Tree video drama

flushcut said:
See, a train wreck can have a silver lining.
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Oh, cmon!! I think he deserves a little more credit than a train wreck. The guy’s a goofball, no argument there. But if you zoom out from the YouTube content, he’s actually a decently accomplished tree guy. Seems like he has fun and doesn’t take himself too seriously, which is kind of admirable these days.
 
Chris Schultz said:
Oh, cmon!! I think he deserves a little more credit than a train wreck. The guy’s a goofball, no argument there. But if you zoom out from the YouTube content, he’s actually a decently accomplished tree guy. Seems like he has fun and doesn’t take himself too seriously, which is kind of admirable these days.
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Ok, I’ll give you fender bender lol
 
I'm not quite sure how to take the cheap clone saw vids. "You get what you pay for (you idiot what'd you expect?)" or Eternal optimism "great new deal of a product on the market check it out (it surely won't be a disappointment like the last one) or There's common knowledge and industry recognition of tried and true quality rep saws so why presume to overturn it? He does come off looking kind of dumb when the cheap saw comes up short. Repeatedly.
 
Chris Schultz said:
Oh, cmon!! I think he deserves a little more credit than a train wreck. The guy’s a goofball, no argument there. But if you zoom out from the YouTube content, he’s actually a decently accomplished tree guy. Seems like he has fun and doesn’t take himself too seriously, which is kind of admirable these days.
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These attributes I admire in him. He’s grown quite a bit to be a good take down person, yet I still can’t get over the ego and him rambling like he knows what he’s talking about when he just sounds like a clueless idiot to someone knowledgeable.
A little more humility and instead of going on about something like he is an expert what’s wrong with saying ‘I don’t know’
 
evo said:
These attributes I admire in him. He’s grown quite a bit to be a good take down person, yet I still can’t get over the ego and him rambling like he knows what he’s talking about when he just sounds like a clueless idiot to someone knowledgeable.
A little more humility and instead of going on about something like he is an expert what’s wrong with saying ‘I don’t know’
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Honestly I think a lot of that is just the nature of being on mic/video and having to CONSTANTLY produce content. Talk for hours a day and you are bound to say some incorrect things. I really don't think he has a huge ego, but he knows his audience is mostly just normal people, not other tree climbers in the northwest specifically, and he believes they'd rather hear confident statements than wishy-washy questions. Just watch any talking head on TV or whatever, they ALL speak with authority. However if you are an expert in the subject they are speaking on, you will always find mistakes or at least generalizations. I think it's a bias in the minds of what people want to see, as much or more than a lie the presenter is speaking, and sometimes it's probably not even conscious on their part.
 
Decent for sure. 'Human' was a train wreck.

Lots of decent guys have found themselves in foreseeable and preventable safety-compromised situations.


I'm more in the camp of Reg, who I think so eloquently said, No Fuck-it cuts". 3 simple words.




I have a family to go home to. 'No thanks' to questionable outcomes.

I'm neither a hope-er nor pray-er.
 
27RMT0N said:
Honestly I think a lot of that is just the nature of being on mic/video and having to CONSTANTLY produce content. Talk for hours a day and you are bound to say some incorrect things. I really don't think he has a huge ego, but he knows his audience is mostly just normal people, not other tree climbers in the northwest specifically, and he believes they'd rather hear confident statements than wishy-washy questions. Just watch any talking head on TV or whatever, they ALL speak with authority. However if you are an expert in the subject they are speaking on, you will always find mistakes or at least generalizations. I think it's a bias in the minds of what people want to see, as much or more than a lie the presenter is speaking, and sometimes it's probably not even conscious on their part.
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Thanks for the perspective, it does seem that he’s gotten better over the years. Instead of making up things and babbling he seems more comfortable of sticking with what he’s knows.
If it’s pure content, I totally get the made for tv and catering to an audience. Where I get stuck is when the audience calls for work and what that expectation is.
 
southsoundtree said:
Decent for sure. 'Human' was a train wreck.

Lots of decent guys have found themselves in foreseeable and preventable safety-compromised situations.


I'm more in the camp of Reg, who I think so eloquently said, No Fuck-it cuts". 3 simple words.




I have a family to go home to. 'No thanks' to questionable outcomes.

I'm neither a hope-er nor pray-er.
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Twice I really wasn't sure what to do, said fuck it, and twice I got struck by a branch. Luckily only bruises and scratches, but that second time, I vowed to never make another "fuck-it cut" ever again. If you're gonna be using social media to brag- sorry, advertise, then you better be awesome, and be past the part of your career where you're making fuck-it cuts. I am not super proud of the couple of clips I posted of myself, but I keep them up to remind myself how bad I used to be. No technical mistakes per se, just slow and clearly inexperienced.
 
There's some threads with optimising pull rope angle/attachment height and pull position distance from base of tree with fixed length of rope. With some digging they could be found. High 2nd tree trunk(s) redirect or pulls gains you rope angle perpendicularity. But you've got to consider required anti-swat standoff distance and slack requirements so rope doesn't take a tension hit near the end of the fall trajectory.

I once watched a very last cut of the day, top center sprig of a big oak, right above tip, gust windy day, fuck-it getrdone, sprig came back and bounced/scraped off the side of the climber. The climber did not want to talk about it when he came down.
 
Matias said:
Twice I really wasn't sure what to do, said fuck it, and twice I got struck by a branch. Luckily only bruises and scratches, but that second time, I vowed to never make another "fuck-it cut" ever again. If you're gonna be using social media to brag- sorry, advertise, then you better be awesome, and be past the part of your career where you're making fuck-it cuts. I am not super proud of the couple of clips I posted of myself, but I keep them up to remind myself how bad I used to be. No technical mistakes per se, just slow and clearly inexperienced.
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The no 'fuck-it cuts' is a line that I honestly think about frequently and one I've made a point of teaching to my last two newbie climbers who've worked for me. That said, I know I've done it to a certain degree myself, but I guess I mentally phrase it in the term 'calculated risk' and am doing it with 15 years of experience behind the action. It's a wide grey area, and one of those things that where the more you know, the more you know you.... don't know. The line always moves as your experience and ability changes/grows, and exactly where that line is can be hard to determine. I think most of the mistakes judging where the line is, come from time constraints.

I cut a 3 inch dead willow branch with a pole saw last week, and it bounced off the ground and hit me in the forearm. Seemingly a low consequence action, maybe it was a 'fuck it cut,' but a week later my arm still hurts. I was standing on the ground, and cutting something 12 feet above me...
 
I wanted to finish rigging out the brush in a tree today, since I was close to finished after a long stint of a big tree with a small landing zone. The Olympia 5:00 whistle, a holdover from the Olympia Brewery, possibly, blew. I asked how she was doing on steam. OK.
Then, I realized that the last lead can wait until I'm fresh, as I could finish the lead in an hour, but was tired, with little room for error. I'm confident I would have finished it fine today, if I chose to. I'd be one hour ahead on several hours of work to get the trunk down. Minimal gain.

We went out for pho, instead.
 
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