Wow. I missed a week and there's 8 pages of replies to a thread with my name on it!! Im honored. Great new thread, Ekka, I enjoyed finding out about the people behind the post.
Well here's my excuse. My internet connection is a remote, usb plug-in device. My girlfriend had auditions in Chicago and took it with. So I spent the week disconnected from my bark bitting, saw ripping, e-net buddys. Worse than that, I had two rain days WTF. ::shocked::
When I went to a foreman seminar about 4 months ago, I noticed that just about every tree guy in the room was rocking back and forth or bouncing his foot. Tree guys can't sit still! Having a "rain day" drives me NUTS! Wish it would snow. Then I could hike or climb, SOMETHING.
Don't have any kids but I practice
I have been dating Elena, an actress, for the past 2 years and I haven't been happier
She's applying for her masters so I'll be moving again - for the 23rd time! Before that I was married for 2 years. One of the toughest questions ever posed to me was "what do you want to do when you grow up?" At 11 I didn't know and that made me nervous. When I was 25 I started to freak out because I still didn't know. Then I was a gm for two months and I was hooked. I started soaking up as much as I could. If I saw a tree crew working I'd stop 2 watch their style of work. Not wanting to be a gm for someone else, when I got divorced I started climbing for myself. That lasted about a year and a half. I climbed and stacked cell towers for a year after that. Those guys had a wealth of knowledge when it came to rigging. Their climbing styles were very restricted and slow.
Im glad to be back in the trees where I belong. I spent the majority of my childhood in the mountains of Hawaii. If you would have told me then that I would be able to chat with mates, all around the world, that work in the same profession that I love, NO WAY!! wouln't believe ya. Ekka thanks for making it happen. And to all who write in Bigshea, Sean Freeman, mdvaden, treevet, etc.....
I used to learn something new everyday in the green industry and now if I haven't learned 10 new things, I havn't read enough threads
