Chicken or the egg

[manco]

4 hours ago, Sviatoslav Tulin said:

First rule of a business never insult anyone, 

unless theyre a cyclist, then go nuts, cos they deserve it.

[Sviatoslav Tulin]

24 minutes ago, manco said:

unless theyre a cyclist, then go nuts, cos they deserve it.

Agree cyclist is a menace!

[Sviatoslav Tulin]

2 hours ago, Excels1or said:

Jesus christ, this post has turned into another dogs abortion. 

No it’s a dialogue ,in modern world.

[Mick Dempsey]

Sviatoslav has an opinion, it’s not a popular one, but no one’s getting injured, he’s not spouting ’hate speech’ or whatever

Don’t like it? Then argue it, or don’t bother, but let’s not act all outraged.

[carlos]

2 hours ago, Sviatoslav Tulin said:

No it’s a dialogue ,in modern world.

god what is your old fashioned dialogue like.......!!!!

[Dan Maynard]

I think call rather than email, not liking written communications is one of the things that pushes people into arb in the first place.

 

The other thing I'd do is ask around and keep asking your network of family friends and acquaintances if they know someone who is a tree surgeon. When I was starting I got the same 'need experience' from the firm who had a yard in my village, but a friend of a friend had a small local firm a bit further away. I still do 1 day a week there 7 years later.

[Muddy42]

I'd wait until you have your tickets, PPE and a saw. Then try calling some farmers or people in rural areas.  They always have trees falling on or hanging over fences and everyone needs firewood.

[Mightbe_lost]

1 hour ago, Muddy42 said:

I'd wait until you have your tickets, PPE and a saw. Then try calling some farmers or people in rural areas.  They always have trees falling on or hanging over fences and everyone needs firewood.

I have full PPE and my husqvarna 550xp and a selection of garden/landscape tools. I've bought my course forward to a couple weeks time so I am going to focus on that then continue the search after Xmas. 

[Steven P]

3 hours ago, Muddy42 said:

I'd wait until you have your tickets, PPE and a saw. Then try calling some farmers or people in rural areas.  They always have trees falling on or hanging over fences and everyone needs firewood.

 

Offering yourself to farmers and so on might then need insurance though.

 

 

 

Catching up on this thread but the personal touch is always better than an e-mail. Might be that the owners read the e-mail in their lunch break, thinking "I'll reply to that later" and of course get home, home stuff happens, e-mail gets forgotten, the phone call, could get your name written on a handy scrap of paper in the van depends what they are doing at the time, the face to face is almost a part on an interview and harder to ignore - the type of thing that gets commented on at home "Had a girl come to ask if she could work today", where as unlikely conversation starter "Had a girl e-mail today".

 

Luckily for now chainsaws are quite noisy - said before in the firewood forums that I can take a lunchtime walk round here and usually can hear work going on - which is ideal for the "Hi, I was passing and heard your saws..." approach. Similarly petrol hedge trimmers. Might be on a big job you could offer "I can come back tomorrow, do a shift and you can see my work ethics if you want"