Hello everyone, I’ve been an arborist for coming on 15 years now, starting at the chipper and working my way up. I now run a company with a good friend of mine and find myself doing a lot more consulting. All to often homeowners are given I’ll informed advice to scaremonger them into removing/ butchering trees for someone to make a quick buck. Our industry here in South Australia is so unregulated and makes it hard for potential client to distinguish between an arborist and a tree looper. Most of the time they don’t know the difference, so it is up to us to distinguish our selves with professionalism and sound advice. That being said I have recently started advising customers to implement a tree management plan where each tree is assessed methodically and without a bank account bias. This is recurring work as most of the time I suggest a 2 year cycle. A good software makes this easy and presents well to the client, some shameless self promotion here but I use www.arborflow.app