most definitely going to be spreading this virus to our coworkers as hard as we try not to.
 
colb said:
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Hookaroons

Hookaroons are great tools for reaching into or across machines to clear a jam or move cants and logs. These tools extend your reach or keep your hands out of places they shouldn't be! They can also be used for moving slabs or firewood quickly. Now with a barbed chisel point for an even better bite!
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You laugh, but after all this is over several of us will be using hookaroons for our salads.:rolleyes:
 
I look in at Matt's YouTube channel once every so often - I know home construction is a different industry than treework but Matt and his wife (a US internal medicine MD) have some really quite practical advice for worksites that reads across to treework:

FYI
Cheers

Edit: Story from a Toronto MD that's in the news currently

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Now over 22,000 cases and 260 deaths... look at the slope of that curve. Worse than any so far... even China. That's some rapid increase in rate, damn scary. It's building up steam.
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If my math is correct, that is still a 1.18% death rate, lower than China and far lower than Italy. With new tests becoming available, the numbers of "confirmed" cases will indeed skyrocket.

Making posts that are weighted towards causing more fear are probably not a great idea. We need to do what can be done with the understanding that the survivors will still need a functional world afterwards.
 
JeffGu said:
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Now over 22,000 cases and 260 deaths... look at the slope of that curve. Worse than any so far... even China. That's some rapid increase in rate, damn scary. It's building up steam.
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They said that we would see a steep ramp up in cases partly because the testing was being ramped up. They said that the curve would be inaccurate until sometime next week because they were trying to catch up on testing all the people who are already sick.
 
I had no idea that so much of the world was waiting breathlessly at their computer screens for my next post. I wouldn't want to give anyone the impression that I thought they would die, or to instill fear of a pandemic involving a pathogenic disease that can be fatal. I apologize, most sincerely. Obviously, the death toll for this disease is nothing like the Black Plague in the Middle Ages, and the thousands of deaths that do occur will almost certainly be "other people" dying, not anyone who reads my posts.

There, you can all relax, now. We should concentrate on important things.

OMFG! Obama is a Muslim who was born in Kenya and is going to install Sharia Law in the US and become dictator of the world!

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