First time in a tree

[Boogieman142]

Well, my hats off to all of you who climb for a living. I went in a tree for the first time. I used spurs and today my feet and legs are sore as heck. I had to get a bird house out of a tree. But its fun, I think that if i had a little better tree to climb then it would have been better, lots of branches and stuff in my way.

 

[lacky]

You are going to get it now.....................

 

[outofmytree]

Well, my hats off to all of you who climb for a living. I went in a tree for the first time. I used spurs and today my feet and legs are sore as heck. I had to get a bird house out of a tree. But its fun, I think that if i had a little better tree to climb then it would have been better, lots of branches and stuff in my way.

Please tell me that tree is being removed......

 

[canopyboy]

Please tell me that tree is being removed......

opcorn:


I have this funny feeling that he wasn't removing the birdhouse in order to save it from crashing to the ground when the tree is cut down......

But maybe, just maybe that's what he was doing.

 

[Mikecutstrees]

Oh, I hear the angry mob coming with pitchforks and fire..... You've done it now!!! You better swear to never spike a bird house removal again!

 

[Tree Pig]

Oh, I hear the angry mob coming with pitchforks and fire..... You've done it now!!! You better swear to never spike a bird house removal again!

no big deal he put corks on the end of the spikes so it would hurt the tree.

 

[Boogieman142]

the tree will eveantually be removed but for now it remains. I had to get the birdhouse out of it before it can be tho. I could have removed it with a ladder but oh well, its only a box elder anyway plus i had fun doing it.

 

[Tree Pig]

the tree will eveantually be removed but for now it remains. I had to get the birdhouse out of it before it can be tho. I could have removed it with a ladder but oh well, its only a box elder anyway plus i had fun doing it.

Well it is a good way to practice. If you are thinking about learning how to climb. If you have someone that can give you some tips, if you have a tree in your yard scheduled to come down. Get some use out of it before you have it cut. Low and slow of course and dont just try up and down work on some other skills, passing limbs, 180° around the trunk, tying in, switching on to a climb line. But again if you have someone that knows this stuff that can keep an eye on you it will help. But if I was you I would try learning ropes, easier, safer and more fun.

I have had a few customers that paid me to climb up 25 feet and hang bat houses. But I roped up not spiked good easy beer money either way.

 

[fishercat]

i always spike on birdhouse removals.

it's a safety issue.

as for practicing with spikes,i always use someone else's trees.

 

[Boogieman142]

well, I plan on learning on this tree enough so that someday i will be able to take it down. My father can do it and he was watching me climb it rolling on the ground laughing. He told me to try it myself first and he would help me after that. He's 68 and needs to stop climbing all our trees that need to be cut, so its time for me to step up to the plate and learn how.

 

[tree md]

Not a bad idea to have a sacrificial tree in the yard to learn on. Lots of tree companies do it. I have worked for more than one service that had one for new prospects to spike up before they were hired. Just don't want to be spiking up them for no reason. Especially for the money.

 

[canopyboy]

it's a safety issue.

as for practicing with spikes,i always use someone else's trees.

Just curious, why do you need spikes for safety when removing a birdhouse?

 

[Boogieman142]

I don't have any ropes that i'm willing to trust to climb with so the spurs were safer, then again a ladder would have been even better but wheres the fun in that.

 

[Tree Pig]

Just curious, why do you need spikes for safety when removing a birdhouse?

SELF DEFENSE

 

[Fireaxman]

Just curious, why do you need spikes for safety when removing a birdhouse?

For the Beauty of a well turned Sarcasm, of course.

 

[fishercat]

i don't know.

Just curious, why do you need spikes for safety when removing a birdhouse?

chits and giggles maybe.

take a breath now and then will ya.

 

[Boogieman142]

spent some of my afternoon setting cloths lines on telephone poles and went up that tree again so i have a few more hours on them. This time my father put his popcorn away and actually gave me some instruction so it went a little more smoothly.

 

[canopyboy]

chits and giggles maybe.

take a breath now and then will ya.

Still working on that breathing thing, but it's coming along.

.....Yeah, see I had envisioned something kind like that picture Stihl-O posted..... Was hoping you had a good story about killer condors or psychotic hummingbirds. Oh well.

 

[fishercat]

no violent birds here.

Still working on that breathing thing, but it's coming along.

.....Yeah, see I had envisioned something kind like that picture Stihl-O posted..... Was hoping you had a good story about killer condors or psychotic hummingbirds. Oh well.

they are pretty calm.

i should where them in Hartford and New Haven for self defense though.

Sam Colt keeps that covered for the most part.

 

[Boogieman142]

I guess i just don't see what the big deal is with using spurs in a good tree. They drill into maples every year and they don't die and thats a much larger would than a spike is.