were to send trees

[memetic]

Find a place where folks have been dumping off the side of the road, dump your logs there. If the cops come while your dumping, start throwing the wood back on the truck and tell them your just looking for some firewood. If they don't buy that, hand them one of your competitors cards and tell them that you work for this guy...

that was good. holy carp, i can't stop laughin...

 

[BC WetCoast]

Find a place where folks have been dumping off the side of the road, dump your logs there. If the cops come while your dumping, start throwing the wood back on the truck and tell them your just looking for some firewood. If they don't buy that, hand them one of your competitors cards and tell them that you work for this guy...

The sound of experience.

 

[capetrees]

 

[Blakesmaster]

Oh whether you know it are not us old guys that have one leave and branch out on his own like to talk about it a little amongst ourselves. We have to have some kind of recreation. No harm intended.

Cheers then. S'pose I'd buy you a beer and pick your brain if your ever in the area. Learn a lot these days just chatting in the truck with my old boss. He knows he's givin' me hints and I'm soakin' it up like a sponge. I'm thankful for that and he knows it. BTW, what % that have left you are still in it?

 

[bakerc8]

my old boss wouldn't pay for me to come with him to dump the chip truck so i don't know. i was thinking sell the wood sell the chips but i wanted to know what you did i also thought bur it all. that's pourable what my old boss did he always had chips at hi house.

 

[serial killer]

i keep dumping chips in my yard to cuz i watn to have the tallest mtn in pa then i can sell my property adn move to florida cause it will be so valable but i dont have much yet still some lodes to go iguess haha my mtn is only about 20 feet tall now but im still young only thing i worry about is my chips smell bad and my wife thinks im crazy and they smoke some like mabye vince trun a cigarett but in their or mabye its just spuntaneus cumbuston i dont know

 

[capetrees]

Oh for Gods sakes baker, if you have a yard to dump them/store them, then save them and sell them as the calls come in. Remember, you need a loader of some sort to reload your truck for deliverys. If you don't have a place to store them, give them away to a local landscaper who can use them and who will return the favor at times little by little if its worth his while. Nobody around? Your landfill/transfer station usually have compost piles and even seperate piles for chips. logs? Again, if you have a place to store them, do so and split the wood which means you will need a splitter and again, something to load the wood into the truck for deliveries. Don't have the yard? Someone out there is ALWAYS looking for free firewood. Non burnable wood like sappy pine and such? Find the local stump dump and dump them there. To buy or not buy a chipper? I wouldn't let you near a chain saw let alone something that could easily eat you.

For someone that was "in the business" for three years, you sure didn't learn too much. I suppose one of these days you're going to wake up early enough to find out where that damn sun comes from every day! Quite the mystery that sun is! Same here. How obvious and basic can tree waste disposal get?

 

[JeffL]

Well, you guys have covered chips and logs, what do you do with old rotten stumps?

:greenchainsaw:

How about some old 40-50" DBH Sugar Maples that got filled with concrete when someone 50 years ago realized it was hollow? (Yes, we have really run into that, and there are 2 "sister" trees next to it full of cement that will be coming down soon too.)

 

[toddstreeservic]

Well, you guys have covered chips and logs, what do you do with old rotten stumps?

:greenchainsaw:

How about some old 40-50" DBH Sugar Maples that got filled with concrete when someone 50 years ago realized it was hollow? (Yes, we have really run into that, and there are 2 "sister" trees next to it full of cement that will be coming down soon too.)

Dyno-mite! ...for both.

 

[mckeetree]

Cheers then. S'pose I'd buy you a beer and pick your brain if your ever in the area. Learn a lot these days just chatting in the truck with my old boss. He knows he's givin' me hints and I'm soakin' it up like a sponge. I'm thankful for that and he knows it. BTW, what % that have left you are still in it?

In 22 years I have had ten or so sorta go out on their own. Out of those there is only one guy that is in business and operating a regular tree service business. Another guy that left me as far as hourly employee goes contracts a lot of tree work from me but really doesn't hang a shingle out.

 

[TexasTreemonkey]

Speaking of that who was gonna blow stumps up? Are they still around haha??