What is an Arborist?

jmcscrap said:
Wow! Blast from the past - I believe this was my first post or at least one of the first five. How much has changed and how much has stayed the same in that time. We still have trees being topped and flush cuts being made, but hopefully less and less.

So now to answer my own question 7 years later. An Arborist to me is someone who recognizes a tree as a living organism, realizes that there is a right place and a wrong place to plant a tree and the correct way to plant it. They understand that the job is not done when it's put in the ground, mulch volcanoes are bad! They understand that trees in the urban setting need pruning well before "the other guy" does. They know that those co-doms will be the weak point many years from now. They know that risk can be managed and not every tree needs to come down, and not every tree should stay up. They know how to get them down safely. This is just a few things, have to run.... Oh yeah - They hate turf grass!
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Blast from the past is right! Sir Rat was here then. Good to read these threads again though. Thanks.
 
jalegre0 said:
good thread , but true, 99% of people I have hired cant tell the difference between a maple and an oak. Forget asking them if they know how to use a pole clip or even the correct spot to clip/cut the branch. Most tree guys take a power pole to everything.
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Pole clip?
 
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