How to get in the buisness

[mxjunkie123]

Im looking for some info of how ot get in the tree service buisness. I am 20 years old and still have my life ahead of me. Right now I am at school going for buisness major. I sell firewood and i process and all and would like to expand on that. I love being around trees and working in them and i would really like to do this as a profession. Im just looking for some advice on how to get in the buisness, because i dont really have an connections with people in the buisness.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Here we go again. Cant you read the similar threads? The answer is always the same.
Jeff

 

[Pelorus]

Go to TCI Expo in Hartford, Conn Nov. 3-5
Get some knowledge (Shigo).
Buy a copy of Jepson's "A Tree Climber's Companion" easily the best $15-20.00 you can spend where you're at at this point in time.
Get Sherrill and WesSpur catalogs. Start dreraming of winning the lottery so you can afford to buy all the shiny bits and pieces.

 

[superjunior]

get a job working for a tree service. period.
Lots of threads on here asking the same thing, guys want to get into the business with zero experience in the tree care industry. All the degrees in the world wont replace hands on experience in the field. get a job with a tree service and get your learn on young grasshopper

 

[troythetreeman]

ive had wood heat my whole life, also we sold firewood
none of that really prepared me for tree work
i got a job, on the ground dragging brush, i did that for a year before i started climbing

 

[superjunior]

i got a job, on the ground dragging brush, i did that for a year before i started climbing

me too

 

[tree MDS]

ive had wood heat my whole life, also we sold firewood
none of that really prepared me for tree work
i got a job, on the ground dragging brush, i did that for a year before i started climbing

I can remember waking up in the middle of the the night with agonizing leg cramps from dragging so much brush. This was down in Fort Lauderdale after hurricane andrew. We were lugging these skanky australian pine branches out of the canals.. they had been in there for weeks. I actually woke up one night in shear terror, I dreamed those slimy branches were in bed with me! lol, good stuff!

 

[mikegar]

you really need to start off doing the actual work otherwise future employees will have a hard time respecting you.

 

[Brushwacker]

Around here most the tree services I know started with P.U.,a tow behind stump grinder and a chainsaw or 2. 1 person can do that alone but when you get big clean up jobs and take trees down more people will be needed and bigger equipment and insurance expenses.
While your out looking for stumps, might consider picking up scrap metals for sale and anything else you see for sale or free that you can make money on.
Be safe falling trees and with equipment and like others said working for a tree care company you should pick up much of the needed knowledge faster. Sometimes the small local companies may not be anxious to share their knowledge if they think you will become their competition, so maybe you'd do better with a big company or someone you know and can trust that will not try and hold you back.
Go for it, I wish I had been thinking like that and done so when I was 20.