01.05.2015

Man up a tree

Spotted in Sutton town centre, near Mansfield, UK, a tree worker hanging onto a tree as they prune/remove it.

The man has climbed up as far he dares and then using a chain saw cut chunks off and shimmied down ready for the next cut. He was clearly working for the local authority, and you would have though that its health & safety department would have asked how they were planning the work at height? Especially after all the focus there has been about working at height when trimming trees.
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It is hard to believe that this was the safest or even most efficient method of doing this work

In the words of our reader: “Spotted today in Sutton, a man in the tree above the lorry on a thin branch shimming down as he cut it. I would have thought that a van mounted lift would have been more appropriate.”

Definitely one for our Death Wish series.
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That branch looks very thin