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    2 Qs- US Honey Bros orders and Stihl saw pants

    Here in aus we have the stihl x-flex climbing pants. Most of my crew wear them with good results, the other guys are wearing clogger zeros
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    Basic Gear Needed for ddrt

    Nah I own my own company with a line clearance contract. We have bucket crews and climbing crews here
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    Basic Gear Needed for ddrt

    Stephen I agree with everything you said except the utility arb part. I do both and find that a lot of lines climbers are far more efficient than residential ones. Here in aus it is mandatory for us to spike trees when climbing on lines, you won’t find many residential climbers who climb the...
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    Building teams in tree work

    As an owner operator I have found that respect is the greatest tool. Having the utmost respect for your crew and having your crew respect you and their workmates makes things work. I run my business a bit like a football team, I’m the coach/captain not the “boss” I’m the first out of the truck...
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    Are Tree Companies Actually Worth Anything?

    Very tricky to work out.My brother and I started out business January of this year, we had both worked worked for another local tree service/utility contractor and had a falling out. We purchased a shitty old 13” chipper and small 4x4 chipper truck for a total of $16k. Had a freak storm in...
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    Whats your comms unit of choice?

    It’s hard to explain, if the 10’s are paired with the 30’s onsite then another 30 arrives that has been previously paired they will pair in together. I’m still trying to get my head around it all properly
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    Whats your comms unit of choice?

    Can’t confirm the maximum amount but we regularly have 4 30k’s and 2 smh10’s all paired together without problems
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    Whats your comms unit of choice?

    We are using both the Sena smh10 and the new 30K, been having issues with the 30’s dropping out occasionally and going crackly possibly due to working in the rain a lot lately, they pair up with the 10’s no worries
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    Getting that perfect log flip.

    I love it when the big pieces spear into the ground and look like they grew there
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    More things broken

    Do you think the lines were breaking at the rigging paws due to the friction and heat generated from the stopper knots rolling and stretching??
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    What pants do you like for climbing with saw?

    We wear stihl xflex year round here is aus, hot as hell in the summer but you do get used to it, we also have to wear long sleeve cotton shirts year round
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    What is it worth?

    I think ego has a lot to do with some of the accidents we see. The old she’ll be right mate while back cutting a huge tree whilst secretly shitting yourself but wanting to impress the boys. I know I had a few of these moments in my early days, lucky for me I was never seriously injured, I did...
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    What is it worth?

    I agree that greedy employers are a contributing factor. Boss send young aspiring climber out job, young climber doesn’t want to disappoint so attempts to do something above his skill level and gets hurt. The young climber has followed all of the safety rules outlined by the ohs regulator for...
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    What is it worth?

    The increase could also be from the increase of people who want to become a badass tree climber. Look at cars, with these huge increases in safety features, devices etc fitted to cars and the road toll continues to rise!!!
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    What is it worth?

    No matter what industry or activity you participate in there wil always be a risk. Human loss is unfortunately always going to be a part of life. I consider myself and my business to operate exceptionally safely, in terms of training, work practices, equipment, time lines etc. However I my self...
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    Loop vs prussic

    Curious as to why you wouldn’t rely on the prussic, climbers have use prussic’s for a long time as a solo piece of life support,
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    30m ascent

    Cheers guys was thinking along those lines. A company we sub contract to is a major sponsor of the red bull event here this year and is hoping to have some representatives from it at the comp. really not our scene or style of climbing however
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    30m ascent

    Quick question for you srt guys. What setup would you use to ascend 30m up a fixed rope as fast as possible without using a powered ascender??
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    TAZ LOV2 descender

    Any more feedback on these devices??? Looking to set up my first srt kit and the local arb shop said these were pretty popular at the moment
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    Climbing boots

    Howdy all. Looking to upgrade my crews current footware. We all currently run either Blundstone lace up/zip or the Oliver version. We are mainly a line clearance company with climbers, ewp operators and chipper operators. Spend a lot of time walking through long wet grass, creeks etc as we...

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