Started travelling with my Girlfriend at start of January. Left my home country of Scotland and headed to pre planned jobs in France. First contract was repollarding 32 Tilia. Had not been done for 15 yrs but was a joy as the wood cuts like butter, with a Silky, less noise of the chainsaw! They created an avenue leading to a shrine dug into the limestone, pretty cool. We are now much further south, in the mountains near Nimes. Light issue, so crown thinning many Mulberry(Morus). They were originally planted to feed the foliage to Silk worms, a practice which died out here approx 30yrs ago. Heading upto Holland in 3weeks to crown lift some Quercus and work on a tree nursery. Interested to learn more about the nursery side of things! Will be travelling for two years, hoping to broaden knowledge on many more tree species aswell as many other things. End goal is north west Canada but we are planning to be in Australia by the end of this year, so may look you up as we have to work our way. Only thing is in France i do not speak much of their language so its difficult to ask locals about their treecare practises, especially when it comes to their pollarding, which there is tonnes. Especially on Tilia and Platanus.
Will let you know when i stumble across more interesting tree stuff.
All the best for now.
Blair
