Best country to work in ??

[Alex O]

Dampener, i went to Melbourne when our kid married an Australian lass, Box Hill was the town, I had a chance of working (under the radar) and passed it up. Take from that what you will.

Haven’t been down to Melbourne yet eggs so can’t really comment, I guess you’ll never know and I it’s not for everybody. Our reasons are purely for that better life and needed to do it while our kids are still young and me and the Mrs still have some life in us.

[Khriss]

Norway ! Then Germany , Portugal  ( nice people ) and France ( food so good )

Not heard good prices as those noted in Australia n N Zealand, but bend to current opinion. K

[eggsarascal]

Spain was probably the best country I worked in. Earned more money in Germany mind.

[Mark J]

I had fun in Munich. Good money, high standard of work.

[Rich Rule]

Norway is pretty good.  I would say that though as I live here.

 

If you’re good you can get excellent hourly/day rates.  But you pay a lot of tax and cost of living is pretty high.

 

depends on the lifestyle you are after.  Don’t be put off with Scandiwegian weather.  I live and work in the Oslo area.  We had a bad winter for snow.   It rained for the first time in about a month, Monday and Tuesday this week.  Other than that it has been sunny, crystal clear blue skies and last week was 21C. 
 

Proper arb work as well.  A lot of climbing good sized trees but not a lot of cutting.  In all the years working here I don’t think I have had to do a large mature crown reduction.  Yes, reduced specific limbs etc and weight reductions but not whole trees.

[bigtreedon]

Norway is pretty good.  I would say that though as I live here.
 
If you’re good you can get excellent hourly/day rates.  But you pay a lot of tax and cost of living is pretty high.
 
depends on the lifestyle you are after.  Don’t be put off with Scandiwegian weather.  I live and work in the Oslo area.  We had a bad winter for snow.   It rained for the first time in about a month, Monday and Tuesday this week.  Other than that it has been sunny, crystal clear blue skies and last week was 21C. 
 
Proper arb work as well.  A lot of climbing good sized trees but not a lot of cutting.  In all the years working here I don’t think I have had to do a large mature crown reduction.  Yes, reduced specific limbs etc and weight reductions but not whole trees.

Crown reductions are work of the devil ?

[Jamespepperpot]

I've worked as a groundy in Helsinki and Bavaria and enjoyed both very much. Planning to head back to Helsinki as soon as I can. The work is fairly easy going and most things are mechanised, most speak good English and once you get used to Finnish people they are really easy to get on with. Germany was great and the pay was good too!

[Rough Hewn]

I started tree work in Brittany France.
Didn't realise until I returned to the uk that alcohol wasn't mandatory in arbwork.
Espece des alcolique!
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[Ty Korrigan]

5 hours ago, Rough Hewn said:

I started tree work in Brittany France.
Didn't realise until I returned to the uk that alcohol wasn't mandatory in arbwork.
Espece des alcolique!
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Working alone removing oaks.

At lunch it started to rain heavily and in town I stumbled on market day in Noyal-sur-Vilaine this Tuesday.

No restaurants open, no warm cafes or bars to hide in, however...

To my delight, a food van selling high end saucisse galettes with lot's of different options. 

Usually you get a cold saucisse in a damp flaccid buckwheat pancake but these were excellent so I had two sitting in my steamy truck washed down with half bottle of local cider, marvelous!

 Stuart

[essexjack]

We emigrated out to Sydney last October and the guy I contract to lives in the northern suburbs and most of our work is around there and the northern beaches, it’s amazing. You can earn anything between $300-400 on the ground per day or climbing $500-$650 a day and a little more if your s**t hot. We generally start around 7:30-7:45am and can be finished buy 10am or around lunchtime, can’t argue with that.

WAAAAAT, that sounds too good to be true.