Can You Guys Tell Me What You Would Bid On These??

[bruce6670]

That's kind of what i did. The grounds keeper (know him real well) had told me what the other bid was and asked if i wanted to match it. Drank a few with him that night and told him i'm not in business to work to break even.

To me calling the customer back multiple times, lowering the price each time makes you sound desperate, and lowering the price that much makes you look like you were trying to rip them off at first.

I agree.Someone in business for a long time told me years ago to give a price and to stick with it.I thought he was trying to screw with me because we were in the same business but he was right.
You have to be professional and bid properly.You won't get every job but the ones that you do get will make you money.:smoking:

 

[teamtree]

There are three things going on here.....

One....someone with a ton of equipment can come in and knock it out in 4 hours.....

Two.....someone with some experience and a good ground crew and not afraid to bust it can knock it out with less equipment and make more profit

Three....someone with little experience can take two days or more doing this job and lose their ass (or make like $5 per hour). I know this becuase I was there 10 years ago. Things that used to take me a day or two and i can get done in 2 hours or 4 hours. The equipment is better but the know how is better and the ground crew is awesome.

 

[chipmaker29]

Did you give her your $2800 bid? I think that is VERY reasonable for all the work you described. Like Oldirty said, somewhere around $4k would be offered around here.

Going to submit bid to H/O the first of the week. hopefully i can land the job as we need it. is slow around here for sure. have work but man i like it when we are like...OMG how we gonna get all this done and that isnt how it is right now.

 

[newsawtooth]

Well, I was just shooting that blue print out there to see if anyone would give that a green light.

I'm sure of the forces applied there though. It's impossible for trees to fall anyway but to the big truck. The trick is being overly damn sure about the lines' tensil strengths all the way around and the size and power of the truck. A little Dahtsun Love truck might get sucked back into one of these kinds of deals and/or spin out botching the whole operation. A heavy chip truck would just pull it out even at their sizes.

I do agree that there is risk. It's a little like the "what ifs" in explosive demolition where teams are demoliting a building by imploding it with proper sequences of detonation each placed at key points. Ya, if it goes wrong, it can turn critical. When is this work not critical though. When it's done soundly, the quick take down proceedures save major money getting all of those stories of building to find it's way to the ground. "Man Made Marvels"

I have actually seen one of those jobs that was botched. The building just fell over, and actually rolled a half of a block to hit another apt. building. Wow. And you know that even a guy could slip with a part of the tree or a rope could slip or bust. It depends on proper gear, and proper placement.

What does the guy tie a zip line to? On one job I had a tree at the top of a steep gulley. Below the tree was a cactus garden. I planted a few screw in stakes down the hill, and zipped the stuff that way. The cable bowed to much for my likeing though. I'd have been satisfied with a tree down there to put a manual winch on.

Where do you get these ideas? Expert Village? What do you call this technique? It's as if you've never used a chainsaw, which is fine, lot's of people haven't. They don't spew insanity all over the inter-webs though, well, most don't. Post some video when you find someone that will let you test your theories.