June - crane work

[ QUOTE ]
Reg, hopefully I didn't get too much on your bad side with those asinine comments I made about your brush cart a few mnths back. But seriously, I've done tons (sorry about the pun there) of crane work and compared to you...well, I should just stop and get a job at Wal-Mart. The way every piece just sits there waiting for the crane operator to realize they are free is beyond amazing. Every now and then I find that four leaf clover. I know you use multiple balancers in conjunction with your primary sling...any other advice for us frustrated hacks? Not to derail of course, should I post this seperately? If so, sorry.

[/ QUOTE ]
Jimmy I really don’t remember what you said about the cart so it couldn’t have been that bad.

Also, I'm pretty sure that all but a couple of short logs on that vid were rigged with just one sling.

Ross (the crane-op) is often busy texting instead of watching which is why a few of the pics appear to stall a while on the stump. We have joked about it and things are usually well in hand regardless.

Advice....hell where do you start. Circumstances (pressure) often play a huge role in people’s confidence and judgement i.e. probably 9 out of 10 could find the balance point on a big limb already lying on the ground....but way up in a tree and hanging over a building might reduce that number to 2 or 3.

Personally I’m pretty cold-blooded when it comes to tree-work so the circumstances tend not to affect my judgement.
Whether that’s a natural aptitude for the work or just plain repetition is anyone’s guess....maybe a bit of both.

I never let what anyone else is up to or using play a part in my decisions or work-ethic....not that I don’t respect what and how others do, especially right here on the forum....but I just banish all that stuff the minute I log-out.

Thinking about what you did and didn’t like at the end of a day, alone, can go a long way also. The answer’s are usually all there if you just replay the situations a few times over.
Slinging, pre-loading and cutting are all there to be tried and practiced....but I personally can’t emphasize enough the effectiveness of good focus and learning to trust yourself. Thanks
 
members of this forum should take note, that at no time does reg tell us at great length what a tremendous climber, crane director, and overall unsurpassed leader of men he is. he simply has shown us some examples of his work for our viewing. we all can draw our own opinions. probably why he has earned our respect. thanks. tom
 
[ QUOTE ]
why is it whenever i show you mutts a gem the thread shuts down but if reg posts up some stuff (nice effort, man. glad to see you not using so many leg'ns!) you all just line up to verbally felate the guy as if his balls promote brain power?

i don't get it...

[/ QUOTE ]

Son, your mind is in the gutter.
grin.gif


Nice vid, Reg. What was the disclaimer about? Got some fans on You Tube?
 
[ QUOTE ]
members of this forum should take note, that at no time does reg tell us at great length what a tremendous climber, crane director, and overall unsurpassed leader of men he is. he simply has shown us some examples of his work for our viewing. we all can draw our own opinions. probably why he has earned our respect. thanks. tom

[/ QUOTE ]

pipe down, tommie. i know all about the new man crush you got now. kinda gross actually.

crane director, eh? thats a new one. crane operator? crane climber? driver of crane? crane setter upperer?

and having the respect of about 5% of the members here would be more than enough because its that 5% that can actually play the game and do it with enough skill that i might even tip the hard hat to their efforts. ain't too worried bout the rest of 'em.

ask your new boyfriend. he won't lie.


lol
 
Reg, great advice. I've really been trying to pay attention to everything all over again with my climbing/work practices. I'm pushing the 10 yr. mark and I find that I have a lot of bad habits/inefficiencies. Anyway, won't bore everyone with that. Your comment about your crane operator reminds me of one I've worked with on a few occaisons who used to read a newspaper. He stopped bringing a paper with him and I asked him about it. He said too many guys were getting worried he wasn't paying attention, so he stopped. Pretty funny. It always made me want to climb faster, figured if he had time to read news articles, I was climbing too slow.
 
[ QUOTE ]


What was the disclaimer about? Got some fans on You Tube?

[/ QUOTE ]

Yeah I blocked all comments on the videos for that reason. Thanks
 
[ QUOTE ]
Very nice Reg. Glad to see that you are still getting crane work up there in BC, maybe not as much as in the UK though.

What size saw was that Husky you were using?

[/ QUOTE ]

The footage was taken early June Chris, in the home country. I've yet to even see a crane here in Vic, but am told they are around. The saws are 390 and 3120 on a couple of logs. Thanks
 
Don't worry Reg, I'm sure the crane work will present itself in time.

I forgot that you were still in the home country back in June.

Thanks for the info on the saws, and please keep the videos coming.
 
Thanks again, and for the welcome.

Lots of reasons for the move cory i.e. change, want for a better life and to a lesser extent the ever increasing rules and regs that are choking the industry back home....that and the fact that Ive just lost faith in the old place for now.

The real downside is the guilt of leaving people behind and not knowning or being able to help when things go really bad.
 
"the ever increasing rules and regs that are choking the industry back home...."

the U.S. will be there in 5 or 6 more years I bet.

We will improve safety and things, then continue past where we should stop...
 
[ QUOTE ]
"the ever increasing rules and regs that are choking the industry back home...."

the U.S. will be there in 5 or 6 more years I bet.

We will improve safety and things, then continue past where we should stop...

[/ QUOTE ]

I have no problem in protecting people David, within reason....the problem lies in the cost of supposedly re-training, refreshing, updating and upgrading all people and equipment involved....or your insurance is invalid.

Training and inspecting is a good earner now, so many of whom push hard for more frequent testing of this and that....but the problem for the average tree worker is you cant just pass all that cost onto the customer.

There are some good trainers/inspectors out there no doubt, that actually know what tree work is....others I can think of I wouldn't even trust to gas my saw up.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

New threads New posts

Back
Top Bottom