Whae you tell people you are a tree surgeon...

[Goaty]

I used to get that alot too!

 

Used to blag the ladies that I spent a lot of time abroad though

 

Aye the lads even used to tuck their legs on the shorts into their pants for a maximum tan.

[Frankie Lawrence]

Usually everyone says " oh really I know a tree surgeon, you boys earn alot of monney don't you?"

[Gray git]

Ahh thats nice, making poorly trees feel better..

 

Or how do you sleep at night after destroying those loverly trees, quite well as it takes lots of energy to do it!

 

My favourite, Iv got a tree, how much to lopez a few branches of to stop the leaves falling off onto.......

[Taupotreeman]

I get; oh you're an arbatrist. We love trees we do but there's one on the berm that's to big and drops leaves, can you take it down?

 

Or; every time we come to lift a tree for footpath clearance we get, cut it off at ground level followed by laughter. Why people think we would think this is funny is beyond me.

 

I think the most common one is; we're tree lovers, we planted all of these copper beech/oak/sorbus/Totara/etc because we love trees so much, now, can you just cut that copper beech/oak/sorbus/Totara/etc in half so we can have our view back.

[browncow]

I live in Australia so I get,

Them - 'so your a tree lopper then'

Me - 'sort of, not really'

Them - 'well what do you do'

Me - 'prune trees, consult, remove difficult and dangerous trees, brace, write reports, transplant trees....'

Them - 'oh yeah your a tree lopper'

[Taupotreeman]

I live in Australia so I get,

Them - 'so your a tree lopper then'

Me - 'sort of, not really'

Them - 'well what do you do'

Me - 'prune trees, consult, remove difficult and dangerous trees, brace, write reports, transplant trees....'

Them - 'oh yeah your a tree lopper'

 

:thumbup: gotta love the Ozzies

[raafbeard]

Or; every time we come to lift a tree for footpath clearance we get, cut it off at ground level followed by laughter. Why people think we would think this is funny is beyond me.

 

Too many times...I always play along to it which just increases the hilarity for them....

[will.morris]

"How do you get your rope up there?!"

 

Had a good one on Friday...

 

Tree owner: "I'd like you to remove that 'massive' gum out the front please"

Me: "You mean that 45ft poplar?..."

 

Quite often when we get call outs its because a 'huge' branch has fallen across the road. I've now learnt that a 'huge' branch can be anything from 5ft long upwards lol. Had to drive from Auckland to Hunua a few weeks back at 4.10am for a single branch about 20ft long, maybe 8" wide at the base ... winch on, straight through chipper, job done. Min pay for a call out is 2hrs on double pay so I'm not complaining!

[RobArb]

I get; oh you're an arbatrist. We love trees we do but there's one on the berm that's to big and drops leaves, can you take it down?

 

Or; every time we come to lift a tree for footpath clearance we get, cut it off at ground level followed by laughter. Why people think we would think this is funny is beyond me.

 

I think the most common one is; we're tree lovers, we planted all of these copper beech/oak/sorbus/Totara/etc because we love trees so much, now, can you just cut that copper beech/oak/sorbus/Totara/etc in half so we can have our view back.

 

Ditto all of the above:thumbup:

 

Sent from my Galaxy S2

[Albedo]

In NZ they call you an arborist rather than a tree surgeon.....but for some reason they say arbitrist like Taupoman says.

 

An arbitrist to me is somone who arbitrates disputes so there's some mileage in this one...

 

I haven't bothered to pursue it though as they don't always get our humour so I just say yeah mate:001_smile: