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» East of England Climbers and Cutters Competition by Tony Sorensen |
Well. I'm done for another year.
Funny really, me judging. I mean, who would let me judge anything 
Once again a great weekend. As always, the main aim of this comp is to show off to joe public with the aim of raising the local profile of arborists and climbers. This is real back to basics stuff. If we can show people what real climbing or real chainsaw work looks like, they may think twice when the ubiquitous cowboys rock up with the mcculloch and the stepladder.
As a side benefit - we get to test our talents in a friendly, open and cooperative environment. Oh, and drink too much beer and goad our mates into going on the reverse bungee after a night in the beer tent!
So what were my highlights of the weekend as the head judge??- Realising that the event organisers had made a mistake and given me a proper tent, big enough for my landrover!!
- Nick Potts turning up and happily doing the commentary (cheers mate). Nick's experience on the mike showed in his ability to actually make talking about ropes sound interesting to the layman!
- Ross Kite, a kiwi working in the big smoke, jumping from green target 3 to target 4 and making it look ridiculously possible (it isn't!)
- Last years winners faces after watching Ross Kite!! Gutted!
- Watching Tully King (who's been climbing for 4 months) bust out a redirect and show everyone else how its done.
- Alex Laver having a laugh (even if he was the only one ha ha ).
- Andy Campbell doing his traditional karaoke stint in the beer tent - Johnny B Good careful mate, people will think its a regular thing!
- Pressuring Mr Bullman into doing two climbs (Sorry mate, that's what you get for being too good).
- Meeting all those new people and seeing the faces behind the usernames!
Congratulations to Daryl Platton for winning the Open. Well earnt mate, all that training paid off! Also to Oli Husar who took home more prizes than he could handle, HUSAR!!! And finally to Tully - what can I say mate, except you're in the open next time!
Many thanks to all the competitors for putting on a good show.
Thanks to my fellow judges; Glen and Jim for trawling through all the gear and running the paperwork, and to Nick for helping me score and for doing the commentary for two days.
Thanks to the comp sponsors; Arbtalk & Arbjobs. Cheers Steve and Nick. And thanks to all the companies that dug deep into their pockets for the prize fund including Martin at MJ Tree Services, Rob at R Bell, Spider & Kev at Rouses, and many more (apologies if I've forgotten anyone).
Thanks to all those who helped Andy out on the Cutting Side as well; Alex, Andy, Colin, Woody and many more.
Finally a HUGE thank-you to Chalky & Gillian for organising and managing the whole thing. Good job sir.
Discuss the event at http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=1963
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» Capel Manor by Laura Diggins(event organiser) |
TREEMENDOUS!
What can I say except that this year's Celebration of Trees, sponsored by Husqvarna, was a huge success and definitely surpassed my expectations - we were even blessed with glorious weather!
Thank you to our sponsor Husqvarna for helping to make this year's show possible and thanks to all of our exhibitors for taking the time to join us. I saw some great displays on my travels around the show field and some unique ways of attracting people to your stands through competitions - although I still can't believe I fell off the rolling wall after about 40 seconds!! Shame on me!
For those of you that visited the show I hope you found it beneficial and managed to enjoy yourself while you were here trying out the archery and other activities. I saw many of you leaving with arms full of purchases so can only assume you found what you were looking for. We saw bumper numbers in terms of vistors to the show this year with 880 people on Friday and over 1300 people on Saturday; a 44% increase on last year's numbers which is a fantastic result and to give you an idea of the trade:general public split we had approx 68% trade.
The ISA's Student Tree Climbing Competition, sponsored by Treeworker, was once again a huge success and congratulations to the winner Tom Bunday. You can click on the following link to see the results in full: http://www.isa-arboriculture.org/content/cm000112.htm
A huge thanks has to go to Venables for being my knights in shining armour. My fears about the soft ground came to reality as a few heavy vehicles got stuck in the mud but thanks to their 'wonderful winch' they were free in seconds.
A few pics have been uploaded onto our website, click on the following link
http://www.capelmedia.co.uk/gallery/comments.asp?id=118 to view and you can also take a look at the shots taken by Venables by clicking here:
http://www.venablestrees.com/?conten...fset_gallery=0
Watch this space for news of next year's dates and what we have planned for 2009.
Thanks again everyone and I look forward to seeing you all next year.
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