Arborist are we skilled or semi skilled

[David Humphries]

Thanks mate, glad you understood my post. I did mean it as genuine advice for Hama. I cant imagine him happier than in some far flung destination doing his bit surrounded by trees and fungi. Think doing something worthwhile and appreciated might be just what he's looking for. And I too hope he gets it.

 

 

 

Why particularly "far flung" a destination?

 

Seems to me that there are/is a growing trend for the retention of Trees & the understanding of decay/ecological relationships, right here in Blighty.

 

See evidence of this on AT quite often, clients for this area of work are out there, and willing to pay for the service.

 

 

 

 

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[arbclimber]

Why particularly "far flung" a destination?

 

Seems to me that there are/is a growing trend for the retention of Trees & the understanding of decay/ecological relationships, right here in Blighty.

 

See evidence of this on AT quite often, clients for this area of work are out there, and willing to pay for the service.

 

 

 

 

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My mistake then. If opportunities like that are around on home turf then even better. Dont know much about it personally, ill be honest, i'm a do what pays the most, kind of guy.

[David Humphries]

Horses for courses

 

 

 

 

 

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[Stephen Blair]

its up to the individual to sell their service.

[arbclimber]

Horses for courses

 

 

 

 

 

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I personally see Hama happiest as some kind of Fungi hunting Indiana Jones figure battling through a rain forest after finding, a yet to be discovered, fungi derived cure for cancer. As stevie says i'm sure he will have an opinion on my posts when he turns up later.

[David Humphries]

I personally see Hama happiest as some kind of Fungi hunting Indiana Jones figure battling through a rain forest after finding, a yet to be discovered, fungi derived cure for cancer. As stevie says i'm sure he will have an opinion on my posts when he turns up later.

 

 

We know & have described approximately 100,000 fungal species worlwide.

That out of a conservative estimate of roughly 1.5 million.

 

About 1200 are 'discovered' per year.

 

Leaves a lot of room for Hamma to get finding, even here in the Uk.

Plenty of undiscovered arboreal eco-systems here to play around in.

Reckon he's got that on his list of to do's (eh Tony )

 

 

 

 

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[arbclimber]

We know & have described approximately 100,000 fungal species worlwide.

That out of a conservative estimate of roughly 1.5 million.

 

About 1200 are 'discovered' per year.

 

Leaves a lot of room for Hamma to get finding, even here in the Uk.

Plenty of undiscovered arboreal eco-systems here to play around in.

Reckon he's got that on his list of to do's (eh Tony )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I'm, shall I say, less than an expert when it comes to all things Fungal. I'm sure its a facinating subject once you get into it. I just made the assumption that fungi in the uk and most other developed parts of the world was pretty much found, logged and banished to a dusty text book somewhere. You have educated me, many thanks.

[munkymadman]

 

I'm quite a blunt, straight to the point kind of guy mate so if my posts seem blunt and to the point, thats just me.

 

Hows the leg by the way?

 

sorry i'm understanding your nature now took me awhile. and i've only read the end of this thread as i wasn't going to trawl through 18 pages of it. as stephen put it always leads to an interesting thread, a bit of controversy. you guys all know each other better than i do.

thanks for asking the knees alot better i reckon the doctors are overreacting about this talk of surgery, i should know i'm a surgeon myself

[Ian H]

Out of interset do you guys think theres a significant distinction between arboriculture and tree surgery, only when i trained originally they tried to push the arb side as a way of elevating the industry away from 'tree cutter' reputations.

As i see it, day to day there aren't many differences.

[arbclimber]

sorry i'm understanding your nature now took me awhile. and i've only read the end of this thread as i wasn't going to trawl through 18 pages of it. as stephen put it always leads to an interesting thread, a bit of controversy. you guys all know each other better than i do.

thanks for asking the knees alot better i reckon the doctors are overreacting about this talk of surgery, i should know i'm a surgeon myself

 

No worries mate, I did see your point.

 

I'm a surgeon too, do u want me to fix your leg? nothing a winch and a felling bar wont fix, i'm sure.