how often?

[treeman82]

I was just curious about something. I know Murphy just posted the other day about getting a job to remove what? 9 trees from a property. How often do you get jobs where you wind up removing a whole bunch of descent sized trees for your area from one residential property? I seem to pick up one job like that a year, where the "client" wants to remove about 20 - 40 trees from a pretty residential piece of land. My focus here is of course on individual trees in a more landscape / turf setting. As opposed to in a forest setting where you could be clearing, or thinning.

 

[Ryan Willock]

Around here I get that faily often, as in a couple times a month. If the timber is good and nothing has to be climbed and the brush can be pushed up in a pile and burned then I do it for the timber value alone. In fact I just finished a 2 acre job like that in membane this week. The lady had a lot of trees but hardly any yard and she wanted to change that so she called me. I took all the merchantable wood out (every thing down to 3'' in diameter and at least 12'6'' long and resonable straight) and took it to the mill about 1 1/2 away from her house (how often do you get that fortunate to be so close to the mill??? ) got seval good loads of saw logs and about 3 loads of pulp.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

maybe once a year, there are enough lowballers out there that will go so cheap, I usualy recomend a few of the better ones. If the prospctive customer wants the work to be low impact, then I may go look at it. But i tell them I'm not cheap, I may even ask for some money for my time.

Another thing I will ask is if i can talk them out of removing some of the trees. As someone else here stated in a previous thread.