[B"]Ekka, I'm surprised to hear that you, the man who has made a nice video of a perfectly good and safe trunk walk, climb with gaffs to prune on certain trees. Even palms are to be respected in every way possible. People have been climbing big palms without gaffs or specialized equipment for century's, maybe even for thousands of years. Are you now saying that it can't be done, even knowing that the gear we have now is exponentially safer then the gear they had then? I've seen thai-arborists (without gaffs) prune trees without the use of specialized gear. I've seen them succesfully pruning very big branches over glass structures using only one thick rope and the most beatiful spider-legs one can imagine... All that without the use of hooks, slings, grcs's or whatever. Sure, it takes longer, but the result is the same. We have to remind ourselves once in a while that other people all over the world , who might not be so lucky to have all this gear, still are getting the job done... So think about that before you say that a certain job can't be done
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Nice in theory but how many of these people fall to their deaths, our climbing equipment has evolved for safety of the worker over years. i have been in this industry for 20 years and over that time have seen many changes and each point in time we think what we are doing is the best it can get. Rest assured changes will come some good some bad, thats what is exciting about our industry its evolving every day and we as arborists are driving that. This forum is driving that also as knowlage is no good if its not shared. Debate is good just keep it civil
learn from each other not shoot each other down.
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