How/why did you get into treework?

[tree climber]

i got in to tree work through a mate had always loved trees and working outdoors while at school worked at the sawmill on the estate near me clearing up sawdust and the like so that mite have had something to do with it too!! wouldnt want to do nething else!

[Stephen Blair]

Spent 18hours a day in the holds of coal tankers. 100ft straight ladders, no harness, just kicking and shoveling coal in the dark. Third world labourer. But when you are in a rut you are in a rut. Took me 2years to save up for harness and spikes, then i lied to a company in glasgow and said i could do it, they gave me a chance. Never been so scared in my life. BullXXXt baffles brains every day. stuck it for 6 months working every hour i could working with boys that would steal the sugar out your tea. Then along came the 1999boxing day storm. The rest is history. 10 year anniversery coming up in 2 weeks.

[treemeup]

I was at uni studying ocean surveying and really didn't want to end up in that profession as it is quite a specialized degree(stuck on a boat drawing maps...zzzzzzz), decided i wanted to climb trees(!?) so i quit uni and did volunteer work for a while to earn sponsorship to buy ppe, pay for nptc's and subsidize my wage with a firm in Cornwall. earnt peanuts working long days on the ground, 1st thins, fencing with the occasional bit of arb so i left there and got a job as a 2nd climber where i quickly found myself in the thick of it.treeguy for nearly 4yrs and been to the other side of the world climbing,

yeehaaaaa.

Edited December 15, 2008 by treemeup

[Frank]

I was also sick of clearing up leaves off my lawn and thought "I'll sort this out once and for all".

 

 

Still trying to sort it now.

[Stuart A-C]

Bored of previous job/s, wanted something outdoors, with a landrover and a dog, looked in local agg college brocure, photo of bloke with landrover and dog on arb course page. Five years later still no landy or dog (yet), but love my job and wouldnt change it for the world.

[ash.wilde]

I was working at Morrisons (supermarket) and that is enough to send anyone over the edge and retrain to do something worthwhile, 4 years on and I have now done an NC Arb and I love my job.

[Hollands]

applied for a jobs as a binman and at a tree company. Tree company called back first, 5 years later here i am.

[Billy Goat Gruff]

Kicked a football over the school fence and into a tree, the schoolmaster said to me, Bill you are getting six of the best for that, you've just lost the school football.

I was 8 years old, so I said, SIR, if I get the ball back will I be let off the caning?

He replied your not to go up there it's too high, and marched off to get his cane, (grinning at the thought of giving me a good thrashing).

When he came back I was on the ground with the football, (grinning back at him).

The B****rd still thrashed me for disobeying him.

At 50 years old still climb most days and run my own company, with a great bunch of guy's.

[monkeytop]

my grandfather was an arb officer , and kinda encouraged me into it , then i saw jack kenyon at merist wood and was hooked and never looked back , cant think of anything else i love more well maybe the wife or the dog !

[dodger]

my grandad work a forestry, my father done tree surgery and forestry, and myself started climbing at 14 and still doing it at 50