Stillllll i would kinda say, walk don't run; there is power in tools of youth, but sometimes too much exhuberance..... (like wanting to do a big wood blindly, in time will come to reach there and test your talents-all too soon staanding against monster stuff and piles of sawdust in pockets and down shirt....) Many times you can gather more ground behind ya as ya seek, looking at it slow and intently, instead of racing by and missing most of it! Cutting some with a handsaw while pulling on or finishing a limb, can give all kinds of observations, that you could then see in the faster moving later. Many old magician's secret is being seamlessly integrated, slow motion perfect, that every motion counts and they seem fast as things fly around them,as they are jsut calmly the pivot of that arc, a perfectly focused machined and tempered over time.
Keep your head low aimed at real targets, not dis-trackted by the bs........ Thinking, drawing out your targets, seeing 5 ways to do something, picking best ......from ground then climb is pretty dang good...... Stand straight under crotches to rig from, look straight up, pick one that will plum-bob load right to that sweet spot that is open, and leading towards dispensing truck(sometimes in air, you will throw line to there and not be able to look down and see where it will deliver exactly in best clear spot between houses etc.). Don't cut out all the easy stuff first blindly, boss likes the ground to have something to do; so nice to bulk out a few points at first-but make sure, it is not a strong support to clear area, you could have rigged everything from over roof to easily.......but you cut it out...! Gathering experience on the chess board to think moves ahead, as ya becomes an ol'timer.
Though, i've found too, to keep an open mind, i've surveyed, erased , chose best of 3 differeent plans as setting climb, those are just ground notes, observations of evennness from ground etc. You will learn which of those things to ignore as it looks different in air, so generally go with that plan, drop most of rest; except a few obwervations, you learn are more accurate from ground to go with as ya develop style/strategy. Which you are well on your way to.....
Know too, if they been around, they pulled this on someone before-perhaps many times; they're are people like that all around........................it is just that you arre reporting that tree work is no different than working with guys on a dock, warehouse, cops, board rooms etc. Sometimes the more strength, risk etc. the more Billy Bad Butt has to roar.....these guys are right, good chip of that like on the playground is fear of ya getting close to thier territory, so snort that bluff at'ya keep ya backed down, thinking you can't compete in your own head, so they don't have to deal with ya.....sure you seen that b4!
Perhaps ya can't beat'em with a rope yet for all their years, perhaps they been yankin' peoples chains jest as long, so a lil'tough beatin there right now presently too; as you still trying to step up to the game they been practicing for 20! Obvioulsy concentrating on which part of that ya should, but what about the rest of that energy they conspire to thieve away to with what else they been playing, well practiced?
Hard ta beat a quieter guy sometimes that ya can't throw all that at, or seems not to weigh him down; as he quietly gathers himself with his total; has calm smile and just seems confidentally, quietly, po-lightly rising like a clear bubble through the sludge, steady and sure from whatever point he starts, is better each day...... maybe so inconspicous, save the trail behind him at first, but in time, the most noticed for clean quality (that never goes outta style), heart and ascending rightly; where folx kinda look to where he is evolving to confidentally as perhaps others should take to, even if they don't understand a knew knot-and the passion of trying 'em all to get best one and few trisx in belt-and any insight from you find they know is clean and clear, for what you stand aside from.
Know too, you wuz looking for a job, when ya found this'un; so maybe in a year or so, for what ever reason, you will about sucked all the knowledge you could from JoeBlow, and your passion and other things will bring ya to another door in your journeymanship, as any other s-kill you gather with such lust, for it's own sake. For all of us can't see ya to tell ya even what a big tree is in comparison of what a big tree is from where you are in mind and geography, at the same time; not thinking any won hear couldn't see; ya definitely have the hunger, found the scent; and definitely hot on the trail!
2 olde wons to re-member:
When in doubt, rope it out!
They're are old climbers,
and they're bold climbers;
But t'aint really no-
old & bold climbers!
ADD:
cuz; this is real life,
and that herd;
gets thinned!
Oh, and remember please,
in a Frog's education.....
spiders on the web;
aren't tasty insects!
(gots enough troubles stayin' out from under foot,
'round ol'JP presently thnk'ya!)
So to,
know too true,
This is a tough workplace that demands some toughness,
don't make up the balance by being toooooo nice when it is your turn,
Some heckling is good to draw this out and test, as to fraternity,
there are always distractions for one thing that must be ruled out to focus,
Just as pulling on a hinge slightly can make it stronger,
to flex through it's arc,
so too
Or something like that!
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