How to get into tree surgery

[Tree monkey 1682]

20 minutes ago, Stubby said:

You saying  "its not a hard job " then is not based on any expirience of teaching then . Now you are saying " sit on a digger and earn more " but you were telling the OP to stick to teaching . You are all over the place 

What is it you aren't clear on ? Why would I get in debt for 3 years for something that doesn't financially renumerate me? Being stuck in education , if i went to uni then id make it pay rather than squandering my education.

Regarding digger work,  it pays and pays better than doing tree work  downside is you work with ex offenders on site and people with substances .

Thing, is i started training  and shadowing a lecturer however politics and crunching numbers made it a waste of time. 

Ive always had a downer on teachers that have gone to uni -then struggle with a pupil who learns differently. Makes you wonder what was learned at uni .

What also makes me laugh is parents pushing there child to uni , like I said living their parents dream ,rather than doing something the child is good at .

[Stubby]

15 minutes ago, Tree monkey 1682 said:

What is it you aren't clear on ? Why would I get in debt for 3 years for something that doesn't financially renumerate me? Being stuck in education , if i went to uni then id make it pay rather than squandering my education.

Regarding digger work,  it pays and pays better than doing tree work  downside is you work with ex offenders on site and people with substances .

Thing, is i started training  and shadowing a lecturer however politics and crunching numbers made it a waste of time. 

Ive always had a downer on teachers that have gone to uni -then struggle with a pupil who learns differently. Makes you wonder what was learned at uni .

What also makes me laugh is parents pushing there child to uni , like I said living their parents dream ,rather than doing something the child is good at .

The bloke wants to get into tree work . You are telling him dont . 

[Tree monkey 1682]

13 minutes ago, Stubby said:

The bloke wants to get into tree work . You are telling him dont . 

Im saying indirectly that if u could teach then do it, rather than tree work that will **************** your body eventually, no pension, probably easier to get a mortgage on a teachers job and then then the are the holidays .

By all means mess around with trees dunno maybe I'm cynical about the arb industry now and all the legislation and paperwork.

Atleast in the plant game the is money 

[Stubby]

40 minutes ago, Tree monkey 1682 said:

Im saying indirectly that if u could teach then do it, rather than tree work that will **************** your body eventually, no pension, probably easier to get a mortgage on a teachers job and then then the are the holidays .

By all means mess around with trees dunno maybe I'm cynical about the arb industry now and all the legislation and paperwork.

Atleast in the plant game the is money 

I posted my sons experience of going over from teaching to tree work to help the op and to show it can be done . You seem to dismiss this out of hand . You working on a 360 with thickos and crims has no bearing on the original question . I am sure you are the billie bollox on a digger and if the op wanted to work a  machine I would send him to you .  No where did  suggest you go to uni and get into dept .What is it you are not clear about ?

Edited March 2 by Stubby

[openspaceman]

23 minutes ago, Stubby said:

I posted my sons experience of going over from teaching to tree work to help the op and to show it can be done . You seem to dismiss this out of hand . You working on a 360 with thickos and crims has no bearing on the original question . I am sure you are the billie bollox on a digger and if the op wanted to work a  machine I would send him to you .  No where did  suggest you go to uni and get into dept .What is it you are not clear about ?

Stubby you are being trolled.

 

Good on your boy for getting the degree and teaching qualification, it might well come in handy in this industry.

 

I knew I could never be a teacher or deal with lots of people, far too far up the spectrum. I was able to teach youngsters how to do things on a one to one basis.

 

I'm glad the work opportunities I had came up, the labour and hardship seem so out of place now but I wouldn't do the job sitting in a machine 12 hours and getting a fat gut and propensity for a coronary before retrirement.

[Tree monkey 1682]

27 minutes ago, Stubby said:

I posted my sons experience of going over from teaching to tree work to help the op and to show it can be done . You seem to dismiss this out of hand . You working on a 360 with thickos and crims has no bearing on the original question . I am sure you are the billie bollox on a digger and if the op wanted to work a  machine I would send him to you .  No where did  suggest you go to uni and get into dept .What is it you are not clear about ?

I understand it very clearly, basically we have a uni grade person (apparently intelligent) that cant work out how to get into a manual trade .

That's it in simple terms 😆

[Tree monkey 1682]

15 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Stubby you are being trolled.

 

Good on your boy for getting the degree and teaching qualification, it might well come in handy in this industry.

 

I knew I could never be a teacher or deal with lots of people, far too far up the spectrum. I was able to teach youngsters how to do things on a one to one basis.

 

I'm glad the work opportunities I had came up, the labour and hardship seem so out of place now but I wouldn't do the job sitting in a machine 12 hours and getting a fat gut and propensity for a coronary before retrirement.

No trolling , its a simple question, coming from someone not uni grade and someone that has to unpick architectural plans that are normally wrong . As goes for the gut , I run and ride horses to keep fit , I too dont want to get fat . But a 2k ticket and u earn more than someone thats been to uni , the is more money in plant than arboriculture, when years ago it was the other way around .

[Stephen Blair]

Chuck the teaching immediately!  It’s boring and has zero coolness!

 

get on FB market place, buy a chainsaw.  Start a fb business page and just wing it!

 

it’s not that hard just hacking down bushes and wee trees!  Then things will just happen.

  Get some gardener insurance.

  Most back garden trees can be done with a pole saw so make sure you get 1 of them.  
  Don’t need any luck just a can do attitude!

 Keep us posted with pics so they can be critiqued and get yourself ridiculed!  That will toughen up any soft feelings you got while doing teacher training!  Definately don’t put that on your LinkedIn Bio!  Just make stuff up, say you used to work in Canada!  🇨🇦 and you only do big trees!

 
Crack on and enjoy! 

 

 

[openspaceman]

36 minutes ago, Tree monkey 1682 said:

No trolling , its a simple question, coming from someone not uni grade and someone that has to unpick architectural plans that are normally wrong . As goes for the gut , I run and ride horses to keep fit , I too dont want to get fat . But a 2k ticket and u earn more than someone thats been to uni , the is more money in plant than arboriculture, when years ago it was the other way around .

🙂

[Tree monkey 1682]

8 hours ago, Steven P said:

But you have to deal with teenagers all day long.

The is that, but some of the tree teams ive worked along were worse, amazingly worse .