career change, best advice

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

If you knock the dent out of the rear wing in my car, Ill give you a days experience, when one comes up

 

dont let anyone mug you off! a fit lad in his twenties is worth a nifty of anyones dough, experianced or not!

 

You cheeky toads!

[shropshirestars]

you could always offer your time free of charge on a weekend to gain experience

maybe a couple of saturdays a months might just help you on your way

whatever you do good luck

[Dean Lofthouse]

Do you know, I was thinking of doing it the other way round.

 

Get a nice job, regular pay, holday pay and sick pay plus pension.

 

Then do tree work part time with no overheads

[Mesterh]

Do you know, I was thinking of doing it the other way round.

 

Get a nice job, regular pay, holday pay and sick pay plus pension.

 

Then do tree work part time with no overheads

 

Sounds like a plan:thumbup1:

 

 

If your seen the state of tree surgeons trucks you could well probably get some work in exchange for your dent mastering skills:thumbup:

 

If I was you I would look at going part time on the panel beating to fund you through training and get kitted up. Dunno about in your area but work here has been really really slow for the last 18 months.

 

In other words dont quite your day job just yet IMO.

[White Noise]

Now - when you say "don't you?" are you talking to me or yourself?

 

Dont ask me I only tell lies . Who said that . What not you again .

[geoff]

If anyone on here offers you a trio choc bar, say NO,outside of that my advice is see if you can help out an arb at the weekend to get your toe in.

Good luck!

[wobblybob]

haha cheers guys i'll get on the hunt, whats the best thing for me to read/learn over the nxt couple of months before i can get fully into it?

[firewoodman]

Do you know, I was thinking of doing it the other way round.

 

Get a nice job, regular pay, holday pay and sick pay plus pension.

 

Then do tree work part time with no overheads

 

exactly what i've been thinking too:thumbup1:

[treequip]

If you knock the dent out of the rear wing in my car, Ill give you a days experience, when one comes up

 

Ha ha ha ha.

 

I have seen that car, you are gonna need more than a day........

[Kev Stephenson]

haha cheers guys i'll get on the hunt, whats the best thing for me to read/learn over the nxt couple of months before i can get fully into it?

 

Don't spend too much money on books, spend a good few hours reading back threads on this forum. What you will find is real world tree surgery as apposed to idealised money no object projects.

 

I would however recommend a tree id book (e.g. Collins Tree Guide) and 'the tree climbers companion' which is full of knots and climbing methods.