...when do you do it?
My last two jobs have been freeclimbing, now before you get all worked up...
Friday was a few hours 8-10' up in a big pittosporum hedge/tree, I had to take the top out so where I was standing my waist was at the top branches, plenty of branches to stand on and hold, no rope, no harness, it would have gotten in the way even.
Today was six smallish cedars, the highest was like 15-18', plenty of closely spaced branches, wiggle up to the top, and clip in with just a lanyard, use that to come down on. To try and set any kind of line first was unnecessary IMO.
Both jobs were hand saw and secateurs only.
Don't you find sometimes that the tree you have to work on is like a clone of all those ones you climbed as a kid, way before the days when you knew what a rope and harness was? Is this acceptable?
My last two jobs have been freeclimbing, now before you get all worked up...
Friday was a few hours 8-10' up in a big pittosporum hedge/tree, I had to take the top out so where I was standing my waist was at the top branches, plenty of branches to stand on and hold, no rope, no harness, it would have gotten in the way even.
Today was six smallish cedars, the highest was like 15-18', plenty of closely spaced branches, wiggle up to the top, and clip in with just a lanyard, use that to come down on. To try and set any kind of line first was unnecessary IMO.
Both jobs were hand saw and secateurs only.
Don't you find sometimes that the tree you have to work on is like a clone of all those ones you climbed as a kid, way before the days when you knew what a rope and harness was? Is this acceptable?