No Country for Bold Men

[scotspine1]

Times up lads, we had a good run.

 

 

Young people wanted in UK forestry amid critical shortage of tree surgeons | Trees and forests | The Guardian

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Institute of Chartered Foresters says 70% more staff must be recruited to meet current tree planting targets

 

[doobin]

What a mish mash of an article. Confusing tree surgery with minimum wage polish tree planters. 

[MattyF]

Typical guardian article ... load of absolute shite.

[Steve Bullman]

They could have made a better article than that using ai 

[scbk]

1 hour ago, doobin said:

What a mish mash of an article. Confusing tree surgery with minimum wage polish tree planters. 

Just to clear up any confusion:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(me, I'm with the tree planter, he's got all the chicks )

Edited June 11, 2022 by scbk

[Stere]

Tree planting is very  hard  work.

 

Highballer: True Tales from a Treeplanting Life by Greg Nolan

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Highballer book. Read 5 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In 1983, at nineteen, Greg Nolan was...

 

[Paul in the woods]

58 minutes ago, Stere said:

Tree planting is very  hard  work.

Indeed it is, and it doesn't end with planting you've got to look after the trees which means deer and squirrel control so I look forward to the Guardian encouraging that.

 

If we genuinely don't have people to become professional tree planters perhaps some of the office bound Guardian readers could put down their iPads and volunteer a bit? Get them out of the home office and get them some proper exercise in the real world?

 

That's from an ex office worked who's planted quite a few trees without any pay, grants etc.

 

Edited June 12, 2022 by Paul in the woods

[Guest Gimlet]

24 minutes ago, Paul in the woods said:

If we genuinely don't have people to become professional tree planters perhaps some of the office bound Guardian readers could put down their iPads and volunteer a bit? Get them out of the home office and get them some proper exercise in the real world?

 

If only. But they wouldn't do it. They'd be too afraid of having their most cherished ideological prejudices shattered. They couldn't risk that. Better to stay snuggled up in the comfort blanket of lefty metropolitan ignorance.  

[scbk]

I don't know what newspaper they read, but some office workers from down south do plant trees. It's more than voluntary they even pay for the privilege of doing it! Trees for life etc. Don't think they get many trees in the ground in a day though, and it means they can feel less guilty about getting on a plane.

[manco]

19 hours ago, scbk said:

Just to clear up any confusion:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(me, I'm with the tree planter, he's got all the chicks )

Tree Samay?