Article "Out on a Limb" in Feb Total Landscape Care Mag

[2treeornot2tree]

I was just reading my Feb issue of Total Landscape Care Magazine. There is a article in it called "Out on a Limb" writen by Peter Gerstenberger. It was a pretty decent article, the writer is "senier advisor to the president for safety, compliance and standards at the TCIA". The picture with the article showing a guy chunking or topping a tree out. He has 2 tips, safety glasses on, using two hands to cut, but doesnt have a dang helmet on, or chaps. WTF. I dont wear chaps when I climb either. I wonder if Peter choose the pic or the editor choice it for him. Just made me laugh that he is a safety adviser, and there is a pic without proper ppe attached to his article about knowing the risks in tree work.

 

[Zale]

That picture must have been dug out of their early 80s archive. Too bad they can't take a current picture with up to date PPE.

 

[Slvrmple72]

Think they deliberately chose a dated picture. See a lot of scrapers doing that **** as pictured. Not so sure about the chaps on up in a tree. Maybe a pair of Gladiator chainsaw pants!

 

[Iustinian]

that's an old picture -- 3 strand flipline, old school saddle, even the saw is old. he should be wearing a helmet, but when you are doing aerial work, climbing etc., you are not required to wear chaps.

 

[Mikecutstrees]

I'd say he is missing one other piece of PPE. Gloves. Even a small cut on the hand can be distracting and painful. As my old foreman used to say..... "your hands are your most valuable tool, take care of them." Gloves can save your hands from a quick descent too. I wear youngstown black gloves. After wearing them a little you totally forget you even have them on. The protect you from saw vibrations too.

Mike

 

[mikegar]

Id also say look at guys second attachment( buckstrap) he also looks way too clean. I wonder if it were only a photoshoot.

 

[Iustinian]

yea, looks like a pose pic. If that were an action pic, I'd expect to see a lot more chips coming from under the side cover.

For instance lol:

 

[2treeornot2tree]

I'd say he is missing one other piece of PPE. Gloves. Even a small cut on the hand can be distracting and painful. As my old foreman used to say..... "your hands are your most valuable tool, take care of them." Gloves can save your hands from a quick descent too. I wear youngstown black gloves. After wearing them a little you totally forget you even have them on. The protect you from saw vibrations too.

Mike

I hate wearing gloves. I have much better dextarity without them, and can feel what I am doing better. Besides after you get calases, you have your gloves on all the time.

 

[treeclimber101]

yea, looks like a pose pic. If that were an action pic, I'd expect to see a lot more chips coming from under the side cover.

For instance lol:

ooooollllll I see some broken shingles and scraped siding in that picture , and your shoes untied, BTW that article sucked sat down to take a crap turned to page 48 and it was done before I had a chance to start and I waited 8* hours for that stupid article got home from work grabbed it off the top of the fridge and went in my office , LOL no really thats what I did for real

 

[tree md]

Had to look real close to make sure it was not an old pic of me... :hmm3grin2orange:

I climbed with that same rig for years. Still have one of those old saddles up in the shop. Basic tree saddle and 3 strand flip line. I used a buck strap for years. There for awhile in the early 90's Weaver or Buckingham (could have been Miller) one was making their tree saddles with a green, flat buckstrap incorporated into the saddle. It was permanently attached on the left side and clipped in and out of the right D with a non locking snap. Hated those things. I cut the buckstrap off of two of those saddles and used my own homemade lanyard.

 

[Peter at TCIA]

I was just reading my Feb issue of Total Landscape Care .....I wonder if Peter choose the pic or the editor choice it for him. Just made me laugh that he is a safety adviser, and there is a pic without proper ppe attached to his article about knowing the risks in tree work.

You can imagine that I was pretty shocked when I saw the photo. No, I didn't provide it. I already wrote to the editor of TLC and he promised to print what I wrote.

In a way, that picture helped to make my point in the article. People shouldn't attempt tree work without knowing the hazards and protecting against them. Obviously the guy in the photo didn't fully appreciate the risks of not wearing a hard hat.