One of My Old Competitors at Work

[Old Monkey]

My brother just sent me a link to this. This is a news story from my home town San Anselmo. "The Tree Man" who we used to lovingly call the Tree Boy has grown up. He's the one watching the doppler radar on the laptop. What do you the of the rapid decent at about 1:30 into the video?

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=weather&id=7853591

 

[Old Monkey]

I used to work with Zach Wilder who gets interviewed in the video. He started the day with coffee, smoked pot to mellow out and then drank Redbulls to get the job done. I always thought his heart was going to fail.

 

[SkwerI]

The climber looked like a big boy who ate all his Wheaties as a child.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Looked hap-hazard on the descent. Must have been the camera related testosterone.

 

[Old Monkey]

He used to be so skinny, six pack abs and not an ounce of fat on him. I haven't worked with him in 7 or 8 years. He and his half brother are very natural climbers. They took more risks than I do or did but I do not remember either of them screwing up.

 

[sotc]

He is sooo smooth!

 

[Paul B]

At least he pimped the ISA certified arborists.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

True that ...... Good plug

 

[Old Monkey]

I've never put my stickers on anything. I'm bad.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Tsk Tsk....

 

[Old Monkey]

I don't want to be Mr. Expert. I just want to be a guy who knows some things and is available for advice.

 

[Stumper]

Bad Darin! Tell Kathy to spank the Old Monkey.

 

[sotc]

Hello!

 

[MasterBlaster]

He is sooo smooth!

Mugging for the camera!

 

[Paul B]

I wonder how many Bluetooth earpieces he goes through in a week?

 

[Bermy]

Shackle should have been above the ball...but hey he said the right thing about cost of maintenance vs cost of emergency work!

 

[Bodean]

They just did a job along Crissy field and stripped these monterey cypress pretty good.

That video was a good one, looked like a fun descente.

 

[Old Monkey]

Did you ever work with Zack? Craig says he's still a climber for hire and that The Tree Man just puts sub crews together while manning the cell phone.

 

[Bodean]

Zack does not look familiar.
I have not heard a lot of (+) things about The Tree Man.
Case in point being what you (Craig) just said.

Oh well.

I just see these contractors (For NPS) coming in and just
not giving a funk about what the trees do after they leave.

Cash in Cash out. Stripping the heck out of everything.
I'm sorry did I just bring the tone down a bit? Excuse me, if I did.

 

[Old Monkey]

You're just jealous.


How's the baby?

 

[NickfromWI]

I've never put my stickers on anything. I'm bad.

I sewed my patch onto a duffle bag of mine...

 

[thattreeguy]

I used to work with Zach Wilder who gets interviewed in the video. He started the day with coffee, smoked pot to mellow out and then drank Redbulls to get the job done. I always thought his heart was going to fail.

besides the redbulls it sounds like my morning, except i have a natural drive that just makes me work from sun up till down

 

[Bodean]

Cash drives me.

The baby is awesome. He's almost 7 months now. He looks a little Uncle Fester.

 

[sotc]

Na, lots of hair. Growin like a weed!

 

[Old Monkey]

That's awesome Deva.