britains first tree surgeons

[josharb87]

i think stevie wants to know about actual companys, the company i worked for in the uk Acacia tree súrgery ltd has been going for close to 30 years now, before that it was called East anglian and metropolitan tree surgery i think, owned by the father, he had 2 boys stuart and paul cole (both now in their 60's), he handed the buisness down to them, they split it and set up 2 rival cambridge based companys. . both still going strong

 

heres a bit lifted off the website

Welcome to Acacia Tree Surgery, the leading Cambridge-based company of tree care specialists.

Established for over 25 years and covering four family generations to give 100 years experience in arboriculture.

 

to give the 4generations thing a bit of thought, it must have been stuart cole's grand father who first started it, as one of his daughters works on the admin side

 

there we go, 4 generations/100+ years

[Stephen Blair]

nice one josh

[arbogrunt]

theres a firm in Rayleigh, Essex called Woods (now 2 different firms, W. Woods and R.E. Woods), the company was started by their Great Grandfather, both still going strong. Theres an old boy called 'Boysy Porter' in Brentwood who's still felling trees in his '80's, until recently, he was knocking about in an ancient old Matador. He used to blow a bugle as a warning before he felled a tree!

[skyhuck]

I'm going to buy a bugle!!!!

 

Thats ace!!!!!!!!!

[Bryn]

Earliest tree surgeons - check out the History of arboriculture book - Arboriculture: History and Development in North America

 

arborists came long before T/S's and are the future. Tree surgeons just cut bits off

 

IMO, the terminology relating to tree surgery is only about a century old. I have a theory that many of the ealiest climbers & riggers would have been sailors who wanted to stay on land ..........

[Al Cormack]

I thought it was Mr Stockbridge:lol::lol:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

The Burtons from denham in bucks had been around a long time I know.

 

And what of the guys who where topping the big redwoods in colonial times?

 

where did they get their skills from previously?

[Mick Stockbridge]

I thought it was Mr Stockbridge:lol::lol:

 

Actually my nan was Britains first tree surgeon. In the early thirties she was a trapeze artist and flew topless because she had three tits and the crowd loved it.

 

When she left the circus she set up her own business under the name of 'Triple Nipple Tree Services'.......

[arb culture]

 

arborists came long before T/S's and are the future. Tree surgeons just cut bits off

 

I don't know about the first tree surgeons, but the early arborists were quite impressive...

 

Patrick Matthew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Stephen Blair]

Actually my nan was Britains first tree surgeon. In the early thirties she was a trapeze artist and flew topless because she had three tits and the crowd loved it.

 

When she left the circus she set up her own business under the name of 'Triple Nipple Tree Services'.......

 

i believe you:lol: