One of my contractors just called me this a.m. and told me he saw this last night. I thought he was talking about the show that Discovery had done a couple years back that some of us worked to have pulled from the air (who was that?).
Thanks to ClimbHighTree and tr33climb3r for posting the link.
This is not good for our industry. Just these little teaser videos show that not only are they staging stupid acts, like the guy topping the maple who is supposedly tied in above his cut, but in the next camera angle from above you see that he is tied in to something else (though I don't know what, because all that was left of the tree was the top they showed in the first camera angle), but they have intentionally sought out at least one company that proudly admits they are not professional. My buddy said the car smash thing also looked staged. From the propery layout shown in the teaser, it looked entirely avoidable.
Nat Geo has always been the elite when it comes to educational TV in my opinion. This is a disgusting low for them, and I think we should let them know. I plan to watch a whole episode (my buddy has it on DVR) and to find out who at NG to write to about this.
Even though I think intelligent consumers will see the difference between these yahoos and a true professional, hence this possibly making "good" arbos look better, most consumers aren't very intelligent, hence the existence of these jerks, and bad quality work will be perpetuated.
<u>If anyone finds contact info for NG, would you please post it?</u>
Maybe as with the Discovery show, we can keep from being tarred with the same brush.
