Just finished a climbing course over the weekend

[Leroy]

Yeah, I'm not sure adrenaline is part of the recipe for success. The great climbers I've known are cool as a cucumber for the most part.

 

[Chaplain242]

Jorgon1022 please don’t confuse arrogant behaviour with arrogant intentions. You can defend your intentions but without realising it may be including some learned behaviours that others see but you do not... like sawdust on your back that you can’t see unless you take the time to look in a mirror, or ask someone else you trust if it is there...

 

[Jorgon1022]

Jorgon1022 please don’t confuse arrogant behaviour with arrogant intentions. You can defend your intentions but without realising it may be including some learned behaviours that others see but you do not... like sawdust on your back that you can’t see unless you take the time to look in a mirror, or ask someone else you trust if it is there...

Ahh. Kind of like that saying that says that its not what you say but how you say it?

My intentions may be good but the way I come off can rub people the wrong way?

I can accept that and it makes a lot of sense. Something that I can work on now that I am aware of it.

Deep stuff @Chaplain242 . Thank you.

 

[rico]

By the powers vested in me from God and Tom himself I know declare this thread Dead!!!
Thanks for coming, but the shows over folks. Don't forget to tip your waitress, and if your gonna drinking and drive, please don't forget your car.

 

[Chaplain242]

By the powers vested in me from God and Tom himself I know declare this thread Dead!!!
Thanks for coming, but the shows over folks. Don't forget to tip your waitress, and if your gonna drinking and drive, please don't forget your car.

Can I call you ‘The Greatest Showman’ ?

 

[Tom Dunlap]

This thread has slipped below the Treebuzz level of antagonistic banter...and into the netherworlds of Facebook-like bickering.

Time to think before you rant...is there anything new to say?

Let's talk about the efficiencies of metal or plastic rakes vrs blowers...or sumpin...

 

[Chaplain242]

This thread has slipped below the Treebuzz level of antagonistic banter...and into the netherworlds of Facebook-like bickering.

Time to think before you rant...is there anything new to say?

Let's talk about the efficiencies of metal or plastic rakes vrs blowers...or sumpin...

Hi Tom, good words. And just for the clarification ‘The Greatest Showman’ is actually a ref to the films and is a compliment to Rico.

 

[evo]

Yeah, I'm not sure adrenaline is part of the recipe for success. The great climbers I've known are cool as a cucumber for the most part.

“Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.”

 

[JD3000]

How the fuck do you do that JD? The mere mention of a beer or a cocktail and you are inevitably the first responder? Do you have some sort of high tech alarm system which notifies you when libations are mentioned?

Libations, librarians, Liberians...weird kink thing I got.

 

[islandarb]

Curtain call folks....I am moving on.

 

[rico]

Time to think before you rant...is there anything new to say?

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Its a knick knack paddy whack, give the frogs a loan?

 

[Mowerr]

So...rico, your thoughts on rakes?

 

[Tom Dunlap]

So...rico, your thoughts on rakes?

Wait!

Start a new thread!

 

[rico]

So...rico, your thoughts on rakes?

Sadly I have no thoughts on rakes, don't own one, and wouldn't even know one if it was staring me in the face?

 

[southsoundtree]

You shouldn't pay high wages because the work is dangerous. You should pay high wages because you've hired someone who makes it 'boring' tree work, day in and day out. EVERY DAY SHOULD BE 'Boring'. Everything goes to plan, no unexpected surprises. Tree work in not Russian Roulette, unless you decide to make it so.


Almost all accidents and incidents are preventable and predictable. If it was the trees making the problems, I should be having lots of accidents over 12 years. The worst injury was when a guy walked his face into the truck.

 

[dunderpaps]

Speaking of which, how many of you have actually dropped a deuce in a tree? A raise of hands please.
When I was in my mid 20's we did a big dead old growth Fir removal. The tree was about 9ft DBH and a solid 225 ft-235 ft, This was before all the new gadgetry, so it was old-school, rolling a 7/8" flipline and spurring through big shaggy decomposing bark. Anyone who has climbed a big dead Fir knows how truly miserable and bloody a climb like this can be. I finally got to the top of this thing, set my rigging, bombed on down to the first limb, and we started working the tree. A few limbs in and I suddenly needed to poop. Not now but right now. I thought about bombing to the ground to relieve myself but there was no way I was spurring back up this fucking pig. I ask the boys to send up a paper bag and some TP, stood on top of a big 24" limb and pooped right there in the tree at 130 ft in the air, then threw the bag at them. Never seen Bruce the Moose move so fucking fast. The highlight of my less than stellar career!

when doing this always remember to shout HEADS DOWN instead of HEADS UP

 

[Ent]

Great advice. I'll post back Saturday with pics and hopefully some video. Stay tuned.

Are you rich yet?

 

[Jorgon1022]

Are you rich yet?

Definitely not rich but thank God that I have quite a bit of work. Also, super thankful that @TreeVB helped me out with the project because otherwise I would have been screwed. Learned a lot from him and hope to implement what I learned in the near future. But yes, as of right now I continue to read and implement everything that I read.

 

[Mowerr]

Definitely not rich but thank God that I have quite a bit of work. Also, super thankful that @TreeVB helped me out with the project because otherwise I would have been screwed. Learned a lot from him and hope to implement what I learned in the near future. But yes, as of right now I continue to read and implement everything that I read.

Glad u found help...it can be very hard to find.

 

[islandarb]

Wow forgot about this. Seems like things got sorted.