Week Fo’

Hello All,

Another rad week. More mark’s up.

Plant Health care didn’t even go to lab or lecture. Got the stuff I missed in class today. The teacher is a pretty laid back dude, hes due up for retirement so he’s jus’ chillin’.

Urban Forestry I wrote my tree characteristic test, don’t think I did exceptionally well, but I know I passed. I was kind of weak on the tree identification. Lecture was pretty cool, learned about tree biomechanics. I will post some interesting tree statistics as to why trees are awesome in another post. I like to keep these strictly business ha…

Basic was a crap shoot for the most part. Nutted myself Tuesday as stated in a previous post. I re-climbed that tree on Thursday and successfully climbed it and descended through an alternate crotch for my bonus mark… But lost it because I didn’t have my safety glasses. All in all, 2 more challenge tree’s done, 1 to go. Me and my partner also did our aerial rescue test on Thursday, cause we got bored. We were given a scenario, where the arborist in the tree had injured themselves, and we had to go up the tree and bring them down on our climbing line. I lost a mark because I forgot to say a command, but still walked away with 4/5 in 4 minutes.

Operations was better this time. Instead of 3 teams of 2 in one small block, it was just a team of 2 per block. We got a lot more cutting in which was awesome. I also completed my chainsaw lab, and I’m pretty sure I nailed it. The only bitch was we had to rig the tree’s with a throw ball. A throw ball is a very acquired skill that takes time to get good at. I’m better at getting my height, I just need to work on my accuracy, I actually somewhat enjoy the painstaking task.

Till Next… Cheers,

Ross

Pictures!

Me in the Walnut

Positioning myself

Thats the limb I nutted myself on

Lining up my cut

Making my notch

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