Well worth it ! You will learn so much and the instructors have you up in the tree to do as many picks as you want ! There are also many other stations like SRT, knots, rigging if you have a question they have an answer!! Save the dates .
This is a great system, just to play the devils (not the hockey team Mark) advocate, does a system that allows you to answer your phone and play music have a place in a rigging and rope running senario ? From a safety stand point there are enough things to distract you in the tree world on any...
December 7 Saturday 7-8 am registration and coffee , in your gps put Heller Parkway and Branch Brook Park that is the intersection where we are staging the trucks ,also there is a 12'3" bridge in the park there is a way around it and at the morning meeting Scott will show us. Be safe and see you...
Good work, looks like a little brushing up on your crane hand signals would help with your saw pinch. The operator is good, you would help him be better.
mini skid saftey practices june 11 the crew and i were removing four 12 dbh holly trees from a back yard,each tree was appr.35 ft tall,we dropped the first one over the operator picked the butt up to move the whole tree as it moved the branches started to tear up the lawn[me being the boss]was...
Hey Mark you are asking about the digicom radios I was at the class also i did not get to use the radios but after the class i was talking to Mark Chisholm i told him about a crane job we were doing that next Tues. Because we live close to each other he let me borrow his set for the week i...
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Can you girth hitch amsteel? Is there considerable strength loss? This is 1/2 in amsteel with an 8in eye,24in bury, lock stitched what do you say?
Not to derail this learning thread BUT did anyone else notice some 18 positive posts and just 4 negitive,could it be that two people are close minded about learning? Enough said we now return you to the thread.
The job looks like it went ok,if you are useing cranes more often you should consider the hands on crane class it's well worth the money tons of knowledge.
Hey Derrick, the crane op was useing the monarch and also the ultra double. The bucket op was useing the slimline without hearing protection,I was useing the monarch with the ear muffs on my kask helmet(did not work that well) my ears hurt all day.I like the ear muffs because they keep my ears...
Just got back from the crane workshop the guys from Eartec where there with a full display of their radios and different style head sets,they also brought a demo set(two to four radios in a set)we had four radios in the set, one for the crane op,one for the instructor,one for the climber and one...