How/why did you get into treework?

[John Hancock]

I’m a round-peg, been looking for my round-hole for years. Discovered it back in ’99. Never looked back…

[Jason James Gairn]

I'm here for the girls and free beer I was promised by the careers office.

[pgwisn]

I owned a bicycle shop in the 70's and instead of cutting the helps' hours in the colder months (which would have raised the unemployment insurance rate I had to pay) I made myself temporarily-redundant and went to work for two friends doing tree work until the spring thaw arrived and bicycling picked up again. When I took tree work up full time, working in non-freezing temperatures was a novel and welcome thing.

[penfold]

Because I didn;t want to build Tanks for the Army...............( Royal Ordance Leeds )

 

what was wrong with barnbow khriss? It's now been divided up into storage units. I ended up in treework due to it been in the blood, found out i have sawyers and foresters and gardeners:sneaky2: in the forebears on my mothers side but navvies and surveyors and miners on my dads side:confused1:. I was never any good at up and unders at rugby!!

[Graham]

New here so hi to all. Started at 15 in '75 thinning with chainsaw...not sure it was legal....then working in horticulture and doing day-release Hort and Arb City and Guilds.

 

Offered a full-time tree surgery job in '79. Most of the work then was felling dead elm and building huge fires. Took off to college again for two years and went self-employed in '87. Too many years to think about now but still love the job...most of the time!

 

Oh.....what made me do it? I thought it'd make me irresistable to the girls:001_cool:

[David Riding]

don't get paid good for ice & rock climbing unless your s~*t hot, im not.

[Mick Stockbridge]

My dads mum was a trapeze artist in the circus, early thirties. I wonder if it has any bearing........................................................................................................................................................................................................She had three tits and flew topless,earning the stage name "Triple Nipple". Sorry Nan if youre looking down,only joking. The top part is true.

[Ian C]

My dads mum was a trapeze artist in the circus, early thirties. I wonder if it has any bearing........................................................................................................................................................................................................She had three tits and flew topless,earning the stage name "Triple Nipple". Sorry Nan if youre looking down,only joking. The top part is true.

 

[Dean Lofthouse]

what yr was that !

 

1986 for three years, on and off since then till 2002 full time. First job was a Hawthorn hedge reduction, should have known then not to carry on.

[patrickosborne]

Dad's a Cornish Farmer. I trained as a mechanic in Cornwall for agricultural machinery-my boss committed suicide!went to anither garage as yts after a few months I found the owner of the garage dead in his bed.Decided to go to Cornwall tech to do engineering ended up at uny in Hatfield - engineering bottomed out in early 90's so found a job for corp of London (Epping) now self employed.