Trinity Honoria
Senior Member
Ax-man said:The question I have is why in the hell don't people do some research or at least ask someone that does know about proper tree pruning before they spend money??? There is more info available then ever before concerning trees and how to properly care for them.
Apperently it just boils down to the fact that people still don't care enough about trees and the role they play on this planet and in our everyday lives to hire quailfied people to work on them. As long as the attitude of the masses is " It's just a tree" let the the cheap guy do the job, we will never see any type of professionalism in arborculture. Incidents like this are just going to repeat themselves over and over, by the time we wake up it might be too late to turn the clock back.
Larry
Larry!
as a simple home owner, i dispute the fact that all of us don't care enough or don't do research-- there's so much mis-information out there! you can do research all day long and still be WRONG! someone on another topic listed a guy's website who blabbed on about how everyone in tree biz was wrong BUT him... i forget the lousy advice he gave... but many novices would read his site and take it for truth...
in my case, several years ago, i called the most trusted arborist in this county... long time in the biz... and i was told in days gone by that he was a qualified arborist (what did i know?)... well, he came by and i told him what i wanted: my two pecan trees topped (people i know & love, long time home owners, told me this was what i needed...)... i asked him if this was what i needed...
trusted 'arborist' said topping was OK, for the 2 pecan trees, and for $900, he'd do it-- call him when after Christmas, when the tree was dormant... (the $900 was with the single mother discount i didn't ask for) (yes, a reference to another topic...)...
luckily, i needed my tax refund money for something silly-- perhaps food or shoes for the kids ... and i didn't have the tree work done...
NOW, since y'all have educated me, often with the Larry-style of laying it on the line, i just looked to see: said trusted arborist is not ISA listed... nor is the fella taking over his business... in fact, in my community, there is only one.
one of you delightful gents, if schedule permits, will be coming to help me get control over the jungle in the back yard... i told a friend about it, including that i fully expected to have a new rectal track by the time he finished fussing at me... she asked why i would allow it... i simply said: i trust him, and as he fussed, i would certainly know what to do with the plants/trees in the future.
i realize that there are many home-owners who are ignorant... Lord knows not many would hang in here... LOL... but there are those of us who are teachable and trainable...
so, keep laying it on the line... some of us listen.