Climber or Arborist?

[Zenfordinner]

I would go so far to say I definitely think like an arborist, although in truth I am a bit of a zealot and would be a die-hard dead, dying, dangerous adherent left to my own devices. I have only worked with trees since the end of 2003, so I feel it is a bit pompous of me to say I am an arborist: I still have so much to learn.

 

Without a doubt, though, I am a Tree Lady

[Sambo]

I would say i'm just a climber until i've learnt/experienced enough for people like you guys to recognise me as an arborist!

[Linda]

Depends on the job description - when I've worked as a consultant I've been an arboriculturist; when I've been doing practical tree work as well as dealing with customers I've been an arborist. Don't think I'd ever be able to be "just" a climber, even if I'm subbing for a tree surgeon, too much knowledge stuck in my poor head, even though I sure wish I could be at times (especially now that I've been supplied with a new cruciate ligament and am supposed to keep still...). In my head and heart though, I'll always be a climber.

 

Question is: what do you call yourself if you work as an arb tutor? Arboriculturist may sound a bit posh to the learners...

[Peter]

 

Question is: what do you call yourself if you work as an arb tutor? Arboriculturist may sound a bit posh to the learners...

 

How about "Linda"?

[cerneARB]

Question is: what do you call yourself if you work as an arb tutor? Arboriculturist may sound a bit posh to the learners...

 

My old class did not see my tutor as posh..it was more like budda arb the fountain of tree knowledge and wonder...

 

Good ole Jason.

[Linda]

How about "Linda"?

 

Too simple...!

 

I'd rather not have a title, it only complicates things and creates walls between people.

[Linda]

My old class did not see my tutor as posh..it was more like budda arb the fountain of tree knowledge and wonder...

 

Good ole Jason.

 

So you went to Sparsholt did you? Met Jason in Wales, he's happy in his new job it seems.

[Andy Collins]

Well, I'm certainly no climber, not got the qualifications to class myself as an arborist. I just enjoy the work, whether its planting, hedgeing, felling or working alongside truly professional climbers who can DO the job.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Well, I'm certainly no climber, not got the qualifications to class myself as an arborist.

 

Doesn,t matter Andy.

 

I am a firm believer that qualifications do not make you good at whatever those qualifications are. If I were an employer, I would go on what I hear at the job interveiw and then trial the applicant.

 

Many a good worker is lost to not having the correct (PC) quals.

 

I have not got any qualifications for welding, but one day when working at a fabrications company, a representative came in from British Nuclear Fuels to oversee the testing five welders for stick welding plate stainless. They had to do three test pieces which would be Xrayed, cut down the middle and checked.

 

These welders were very experienced on Mig and Tig, but not on stick. BNFL stipulated that you had to stop the weld halfway through then restart without leaving air pockets etc.

 

For fun I asked if I could have a go because I had done lots of stick welding. Lucky I did, because I was the only one that passed the tests and ended up welding stainless steel extractor fans for BNFL and so the company I worked for won a lucrative contract.

 

I was, at the time a spraypainter, painting huge mild steel (mig welded) extractor fans for another BNFL contract, spraying fans to exact and strict standards, using specail paints that had to be applied at an exact thickness in microns to end up drying at a certain min thickness when all the solvents had evaporated, all to be worked out with solid and solvent percentage contents.

 

You can't get much fussier than BNFL

 

... and again, no other qualification for spray painting other than experience and a desire to do a good job and do it properly.

[skyhuck]

..............exprience and a desire to do a good job and do it properly.

 

Nail on the head there Dean!!!!!!!!

 

Bits of paper mean bugger all!!!!,IME.