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Always have keep a spare rubber sling for your Big Shot since they do eventually break. It'll break when you're going for that 100ft+ shot.

Arrive at the job site just after sunrise so you can get a line in without the sun directly in your eyes. Sometimes I'll even put a line in the day before so I can work off the invariably frustrating exercise with beer and sleep before the real work begins the next day.

Much nicer to put your notches in with a big saw when you not moving around the stem on a pole belt or flip line. That tree was an Ironbark - Eucalyptus sideroxylon or similar–one of the heaviest and hardest Eucalypts (timber does not float.) Commands the best price as firewood (e.g >...

Also, the more units you are using in a day the quicker the job goes. With four headsets, all jobs are usually done within four hours because the on job communication is bordering on ESP...

On the odd occasion where I do get called in as a contract climber I always say that I'm bringing my own ground worker to run the ropes (and price it accordingly.) We both have the Sena comms in our helmets so jobs run really smooth. Also, it's always priced at a day rate. If we do manage to...

True. Except drum chippers seem to do better when not kept sharp and well adjusted. Love also helps too. I give my disc chipper (250xp with 5,500hrs on the clock) a big hug every morning before greasing her nipples.

Oh to be 24 again with all that excess energy.

Tsurugi 400mm because it can go either way into its holster unlike Zubat. I'll use the Zubat when fine detailing/dead wooding pines or macrocarpa's, i.e death by 1000 cuts.

Leaf.co. Tree Recon. Amazing stuff! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_dRtSmbWU8

Here's how our truck was looking midday on Friday the 13th.... An old concrete skin collapsed into open space so there was no way to tow the truck out. A mate turned up this morning with a 7t excavator and we lifted the front corner using a wire rope sling around the chassis rail while...

The ABR Rig and Ring things are great for pruning too when you don't want unnecessarily damage the tree being pruned or the tree that is being rigged from. Just make sure you tie your throw line back on the rope for retrieval if there's any chance the Rig and Ring might get stuck in the fork.

Make sure you only work with non-smokers...yeah that's gonna be hard in this industry. I have Asthma too and would rather breath chainsaw exhaust fumes than get a lung full of cigarette smoke. Also concentrate on breathing through your nose only–especially when working hard–as this helps to...

The battery life on the GoPro isn't great when you're trying to film tree work. Unless you only work 2 hours per day! I grabbed a couple of Brunton All Day battery packs for my GoPro 3's and can now get 6+ hours of recording. Enough to fill 64gb memory cards. A bit more weight on the helmet too.

Have bought a few things in the past and never used. 16oz throw bag has never seen the light of day.

Have always used the Atlas Fit 300 but might get some Atlas 370 PalmTech nitrile gloves in my next Treestuff order. A new pair of Atlas Fit 300 come out every couple of weeks as the old ones start losing their grip for the SRT work. Seem to have 5 or more pair of old gloves floating around...

Sunday afternoon cleaning out old paper work and found a pile of receipts from 2010 when I first got into tree work. I was staying with friends in Auckland NZ who needed a tree removed – a willow approx. 20cm DBH. Went out and bought a Silky Gomtaro (I still use it but have replaced the blade...

We did a big pine yesterday. Last lift was about 12,000kg - 26,000lb. Had to cut it into two bits for subsequent transport. I'd never had to organise so many people for a single job but at least it gave me the opportunity to watch the action most of the day.

Easily frustrated here too. Worse if I start the day with the Big Shot and still don't have a rope in the tree after 10 minutes. If you're working in the Hills District around Sydney you'll be loving the hot days - and hotter ones to come. Not even summer time yet and already plenty of +30ºC...

I'd be charging twice as much for doing hedges... Did you get a new saw just for the job–very shiny? I guess you don't want any chainsaw trouble when there's a helicopter involved.

Or sell it to pay for a new feed roller motor on the 250xp that suddenly started leaking yesterday - 3 gallons in 1 hour! Although the timing was perfect since I'm contract climbing for the next three work days so plenty of time–for someone else–to fix.