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

Hi, I run a smallish Tree service business called Gervis Tree Services in Victoria Australia. I’ve been in the industry about 16 years now. I’m a climber but I’ve been doing less on the tools work and more Tree reports. I’m heavily interested in food forestry and syntropic Agroforestry and I’m moving more into designing implementing and managing food forest systems. I originally started my business as a way of saying no to doing Tree work that I didn’t think was necessary.