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Week 2 over and done with at this new job.
Your input....What do you think about a climber (the one I work with) who in seven days of working together has
A. Dropped a large limb on a chain link fence and bent it all to pieces(the first thing I saw him do on the first day); and
B. Cut down the wrong tree(a 40 foot spruce) on the client's neighbour's land!!!!!(yesterday)
Nice guy, but both of these incidents were totally avoidable and the result of being in to much of a rush and not following common rigging practice or written instructions. The latest incident he has blamed on improper directions, yet I was pretty sure he had cut down an extra tree from the beginning-the estimate seemed pretty clear and concise to me. Regretably I was helping the other climber when he started to cut, and the tree was dropped by the time I ran for the invoice to confirm the error(Should this really be my concern as the ground guy anyways???) Why would you cut seven trees down if the diagram clearly showed six? A natural climber but apparently a hazard whilst in the trees (co workers have told be this), and I know for a fact this is not the first time he has cut down the wrong tree-he used to work at the first place I was at.
I am sure there is going to be a big dust up at work Monday morning and I am not too keen on being part of it. I knew we had only six trees to remove, and this one was clearly on the adjacent lot!!! This whole mess is beginning to make me wonder how safe a climber this person is, and is he going to f it up sometime when I am in a position to get injured??
I hate mediocre behavior from a so called professional.
Your input....What do you think about a climber (the one I work with) who in seven days of working together has
A. Dropped a large limb on a chain link fence and bent it all to pieces(the first thing I saw him do on the first day); and
B. Cut down the wrong tree(a 40 foot spruce) on the client's neighbour's land!!!!!(yesterday)
Nice guy, but both of these incidents were totally avoidable and the result of being in to much of a rush and not following common rigging practice or written instructions. The latest incident he has blamed on improper directions, yet I was pretty sure he had cut down an extra tree from the beginning-the estimate seemed pretty clear and concise to me. Regretably I was helping the other climber when he started to cut, and the tree was dropped by the time I ran for the invoice to confirm the error(Should this really be my concern as the ground guy anyways???) Why would you cut seven trees down if the diagram clearly showed six? A natural climber but apparently a hazard whilst in the trees (co workers have told be this), and I know for a fact this is not the first time he has cut down the wrong tree-he used to work at the first place I was at.
I am sure there is going to be a big dust up at work Monday morning and I am not too keen on being part of it. I knew we had only six trees to remove, and this one was clearly on the adjacent lot!!! This whole mess is beginning to make me wonder how safe a climber this person is, and is he going to f it up sometime when I am in a position to get injured??
I hate mediocre behavior from a so called professional.