Workin in the rain

[Treeaddict]

We just had a good 1.5hr rain come through. Still heard many saws going and the hum of loaders. I get that a large mobilization would require completion for finances. Thunderstorms are another matter regarding safety.

I’ve worked in drizzle conditions. Kinda messy but fine.

How do you handle work when raining?

 

[Jonny]

I’m usually fine with working in the rain.
If I’m part of a crew and everyone wants to go home with tiny little paychecks and stay dry, I’m fine with that too usually.

The humidity kinda blows. Getting rained on, while sweating, then a nice coating of saw chips/ dust gets pretty uncomfortable, but I ain’t gonna be the first one to bitch out.

 

[Jonny]

Hard no about thunder and lightning though. Nope!

 

[SeanKroll]

I prefer removal work in the rain, but spurless climbing is often fine.

 

[cory]

Rain is a pita.

We don't work it here like they do in the PNW, that's for sure.

If we are already out there, I'm fine with working in the rain. If we aren't out there yet, starting in the rain is pretty much a deal breaker

 

[cory]

but spurless climbing is often fine.

Hell no!!!

 

[friedrich]

i actually like climbing in the rain.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Yeah, rain removals on spikes, no worries. Hell naw spurless any thing and rain climbing.

 

[TINYHULK]

Seems to bring down moral quick for my guys on the ground so while I don’t mind it to a degree, when there moral is down and it only starts to rain harder than it’s normally best for efficiency and safety for us to call it. Maybe one day I’ll have a crew of men like me that are more focused on getting it done and less about comfort and ease

 

[cory]

Odds are, you won't.

 

[cory]

Ftr, our fearless founder, MB, always nixed rain work iirc.

 

[Burnham]

I never liked climbing in the rain...but living here, you sometimes have no choice. Everything is harder. On spurs doing work down on the clear bole, it's not really a problem...but up in the crown, you might as well be working in a carwash.

 

[cory]

Being wet is one thing but bark slippery as a greased pole is quite another

 

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[flushcut]

I don’t like working in the rain because I can never clean up the mess properly. But have done it many times.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Unless its an emergency, I opt out of rain days. We dont get all that much anyway.
Slippery trees are generally no fun, and as Rajan pointed out, clean up sux. And god forbid you rut stuff up.
I just tell the custy I'm sweet like sugar and melt in the rain.

 

[Bart]

Working next to a golf course reminds you that lightning is often associated with the rain, when the yonk, yonk, yonk horn blares and tells everyone to get off the course because lightning has been detected nearby - with x miles. Often times you might even hear a thunder rumble. Don't go under a tree includes don't be up the tree!

 

[SeanKroll]

Thunder and lightning are rare here.

Never heard of a lightning protection system, locally.

 

[friedrich]

i found that usually rains sounds worse when i'm still lying in bed, opposed to when im outside. ofcourse you have to lower your expectancy/adapt your technique, fine reduction of beech or plane treein the rain is gonna take much longer.

i've worked for a company in southern germany where the employees would refuse to work as long as the street was still wet 🤷.

where i live, in northern germany, it rains a lot (at least it used to) and as a contract-climber..i rather embrace the rain and bring plenty of spare underwear 🙂

friedrich

 

[Bermy]

Stephen you stole my line!
Made of sugar I melt in the rain!!!
Hate working in the rain, avoid it as much as possible. Have had to do it more since moving.

 

[stig]

We log till we are wet all the way through.
Then we quit.

 

[flushcut]

I once got caught in a thunderstorm while in the bucket. 0% chance of rain, so they said. Fugging liars!

 

[SeanKroll]

My socks getting wet is a sign for quitting time.

 

[Marc-Antoine]

If I wanted to stay dry, I wouldn't work much some months, or even some seasons. But it's a pita. Add to that a leylandii-like or a trunk covered by ivy and it turns nasty.
i had a few thunderstorms, the so sudden ones that you don't have any time left before you. In a big cedrus, my ropes were glued by the pitch, so it took me a while to go down. half way in the descent, the wind surged and I played the flag for some times. Not fun. At the end of an oak removal, I was at the top of the main trunk after dismanteling all the crown. I set my climb line to rappel down when the first rain drops came. By the time I reached the ground, I was soaked to the underware. Fun (only because it was warm).

The rain clothes make it doable, but you end to be nearly as wet by the sweat than by the rain itself. The good part is that it's warm wet instead of chilling wet.

 

[SeanKroll]

SRT is safer in many ways. Getting down in seconds without needing your rope to move is one important thing.