taking a sizeable locust off a house

Being fairly new to TB, I had no idea you guys were so feisty. This Video forum has educated and entertained me for hours this pm. I plan to come here often and look for Daniel videos.
But I want to be serious. I'm not enough of an insider or expert to comment on anyone's skills or techniques. But it did strike a chord with me. Although I have climbed for a about 5 years, removals with chainsaws is fairly new for me. I've done them for about a year and a half, mainly spruce and a variety of medium sized deciduous trees - so nothing of hero proportions.
When I have to cut aloft or on the ground with a chainsaw I give myself NO exceptions to established rules.
1. If I'm not wearing chainsaw pants I WILL put on chaps for 'just a few cuts".
2. I WILL tie in twice (rope plus lanyard) for each chainsaw cut unless I am positively secure otherwise and all rope is behind me.
3. I WILL bring a hand saw with me on all removals because it comes in handy over and over again, and I think it's important as a safety backup.
4. I WILL NOT one hand a chainsaw. This might mean I have to spend another minute re-establishing my stance. So be it.

I have the support of most of the people I know and work with, but I do know so called "expert cowboy types" who roll their eyes and bug me about taking a hand saw and spending time on establishing a proper stance with two tie ins. I ignore it even though these types claim that I do all this just to disguise the inadequacies of my relative inexperience. These people are not helpful.
I love this work and would like to do it as long as I am capable.

P.S. Spotted the one handing in the vid and wondered how much of the thread would be directly or indirectly about that.
 
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1. If I'm not wearing chainsaw pants I WILL put on chaps for 'just a few cuts".
2. I WILL tie in twice (rope plus lanyard) for each chainsaw cut unless I am positively secure otherwise and all rope is behind me.
3. I WILL bring a hand saw with me on all removals because it comes in handy over and over again, and I think it's important as a safety backup.
4. I WILL NOT one hand a chainsaw. This might mean I have to spend another minute re-establishing my stance. So be it.


I love this work and would like to do it as long as I am capable.



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Wow Frax you speak my same exact words.

Especially the last part.
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I do know so called "expert cowboy types" who roll their eyes and bug me about taking a hand saw and spending time on establishing a proper stance with two tie ins. I ignore it even though these types claim that I do all this just to disguise the inadequacies of my relative inexperience.

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It's just the opposite. By positioning properly, you are displaying your ability. The fact that it may take longer is irrelevant.

-Tom
 
Jeff, he's talking about Indonesian faith healers who do this trick that looks like they push their hands through a person's skin, withdraw something nasty like cow guts and declare you healed.

I agree with the 'realign your chi' statement Daniel.

You're just a guy that cuts on trees for a living, that doesn't make you exalted even if you're the best tree guy on the planet. The first thing you are is a human in a social environment... and if you behaved like a regular guy you would be treated like a regular guy in kind.

... but you behave as though you're King Tree Man and tell people they're nobody and you're Michael Jordan and stuff like that... c'mon Daniel that's buyllsh_t. Act like a grown up for a while.

That 'nobody to me' quote is just pathetic, are you THAT insecure that you have to tell someone that? Are you so clueless about human psychology that you don't recognize your behavior? Do you honestly believe yourself superior to ANYONE on this planet? Because if you do, you represent what's wrong with this world.

You are an insignificant little creature on an insignificant spiral arm of and insignificant little galaxy in a universe so big it defies human description... you're the nobody, so am i, so is everybody else. The ones of us that work and play together are the ones that have the best journeys.... people like you waste their whole lives trying to prove something nobody cares about. It's your loss.
 
I have no problem with your policies Frax. It works, money gets made, trees come down and no one gets hurt. These policies only take you so far. The best policy for me is, sometimes something seems like a mistake but maybe I can get away with it. Well, time to rethink the whole approach as there is usually a safer position or technique.

There is also many skill levels. Some removal arborists could free climb and one hand naked . A chainsaw that is. But why would they as the proper techniques are usually easier and safer.
 
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