this is a hard life

[ozarktreeman]

what really saddens me is the vultures.when i do go to storm damage jobs,i charge just like i would under normal circumstances.i don't believe in gouging people after they have already been through hell.it's just plain wrong in my book.

I'm with you on that,call me a bad businessman or a softy,whatever.I have to sleep at night,and the way I conduct business I have no problem sleeping.
I have a price per hour and when out of town I will adjust to cover expenses.And will sleep like a 10pound ###### baby! With no guilt that I have taken advantage of someone.
I Know that must be against some kinda code or something but wtf.

 

[Behemoth Jim]

Sat though one in my home town last jan,your right something to behold.started and prayed for a little more and after a while prayed for it to STOP!
No power and the middle of the night you don't know where it's comin from but you hear it and know it;s big on the way down,crash.
It's a little different than pulling into a town after the fact,sitting through one a little amazing and frightful at the same time,when there is nothing surrounding you but tree,s.:jawdrop:

Yeah, I've been through about three big ones now-- only one while I was a tree worker. several things that are amazing-- one is watching a limb break off the top of a white pine, then it hits successive branches on its way down, and they all break off like dominoes falling. Bam bam bam bam bam. Another is all those bradford pears with their limbs all lying around them like they're dragging their knuckles on the ground. Then there is the 42" diameter 100' tulip poplar that falls across the road into the other peoples' yard and misses everything but an old volkswagen-- but if it had fallen the other direction, it would have cut their house in half. . . . . . .

sorry for the derail. Maybe there's an ice storm thread somewhere. . . . .

 

[treeslayer]

I'm with you on that,call me a bad businessman or a softy,whatever.I have to sleep at night,and the way I conduct business I have no problem sleeping.
I have a price per hour and when out of town I will adjust to cover expenses.And will sleep like a 10pound ###### baby! With no guilt that I have taken advantage of someone.
I Know that must be against some kinda code or something but wtf.

:agree2:
I travel to a LOT of storms, and my theory is be fair and work 12-16 hours a day, every day. thats how you make money, being in the right place at the right time. $100 -$150 per hour x 80+ hours is enough.

 

[Behemoth Jim]

:agree2:
I travel to a LOT of storms, and my theory is be fair and work 12-16 hours a day, every day. thats how you make money, being in the right place at the right time. $100 -$150 per hour x 80+ hours is enough.

You getting any ice up there tonight, TS? The weather said you might.
:chainsawguy: