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Caveman
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Cumberland Plateau
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Aug 23, 2016 - 11:47am PT
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"What surprised me was the serious situations the pros got them selves into even after they had professionally rigged it."
Umm...most of what I saw looked like amateur night at the Darwin Awards. Tree work off of ladders. LOL, y'all are too much!!
Warbler, if you are an aspiring arborist ignore about EVERYTHING in that video. And don't tell people (at least arborists) that you use a ladder in tree work.
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Bushman
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The state of quantum flux
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Aug 23, 2016 - 12:29pm PT
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Several years back I rehired a tree climber who is safer than I am, although I'm still at it as well. He's one of the best in the biz, I tried out several climbers in my career and no one else could cut cut the mustard (muster?) by my standards, with a few exceptions. When he retires I might just hang up my spurs and close down the business after that. It's just such hard and dangerous work, there's no point in pushing it, when I've had mostly good luck for over 32 years in business.
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Caveman
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Cumberland Plateau
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Aug 23, 2016 - 01:02pm PT
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Warbler, sounds like you got it going on! I understand the helmet thing. I didn't wear a helmet for years and still don't sometimes. But I figure the odds of something happening become greater every day I am in the tree. Be careful up there!
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Caveman
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Cumberland Plateau
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Aug 23, 2016 - 01:23pm PT
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I watched that again to find the pro's. A couple of shots were of climber getting thrown around after taking top off. That can happen with the best. The rest of the stuff was pure Darwin.
If this is the quality of work y'all get I'm available if you cover transport cost:)
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Aug 23, 2016 - 06:27pm PT
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Hey Warbler, that was one of two 80' to 90' southern yellow pines we took out a couple months ago, we don't see those too often. I had been thinning and safety trimming those two particular trees several times over many years, but they were shedding limbs into the neighbors pool and so sadly, it was time for an intervention.
They were old friends, the customer and the trees. We spent three days on the removals and four days there on other trimming so it was a bigger contract for our company. I prefer working for private homeowners, mostly retired, and I steer clear of commercial work which is always a harder sell for my temperament. I've never been into being a hardcore salesperson or a paper pusher.
But mostly gone are the days of handshake agreements, no written contract or proof of insurance. Now days I have to carry half a dozen licenses, several insurance policies, a motor carrier permit for the dump, and an annual encroachment permit with the county along with a bond just to park a chipper and trucks in front of a job site. On top of that there's having to get permits to work on any native, heritage, landmark, or endangered species trees within Sacramento city or county, which always causes huge delays in getting the work done.
It's all such a pain in the ass, I tell you. At least I know that someday, one way or the other, I will retire. I think the best part of my job though, has been watching the customers and their families grow old with their trees, and to see the generations, along with their trees, come and go. 'I' is 'we' and 'we' is 'I' when it comes to talking about business, sorry.
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