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The potential of seeing pensioners who’ve been neighbours for 30+yrs screaming abuse at eachother over an unclipped conifer is what gets me out of bed at 5am every day.
Conifer work is just as you say, it’s profitable for us cos we’re geared up to do it quickly but it’s always gonna be a long, dusty and scratchy day however straightforward the access is.
The real money at the moment is in stump grinding and oak processionary moth nest removal. The latter is grim as fuck tho.
My climbing is reserved mostly to cliffs nowadays as I did 10years up trees without any life changing injuries so I’m happy rigging and grinding most of the week. At 34 I’m an old cunt by arb standards anyway. Still fun to lob the top off a big ash once in a while tho.