old dude
ArboristSite Member
Makes me angry that the entire industry seems to be turning away from climbing skills for the comfort of heavy equipment bucket trucks,spider-lifts etc...
Whatever happened to the days when a man was known as a 'climber'. A SKILL that must be developed over many years of trial and error and down right hard, (honorable) work. Today it seems that if you don't have the bucket trucks, the chippers and chipper trucks, the stump grinders and sprayers----- your not really an arborist.
believe me, I made a good living for thirty plus years with just me and a sidekick (no, not the rope retrieval tool---although I used one for years and think they are GREAT)----All I am saying is that the industry is being, skill-speaking, 'dummed down, by this fixation fed by heavy equipt. manufactures paying big bucks to the trade rags.
My advice? Gather your truly useful hand tools like the carabiners, slings, sidekicks, spurs hand saws and micro-pulleys and get up there and prove to yourselves that you don't need to be riding a hundred thousand dollar equip. inventory to be a true climbing arboriculturalist.
Whatever happened to the days when a man was known as a 'climber'. A SKILL that must be developed over many years of trial and error and down right hard, (honorable) work. Today it seems that if you don't have the bucket trucks, the chippers and chipper trucks, the stump grinders and sprayers----- your not really an arborist.
believe me, I made a good living for thirty plus years with just me and a sidekick (no, not the rope retrieval tool---although I used one for years and think they are GREAT)----All I am saying is that the industry is being, skill-speaking, 'dummed down, by this fixation fed by heavy equipt. manufactures paying big bucks to the trade rags.
My advice? Gather your truly useful hand tools like the carabiners, slings, sidekicks, spurs hand saws and micro-pulleys and get up there and prove to yourselves that you don't need to be riding a hundred thousand dollar equip. inventory to be a true climbing arboriculturalist.