Work beyond tree's

[Mountain man]

I don't see why one can't carry on in the tree game till retirement, not climbing obviously,

Get the work, have a youngster go up, another one on the ground. Pop out from time to time. Point a bit, talk to the client, collect the cheque.

Nothing hard about that.

[wood cutter]

Agreed!

[Kenty]

I plan on doing this until I retire, currently working towards coming off the tools in the next couple of years.

I'm lucky to have someone working with me I can trust whom is willing to take on the responsibility of running the jobs.

 

There are a few people who have made the transition to wood crafts like lathe work, chainsaw carving.

 

I know other people who moved over to machine repairs & maintenance.

[Phillip]

I plan on doing this until I retire, currently working towards coming off the tools in the next couple of years.

I'm lucky to have someone working with me I can trust whom is willing to take on the responsibility of running the jobs.

 

There are a few people who have made the transition to wood crafts like lathe work, chainsaw carving.

 

I know other people who moved over to machine repairs & maintenance.

 

 

Cheers Kenty some things to consider there

[10 Bears]

Philip - whats your age/experience/quals/home-life commitments? These will all have a factor in deciding what else you could do.

 

Assuming you have all the necessary requirements in place, and not knowing if you have any experience in anything else other then tree chogging, some obvious suggestions are:

 

- employ others to do the hard work as said above (good if you can manage it)

- tree consultancy

- training/assessor

- Rope access worker (cleaning windows!)

- Conservation warden eg RSPB etc.

- TO (they never do any hard work do they?)

- National trust/Parks ranger

- International playboy etc.

 

I used to be on the tools full time, and slowly transgressed into consultancy and increased my level of education ie full time job/mature student part time. It was hard but worth it as this route genuinely opened a lot of doors for me, and suited my aspirations, but of course I don't know if that would be suitable for your circumstances.

 

Let us know more about yourself so we can make some informed recommendations or suggest other possibilities...

[Phillip]

Philip - whats your age/experience/quals/home-life commitments? These will all have a factor in deciding what else you could do.

 

Assuming you have all the necessary requirements in place, and not knowing if you have any experience in anything else other then tree chogging, some obvious suggestions are:

 

- employ others to do the hard work as said above (good if you can manage it)

- tree consultancy

- training/assessor

- Rope access worker (cleaning windows!)

- Conservation warden eg RSPB etc.

- TO (they never do any hard work do they?)

- National trust/Parks ranger

- International playboy etc.

 

I used to be on the tools full time, and slowly transgressed into consultancy and increased my level of education ie full time job/mature student part time. It was hard but worth it as this route genuinely opened a lot of doors for me, and suited my aspirations, but of course I don't know if that would be suitable for your circumstances.

 

Let us know more about yourself so we can make some informed recommendations or suggest other possibilities...

 

 

10 bears! Thank you for a very informative insight. There is lots there to consider. I really appreciate your wanting to help further so in answer to your questions; I'm young exp. & quals are in trees, commitments are few and interests are in nature/outdoors. Your suggestions of ranger & RSPB warden sound appealing but your last suggestion will have to stay as a hobby.

[Maxnaggle]

professional tree house builder

[Phillip]

professional tree house builder

 

 

Haha now we're talking!

[Maxnaggle]

i think about this a lot as well. just as progression appeals to me - i guess it depends on the life stile you want to live also?

- ecology side of things maybe? wild life surveys

- some sort of green oak joinery or just carpentry/joinery in general

- as already mentioned assessor/teacher/T.O/surveying work..

- design and patent some useful arb kit (that no one else has thought of obvs..)

just a few things off the top of my head!

 

get an old fighter jet and some napalm, set about ridding the uk of its conifer hedges

 

the world is your oyster mate

[skyhuck]

I don't see why one can't carry on in the tree game till retirement, not climbing obviously,

Get the work, have a youngster go up, another one on the ground. Pop out from time to time. Point a bit, talk to the client, collect the cheque.

Nothing hard about that.

 

Why???