Spikes for pruning and other no, no's... video.

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This guy needs some help. He ought to know better being an ISA member. At 1:50 that one hand looked a little scary. Good rigging and video editing. But poor aboricultural practices.
 
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ugh, I have no patience for this poor arboriculture. If the climber got into the leader coming down and put the spikes on, thats perfectly exceptable. As long as those spikes never touched the part of the tree that was staying. Now the tree has many unnecessary wounds that it must over grow. I realize that in the scheme of things the honey locust will be fine and over grow no problem, but I just get mad over it. So many of us do the right thing and are constantly educating our clients about proper arboriculture, and to be honest, I have clients that know more about arboriculture than that climber because of my constant educating. Sorry to rant and rave, I just get mad
 
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If he gonna leave a video like that on youtube give him a bad rating and comment its all about tree health and consumer education. I spike trees.......when I'm removing them:)
 
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Now who's gonna turn him in?

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Yea I'm with Jim where are all you ISA CAs. Witch one of you is going to do his code of ethics duty and be the snich beatch.
 
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Hey Ed I have no problem turning him in,I have his email,phone number and website the ISA will be getting a call!

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Awesome!
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Hey Ed I have no problem turning him in,I have his email,phone number and website the ISA will be getting a call!

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Cool, now about your fellow TB'ers that have done uuummmm less than ethical work. Will you follow through on them too or just the ones you don't know????
 
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I wont do it on hear say i need to witness it first hand! So if you have pictures video or by an in person experience they're toast.
 
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this is a great example of how not to climb trees... really bad body positioning relative to the cut... constant and needless one handing. If he cuts a main artey he could bleed out in 60 seconds.. painful to watch.. i left him a voice mail..
no good reason to remove that lead anyhow.. just a bit of light pruning and a good cable should have donr nicely.. its one thing if the customer demands it, and you need the work... its another if you recommend it or don't try to talk the customer out of it, with education..

the spiking is not so much of an issue, as that entire part of the tree is getting removed.. hard to call that pruning though... that is a partial removal... should have sold a proper pruning and cable for the same money... could have been done in 1/4 the time.. footlocked and a bunch of smaller cuts on the branch tips..
 
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OK,,

My bad on the OK to spike the tree post above.. I just took another look.. he spiked the main trunk from the ladder to set his tie in point... maybe we should order him a sherril catalogue so he can get a big shot
 
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And he disabled comments....I had posted a critical one...reckon he didn't like it...

You think that's bad, check this one out, by a local co. Look closely, let's see how many cockups ya'll can find

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-euQwkJHRRk

Be subtle with your comments, or he'll pull 'em.

Stand by for my in depth story of recent problems with that company....
 
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I just talked to the guy... he called back...

defending his actions.. said it was $1200 job... he did it in 1.5 hours... said he's the fastest around and the reason he one hands the saw is cause its fast...

he knows he shouldn't spike trees, but the customer didn;t want to pay the 2800 for the job, that he originally bid... he just wanted it done cheap.. said he doesn't own a chipper, just a clam shell loader.. i thnk he said he has a big shot.. does 99.9% removals..

has 4 kids
 
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I just talked to the guy... he called back...

defending his actions.. said it was $1200 job... he did it in 1.5 hours... said he's the fastest around and the reason he one hands the saw is cause its fast...

he knows he shouldn't spike trees, but the customer didn;t want to pay the 2800 for the job, that he originally bid... he just wanted it done cheap.. said he doesn't own a chipper, just a clam shell loader.. i thnk he said he has a big shot.. does 99.9% removals..

has 4 kids

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$2800 for that, without spikes??????????????????

$1200 for something that doesn't look like good pruning (or at least low impact pruning) that he's done with in 1.5 hours. Something doesn't seem right her e, or are you guys coming in anywhere close to $800/ crew-hour?

Maybe he took down a lot in a tight space, hard to tell. Still 1.5 hours?

Why do people wear hardhats? He let one clip slip wear the groundman had on a protective ball cap.
 
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