My wife and I are as opposite as two people can be, she is not the outdoors type. She tried to help once take a tree down when we moved into our house just didn't have the strength to be moving limbs to the chipper. She does not get along with anything that has a pull rope, she and the lawn mower do not have a good relationship, she hates chain saws.
My wife does a very good job at running the office and talking with people on the phone, she has a good phone voice, more than one person has commented on this. She is also good artistically and has hand drawn many of our ads over the years, she gets mad at the printers when they don't reproduce exactly as she laid it out.
Another thing I have come to respect over the years is that being a non tree person, she reminds me that not every one knows as much about a tree as I do and that I should not talk over there heads. She has shown me ways to communicate with the average person to get a point across so to speak, but do it in such a way that I am not talking obver their heads and confusing them.
I personally do not see anything wrong with a spouse helping her husband, do a tree job. I also have some clients that would show disfavor if we operated this way, some don't like it, others would not care. I would rather see a husband, wife team doing the work, than just the husband, father with small children doing the work exposing minor children to risks that could get them hurt. Having kids help clean up is one thing, but having them under a tree with debris and limbs coming down is another, and working around machinery is another. I don't know where you draw the line on this one, but I wouldn't expose my kids to risks that could get them hurt.
Larry
