Coronet specification?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

You could ask that question of any task.

 

thats the oldest chestnut!

 

how do you get the jobs you want without the experiance you need to win those jobs!

 

ever decreasing circles, TEP have some good papers on the subject i believe thay are avaliable for download via the TEP site.

[Dan Curtis]

You could ask that question of any task.

 

Specifically to this thread, I meant it would be unreasonable to specify that these works should only be carried out by someone experienced in the practice.

[gibbon]

I don't think that its unreasonable to specify that the works should be undertaken by an experienced contractor at all. If the spec is tied to a planning condition its likely to be a tree covered by a tpo with some amenity value. Would you think it would be OK to let some do there 1st ever reduction on a protected tree?

 

If these works are considered a specialism then why not use a specialist to do them? In other trades you find people who specialise in different aspects of their work and if you have an out of the ordinary request you may well seek out the relevant contractor for your job.

 

If you want to become experienced in this type of work you could either work under the guidance of someone who is or practice and work up to doing it on larger or higher profile trees as you would with other operations. Its not to say if you don't have experience you shouldn't do it, rather get experince on woodland/roadside/whatever trees and improve your techniques 1st.

[Dan Curtis]

Obviously everyone needs to build their way up to bigger and higher profile jobs, my original post was perhaps looking a bit too hard at what you wrote. I just meant it seemed like ANY job of this spec should only be done by experienced contractors, hence the post.

 

I totally agree with you on other points, working under supervision of more experienced people did me no end of good.