lurking women, care to introduce yourselves?

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what harnesses/saddles are best suited for women?

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Hi Yve,

Check out the "what saddles do women climber's wear?" thread in this forum.
I don't even get into discussions about saddles/harnesses due to the extreme individual preferences we all (women & men) seem to have.

My advice: Keep trying them until you find the one that's right for you!"
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Take care,
-Diane-
 
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Looking forward to being a Buzzette!

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I LIKE the new descriptive word - Buzzette!


Thanks, Yvonne.



-Diane

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GEE - Now look - if we call our selves that - can we get T-shirts - Like the Pinkette's


http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=152843&an=0&page=0#152843

Also - DO check out that Harness thread as there is a lot of information there, we also have a Pants thread and even an UNDERGARMENT one. Ya never know what some women will ask (hint hint)

JZ - always starting something
 
Hi Yve, and welcome to the Buzz!

My daughter is 13 and she just loves climbing with her dad. She even gets tired.

I have her in a Petzl kid's saddle, but she has just about outgrown it. I'm looking for a new saddle for her too.

I was thinking about one of the New Tribe saddles for her. I climb in a TreeFlex saddle, but she's not ready for that saddle yet, unless she becomes an arborist like me!
 
Thanks Chris. Great to get the young ones involved - you're thinking about business succession already! May try to get my son in a harness soon. I'm sure he'd love it. Y
 
Hi my name is Kelly. My husband Ron and I own a tree service near Cleveland Ohio. Before I met him I never even thought of hiring a company to trim or remove trees in my yard. He has taught me a lot in the past 8 years! I have gone to many ISA and TCIA events and workshops with him, trying to broaden my knowledge of trees. Ron has been in the tree industry for the past 19 years so just working with him I learn so much.

For the business I do all the book work, but I do get to go out and have fun running our 120' crane and the stump grinder. Every once and a while I'll play groundsmen for him. He's only been able to get me up in a tree once and I'm amazed he got me to do that (I'm terrified of heights!)

I also print shirts for all our buddies tree services. I like to help out with the high cost of our business however small it is.

When we're not working we race motocross and go to alot of concerts. My favorite thing is going to different parks and having Ron quiz me on tree identification. Maybe one day I'll be good enough to take the certification!
 
Hi to all those hidden women in the industry. I like to call them the willow women in deference to Don Blair and his "oak men and euc men". We as willow women take many forms and shapes like a willow. Cut off a section and we'll sprout up again in a new way.

I started in the industry with my husband 27 years ago. I did the office work, answered phones and did some scheduling. Then when our 2 boys were small, he fired me because being a full time mom and office manager just didn't seem to fit together. Then a couple of years later he needed someone to do the estimating, so it seemed to fit with the time I needed to spend with the boys. That was 17 years ago. I've gotten my ISA cert and I now I tell him where to go! (Shedule all the crews)do the majority of estimates and help out wherever I can.

Our son is now certified thru ISA, completed his Ontario Apprenticeship and had his 15 ton Hoisting Engineer license. Our younger son is working for another tree company. It must be in the blood.

Hardhats off to all the Buzzette and Willow Women out there. Remember at all the Conferences etc. the shorter lines are at the womens washrooms (payback time).

Judy
 
HELLO JUDY and welcome to the BUZZ. I like that "Willow Women" now we have two identification that can be put on t-shirt - Depending on the mood we have, what Title we can wear. Willows, wise and bending.

It is great to have someone new come visit and stay.

So how did you find us? Spread the word and let's get more Willows involved.

Add what you want to the threads, post what you want. Laugh and enjoy we are a great group and growing.

ENJOY the trees that you climb or visit.

JZ - aka - Shari the rec climber of the group
 
hi judy,
welcome to the buzz! i KNEW there were women out there doing tree work before we all showed up. nice to hear from a "foremother", thanks for the wave and high five and hope to meet you some day!
k.
 
hi there, practiced posting and now ready for an introduction...

name= kelly palomera, and i am living in SF right now, but my partner and i are moving to maine in the spring of 2010. i am a certified arborist running a one woman operation here, and i feature basic urban tree care to, say, 45ft probably, although i've been higher with my professional arborist buddy in portland joe lynch. i love climbing and working in trees and am really looking forward to those big beautiful trees and big beautiful drop zones back east. i met so many wonderful women at the boston workshop this fall; its just thrilling to see so many women in arboriculture. i hope to be able to do my part to get even more women involved. more on this later. i will probably have plenty of questions for you all so hope you are ready!
 
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Welcome Kelly,

So you have meet the Twins in the North east, I am sure they will take good care of you.

What is it about Maine? I know, having spent 12 years there for vacations. IT IS PRETTY.

Do not be shy, share what you can.

Glad to have you here.

shari

JZ - on the road again - looking for a ring
 
hi there officially shari + kathy,

i am headed to beautiful funky well-fed portland me with my over developed ca sensibilities, and let me tell you i love everything i've seen about it, the landscape, the people, yes, even the winter...and boy is it affordable! ca is two steps back for every one foot forward financially, its just that its so gorgeous and fun that you don't notice it.

when i saw that boston workshop announced i was so psyched! it was like a dream come true, women into trees, my soon to be colleagues, and climbing instruction! i've kept in email contact with several other women who went and they are still on a high and looking for someone to continue learning with. unfortunately each is in a different state...
the twins were amazing, and it really went by way too quickly. everyone wants personal instruction from them!
the opportunity would be one i think many women arborists would benefit from, and i hope it becomes a yearly event.

i've really appreciated being able to read all your previous posts...it gets kind of weird out here with no other women around. i have personally started taking women on my own up into trees and out to do work just to get more women to experience trees and tree work, even if they don't make a career out of it.

kind of sorry i missed out on the famous undergarmet thread, is it still in here? i say boxer briefs all the way! got to stay warm out there...

more specific questions soon...

kelly
 
Hi kelly! Sometimes it is really lonely being a woman into (literally) trees. Try it out in the midwest! There are three woman in the midwest who climb trees, myself being one of them. As for doing tree work, I would love to get in with a company, but it is proving to be very difficult. I am glad it is working out for you! I hope the new scenery treats you well, I bet you will miss SF a lot! It is beautiful there! But moving from one beautiful area to another should make it easier. Hope to have you here, commenting frequently, because there are just not enough buzzettes. Have fun!

Jenn
 
hi jenn,

i can't believe there are so few women in the midwest into climbing! i'd like to think that will change over the next several years. i have found that whenever i talk about climbing, or show off some gear, that many women would like to try it out. so i have been trying to get some of them up there, one at a time. they make excellent students, and do remarkably well even on their first forays.
the last two i took up i made do some deadwooding! they were totally into it! i plan on offering some kind of internship/training program for women interested in trying out tree work once i get set up in maine. i'm hoping to coax a few of those that i met in boston to come up to portland and work/learn with me, even on a very occasional basis. and i am hoping they will teach me some of their tricks as well...

is it difficult catching on with a tree company due to the economy, or are there other reasons? i am assuming you are putting yourself out there via the usual ways? i have thoroughly enjoyed working with and for a bunch of different people, because you learn all sorts of different styles. and i would work for several, all part-time.

can you go out on your own? people are ready for it...
 
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