advice for the (mature) beginner

[andythesquirel]

Sorry Dave, wrong Andy, but thanks for the welcome.

[Paul Barton]

 

 

I have this t-shirt too! Mate of mine makes 'em.

[cerneARB]

Great another couple of mature lads..me too 40 and just starting out on the road, well a year in to it.Goning for CS30-31 in 3 weeks.

 

If your fit , dont mind hard work and stubborn like me you will make it. Ive always been active in work espically when i was in the army. I want fit work..keeps me young.

[Jason James Gairn]

Great another couple of mature lads..me too 40 and just starting out on the road, well a year in to it.Goning for CS30-31 in 3 weeks.

 

If your fit , dont mind hard work and stubborn like me you will make it. Ive always been active in work espically when i was in the army. I want fit work..keeps me young.

 

Theres alot of ex servicemen in the industry isn't there. Many are on this forum too. I work with afew and today met someone from the RAF regiment. Tree surgery must be attractive to you guys. What do you think is the reason for this? The tales I get at work are full of really exciting stuff.

[rafregtgunner]

Hey Jason where and who did you meet from the RAF Regiment? I recently left the regt so i'll probably know them!

[rafregtgunner]

I think alot of lads try to find a job that is active, fun and physical. It's hard to find a job that offers the same excitment etc as the forces but this is a good in-between. More lads are looking towards tree work and with Kingswood providing training using the resettlement grant, you get fully trained for free! Bonus!

[Jason James Gairn]

Hey Jason where and who did you meet from the RAF Regiment? I recently left the regt so i'll probably know them!

 

His name was Mark, from Essex, He was the cherry picker operator we used today. Last name escaped me. Nice bloke. Rock ape through and through. He loved it. 2nd Squadron, Sierra Leone 2001, Kosovo 99.

[Jason James Gairn]

Should that be`two squadron'?

[cerneARB]

agree with Rock ape..its the buzz of excitment a challenge , the adrenalin rush you get and doing something diffrent to the norm. I love it , the challenge of pushing body and mind to the edge.

 

i served witht the raf regiment at honnigton , attached to them in Kuwait in 1995. good lads.

[rafregtgunner]

The regt are coming out of the woodwork now!

I left feb 08 after 7 1/2 years. I'd wanted to leave for a while but couldn't decide on a career so hung in there. Knew a couple of lads who had left and loved the tree work so I looked into it. Haven't looked back since! Two sqn hey, I know one lad, nickname OB. Can't remember his first. He's round the suffolk area working so it may have been him. The regt is fairly small so you tend to hear from friends etc when people move into the tree world.

I think the only bad point I have found so far is the money isn't the same as the RAF. But there again there were too many bad points which outwayed the good so that's why I left!

Yeah the 2 sqn lads like it to be written properly, so for all of them it's II sqn. lol.