Arborist are we skilled or semi skilled

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Of course it requires skills, you've got them I might have, we are all highly skilled in our proffession which is classed as semi skilled!!

 

THAT is bloody insulting to our trade, who classifys these things anyway?

[Mark Bolam]

Couldn't we all go on strike and demand £50k+ salaries?

 

Where's my brazier....

[adbat234]

Now Now, Shirley doesnt need to come on to this Forum, There are "special" froums for that!!

 

Thats how we met gilliam:lol:.

Meet at midnight, web cams on just like old times :lol:

[RPA]

Yeah its semi skilled. You need skill half the time but not the rest!!

 

"skilled" and "semi skilled" are just a catogories. It doesn't mean much, but tree work is semi skilled not unskilled like casual labouring, because it requires an understaning of machinery and techniques, but its no more skilled than other semi skilled proffessions such as joinery, plumbing etc. They all need courses but they are only semi skilled occupations.

 

Of course you need skills to do the job, but they are skills learned in time and once you have them its not that skillful its just a job.

 

I think the term "skilled" would be for something a bit more technical and possibly requiring a degree.. engineering for example would be a skilled proffesion.

 

Very good 'ego asside' answer.

[Rupe]

THAT is bloody insulting to our trade, who classifys these things anyway?

 

 

I think the fact that its a "trade" probably help put it in the semi skilled catagory. I'm not saying its right (or wrong) but its just a catagory.

 

 

Hows this.........

 

Skilled engineers design a new bridge.

 

Semi skilled "trades men" construct the bridge (using there immense skills of course)

 

Un skilled labourers carry the tools and tidy up...

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Very good 'ego asside' answer.

 

Fine, so were all unskilled labourers?

 

i better go and tell my boss then as he was under some delusion till now that he had a skilled guy working on his team, he might as well get a younger lad in with half the pay demands!

[Mick Stockbridge]

I think the fact that its a "trade" probably help put it in the semi skilled catagory. I'm not saying its right (or wrong) but its just a catagory.

 

 

Hows this.........

 

Skilled engineers design a new bridge.

 

Semi skilled "trades men" construct the bridge (using there immense skills of course)

 

Un skilled labourers carry the tools and tidy up...

 

And tree surgeons are capable of doing all three jobs. Boy it pisses me off when people say we are semi skilled.

[Rupe]

I think if you are qualified and insured to carry out tree surveys then you could say that you are doign the equivelant of the bridge designing bit, and so you would be catagorized as "skilled".

[Rupe]

Tony, your a skilled guy in a semi skilled proffession. There are plenty of un skilled climbers in the same semi skilled proffession.

 

The catagory does not define the level of skill a person has within that catagory.

[geoff]

I'm skilled,& dont care what people think when most of them spend their time shining the arse out of their suits in a stuffy dead end office chair,trying to get a peek at middle age mavis the secratary's pins!