@mikewhite85
I work in the field with a crew. Most days I’m the crane operator. With a sub crane, I’m the climber/ rigger. On the real nasty jobs I’m the climber. Any non crane normal tree job I’m just there to do ground work and advise the climber or bucket operator. I spend a majority of the time with one crew but bounce around randomly to advise. It’s kind of chaotic really. There are days where my normal crew has to wait on me to show up with the crane because I have to go give advise to another.
Our safety training is basically what TCIA has. We don’t register it all with them but we keep our own records. There are also a bunch of videos from different manufacturers that we watch and then go over. And we also do incident reports and near miss discussions. Job briefings, tail gate safety meetings, lunch time discussion, and encourage any discussion through out the day on anything that could potentially go wrong and ways to mitigate them. Everyone has SENA’s and are required to be linked when working. I also spend countless hours on forums and facey space reading and looking at accidents to keep in fresh in everyone’s minds that bad **** happens.
And to that always never ending debate of one handing a top handle, we encourage two hands. I really try to keep the climbers from doing it. Not easy because I’m guilty of it. I started climbing in the 020T days and it was pretty much accepted. I try to lead by example but at times I revert back to the dark side. Occasionally I’ll announce when I’m going to do it and explain the reason why and also ask of anyone has a better solution. Bucket babies are harder to yell at for it. I encourage two hands but don’t push them on it like I probably should.
Sorry it’s a long post as I’m rambling on. I’m better at reading than writing
