Climber/ Climber trainee-ground worker

[southsoundtree]

Beautiful Olympia, WA!!

Looking for someone as the season builds, and my employee is moving out of state soon.


Owner/ Operator with one or two employees. 11th year in business. Barely advertise...dance card is always full.
Year round work.
Smarter over harder.
Machines and brains over grunts.
Quality, Safe, Predictable treework, period.



-Tree Care/ Preservation (spurless climbing for pruning/ cabling, RCX/SGR work, orchards).
-Removals- Big felling. Putting on rigging shows for dismantling. Wrecking in big pieces. Tight quarters. Decent amount of "put on ground only" customers. Crane work on occasion.
-Grinding- small amount, in house. Sub has a 60 HP grinder and is affordable.
-Sawmill and wood shop work, a future possibility. Currently have a bandsaw miller 1 mile away, and mobile mill services available. Going to have a lot more work-yard space in a month for slabs/ lumber. (Don't haul firewood much, stays at jobsite or picked up by others, largely)
-Odds and Ends


Japanese maples and apple trees, to monster conifers and, to a lesser extent, hardwoods. One of my favorite repeat customers has a gi-normous walnut. GINORMOUS!
100' tall usually means 'medium'.
Lots of garden beds with keeper plants under trees.
Lots of waterfront/ water view work.



Basic overarching themes:

Be a professional.

Start organized, stay organized.

Plan the work, work the plan...one person steers the ship at a time. This involves teamwork, skills, communication, etc. All the gears are well-oiled and synchronized. Including 'Call and Respond' all day while working. PPE all day, when working. The more advanced tree worker you are, the less we need to go over all the details, because you are dialed.

If you aren't Sure, Stop and Ask. Almost always easier, safer, and more productive to do thing right the first time. Working the Plan doesn't involve making rogue decisions. Trying to guess what someone else will want is far less effective that clearly and concisely communicating this. This includes speaking the language of the trade and performing the skills of the trade.

If you can't do it safely, DON'T. Nothing is worth getting hurt over. It's a good opportunity to learn to do something safely. I've never run up against a tree that couldn't be done reasonably safely.




All trees are like eating an elephant...one bite at a time, pay attention so you don't choke on any of it.

I've eaten a 160' dead grand-fir over a shop and fence, alone, easily, in three medium length days.
Dismantled, chipped, stump ground, mill logs stacked with mini-loader/ BMG. Meh...just another elephant.

Wraptor...check.
Grcs...check.
Mini/ BMG...check.
Sena comms...check.
Throwline skills to save work...check.
SRT...'til the cows come home.


The more dialed employees are, the more fun we can have at work. If you want to be a
flaky,
stony,
car-broke-down-again,
"ain't got no lunch"
"can't work tomorrow, I have DUI class/ court/ baby mama/____", (sure, we get sick kids, or are sick and should stay home to keep everyone else at work from getting sick),
"oh, I thought you meant (by those carefully chosen, unambiguously worded instructions you gave after being sure that you got my attention), that I should do what I think." tree guy/ gal, go elsewhere.

If you want to kick all kinds of ass and take names, shoot me a PM.


Heated, saline pool and hot tub with kitchen pavillion in background (snip, snip, handsaw, handsaw, snip, snip...2 days each year, maybe 3.


6' rotten cottonwood dismantle, half the trunk was dead, broken out central leader so no high TIP, spurs and saddle, double-cutting with the 36" from spurs, well over 100' tall


6-way central hub cable system in this very large japanese maple



Stone-dead bigleaf maple, 110'. Asphalt and garden beds beneath, power lines on far side of road. Self-lowered most of the brush. Chunked into a tiny dropzone next to asphalt.



"before" view pruning on Puget Sound




Typical Puget Sound View.



RCX, SGR pruning, mature oak



Dying maple over below grade well and light. Recoved lots of figured maple for milling. Rented a lift for part of a day, which I rent a couple times a year, as appropriate.


Spring board to cut above the sweep in this large dead cedar. Recovered 1220 board-feet of nice cedar from this job.





Tongue and groove felling cut in alder to keep the butt from smashing the funky, alien, twisty doug-fir behind the alder stump.

 

[southsoundtree]

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[JD3000]

Great job post! Old J maple reminds me of one I use to baby over the years.

Best of luck!