When does a person become a "tree surgeon"?

[Yorkshireman]

True!

 

Some people give the written word far more weight than it deserves, just look at the fairy tail called the Bible, SOME claim its the word of God!!!

 

 

Oh no You've gone & done it now !

[Dean Lofthouse]

Oh no You've gone & done it now !

 

:001_smile:

[Steve Bullman]

Oh no You've gone & done it now !

 

indeed he has....careful skyhuck, people will be threatening to sue me again:scared1:

[Dean Lofthouse]

indeed he has....careful skyhuck, people will be threatening to sue me again:scared1:

 

Infact God himself may have something to say

[skyhuck]

indeed he has....careful skyhuck, people will be threatening to sue me again:scared1:

 

Sorry.

 

Tell them to ask their God to strike me down instead:001_tongue:

 

Surely he is big enough too fight his own battles

[Yorkshireman]

Sorry.

 

Tell them to ask their God to strike me down instead:001_tongue:

 

Surely he is big enough too fight his own battles

 

politics & religion areas in which its best to tread carefully

my friend

 

too many get really upperty about such things

[Linda]

Whether Wikipedia is trustable or not, the definition is still pretty fair. Use any dictionary and I think it'll be pretty similar.

 

Just implying it's not a reputable source... You'd come across as smarter if you used a proper dictionary...

[Jason James Gairn]

It seems that there are as many definitions of "tree surgeon" as there are posters.

I think anyone taking part in tree surgery is a tree surgeon. There is of course bad tree surgery done by bad tree surgeons, good tree surgery carried out by good tree surgeons. NPTC qualified tree surgeons, experienced tree surgeons, fat ones thin ones and ones who cant spell.

The argument about NPTC units is ridiculous, as anyone over 35 will tell you. I was a tree surgeon for 15 years before I took my first one. Previous to this I wasn't a cowboy, I wasn't incompetent.

Are countries outside of the remit of NPTC devoid of tree surgeons? No. Considering how easy NPTC units are, I think they serve little purpose in defining anything other than NPTC qualified.

 

A good tree surgeon is someone who has an understanding of why, shed loads of how and is mindful of the ifs.

Their attitude to their work and the quality of the work itself is all that really matters.

An arborist? kettle, fish. another.

[Jason James Gairn]

Just implying it's not a reputable source... You'd come across as smarter if you used a proper dictionary...

 

Encyclopedia surely?

Either way it would have to be 27 miles thick to compete with the wik.

[sycamorephobic]

i still dont consider myself a tree surgeon as ive only been climbing a year (plus 2 years on the ground and 1 year at college) and there is so so much more i have to learn. if someone asks me what i do though i say 'i do tree work'. they usually think im some kind of lumberjack but i can be axxd explaining what a tree surgeon/arborist is. in the UK 9 out of 10 people wont have a clue what an arborist is. in NZ though evryone seems to know what arborists do for a living. weird.