Have you ever refused a job because you think its too dangerous?!

[TreeClimber57]

Never turned one down but may have priced myself out of a few.....

My thought process if it is dangerous....I am going to get paid to take my time to do it right

Frankly I am the same. Never turned one down, but have lost jobs on some dangerous ones to lower bid. One about 3 years ago I think my bid was twice a high as the one they took. Frankly I really did not care, did not really need nor want the job, but if they wanted to pay to do it my way then I would have done it.

 

[sgreanbeans]

I have never walked away, I have however, wished I had on some! I often am the guy the others refer when its a "big nasty"

I did have one years ago that I called J.P.S. in on, He and Brian K came down, HUGE, HUGE Cotton Wood, We gave the guy a price of $8000.00, guy didnt have it. House the tree covered caught on fire, tree was dead, so it caught fire as well, I was in San Diego when this happened, wish I could have seen it. I guess it looked like something out of a movie, large 150' tree engulfed in flames, top of tree burnt completely, leaving a 40' trunk that they demo guys knocked over with a excavator!

 

[treemandan]

some times its better to walkaway

sometimes its better to run?

 

[treemandan]

Don't mess around. If you are sent by the bawss to hog out a tree that scares ya and you think you can't do it with what you have that's fine. If someone does the tree and says " see?" that's fine too.
Sure you have to go deep in this tree work bull#### but 6 foot deep is to deep.

 

[jefflovstrom]

sometimes its better to run?

Sometimes, you need to know how to bid.
Jeff- yeah I know I am getting crap for that one.
Jeff

 

[treemandan]

I have never walked away, I have however, wished I had on some! I often am the guy the others refer when its a "big nasty"

I did have one years ago that I called J.P.S. in on, He and Brian K came down, HUGE, HUGE Cotton Wood, We gave the guy a price of $8000.00, guy didnt have it. House the tree covered caught on fire, tree was dead, so it caught fire as well, I was in San Diego when this happened, wish I could have seen it. I guess it looked like something out of a movie, large 150' tree engulfed in flames, top of tree burnt completely, leaving a 40' trunk that they demo guys knocked over with a excavator!

Maybe it was struck by lightening?

 

[jefflovstrom]

Don't mess around. If you are sent by the bawss to hog out a tree that scares ya and you think you can't do it with what you have that's fine. If someone does the tree and says " see?" that's fine too.
Sure you have to go deep in this tree work bull#### but 6 foot deep is to deep.

Sorry, I am still trying to fiqure out this post. Love to see that quote 'animated'!.
Jeff

 

[treemandan]

Sometimes, you need to know how to bid.
Jeff- yeah I know I am getting crap for that one.
Jeff

Don't worry about me, I am The Dan, I know EVERYTHING!!!

 

[treemandan]

Sorry, I am still trying to fiqure out this post. Love to see that quote 'animated'!.
Jeff

Instead of thinking that I wrote some highly intelluctual #### think more on a lower level and see if that helps.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Instead of thinking that I wrote some highly intelluctual #### think more on a lower level and see if that helps.

For you, I always think on a lower level!
Jeff

 

[isaaccarlson]

I have had people ask me to trim a bad tree that needs to be taken down. I tell them I am not going to touch it unless it is coming down. Then I start for the car/truck. They usually catch me before I get in. Never refused one though.

 

[newsawtooth]

So bid it that way, dont walk away. You either do it or not. Jeff

You've been like an arboricultural Yoda lately, Jeffers. Try not. Do or do not, there is no try. Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you.

There are trees I won't and haven't removed. Why should I? They scare me. At some point, explosives are a better option.

 

[jefflovstrom]

You've been like an arboricultural Yoda lately, Jeffers. Try not. Do or do not, there is no try. Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you.

There are trees I won't and haven't removed. Why should I? They scare me. At some point, explosives are a better option.

"Luke, I am your father!"
Jeff

 

[mckeetree]

You've been like an arboricultural Yoda lately, Jeffers.

Ha. Jeffers. I bet that name sticks. It already has as far as I am concerned.

 

[CNBTreeTrimming]

Had one call out that when I got there I had to laugh and walk away. It was a 75+ cottonwood about 71/2ft across at the base with a crack nearly all the way through 10ft up. It gets better. Tree was dead, leaned severely over the house and shed, and icing on it all the limbs were gone on the side away from the house. No clear place to drop it and its over the lines to the house and shop. Suicide to climb. Only way to clear it was a crane. The tree was too weak to rope as heavy as those limbs would be.

 

[TonyX3M]

Well I got a ton of great advice

I've been telling to my boss all the time that he should bid high on trees like that - that way if we need to bring in some heavy/costly equipment we have a little bit of playroom. What really burns my rear is that every Tom, #### and Harry with a 60' lift is a tree care specialist- we have in this city(Tallinn, Estonia) hundreds of trees with no tops and limbs- looks like a darn telephone poles! Who the hell takes this kind of jobs?! And of course city officials are politicians who don't care about anything!
And to question about me being scared of heights- yes I am!- But I feel better up in the tree then I am in somehow weirdly mowing lift 60' up (according to my co-worker in the same basket- he asked me: you was ten feet higher in that coupla' hours ago on a tree and you were fine- what are you worried about now?!) I just can't stand when I'm not in control
Anyway; Thank you guys- you are a lot of support!

 

[TonyX3M]

For you, I always think on a lower level!
Jeff

I just got on level 18 in tetris- recon I have too mutch time to vaste
(just kiddin- love to see ya going back and forth like that!)

 

[tree MDS]

I've been telling to my boss all the time that he should bid high on trees like that - that way if we need to bring in some heavy/costly equipment we have a little bit of playroom. What really burns my rear is that every Tom, #### and Harry with a 60' lift is a tree care specialist- we have in this city(Tallinn, Estonia) hundreds of trees with no tops and limbs- looks like a darn telephone poles! Who the hell takes this kind of jobs?! And of course city officials are politicians who don't care about anything!
And to question about me being scared of heights- yes I am!- But I feel better up in the tree then I am in somehow weirdly mowing lift 60' up (according to my co-worker in the same basket- he asked me: you was ten feet higher in that coupla' hours ago on a tree and you were fine- what are you worried about now?!) I just can't stand when I'm not in control
Anyway; Thank you guys- you are a lot of support!

Bucket is just like your rope, you have to learn to trust it.. as long as its up to snuff that is.

That said, I have my moments where I'd rather be climbing too.

 

[Sunrise Guy]

I've turned down ten, or so. PI up and heavily around a tree will make me walk. Heavy, rotten, dead leaners over a house with no lift access, ditto.

 

[treesquirrel]

Smart decision my friend. You might have become a permanent resident of the graveyard if you climbed it.

I have refused to climb many trees during my career. Most of them were dead and too far gone to climb. I refer them to a colleague who has a bucket truck and a boom truck.

As a matter of fact I just turned down a nasty dead oak 2 weeks ago. it had a ant colony in the base that had eaten almost 1/3 of the thing out. leaned towards a home, nowhere to drop whole. I sent my buddy over to quote it.