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Welcome to the community
First things first: Go ahead and introduce yourself on the introductions part of the message boards, tell us where you're from and what part of the industry you're in. Our industry is on a path to self destruction. As long as we’re paid for the absence of trees instead of the presence of them, we’ll be trapped in a shrinking market, chasing short-term profit while killing the long-term future of our trade, and living environment. Apex Arborist exists to change that. This community is an incubator for a new way of thinking, one where arborists are builders of value, not just removers of risk and nuisance. We’re here to empower those growing businesses that expand canopy, grow influence, and reshape public perception. These are my ideas. They are not final, they’re just a foundation. Please contribute, push back, and improve them. Together, we can create an industry that actually deserves to exist. This is the first iteration of course content, so the subscription is launched at this discounted rate, as it gets built out and adds more value, it will go up in price. Bonus for you is you get to weigh in on what content needs to be made next. To keep the tree presence model content freely available, I will likely start a free community at the same time that this one goes behind a paywall. This is so Apex Arborist can become a paid space that adds value to people who want to push themselves, but the foundational ideas it is built on are freely available to all. A rising tide lifts all ships. Let us raise the tide before the ocean is gone. More trees, more arborist work to be done.
Welcome to the community
Software for saving Trees arborflow.app
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
Insurance
Hi all, Joined like many of you as keen to help grow and work though the issues that will arise with the token system to ensure it can fit into the economic environment so it will succeed as it should. One issue I see is insurance, a necessary evil now in a commercial transaction/asset..if worked right it can help the industry eg insurance companies require an annual tree inspection/ and or work completed only by suitably qualified arborists, able to provide affordable and appropriate damage/loss cover using a industry led matrix. A good collaboration with insurance could benefit Arboricultural standards and help the industry set the standard instead of Councils for example. However there needs to be an affordable levy matrix otherwise it will be too expensive for owner and or user to to ensure its economically profitable to buy into the token system. Something to work through and would be good to hear other people's perspectives . I feel that NZ arboriculture is still struggling to develop a professional identity in NZ which is important regardless but important going forward with this Will talk about that another time.
Cauterising pruning wounds
Here’s a research paper from Elemental Tree Networks - massive for tree focused arborists. This is a service offering to help seperate arborists from cutters, first we learn to do it, then we learn to sell it. https://www.elementaltreenetwork.org/_files/ugd/7b4cd7_c976e7c183e74f28a613c99b3035a049.pdf?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio
Failure of the industry
This is around the corner from where I grew up, I walked past it every day to get to school. We, the industry, have failed to retain this tree. Maybe we lost a battle with the lines company. Maybe we failed to adequately support the tree’s health and structure. Either way we failed to retain an old tree today
Failure of the industry
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