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Most excellent! You are indeed fortunate to be working for a good outfit. If you can fairly reliably throw to 50 60 ' you are doing well, I rely on my bigshot, hand throwing is not my strong suit :)

Boots it really sounds like you've struck it lucky with your first employer getting into tree work!

Thanks for the reversing tips Boots and Brian...I'll try that next time, it's the connect/disconnect in my brain that turning the steering wheel one way will make the trailer do...what!!! (without looking) Sounds like your big leap into tree work has found you land with a good outfit, keep the...

Oh I can reverse the truck by itself no problem at all with just mirrors, even the 12 tonne fire truck into the station with only a few inches to spare...just backing up with the chipper or boat attached...left hand down, right hand down...aaghhh, pull out straighten up and try again.

I'm one of those people who if I can't see the thing behind me as I am backing up...I lose the plot. I am trying to train myself to be able to use the mirrors when reversing with the chipper or the boat, but it doesn't take long and I have to turn my head and look out the back window, then no...

Working the chipper already? I trust you got a good walk through of operation and safety first, probably did, but worth asking the question...too many people go through those things in the US it seems.

Ha! My nifty stainless double wall thermos that I was given as a gift last summer in Bermuda has gone from being filled with chilled water to now filled with hot tea in Tassie. Whatever your flavour, bring liquid!

Well done Boots, I too was a late starter to tree work (36) but I did have 15 years of landscaping experience behind me...sounds like you have prepared yourself as well as you can and have a realistic outlook for what it to come. Yes, your body will be is a heap of pain initially as different...