Seawytch
Information isnt Advocacy
Actually you don't know that. There are women lumberjacks. They do all the things you do everyday. You're not as special as you think you are.
The International Society of Arboriculture has held the International Tree Climbing Championship, which trains and prepares competitors for aerial rescue and survival, since 1976. In the arboriculture world, these games known as “the big dance,” are a big deal — think Olympics big. The first female champion, Chirtina Engel of Germany, wasn’t named until 2001. These days, a third of the competitors are women. At the international championships held in Wisconsin earlier this month, there were 39 male competitors and 19 women.
Bull, show me a pic of one topping out a tree with a 4-foot or bigger bar.
Dude, you're a tree guy, we get. Guess what? Women are "tree guys" too. I know it hurts your pride a lot to know that women are now doing the job you do. Somehow it makes you feel "lesser". It shouldn't. You should be happy that women are no longer limited in what they do. Your daughters or granddaughters can be anything they want to be. Why is that so upsetting to you?
You're missing the point: It's impossible for women to do what I do sometimes.
Not going to happen. Tell you what, next time you're in a shop with chainsaws, find a saw with a 36" to 48" bar and see if you can hold it horizontally, at all. Women do not have the upper body strength to do that.
Sure they can use a light, one-handed arborist saw. Cutting beef is a different story.
There ARE women that can do what you do. I provided you a webpage dedicated to them. Women compete at what you do for a living. Seriously, your pride will survive this.
I will try to explain this to you in the simplest terms:
No woman has ever been topping out a tree with a 48-inch saw.
I have. Multiple times.
Women are incapable of doing so, period.
Prove me wrong and I will retract.
In the meantime:
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And 1 more thing: Know your role.
I already DID prove you wrong. You said no woman can do what you do and yet there is a whole website dedicated to women that do what you do and even compete in what you do. That your pride can't handle it is your problem. Go pee standing up, you'll feel better.