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Underwor · 10th February 2008, 08:48 AM

Ekka,

You asked how I got in to Tree Business. I was studying forest resource management at Southern Illinois University in 1967, when Royal Swem of Davey Tree came through looking for summer help. They were paying $2.15/hr for climber trainees. With $.95 the minimum wage at the time, this looked like a fortune. I went to Kent OH for climbing school for 2 weeks and spent the summer in Youngstown,OH working with a crew on city elm removal mostly. Went back the second summer at a huge raise to $2.50/hr and have never looked back. Ran my own business 12 years, arborist at Western IL Univ for 8 years and been teaching for past 16.5 years. That's the story.

10th February 2008, 08:48 AM	#155 (permalink)
Underwor Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: North Dakota Posts: 50	Re: Underwor how's it going? Ekka, You asked how I got in to Tree Business. I was studying forest resource management at Southern Illinois University in 1967, when Royal Swem of Davey Tree came through looking for summer help. They were paying $2.15/hr for climber trainees. With $.95 the minimum wage at the time, this looked like a fortune. I went to Kent OH for climbing school for 2 weeks and spent the summer in Youngstown,OH working with a crew on city elm removal mostly. Went back the second summer at a huge raise to $2.50/hr and have never looked back. Ran my own business 12 years, arborist at Western IL Univ for 8 years and been teaching for past 16.5 years. That's the story. __________________ Bob Underwood, Associate Professor of Forestry ND School of Forestry Minot State University - Bottineau Campus Bottineau, North Dakota