How many enjoy removals more than the tedious nature of pruning?

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And I should say....I don't find pruning tedious at all. If anything, I find it relaxing and rewarding. It's my favorite part of the job. If all I have to do next week is light to medium pruning....it's going to be an easy week. Plus....I hate moving huge logs.
 
there maybe more tedious climbing involved in pruning but a pruning customer is generally a repeat customer, the more of those we have the less driving around talking to time wasting idiots we must do... I think on a per hour basis you can charge generally similar but process and haul away much less- more lucrative.
 
What is this Pruning thing you speak of ? I am asked 99% of the time to price removal, normally there is a reason for it. Home addition, lighting , storm damage and so on. And that is what i like to do. On the Topping thing, i dont do it.
 
jefflovstrom said:
I am curious why you asked, is it to justify your practice or are you bored?
Jeff
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Justify? I know what I enjoy I'm not happy to be a GP, I like being a specialist, working w/cranes, blocks, pulleys, I've very little interest in jobs I don't enjoy. I need them to be fun, a bit of a puzzle sometimes, I dread doing a bunch of trims, I earn less it's not my forte. I enjoy bracing myself when I block down a big limb or air mailing large limbs w/careful precision.
 
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DLCRL said:
Justify? I know what I enjoy I'm not happy to be a GP, I like being a specialist, working w/cranes, blocks, pulleys, I've very little interest in jobs I don't enjoy. I need them to be fun, a bit of a puzzle sometimes, I dread doing a bunch of trims, I earn less it's not my forte. I enjoy bracing myself when I block down a big limb or air mailing large limbs w/careful precision.
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We are much alike.
 
mike515 said:
And I should say....I don't find pruning tedious at all. If anything, I find it relaxing and rewarding. It's my favorite part of the job. If all I have to do next week is light to medium pruning....it's going to be an easy week. Plus....I hate moving huge logs.
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tidy said:
there maybe more tedious climbing involved in pruning but a pruning customer is generally a repeat customer, the more of those we have the less driving around talking to time wasting idiots we must do... I think on a per hour basis you can charge generally similar but process and haul away much less- more lucrative.
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Selling and moving logs don't pertain to me, I get to make a mess and leave, it's one of the perks of having several years under my belt, other than my own jobs it's been over 10 years since I worked w/a company and was expected to do anything on the ground.
 
If it's residential, I know Jeff doesn't do residential...I have mentioned that before, I prefer pruning work. Especially for high end clients. I think it's regional but here in the South there are just too many el cheapo mexicanos doing take downs on the cheapo. But there is not one in a thousand of them that can prune worth a damn. Most trees look worse when they are finished with it. The good thing about that is, it took a while but probably 60% of high end clients seemed to have finally figured that out after years of only 25% being in the know. So, there are quite a few pruning jobs that come our way that pay what they should.
 
OLD OAK said:
What is this Pruning thing you speak of ? I am asked 99% of the time to price removal, normally there is a reason for it. Home addition, lighting , storm damage and so on. And that is what i like to do. On the Topping thing, i dont do it.
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I blame the ignorance of homeowners-folks haven't been educated on the benefits that trees provide them/their property with and the science of hazard reduction/management. They think every tree within range can topple over onto their shack. The stupidity is obvious after you clear someones yard of all their perfectly healthy/established trees, front n rear. Their place is left looking like the moon, there's no shade for the kids to play or to have a bbq (it gets quite hot around here). I don't particularly mind as I still get paid but there's definately no repeat work on offer in that yard.
 
mike515 said:
I won't top trees for any amount of money. Even if they've been topped before. You can't pay me enough to put my name on that tree. I've pissed of a few old guys but I just tell them they are going to have to call someone else.
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That's been me for the past 25 years!

Anything less is arboricultural prostitution.
 
mckeetree said:
If it's residential, I know Jeff doesn't do residential...I have mentioned that before, I prefer pruning work. Especially for high end clients. I think it's regional but here in the South there are just too many el cheapo mexicanos doing take downs on the cheapo. But there is not one in a thousand of them that can prune worth a damn. Most trees look worse when they are finished with it. The good thing about that is, it took a while but probably 60% of high end clients seemed to have finally figured that out after years of only 25% being in the know. So, there are quite a few pruning jobs that come our way that pay what they should.
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I agree. I have have repeat customers from Bradford pears to apples and pears.
I like Removals.
 
tidy said:
I blame the ignorance of homeowners-folks haven't been educated on the benefits that trees provide them/their property with and the science of hazard reduction/management. They think every tree within range can topple over onto their shack. The stupidity is obvious after you clear someones yard of all their perfectly healthy/established trees, front n rear. Their place is left looking like the moon, there's no shade for the kids to play or to have a bbq (it gets quite hot around here). I don't particularly mind as I still get paid but there's definately no repeat work on offer in that yard.
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In my neck of the woods a little tyrant call the ash beetle has seem to have all but taken over . These folks shacks are 1.5 or 2 shacks. Removal?
 
RYNOMAGNUM said:
I have been around Jersey as far as north goes.. (east also).Katrina as far west... Florida south...
Never Minnesota. Bet it's frigg'n cold there?
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It's been really bad this week negative true temperatures to say nothing of wind chill, I'm in Minnesota most of these customers have more trees than they need, or they're too close, to say nothing of various diseases. I provide a valued service and I don't trim out of season I wait til the arboricultural society deems it safe to trim oaks and elms. It sounds like a lot of you do not live where trees are in abundance.
 

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