Keeping park walkers out of your work zone

[Dan Cobb]

Funny how people will avoid a sprinkler at all costs, but potentially lethal operations seem like a welcome sign. Maybe a "Timeshares still available. No appointment needed." sign would be a good deterrent.

 

[moss]

... I started to remove another tree when out of the corner of my eye this man runs past the park employee directing people away, ducks under both of my outriggers, dashes through sticks and debris, leaps over my logs, runs past the chipper (that's operating), and continues running out through my cones and past the park police officer. Really?

This is definitely an Olympic sport ! This should be added to TCC’s to test a crew’s ability to deal with a pedestrian with a jail break mentality.

Maybe consider razor wire barriers and tranquilizer dart guns!
-AJ

 

[moss]

Maybe some kind of gooey/sticky net barrier. End of the job peel everyone off you’ve trapped and release them back into the wild ;-)
-AJ

 

[moss]

Don’t get me started, a woman (or man if you can find one) pushing a baby carriage cannot be stopped under any circumstances, live machine gun fire, flamethrowers, nada, nothing, don’t even try.
-AJ

 

[RogerM]

"Time shares available" worth repeating!
snakes and bees...
free raw broccoli, no ranch....
books to read this way...

 

[southsoundtree]

You have to assume you have drunk, stoned, tweeky, heroin-dopey, mentally deficient, sleep-deprived, and/or visually-impaired pedestrians to protect against... Hopefully not all in one package.

 

[MA Arborist]

Glenn,
Is hiring a police detail out of the question??
At least you could have a cop blowing his whistle and screaming at them

 

[GregManning]

Actually, I have seen this problem work in the opposite direction !
Several years ago I was judging a climbing competition. The comp was over; ready for tear-down.
My event had several trees, with separate "saftey rings" setup around each tree. i.e. stakes & caution tape.

The "chief saftey officer" for the event, was in a hurry to complete the tasks.
He had volunteer available, & directed them to take down the ring around a very large maple.
There were multiple climbers in that tree, removing & dropping bells, flagging tape, etc.

The saftey ring is completely down, and an elderly "park walker" walks directly under the tree.
I'm 100 yards away at a different tree.
I blow my whistle, & yell "climbers stop !".

Luckily no injuries.

 

[SumoClimber]

Was at the mall this past weekend. Watching people run away from those survey takers, perhaps a new approach is needed. Give a groundie a clipboard and put up the perimeter with signs stating "by crossing this line you are agreeing to fill out our short 30 minute survey"

 

[moss]

Was at the mall this past weekend. Watching people run away from those survey takers, perhaps a new approach is needed. Give a groundie a clipboard and put up the perimeter with signs stating "by crossing this line you are agreeing to fill out our short 30 minute survey"

“Can you contribute to the Tree Fund today?”
-AJ

 

[Al_trees]

After Hurricane Sandy in Red Hook Brooklyn, a “tree crew“ from Jersey was felling a large London plane in a park and a very unlucky food delivery guy on an electric bike was crushed and killed. My understanding is that the crew did not have proper signage/etc.

Delivery man crushed by falling tree dies • Brooklyn Paper

A Red Hook Chinese-food delivery man who was crushed by a tree as it was being cut down by city workers on Monday has died.

www.brooklynpaper.com

Signage? Maybe not says an onlooker. But someone on the ground working tried to stop the guy on the moped or whatever it was if you read the article. Well, you can't stop stupidity. The motorist appears to have driven through the workszone despite a worker trying to stop him.

 

[Al_trees]

I mentioned a while ago a woman and a baby carriage walked fifty feet under me over a sidewalk as I was cutting s limb. Luckily I look before every cut. We had cones, caution tape and didn't matter. The law should take into account stupidity and throw out bogus lawsuits. If we could just get rid of silly signs that say don't put your foot into the chipper and alike we could be rid of a lot of stupid people.