23 years old... wants to climb!!

[MasterBlaster]

For me, it's just a matter of old age. If I climbed/dragged brush/loaded logs 8 to 10 hours a day, I would peter out for sure. I would be lacking when it came to the rock and the hard spot stuff, and I wouldn't be able to do it 4 to 6 days a week.

As a contract climber, I have no qualms with being a prima-donna climber, cuz I have to. I need all my stuff for what is presented before me, mostly every day. And it's never easy, or their climber would do it.

My biggest worry is my left hand and my right shoulder. Trims wreck havoc with my hand, and my shoulder pays the piper on most everything.

I need a triple-articulating, all-wheel drive bucket truck!

 

[a_lopa]

i know what you guys are saying,alot of that comes down to how the jobs been estimated,if a co is only getting you in to do the craap stuff its fine to put it on the ground and go.on the other hand if someones looking after you paying $$ and giving you more varied work you gotta be more flexible agreed?best groundies are climbersi guess we were/still are excellent groundsmen.tree gets dismantled diffrent when the guy in it has to help clean,sometimes not much diffrent but you can pick it

 

[NickfromWI]

Butch and aussie, I think you are seeing the difference between a regualar employee and a subcontracting climber. The employees are cheap, so the boss could care less if they are dragging or climbing (right aussie?). Butch is expensive.

I worked for a guy in WI and I was making about 25/hr. I told him up front that my time is 25/hr. What do you want me to do with it. The rest of his guys were making oh, about 10/hr. I told him that I wouldn't work for that. So basically it was on a day to day basis. If he needed that job cleaned up soon, I'd stay and clean up, otherwise he'd send me and one other guy ahead to start the next job. It was a good setup. I didn't drag much brush. When I did, I didn't mind- it was a rare occurance.

If you have a good climber, keep that person up in the tree as much as you can (unless they don't want to be up too long). That person's skills are wasted when they are raking up.

love
nick

 

[a_lopa]

yeah nick,if your upfront people can work around you. got a guy on $25-$50 hr base. went done a job for a tower(bucket) co in city a while back $1,200 put pine on deck using 2x 36mm ropes(butt/tip) lowered whole limbs,big everything was in his car(with cheque) and home before lunch,some people you just cant say put it on the deck and you can go homeIMO.no way do i let climbers do thing to suit themselves,unless its me