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Old 23rd April 2008, 08:45 PM   #16 (permalink)
Sean Freeman
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Default Re: K & M Tree Service

Thanks for posting K&M, great to hear that you feel you are following best practices.....great but somewhat confusing?????

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You also dont need a brain bucket if u know what your doin.....
I'll be sure to pass that onto the OH&S committees since they are obviously wasting their time and everyones money...what a relief that you were able to come on and clear that one up..

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for all you idiots who wear ear protection
(They would be the climbers who care to adhere to the safety legislation.....and the climbers who want to keep their hearing for life...or MAYBE I SHOULD SHOUT FOR YOU)

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how is your ground crew suppose to let you know when they see something you dont...i.e. guy in the tree cannot see around the tree and you go to cut and your safety line is there
Well if you actually ever tried wearing hearing protection you would know you can hear sound over the chainsaw and the chipper when it is of a distinctly different range/pitch...but hey you guys obviously don't need all that since you're soooo safe eh????

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we have been in this business for years
Yep and that is evidence of what exactly?????? I hear this from every crap fly by night tree company that gets pulled up for unsafe practices......."but we've been doing it like this for years nobody got hurt till now..."

Good luck with that line in court buddy...........

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if you dont like it please keep your comments to yourself
Nope sorry, won't be doing that free country, free speech.............people celebrate ANZAC day tomorrow here in OZ and just some of that has a tiny bit to do with the freedoms we cherish mate.....don't like criticsm...well don't carry on unsafe work practices then eh.

BTW if you are thinking of taking someone to court I'd have an expensive legal chap (they'll be wearing a suit and tie and have their hearing intact) look over this site the pics and this thread first...cause if I were the one you wanted to prosecute in court I have your business shut down double quicktime, there's thankfully nowhere in the developed world where unsafe work practices like the ones you've advocated in your post, are legal.

But hey what would any of us know.......
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