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An Irish adventure
Irish arboriculture has been enjoying something of a renaissance in recent years. Although tree work has always been carried out - the country has a long-established forestry industry after all - dedicated arborists have been somewhat thin on the ground. With more new entrants coming into arboriculture, opportunities have been created in both the provision of goods and services to the arborist and the delivery of training and assessment. In parallel to these new opportunities established companies have consolidated their position and opened up new and diversified markets for themselves. Euroarb visited three such companies in late May, two were in the North and the third in the South and whilst there was much in common it is apparent that two different systems operate almost in tandem.
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Zero Waste Maximum Profit…..
It’s frightening when you think how much waste we produce in this industry. How much timber and chip ends up in landfill? Or how much is just piled up and set on fire? Money going up in smoke.
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Developers versus Newts?
If there’s one thing guaranteed to get a developer foaming at the mouth, gasping, short of breath and turning a violent shade of puce it’s the word ‘Newt’ (or ‘alternatively, ‘recession’, but that’s outside the scope of this publication for the moment.)
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European Tree Climbing Competition
Nantes, the 6th largest city in France, played host to the European Tree Climbing Competition on the 6th & 7th May this year, and what a competition it turned out to be!
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Bavarian College of Forestry (WBS)
A visit to the Bavarian Forestry School in Kelheim promised to be an interesting experience. The school, which is operated as a private establishment as opposed to a state one is regarded as being the premier training, centre in Bavaria. Whilst the course contents will be broadly similar to those taught across Europe, with obvious differences due to climate or geography, the ethos is somewhat unique.
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Mervyn Walker: Profile of a 20th-century woodcutter
Mervyn Walker is a woodcutter; always was, always will be. Seventy-five years into life’s journey and still felling trees for a living, Mervyn occupies a commanding vantage-point, from which to survey the landscape of British arboriculture across six decades.
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The modern approach to traditional service
With a thirty-eight year trading history, F R Jones and Son have built up a loyal following of regular customers-mainly for garden machinery. The company’s’ move to sell arboricultural equipment has not only brought them a raft of new customers, but has seen the business expand at an extraordinary rate. Growth is being recorded on a month on month basis, and the business will move into new premises within the next twelve months – purely to keep up with demand. What makes F R Jones and Son stand out? Euroarb went to investigate.
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Dormice and arborists
I can remember the first time a grown man stood in front of me in a darkened wood, cupped his hands as if he were about to drink from a pool of fresh water and said the immortal phrase “. .it’s about the size of a grapefruit . . .”
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