Startup training queries

[New Boy]

Hi All,

 

This is my first of hopefully many posts on the forum, also unsure if this post will work as i am having some tech difficulty!!!!!

 

I would like to ask the members for some advice please if I may. Having recently had my midlife crisis I have decided to completely change my career and have decided to re-train to become a tree surgeon and work for myself. Working for myself is something that I feel strongly about after 25 years of not doing so. This is something I have thought about for many years but never taken the plunge! I am planning to attend a four week course in early 2014 to gain the basic qualifications and then start very slowly conducting minor works to begin with etc. My main question at this early stage is what level of investment I should be considering in terms of purchasing equipment and am I mad!!! I would also like to post the name of the training provider I intend to use in order to gain some feedback on them but am unsure if this would be allowed on this forum?

 

Thank you

 

New Boy

[treequip]

Hi All,

 

This is my first of hopefully many posts on the forum, also unsure if this post will work as i am having some tech difficulty!!!!!

 

I would like to ask the members for some advice please if I may. Having recently had my midlife crisis I have decided to completely change my career and have decided to re-train to become a tree surgeon and work for myself. Working for myself is something that I feel strongly about after 25 years of not doing so. This is something I have thought about for many years but never taken the plunge! I am planning to attend a four week course in early 2014 to gain the basic qualifications and then start very slowly conducting minor works to begin with etc. My main question at this early stage is what level of investment I should be considering in terms of purchasing equipment and am I mad!!! I would also like to post the name of the training provider I intend to use in order to gain some feedback on them but am unsure if this would be allowed on this forum?

 

Thank you

 

New Boy

 

Best to start your own thread rather than hijack someone else's but here goes.

 

Minor works

Well your advertising is going to bring what it brings, the majority wont be that minor, you are going to need help but you can always get a freelance climber in.

 

Kit

Hand tools wise you are going to need a couple of saws as a minimum, hedge cutters, ladders, a sprinkling of climbing kit.

Large kit wise you can muddle along with very little but as a general rule the more and better the quicker and more profitable the work will be. If I were starting from scratch the minimum I would want would be a tipper and a chipper.

[Amelanchier]

Best to start your own thread rather than hijack someone else's but here goes.

 

Thread un-hijacked (thanks to TGB for the heads up )

[New Boy]

Hi Thanks for taking the time to give me your advice, sorry I thought i was starting my own thread, clearly I am an IT biff!!!