Treeman1310

You are right.These so called tickets are just pieces of paper that won't get you any guarantee of obtaining employment. I have many years of hands on experience and have been to the school of hard knocks. In my work I have only had one lucky escape when I fell 10 ft from the tree while working in Crossflatts near Keighley in 1989 and ended up spending 48 hours in Airedale Hospital under observation with luckily no serious injury. Actually I had Lady Luck on my side, and it's never put my off climbing and working in trees, it has made me even more determined to get right in the thick of the action. Some of these people that have qualifications but no work experience think that they are the bees knees and know everything about tree work, but have spent most of the time sitting in a classroom rather than doing the actual job, but old hands like myself who have no qualifications and have been on the job for years doing it without even setting foot in a classroom. Like I've always said, it's the experience gained by doing the job itself that counts the most, not being a jumped up jerk with a piece of paper with no experience saying they are better than us self taught tradesmen.

No, mate, I've always used commonsense when I'm up in the tree using a topper, and I use both hands to keep the saw steady to do the job as safely as I can without any issues or causing any damage to persons or property. It's the hands on experience of doing tree work that counts the most, not sitting in a classroom like as if you're back at school paying over the odds to get the tickets. I find doing it in the field exciting and challenging. I also use the SRT method of climbing which I find a hell of a lot easier to get up there in to the canopy and complete the tasks I'm contracted to do

In my time that I was felling trees, I have never had one barber chair on me yet as I have always used the conventional cut without any problems. But it can happen.

I started climbing trees as a kid and I learned how to do it safely. At boarding school where I was, I was always climbing up in the trees and I once climbed right up to the very top of the tree and that's how I got my buzz and my experience of climbing, and it was absolutely awesome and my teachers was worried that I would fall from it but I knew how to do it as I was also climbing the trees when I was living with my mum and dad. I absolutely loved it. I fell 10 feet from a tree while working in Crossflatts near Keighley for a firm called NACRO based in Wakefield in 1989 and I ended up in Airedale General Hospital for a couple days but it didn't put me off climbing. I still love the buzz and the challenge of climbing trees to this day.