Im new to the business, but never climbed before. Any advice?

Scheffa said:
Full time 5 years.
Spent a lot of time prior to doing it full time cutting firewood and milling logs with big saws for furniture.
The saw work side of things was easy for me as I had a pretty solid foundation prior to starting full time in trees working for someone.

It was the climbing and arb side, taking care of trees, planning pruning and removal processes as a climber, understanding different species etc that consumed me.

I’m no guru of an arborist and don’t pretend to be, I try to stay well aware of my knowledge and skill level and don’t sell myself as anything more.

I can however run a crew, saw and spur climb as well as anyone around my parts.
It’s our desire to be the safest most productive crew with the best guys we can afford that has contributed to our growth.

My company owes almost solely does line clearance work and our skill set resembles that, we have fantastic lines climbers, can they spirless prune your ornamental tree?? Possibly but not as well as others.

Although I’m on here everyday, I rarely post because my experiences in the tree game rarely fall in line with others as most of my work is clearing around the lines here aus where things seem to be very different

My opinion is in the tree game, to be truly good at it you need to live it.
Every night I lay in bed on my phone flicking through the forums reading, learning and developing ideas/skills to try in the tree
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The last part man, about living it. Dude if im not working on trees and it’s still light outside then usually I’m climbing one to practice different techniques in the neighborhood. And if it’s dark, I’m on a forum reading or reviewing gear, or something that has to do with a tree. It’s an obsession that has allowed me to progress very quickly. I still have mich to learn and am constantly learning, and always accept the critique




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Life as an arb is it is the tree life...passionless arbs is all about a job and paycheck. I love climbing so much I will undercharge a tree just to get the opportunity to work in it and I know after I will be able to charge my worth. I eat sleep and crave treeing. It is my calling. I am always looking to improve and tighten methods up. I like to say watching me work is like a ballet. No fucking drama.
 
With your business background, you doing tree work for your business (even after say, a year of training) may be more of a bottleneck on the business than anything. If these jobs are sold right, finding quality contractors (and eventually employees) to perform the work and you focusing on sales and hiring may be a better utilization of your skills. That doesn't mean you can chip and rake and learn initially. Just one mans opinion....
 
So I am a 56 yr old beat up climber, with legs like an emaciated crack smoking rooster on a hunger strike, and the package of an 11 yrs old pre pubescent boy. I am thinking about becoming an over 50 underwear model and am looking for advice? Any input would be appreciated.
 
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rico said:
So I am a 56 yr old beat up climber, with legs like an emaciated crack smoking rooster on a hunger strike, and the package of an 11 yrs old pre pubescent boy. I am thinking about becoming an 50 and over underwear model and am looking for advice? Any input would be appreciated.
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Go work with John Holmes. He will help you get comfy with nudity and might help extend your appendage......
 
Dude's been dead for a minute but still better hung than Rico. He is certainly a better conversationalist than Johnmy Wadd has been of late however.
 
JD3000 said:
Dude's been dead for a minute but still better hung than Rico. He is certainly a better conversationalist than Johnmy Wadd has been of late however.
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Can we please stop talking about my extreme under endowment JD? You really have no idea what its like being hung like a bull mosquito. Just horrible..
 
swingdude said:
Life as an arb is it is the tree life...passionless arbs is all about a job and paycheck. I love climbing so much I will undercharge a tree just to get the opportunity to work in it and I know after I will be able to charge my worth. I eat sleep and crave treeing. It is my calling. I am always looking to improve and tighten methods up. I like to say watching me work is like a ballet. No fucking drama.
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Literally just did that lol. I charged this dude next to nothing for oak cleanout, raise skirt up - what we call outer part, just even it up with pole saw or pole clip, and remove dead wood, then remove seed pods from royal palm, and remove a couple fronds off palm on side touching house. Super easy job. But I was dying to climb the oak cause had a beautiful tie in, and awesome limbs to run out on. I said I only gave you that price cause I want to climb your tree lol


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