Wolf 343, Hi. Jim, I guess you have never been in an old growth rain forest and seen what I have. The trees are not ruined, they will live on. This is coastal British Columbia, the growing season is about 11 months, the trees are pretty tough. I remember cutting down big second growth Douglas firs in Hope, B.C., they had been topped probably 40-50 years previously and regrown another 60', so much for ruined. In the old growth you will see trees that have had thier big tops ripped off by the wind, trees that have been ground to sky sidelimbed by falling trees, trees that have been mutilated from falling trees that have extensive rot and even other trees growing from them still alive. Did you not read what I said about why I do my job?Jim1NZ said:
Koa Man said:
Gitrdun, I'm glad you see it this way. But alot of guys think that spikes are a tool of the devil and have no place in tree work. I will admit, I am fond of my spikes but I spent three years at the beginning of my career trimming without them. I think we(I) just need to realize that some jobs need spikes and some jobs don't and we are all just treemen doing a job we love to make a living!gitrdun_climbr said:
Ah yes, the power lines, funny, funny. A while back there was a discussion over wearing spurs to climb around power, I posed the question "how can you get up a tree if the first branch is higher than the primary" Treeco, in his wisdom said "ever heard of a throwbag?", in a mocking way. Then there followed a discussion of ropes of any kind being dielectrically tested, limits of approach and so on. One chap, I forget who, said that he would use a Jamieson pole pruner with four or five extensions to set his climbing line, right. Treeco, the trees I windfirm will never be logged, they are in riparian zones. And I never said all trees in Canada around powerlines are spurred, in British Columbia they are. And all of the ISA certified guys I have ever worked with climb trims with spurs, deal with it, as you will not do anything about it but whine. We will soon put it to rest, who's we?beowulf343 said:Climb020, good point about setting the lines from the ground, and I thought about doing it that way. However, all these trees were hanging right over a transmission line (which was why they needed to be rigged in the first place.) I suck with a throwbag for anything over 50 feet (yeah, I know, not enough practice) and it can ruin your day when you use a bigshot and the rope settles over the branch then drops right between the power lines or over the branch and then over all three lines.
(Where was the power company? Who knows, the logging outfit had been waiting for them for over a month before they called us.)
Wow, stitches once a week. Maybe you need to stop sharpening your gaffs so they don't pierce the skin so easily.Climb020 said:
