{"id":49307,"date":"2019-05-23T13:17:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T11:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/komani-karoo\/willem-avenant-boomdokter-van-die-karoo-20190522\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T17:06:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T15:06:44","slug":"willem-avenant-boomdokter-van-die-karoo-20190522","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/komani-karoo\/willem-avenant-boomdokter-van-die-karoo-20190522\/","title":{"rendered":"Willem Avenant: Boomdokter van die Karoo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Willen Avenant, boomdokter van Murraysburg s\u00ea hulle verkies om nie bome af te saag nie en adviseer mense eerder vooraf oor watter boomsoorte w\u00e1\u00e1r sal aard. Foto: VERSKAF<\/div>\n
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ALMAL van ons ken die frustrasie wanneer jy opmerk dat \u2019n boom in jou tuin nie floreer nie. Om agter die kap van die byl te kom (of dit dalk juis te vermy!) word die hulp van \u2019n spesialis egter benodig, en Mid-Karoo Express<\/em> het met Willem Avenant, \u2019n gekwalifiseerde boomdokter, gesels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hoe het dit gebeur dat jy as boomdokter gekwalifiseer het?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ek het n\u00e1 skool in Engeland as wildbewaarder en professionele jagter gewerk en my bosboulisensie verwerf. (In Engeland moet mens \u2019n lisensie h\u00ea om bome te mag afsaag.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tydens my opleiding het ek toe te hore gekom van \u201ctree surgeons\u201d en wat hulle doen. Dit het my dadelik gefassineer, en nadat ek my bousboulisensie bekom het, het ek met my opleiding as boomdokter begin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ek het eers vir die bekende Bamfordfamilie gaan werk, waarna ek by een van die grootste boommaatskappye in Europa, Gritswood and Toms, ingeval het. Daar het ek baie geleer, want ons het vir die stad van London gewerk. Terug in Suid-Afrika in 2005 het ek met my nuwe kennis \u2019n besigheid in die Somerset-Wes\/Gordonsbaai-area begin. Dit het goed gegaan, maar toe word ek beroof van my bakkie en al my ingevoerde toerusting. Dit het my genoodsaak om die land weer te verlaat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ek het my vrou ontmoet terwyl ek in Alaska as boomdokter gewerk het, en ons het teruggekeer om vir ses maande deur Suid-Afrika te toer in \u2019n 1979 Series 3 Landrover. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aanvanklik sou ons n\u00e1 ons groot avontuur terugkeer na Amerika, maar toe koop ek iemand wat sou emigreer se toerusting en begin op 1 Julie 2009 my eie besigheid, Tree Specialist, in die Kaap. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ons kli\u00ebnte is meestal hotelle, gholfbane, kantoorparke, sekuriteitskomplekse, natuurparke, eiendomsagente, eiendomsbestuurders, en privaat huis-eienaars. Ons werk reg oor die land, en selfs so ver as Namibi\u00eb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nou woon julle in Murraysburg?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ja, toe my dogter twee word, het ons die skuif terug Karoo toe gemaak, want ek wou vir haar die sorgelose kinderjare van \u2019n Karookind gee, maar ons bedryf steeds ons besigheid in Kaapstad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, wat doen \u2019n boomdokter?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2019n Boomdokter doen letterlik alles wat met bome te doen het. Ons adviseer mense oor watter bome w\u00e1\u00e1r geplant moet word, met die 50 \u2013 100 jaar prentjie in gedagte. Dis beter om een boom op \u2019n goeie plek te plant as vyf bome op \u2019n slegte plek. Ons plant bome, snoei hulle (ook groot bome, met behulp van spesiale klimtoue en harnasse) en versorg \u00f3\u00fa bome, wat spe- siale sorg benodig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kan jy \u2019n \u201csiek\u201d boom gesond dokter?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die identifisering en behandeling van siektes en plae is \u2019n groot deel van ons werk. \u2019n Goeie voorbeeld is die luise wat mens die tyd van die jaar op Celtis (Stinkhout-) en Quercus (Eikebome) sien. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dit is \u2019n luis wat die chlorofil uit blare suig. Indien ons so \u2019n probleem betyds in jou tuin identifiseer, kan ons met pro-aktiewe behandeling onnodige skade voorkom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hoe werk jul professionele diens?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mense kan \u2019n kort video of foto met \u2019n navraag stuur. Indien ons kan help, stuur ons \u2019n faktuur en skeduleer \u2019n video- of selfoonoproep waartydens ons die kli\u00ebnt dan adviseer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besoek gerus hul webwerf www.treespecialist.co.za<\/a><\/span>, Ask an Arborist op Facebook<\/a> of skakel 072 434 2126.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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