fraidofheights
ArboristSite Lurker
Maybe you guys have an immigration problem...
Jeez, I'm the last one to be labeled racist- but if we had people coming to Canada to do tree work for 12.00 per hour, I'd be calling my MP.
I paid my groundman, to start, 20.00 per hour which is a fair wage in these parts. He knew his knots okay, was able to set up a Port-a-Wrap, and didn't stand around waiting to be told what to do.
I have a little chipper (Bandit 65xp), a pickup and chip box, and a groundman, and I net about 600.00 per day (after fuel, wages..etc). I don't know the exacts (wife does) but we but 25% back into the business to replace the equipment and gear. I climb exclusively, but I'm not the greatest climber ever. I'm just okay. I work with one groundie, and we do small jobs. Sell firewood in the winter, and swing tongs on the oil rigs. Been doing forestry, tree work, and environmental work for about 5 years.
Our comp is 4.0% and our insurance is 89.00 per month. Rent is 300 (for 1/2 acre, fenced and secured) and I sell my chips. I work about 120 days of trees- the rest is in the oil patch. The company pays about 12% taxes (we pay ourselves in dividends- it's works very well).
I think the problem in the states is that you let people come in to the country that will work for 3rd World Wages - and work hard. We don't have that here-- maybe because the cold frighten's them away? Most tree people are white- which sounds awful, I suppose, but it seems like the immigrants in this country are working in convenience stores or going to medical school.
They're certainly not hanging around in trees.
So, yeah. though I think the US is a really, really great country (once tried to move to New Hampshire)... move to Canada. Or sort out the immigrant problem (not the immigrants- but their abuse by employers and/or their willingness to work for nothing).
Jeez, I'm the last one to be labeled racist- but if we had people coming to Canada to do tree work for 12.00 per hour, I'd be calling my MP.
I paid my groundman, to start, 20.00 per hour which is a fair wage in these parts. He knew his knots okay, was able to set up a Port-a-Wrap, and didn't stand around waiting to be told what to do.
I have a little chipper (Bandit 65xp), a pickup and chip box, and a groundman, and I net about 600.00 per day (after fuel, wages..etc). I don't know the exacts (wife does) but we but 25% back into the business to replace the equipment and gear. I climb exclusively, but I'm not the greatest climber ever. I'm just okay. I work with one groundie, and we do small jobs. Sell firewood in the winter, and swing tongs on the oil rigs. Been doing forestry, tree work, and environmental work for about 5 years.
Our comp is 4.0% and our insurance is 89.00 per month. Rent is 300 (for 1/2 acre, fenced and secured) and I sell my chips. I work about 120 days of trees- the rest is in the oil patch. The company pays about 12% taxes (we pay ourselves in dividends- it's works very well).
I think the problem in the states is that you let people come in to the country that will work for 3rd World Wages - and work hard. We don't have that here-- maybe because the cold frighten's them away? Most tree people are white- which sounds awful, I suppose, but it seems like the immigrants in this country are working in convenience stores or going to medical school.
They're certainly not hanging around in trees.
So, yeah. though I think the US is a really, really great country (once tried to move to New Hampshire)... move to Canada. Or sort out the immigrant problem (not the immigrants- but their abuse by employers and/or their willingness to work for nothing).
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