big companies V the little man

[Tom D]

As the owner of one of the small companies I find this quite interesting, I think many setups like mine only employ a groundie and have an owner / climber, you've no more or less chance of getting good experience with one of these than a large company.

Having said that I took on a colledge leaver 18 months ago who was pretty "green" and chucked him in at the deep end, he has climbed most days and is now pretty good. This now makes us much more profitable as on jobs where there are lots of trees to climb, as we can both get on with it. With dismantles one can be having lunch / resting while the other is climbing, again speeding things up.

The only downside is if he leaves I have to do it all over again, and I've put on a stone over the last year from climbing less.

 

TBH I dont think you can make the small / large generalisation, each company is different some good some bad.