Marula

I wish I could hand you my CV and watch your expression..... I have worked in some pretty interesting industries, with the army being the only government funded organisation I have worked for. My opinions are based on actual experiences and experience. My main point was that this industry holds no career ladder. I have been in this industry a fare few years now and I am still amazed when I come across 45 or 50 year old groundies. No career ladder! If this doesn't bother you, fare play. But in reference to the lad who made the inquiry, he will be used to an organisation with the possibility of progression. He has the opportunity to study something off their back, choose something with a ladder.

I too am an ex soldier retrained in the art of arboriculture so I wish you all the best mate. I will say I have had more injuries in this industry than all my time serving, and no boss will look after you in this industry, fact! At least if I was injured in the service they put me in rehab knowing I was useless when not at my best. The norms go with this industry as with all, punctual, polite, honest, hard work, team player is of the utmost importance in my opinion and pride in what you do. But unlike most other industries, including the army, you wont be rewarded in this one. There is no ladder to climb, there is only a broken body and then trying to qualify as an arb officer so you don't starve. Or start a business, but in this climate and competition from non qualified "tree cutters"! it is rough. If this seems negative sorry, but it is all true. If possible get them to pay for the Arb officer qualifications. You will thank me if you do.

In this industry allow your employer to break you everyday without complaint! and you will fit in fine.

Yes mate, a cambium saver would do the trick to a certain extent. It is the cheapest way of going about things. Have you ever used a cambium saver? Were you taught to use them at college?

It is not a question if it is a sycamore, it is a sycamore. The question is how a qualified Arborist didn't know this?

I just tried to send a message to that sight and it wouldn't let me?

Learning from someone else while being supervised is obviously perfectly acceptable and probably encouraged more than taking a week course. Besides that though, when an individual states they want to take a tree down and they are not to hot on the tree work side it should naturally raise concern among all qualified Arborists who know the risks. Personally I feel asking a few simple and informative questions is more helpful to keeping the individual alive than telling them " Just don't die because the insurance won't pay out ".

Take care, do you have climbing and chainsaw from a harness tickets? Tree work is one of those things that if it goes wrong it can be really wrong.

Well said..... and then there were two.

Forgive me, I didn't mean too come across like that. It was all in the breath of the debate.

This is also irrelevant, to compare ourselves to a red dwarf or white dwarf adds nothing to the weight of the debate for climate change. These giants of the universe bare no relevance to our survival as a species on our planet. Worry not what we do to our planet as we pale in signification to dying balls of gas in our universe?

I also cant believe that so many people on here who work outside and supposedly with nature think we have nothing to do with this. The mind boggles. My eyes have been opened tonight to just how deluded this cancer of a species is we call the human race.

I think you are missing the point, no one doubts the change and evolution of a complex planet, but there is a fundamental difference between a tropical planet creating methane intern leading to greenhouse gas buildup intern leading to a colder climate. ie, mini ice age, and man made climate change. Our atmosphere is thick with our fossil fuels reminisce, this is absolutely and categorically undeniable, which WILL have a profound affect on the planet. This change did not come around naturally, we brought this on therefore we must correct it. The planets climate will change along with topography but it must happen naturally. You are correct in the fact that nature calls all the shots, but the correction of the problem is not for the benefit of nature, it is for ours. Nature will go on in some form of life, but humans require a very carefully balanced ecosystem to flourish. The study of climate change is a mathematical equation if you like, humans put x amount of tons of co2 into the atmosphere, it will take x amount of trees to counter the co2. Except we are removing 8150 ha per day of Amazon rain-forest while in central Africa only 8% of rain forest is left unscathed. In conclusion we are removing the lungs the planet requires to breathe and heal itself. To say we can do all this and have zero consequence requires a word not yet invented.

Well put, but the idea of an ever increasingly sophisticated civilization is to produce energy through means such as ionization and not fossil fuels. Britain's rise was in a none technological age. We already have the means to produce clean energy on a scale which eclipses the current fossil fuel method, this is not an opinion it is a fact. The globe must rearrange its cards and do away with oil companies, they control the energy related problems of the planet. BP continually buys patents for green energy so as to not be threatened. It will be down to developed countries to overhaul the reliance of oil as a currency thereby allowing developing giants like China and India the opportunity of modernizing without laying waste to the planet.

Anyone who thinks we have not made a major impact on the planet needs to take a look in the mirror and ask themselves a serious question! Am I for real?

no... different leaf structure.

Brilliant....

Are you a qualified climber?

Don't understand what happened... hangup?...truck kicked back?

Brave...

Get an ax, sever all the main roots and dig. Job done.

awesome... really enjoyed that.

Agreed, they have cleaned us out several times over the last two years. They do whatever they want.

A lucas mill for a wellingtonia is gonna be a big ask. No pun intended. Can you get a crane to near it?