Unregistered how's it going?

Goetz

There is lots of good stuff happen up north ! The date for the second far north Queensland Tree Climbing championship is confirmed !
Get your pen & paper, your climbing gear and come up to Cairns from June 20.-21. 2008 . We'll have a series of workshops on Friday 20.June 2008 and the tree climbing comp will be on Sat. 21.June 2008.
Never been to Cairns before ? Take the challenge,- it will be awesome. Besides the climbing it is all about having fun, people and trees. Great plan !
In the evening we have a great barbie with some entertainment. Photos will be on the web soon from the first competition in Cairns in Nov. 2007.

cheers

Goetz

shaggs

Lopa, sorry to hear about your dad mate. Can't imagine losing mine but make the most as I know it will come some day.
Wishes and prayers to your family.
Shannon

windthrown

We have had the first ever hurricane warning on the Pacific Northwest Coast this year. Was a hurricane, but not as bad as the one back in 1962 (Columbus Day Storm). Still have some trees down from that blow. Then we had a foot of snow here two weeks ago. More snow than we have had in many years here. Brought gobs (er, that's heaps in Aussy lingo) more trees down, and the power was out for a day. Then last week we got a lot of heavy rain that melted the snow. With the snow and rain, we had 8 inches of precip. in 5 days. Anyway, we now have about 200% of average snowpack up in the Cascades. We have had 53 inches of rain since July 1, '07 (rain year is July 1 to June 30, as we rarely get rain in summer here).

Been busy cleaning up the mass here, and looking for chainsaws for people down under...

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So few saws, so many trees...
Stihls: 210/250-/025/290/361/FS85
Echo: CS-3000, Olympyk & Mac doorstops

coast cutter

Can i have my thread back now? Only read the first 3 pages,that was enough. Been very wet down here & it isn't over yet. Our dam is still low and we still have water restrictions.
A_lopa, sorry to hear of the loss.
Ekka, lottery ticket would be good, that way i could retire to Hervey Bay

Magnus

Here it is a bit busy at the moment.

Most of you know me already but for those who don't here is the short version story.

I am a farm slave that broke down and was not able to do my job anymore so I was climbing the walls here and needed some brain gymnastic's.

About 4 years ago I started fiddling with some saws I had for firewood. Once they were done I looked for more as this was something I could do.
I found some old bears and got in to these in a serius way.
The collection today is about 500 saws, 350 more for parts and trade saws.

I started up Dolmar dealership this 1 January after some years fighting with insurance legal and disabuilety stuff. This is now going and I am currently starting canpain to get some good solid coustemers.

I have limetid capasety that i tend to exeed all the time wish reasoults in more then needed bedtime. That is were the computer dop it's work.
Keeps me busy and safe.

The collectors forum is the joy of my life were I get to have company of simular guy's.

I will check in here soon again and give yoyu a bit more on this.

hoot gibson

good morning everybody . weather is perty nice here 30 to 33 deg. f. have a meeting to go to taday for the ohio bowhunters ass. than when i get home i will buy you guys all a . and try not to post to much on MY THREAD!! hoot

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i had a friend one, but he died .

old dude

Ekka--
You are right-- I have been remiss in posting. had some heart surgery Dec'07-- this in combination with a hip replacement March'07 has pretty much nudged me away from the climbing end of of the biz for the last several months. Am currently exploring alternate ways to stay connected to the industry while de-emphasising the 'climber' thing which has been the bread and butter for the last 30yrs.
Am contemplating actually obtaining a TCIA certification in order to promote myself to my client base as a (piad) tree consultant and (or) trying to hook-up with a large established tree company in a sales/safety/supervisory position. Other than that I pretty much spend time making Sidekicks for Bailey's and Wesspur as well asa working on an idea of mine to repel deer from cultured landscapes and residential gardens.
Gotta go now-- will try not to be a stranger. Thanks for thinking of me and keep those kangaroos down under in line.
Tim

Tim Craig

Fine thanks Ekka.

Good to see Treeworld still going well.

treeseer

well i better respond since my "name" is up there.

I live near old dude and tried to send some work his way once but he said he was too old. Depressing part is, I'm younger than he! Hope the ticker gets goin for ya.

Always figured the lottery was a tax on dumb people, but if they win that theory might have to go.

Kid is 18 and works with me when not in class. Nephew is 19 and more like arbo material. Stepsons 16 and 14 and decent company.

It's my Year of Writing Dangerously--in 5 different natl pubs this month. not done yet.

Going to treevet's state OH tomorrow to spread some heresy; hope he gets off the can long enough to make the trip. OK now back to managing Decay and Risk ppt.

http://www.ohiochapterisa.org/conferenceGrid.pdf

I visit 3 sites in the usa but this one has got em knocked.

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chainsawchick67

hey guys! sory i haven't been too talkative on here lately! didnt read tho whole thred, just a bit!, Lopa, sorry to hear about your dad, ekka, things are good around here, i am a librarian now and its hard to do too much tree work right now when the ohio river is up . . they are ALL Up, it rained here nonstop, for nearly . . .3 days? and wind and storms and stuff, yesterday was the first 'nice' day we have had! yuk! scottwojo, if someone wanted to start a thred for you . . they would . . get over it!
I have no kids (yet) lol, i like to drink 'cheerleader beer' (jack daniels winw coolers), and Jagermeister straight, and Jager bombs, and cherry bombs, and margaritas, and daquaris. . .etc. . .
other than that, i been doing good!

Thanks Ekka !!!

arbdog

Hi everyone! Things are great here too, weve got stacks of work now so things are really looking up. Nice for everyone to know a bit more about how everyone else is getting on. I dont feel too good as i still got my chainsaw trousers on from yesterday, i had a few beers when i finished work and went off with some bird. i just got in (sat 4 oclock) and just want a to get changed.

Petre

Things are good here mate,unless your farming,worst drought in living memory in some parts of the North Island, the weather is all over the place spose its a global thing, maybee it will be a cold winter and I`ll sell my firewood mountain, unlike last year.f#@kn warm weather,f#@kn heat pumps.
08 has got off to a good start for me plenty of work trickling in & lots of laughs with my son & friends.
I`ve got charged batteries in the camera now so I`ll best get clickin.
Cheers
Petre

foertie

Hi Ya'll
greetings from sunny Belgium
am kinda new here, just worked in a tree whole day :-)
am studying for European Tree Worker as we call it in Europe, which is a two year education to become tree expert.. so always good to know what's giong on regarding materials, mishaps,....
Hope to hear from you all soon again
Kurt Hermans - Antwerp - Belgium

Tim Craig

Yes, why not? Lottery's supply well meaning charities with a valuable source of income. They also allow people with very little money to spend it on something meaningless as it gives them an enourmous sense of well being, dontya think?

Tim Craig

My favourite drink is turpentine followed by methylated spirits, I love the aftertaste.

foertie

not so good to hear then about those floods..
Sunny here, although it's winter time, almost 12?c
nice weather to climb trees