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Originally Posted by treevet  Was wandering around to see what got Ozinus canned and came upon this post. Thought it might make some good day-off fodder.
Cassein, you claim to be a "Shigoist". Shigo had no problem with arborists removing terminal (dieing) or hazardous trees (high risk) in addition to removing thousands of trees for research purposes.
A relevant Shigo quote, "What is a tree, a huge organism that can fall over and kill you".
Also, "Know when to cull. There are times when the best pruning treatments will not solve the problem". Also "Trees have dignity", to Denude, or cut back severely, or top or leave mostly dead or high risk tree with unnatural, abbreviated branches or looking a skeleton is a travesty.
To have a non carer arborist decide on tree removals is a huge mistake. Only someone that loves trees should decide when to put one to sleep.
I think you have the luxury of not doing tree removals because you are an employee. You have placed yourself in just one aspect of a profession and decided to wear it with aloofness.
We company owners have to take care of all of our client's tree needs or someone else will.
I think maybe a cocktail or 2 may have precipitated this post? (penis size) Want to take it back? |
Tree Vet - if you check my posts - 74 - 76 and 84 + 85 you'll see where my thread went. I stand by the tree carer removalist, my point was for those tree removalists who stroke their cocks with regard the size of their wood chipper, gafs, chainsaw etc and how much tree they can deck. The fact is many sound trees are still being cut down, I was speaking on `their' behalf.
Yes I am currently an employee (last 3 years), since graduating from Merrist Wood (91) I was self employed (subbied to a contractor in Germany) and then ran a Tree Care business from 93 to 2001.
After a number of tree removal years I hung up my spurs. In fact I went thru bankruptcy over my moral dilemma of felling trees to pay my way in life. I went thru anything but luxury following that decision, as for aloofness I have way to much passion to act like a limey (pommie bastard).
I can see your perspective though, as for Dmc's remark regarding the turnbuckle tree the reason that tree still stands is because of my resistance to cut it down.
Regards to all - Cassian...........
