New career leap

[trigger_andy]

3 minutes ago, Crocky said:

 

yeah 3x3 for contractors and 2x3 for a lot of the operators. unless youre on a shell asset. theyre all on 2x3. dont get me wrong not everyone is on £400 but a welding inspector would be. a few NDT quals and a rope ticket will get you £360 if you have some experience. IRATA level 3s are in shortage too. 

Is Salomon trainers issued as PPE for Dopes on Ropes? As it seems thats what they collectively wear.  

Edited November 13, 2023 by trigger_andy

[Crocky]

34 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

Is Salomon trainers issued as PPE for Dopes on Ropes? As it seems thats what they collectively wear.  

that and full Rab outfit 🤣

[josharb87]

Go for it! 
 

as long as you’ve got a unique selling point or specialist niche be it being a frigging awesome climber, unique equipment or something else that only time or a ton of money and risk buys to set you apart from the million and one other established, experienced tree outfits in your county you’ll do fine  otherwise I’ll echo what the rest have said, and be happy scrabbling around fighting to be the lowest of 10 quotes for a mornings hedge cutting

[Mick Dempsey]

11 minutes ago, josharb87 said:

Go for it! 
 

as long as you’ve got a unique selling point or specialist niche be it being a frigging awesome climber, unique equipment or something else that only time or a ton of money and risk buys to set you apart from the million and one other established, experienced tree outfits in your county you’ll do fine  otherwise I’ll echo what the rest have said, and be happy scrabbling around fighting to be the lowest of 10 quotes for a mornings hedge cutting

 

[josharb87]

31 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

 

Impressively, I reckon your meme bank is bigger than my vvank bank! 

[scbk]

OP could combine trees and welding, get a job in forestry engineering, making/mending forest machines and their attachments

[5thelement]

21 minutes ago, scbk said:

OP could combine trees and welding, get a job in forestry engineering, making/mending forest machines and their attachments

I trained a HGV mechanic a few years back who wanted a change in his career and fancied getting into the tree business. I strongly recommended that he thought long and hard about it, and that maybe he should move into maintaining large forestry machinery instead.
 A chance meeting with a harvester driver in an adjacent block gave him the lightbulb moment, I think he then retrained with Komatsu.

[AHPP]

 

[Donnie]

Welder/fabricator/engineer whatever you want to call it. 13 quid an hour when I quit 2 years ago and went into hand cutting in forestry. 
 

If you are going into the woods give me a PM on here and I'll let you know how I've got on in the past year of doing this. 

[doobin]

11 minutes ago, JDon said:

Welder/fabricator/engineer whatever you want to call it. 13 quid an hour when I quit 2 years ago and went into hand cutting in forestry. 
 

If you are going into the woods give me a PM on here and I'll let you know how I've got on in the past year of doing this. 

If you can find me a skilled welder/fabricator who works for £13 and hour I’ll give them a full time job tomorrow.