Oh, your not horrible, just an asshat. I don't need to be hired. I'm currently employed and have a position with a large company who recruited me. My skill and knowledge speak for them selfs as my resume will show. I am exploring possible future job options. Not to say I don't appreciate your...
I get judged sometimes by my age, but even at 60 I'm well known and an an asset. But production work as a climber lm falling a little behind those 25 year old hot shots.
I have 40 years experience in the tree care industry. I climb every day and am currently employed with a large contractor in Calif. doing high risk removals.
I do fine pruning to ansi standards and then some.
I am 60 years old but slowing down some. I've always been happy as a...
I worked for a company in New Mexico that claimed to be a pine beetle expert. I wasn't involved directly in their injection program, but I know they would inject a fungacide and a systematic for the beetles. We had a lot of ibs, western pine beetles, and what ever beetle infests pinion pines...
Does anyone have experience with some of the new gps/satellite comm.?
As much as not we work some rough isolated areas were there is no cell phone service. In an emergency we would have to go to the last known area we had signal. I like the idea of being able to reach 911 and having location...
Thank you all for your time. Though I am a very experienced tree man. I find my self doing line clearance throu the forests of central Calif. I'm not ignorant of working near powerlines having down hazard tree removals most my life for Cema, and different burn scar programs over the years. I'm...
I worked for a company that required you climb with a friction hitch around the tree as you flipped up. You had to be able to gaff out and let go at the sound of a whistle. It can be done with practice. I always thought it was over kill my self.
If your not running a saw why do you feel you need...
I have years of experience as an Arborist, but only in the last 90 days doing line work in Calif. Don't know how other places do it but our work orders spell out what we do to the trees with little regard to the property owner. If the work order says top it below the lines its gets topped. If it...
I started doing production line clearance. I'm not certed but we maintan our MAD. Lots of times I could finish a tree if I had a 20 ft polesaw. I wouldn't use a aluminum pole saw like a silky for obvious reasons, and the foam filled poles issued are to flimsy at 20 ft, but Notch makes a...
I use the RADS for srt. Been using a mini gree gree. I want to start using a 10 mm static rope and was wondering what asunder works well with the smaller rope. Thinking about the small Id but don't like the panic brake feature.
Any one else have any experience with 10mm rope and SRT?
Are there places like in the north west, or Costa Rica, that offers non-climbers an Opportunity to, let say wraptor up a tree and spend the night. In a treepi or something a little more high end.
If not could it be done safely? Just an idea kicking around in my head. Thanks for any feed back.
I had posted concerns right here on the buzz and the Nazis fired me for it months before the incident. The company I worked for hired an attorney and got me reinstated.
Because of many issues most the experienced people for lack of Adequate pay and stupid regulations in place to protect the prime more then the climbers left the project or were removed. Leaving some good young climbers and groundsmen with out that someone with years of experience to help out and...
I was on the bucket the day before as a favor. I was also let go from the project(then rehired) for criticising safety procedures and management. I was forced to sign a non disclosure. The day before, my boss said,"someone is going to die o this project". We lost two 21 year old climbers that...
I worked for a company that issued maasdams to use for pulling over bug trees. Though kind of slow they worked ok, but if put under a lot of stress they can slip. I personally saw a near Catastrophic Accident when one slipped while under a servere load.
I think I'd stick with a 5 to 1 over a...