Best city/climate to do tree work in?

[k5alive]

Fl is alright. It does rain ALOT in the summer, winter is the off season .......................... yeah, it kinda sucks.

 

[sgreanbeans]

The weather in San Diego is AWESOME, and there are lots of great things there, but they are all squashed with the bad stuff. The traffic is horrendous, you may go out in the hills and get way out in the boonies, then a accident happens and the CHP, who suck, shuts down the road for hours and you have no where to go. Homeless are freaking everywhere and they will trash a new hide out in a minute. Lots of punk asses and the ultra rich treat you like you are a POS. Jeff has a good deal, he runs one of the very few top notch out fits, very few, but there are a bazillion hacks out there. Even the big show suck real bad, I should know, LOL! Topping runs amuck there, they even prescribe it as a service. I could have jumped over to one of the top notch outfits and almost did, they where after me. But if I was not going to stay at Big Green, which is a horrible example of a pro tree outfit, tree topping maniacs..........there in SoCal anyways. I cant speak of them elsewhere. Then I was not going to stay in SoCal. If the other factors where good, I would have stayed, but the cost of living is ridiculous, my wife and kids hated the place so I came back home. I can see it being expensive on the coast, but inland, where the hoods are worse than Chicago, they still get outrageous amounts of money for real estate. 900 sq ft of crack house - $500,000. Food is expensive, but if you get hooked up with a HO that has a bunch of groves, you may never have to buy fruits or veggies. But a loaf a bread, better get a loan. The schools are filled with illegal kids who will steal your dirty underwear. The beach is filled with beautiful young tan women............. and a bunch of A-hole surf punks, homeless or the gangsta lady with her 14 kids, there to get their weekly bath, leaving all their garbage on the beach, 10ft from a trash can. People are generally rude as hell. Dishonest and arrogant. Everyone has no respect for anyone else. There are the few nice people, but like I said, they are few. Most will screw u in second. They have little work ethic, the local motto is "surf now, work later"
The weather rocks, the chicks are hot and the trees are pretty cool. But you pay a heavy price to have that.

 

[treesmith]

Always fancied Montana but I don't really know much about it. I like mountains, trees, waterfalls, cabins, watching cute fluffy animals frolic and then eating them. Only been to Florida and that was ok, well, except for that dancing rat thing...

 

[kyle goddard]

Oregon

Id say anywhere in Oregon. Four seasons no humidity in the summer. That would be my ideal area to work. I lived out ther as a kid. Hell some towns out there are so remote you can start your own rodeo out there.

 

[bootboy]

Id say anywhere in Oregon. Four seasons no humidity in the summer. That would be my ideal area to work. I lived out ther as a kid. Hell some towns out there are so remote you can start your own rodeo out there.

No humidity? Yeah right. Maybe in the half of oregon with no trees. I spent a week in Hood River and Falls City last july and thought I was gonna die. The gorge wasn't so bad but down by Salem, Dallas, and Springfield, it was double 80's (80s temps and 80s humidity) but I'm from Utah, I know dry.

 

[jefflovstrom]

San Diego,,,,,duk!
Jeff

 

[mckeetree]

San Diego,,,,,duk!
Jeff

My opinion of San Diego based on what I experienced from being there for a week back in 1999 was San Diego is a great place geographically but is populated with people that make it just plain old suck.

 

[Lil Red]

No humidity? Yeah right. Maybe in the half of oregon with no trees. I spent a week in Hood River and Falls City last july and thought I was gonna die. The gorge wasn't so bad but down by Salem, Dallas, and Springfield, it was double 80's (80s temps and 80s humidity) but I'm from Utah, I know dry.

You must've been here one of the only couple weeks we get humidity cause for the most part its not a problem. But the damn rain, the maples with moss on them are a bitc*. That is my biggest gripe.

 

[jefflovstrom]

It was a beautiful day!
Jeff :msp_biggrin:

 

[CanopyGorilla]

Always fancied Montana but I don't really know much about it. I like mountains, trees, waterfalls, cabins, watching cute fluffy animals frolic and then eating them.

Montana is a pretty place. I am in the Bitterroot (south of Missoula) and have a house on 6.87 acres I will sell you for a song. Hell, I will even give you my job. My wife and I are actually trying to move to the Columbia Gorge. I spend a lot of my time removing dead and dying cottonwoods and poplars. Winters are fairly mild for a rocky mountain state and it only gets 100+ a few days a summer. Get ready for fantastic views, world class hunting and fishing, tons of rednecks and to get severely underpaid. $14 dolla make you holla!!

Oh yeah, edited to add my job is main climber at largest tree service in Missoula. Seriously, buy my house and my job is yours.