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So does a groundy.

Oh yeah, I remember that, there was a big thread on arbtalk about it. Bloody worlds gone mad.

If you were on private land there's nothing they can do. Maybe on council land on a council contract......

Really? 10000 fine! Where did you get that from?

Saves me saying it Butch.

Honestly I think that's daft, get your groundsman to do what? Weed the flowerbeds with a helmet on while you do the tree, occasionally running over to untie a rope.

When we stop, we stop. No one can work, otherwise it ruins the break for everyone. Sometimes I take the dog for a walk. For me it's important amongst the roar of the chippers, chainsaws and cursing to have an oasis of calm and silence even for just 30 mins, mind you I am twice your age!

When I'm having my lunch it's my time, clients can piss off. I want to relax, not answer inane questions or worse get off my arse to look at some little extra they want doing.

I've lost count of the "helpers" over the years, I can be a right bastard at times but you have to accept people's limitatations, not every youngster "wants to be like you" Some just want to get through the day collect the money and go home. If you're paying minimum (or near to) you can't...

Sean re. Your difficulty getting decent help. It just seems to me (looking from the outside) that you tend towards over complicating the whole thing, all this training manual and giving the guy training goals and all that. If you were a multinational I could understand it, but a one gang outfit...

I think that if I were to be squashed by a big tree, or t boned into a mess by some rigging I'd be ok with that. Not happy but thems the breaks But say you cut your self badly and your rope is stuck at the base of the tree because there is no one else to untangle it. Or you take a whack on your...

Agreed.

A hundred bucks well spent, I with Butch on this, sure once in a blue moon you have to do it, but making a science of climbing and rigging solo? No way.