When does a person become a "tree surgeon"?

[Mick Stockbridge]

Arborist is for the people who think tree surgeon just wont do you know the type think there special.

 

How wrong you are. I dont think I,m any better than anyone else and dont even know what an arborist is. As far as I,m concerned I am a gardener who tends large plants. No more and no less.

[Big 'Ammer]

"When does a person become a Tree Surgeon?"

 

When the landscapings gone quiet, theres no grass to cut, no-one wants a new fence, all the hedges are trimmed and the drives are power washed, gutters are cleaned out, short walls, patios and decking are finished, etc, etc, etc......

 

Or they seem to doing round our way anyway!

 

They're all at it, were tripping over the beggars, after all its easy isn't it? All you need is a bloody saw! And they charge a fortune, they're raking it in ......

 

[Dean Lofthouse]

Your a Trainee Tree Surgeon when you start out and get NPTC or similar.

 

When you can take a tree down in a professional and safe manner, carry out tree work which doesn't harm the tree, reduce a tree to a standard where it's difficult for the untrained eye to tell it's been reduced and be able to give the client the correct advice, then you are a Tree Surgeon.

 

After that you can progress on to become an Arborist when you gain formal qualifications

[Mesterh]

Your a Trainee Tree Surgeon when you start out and get NPTC or similar.

 

When you can take a tree down in a professional and safe manner, carry out tree work which doesn't harm the tree, reduce a tree to a standard where it's difficult for the untrained eye to tell it's been reduced and be able to give the client the correct advice, then you are a Tree Surgeon.

 

After that you can progress on to become an Arborist when you gain formal qualifications

 

Probably about sums it up for me

 

Whats wrong with the term tree surgeon anyway?

Its just a general term otherwise I would be a tree feller, tree pruner, tree dismantler, tree planter, tree checker outer, tree inspector and of course a tree butcher

 

Anyhow I'm an Arborist because it says so on my business card

[welwell]

When you are willing to use the same knife that you use to cut rope, get splinters/thorns out ,cut tree ties etc etc etcn to cut the cheese for your sarnies!!!!!

[Stephen Blair]

So......when can a person ligitimately call themselves a tree surgeon??

 

CS 30/31/38/39,? or do you need more than that?

 

Do you expect the title to mean a lot more than basic training? How much peripheral knowledge is a tree surgeon expected to have.

 

To me, a surgeon is an expert, or at the very least, somebody who can safely prune or take down a mature tree and give correct basic advice on tree care.

 

There are too many cowboys out there with a bowsaw and a ladder, definitely, but at what point during the NPTC training can somebody be considered to have earned their stripes?

 

Opinions please.

 

all you need is a signwriter:001_smile:

[Dean Lofthouse]

Oh, and the final qualification is you must have had at least one dump in the woods

[penfold]

Or you can go for a full day without needing a dump or going for a pee!!

[welwell]

Sorry I fear I have lowered the tone somewhat.

[Mesterh]

Or you can go for a full day without needing a dump or going for a pee!!

 

I would fail spectaculary on both accounts there , I am always full of SH**