tired of being on the ground

[John Paul Sanborn]

Bucket trucks are all about making money. This is probably the angle your boss is working.

A bucket is a tool, sometimes it makes things go faster, others it gets in the way. Like icepick said, a well rounded treeman can work in many different formats.

I'd say you aint a real treeman if you do not:

dig in the dirt regularly

own and use a handlens to look at leaves, twigs and bugs

know shrubs and vines

have a basic understanding of mycology
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Oh, that's an arborist, maybe you can be a treeman if you just cut wood?

 

[dandandatreeman]

Bucket trucks are all about making money. This is probably the angle your boss is working.

Dont get me wrong, I love to climb too, but I (most) always make my money when the bucket goes out.

Like someone said recently: when you can climb out of the bucket, then you the man.

i guess i didn't think about it like that, but it is kind of frustrating when we have to plywood the truck in when i could have cut the tree down before the bucket could get there,and still wont reach. i also guess that i'll do it which ever way he wants....he's paying me and i'm not the one that got the job.

 

[tree MDS]

A friend of mine uses this in some of his adds:

"Every arborist is a treeman, but not every treeman is an arborist".

I found it a little annoying at first... but its the truth (mostly).

Me, I've still got a lot to learn on the arborist side... still better than some licenced guys I see though.

 

[dandandatreeman]

A friend of mine uses this in some of his adds:

"Every arborist is a treeman, but not every treeman is an arborist".

I found it a little annoying at first... but its the truth (mostly).

Me, I've still got a lot to learn on the arborist side... still better than some licenced guys I see though.

:agree2:

 

[Blakesmaster]

"Every arborist is a treeman, but not every treeman is an arborist".

No offense bud, but you KNOW that ain't true, hence the "mostly" I assume. Any bookworm can spend a few weeks reading and studying and get their CA but it takes YEARS of toil and grind before I'll call someone a true Treeman.

 

[treemandan]

than you're not a real treeman either. climb or go home.

this post, this thread, this forum and everybody on it are just words in cyberspace. always enjoyable, sometimes a learning experience, often a lesson in futility. I talk trash sometimes, act like an ass too often, but speak from experience

I am keeping in mind that it was you who said that.

Here is a quick problem solver:

Duct tape a snorkel to a bottle of rot gut whiskey.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I've still got a lot to learn on the arborist side...

I guess that makes you an arborist, admitting that you are learning about trees.

 

[jefflovstrom]

What is rain? Like heavy drizzle? Wish we would get more.
Jeff, We never stop.

 

[tree MDS]

Hmmm....

No offense bud, but you KNOW that ain't true, hence the "mostly" I assume. Any bookworm can spend a few weeks reading and studying and get their CA but it takes YEARS of toil and grind before I'll call someone a true Treeman.

Maybe I should have said:

"Every real treeman should have an Arbor-nerd around, for when the going gets geeky". lol.

Now I'm in trouble.

 

[tree MDS]

I guess that makes you an arborist, admitting that you are learning about trees.

Thanks man.

 

[dandandatreeman]

well notch another day on my belt.

Well we put in a half a day. we knocked out two small jobs...cut down a small pine, and cut some small limbs over the sevice drop. cleaned out a live oak, topped two crape mertals, and trimmed three small palms. done at 10 a.m. So after all that i went to a friends house and started to take a very large and tight "water oak" down.......started to rain so i just left my ropes up in the tree to hopefully finish taking the top out to a stub for now. glad that i have the side job or i would be in BIG trouble! WAS IN THE AIR ALMOST ALL DAY. Awsome Day!!!!