A perfect day:

[Sunrise Guy]

Sometimes you just have one of those days that makes you glad you're a tree guy. Today we did a large branch removal from over a three story house. The weather was a perfect sixty-five degrees. The tree, a cottonwood, stood about fifty feet tall and was less than four feet from the house. The branch hung about a foot or so off the roof. I hip thrusted up the tree and then got my feet on the roof. Now I don't like metal roofs for getting about on, and this was the most slippery roof I have ever been on. It's a premium metal shingle roof, each shingle having a fancy designer shape. It was like setting foot on greased glass! I threw my lanyard out and inched my way up, resetting until I was at the end of the branch. Then I pieced out until I was back at the main. I had a wide open drop zone, so that was easy. I did my finish cut hanging in the breeze back at the main. When I got down, one of my ground guys had brought Honduran tamales, wrapped in the traditional plantain leaves, for all of us. Delicious! He gave me four to take home. My lady and I finished them off with a salad, and a Shiner Bock washed 'em down. I was feelin' pretty frisky, but then that feeling of, "Oh man, am I tired, really tired!" set in and when I looked at the clock it was 3AM and I realized I had passed out. Well, let's see----I guess I'll just wake her up in an hour, or so. Good thing she's used to the habits of a tree guy------

 

[adkranger]

Perfect

It's nice when it all comes together. You must treat your groundies well for them to buy the boss lunch and dinner.

Yup, metal roofs suck, unless they're on your own structure. In my neck of the woods they are the way to go for shedding snow load. Plus from an arbor side, they shed saw chips real well.

 

[Sunrise Guy]

It's nice when it all comes together. You must treat your groundies well for them to buy the boss lunch and dinner.

Yup, metal roofs suck, unless they're on your own structure. In my neck of the woods they are the way to go for shedding snow load. Plus from an arbor side, they shed saw chips real well.

I pay my guys $100/gig no matter how long or short the day, and I take them to lunch at very nice places, no McCrap's, if we have time. Most of our shifts run from 9-3, with an occasional 5PM quitting time. I have found that you get from your people as good as you give.

Metal roofs are great, as you say. As long as I don't have to walk on 'em, I'm happy!

 

[Ekka]

I pay my guys $100/gig no matter how long or short the day. Most of our shifts run from 9-3, with an occasional 5PM quitting time.

Is this a govt job?

 

[Sunrise Guy]

Is this a govt job?

How so? Am I paying too much, too little? Are my hours too long, too short?

When I owned and ran the first licensed tattoo shop in Texas, I worked a grueling three day, eighteen hour, work week. I pulled in bigger bucks than most forty hour grinders, travelled the world, and enjoyed the girls I met and worked on. The sitting around was terrible though, and my back got racked from hunching over all day, piercing and tattooing.

Trees saved me! No more, no less.

 

[Jim1NZ]

Well come to think of it, i have had a perfect week.

I have been tutoring a level 4 climbing/ pruning ll course for Waikato Institute of Technology, one of New Zealands premiere arborculture training institutes.

We have been pruning many different specimen trees just off the shore of lake Karapiro. The weather couldn't have been better, the trees couldn't have been better and everything went so smoothly i have never felt better to be an Arborist.

My photo does not do it justice ha, but you can get an idea

 

[adkranger]

Sunrise, it sounds like you treat your men fine. And you are correct, a satisfied worker is a productive worker. The specific $$ are going to depend on location, what you pay, hours worked would be quite acceptable in my neck of the woods. Of course 'round here work hours/days are somewhat flexible come hunting season.

Jim1NZ, it sure looks like a great location to work. Not too dissimilar to some of the locations around where I live.

 

[JohN Dee]

Smooth days are always great, they help you recover mentally and if done easy physically too.

It sounds like you have some good groundies. I treat mine the same, PPE bought for them if needed, lunch everyday, the occasional pickup/drop off. Although i've had two that didn't appreciate much of what myself and my father did for them, it was as if they resented it, anyways thats a different story...

Most roofs are tiles around here... So they arn't saw-dust resistant but if they arn't 100 yrs old they're also alright to stand on.

 

[OTG BOSTON]

How so? Am I paying too much, too little? Are my hours too long, too short?

When I owned and ran the first licensed tattoo shop in Texas, I worked a grueling three day, eighteen hour, work week. I pulled in bigger bucks than most forty hour grinders, travelled the world, and enjoyed the girls I met and worked on. The sitting around was terrible though, and my back got racked from hunching over all day, piercing and tattooing.

Trees saved me! No more, no less.

Can you post some pics of your work? tattoo that is

 

[Sunrise Guy]

Can you post some pics of your work? tattoo that is

Not the right place for it here, but go to: http://www.crimsondragontattoo.com
and you'll see me and some of my work.