whadja do today?

[Brendon Phillips]

Not in that neighborhood. Maybe a couple miles more into Portsmouth. He can have that garbage.

 

[gorman]

What would you do?

Guy that works with me on weekends told me this from where he works;
guy files a complaint about his forman..
prior to the upcoming company "hearing" on the matter, the forman and the complaintant are working together with a third guy on a job.
at coffee time, forman tells the complaintant to get his own coffee if he wants some and drives away with the third guy to get their own coffee.

Complaintant deserves it and should have expected it having complained or the forman is out of line?

No, honest, it didn't happen to me.

Coffee time? What is this, a city worker? All and all, it sounds like a bratty move.

 

[Toddppm]

TGIF! Ran over my creeper the other day after working on the truck, got a little frustrated cause I broke the bleeder screw off 1 of the calipers, Thing was a PITA anyways, way too wide, sooo ordered this one today. MadeInMerica' Seems fitting with July 4 coming up. http://www.whitesidemfg.com/ , ordered a nice rolly seat too.

 

[Brendon Phillips]

TGIF! Ran over my creeper the other day after working on the truck, got a little frustrated cause I broke the bleeder screw off 1 of the calipers, Thing was a PITA anyways, way too wide, sooo ordered this one today. MadeInMerica' Seems fitting with July 4 coming up. http://www.whitesidemfg.com/ , ordered a nice rolly seat too.
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'MURICA!!!

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Talked to the guy that bought my old morbark 200 chipper the other day. Found out his ground guy feed his climb line to it while he was up in the tree. He said it took 2.5 hours to get the rope un wrapped from around the bearings

 

[Brendon Phillips]

Talked to the guy that bought my old morbark 200 chipper the other day. Found out his ground guy feed his climb line to it while he was up in the tree. He said it took 2.5 hours to get the rope un wrapped from around the bearings

Hope it didn't affect the climber. That's some scary **** there.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

He said he seen it coming and unclipped from the rope quick

 

[tree MDS]

I have to compete with a guy I believe to be living under a bridge.

Lol. Yeah, but if all of his equipment is bought and paid for.... well,,,, just saying..

 

[tree MDS]

He said he seen it coming and unclipped from the rope quick

Sounds like a class operation.

 

[Blakesmaster]

She lives! New bearings, belt, shaft and teeth. Got about $9600 in her as is.

 

[jefflovstrom]

I bet you love it, great grinder.
Jeff

 

[RDAA]

I am trying to figure out what to charge a not much " less than Vet status" client for a few hours to slice 6 burning bushes from 12 feet to 3 feet then go around and lop each lead clean then take every out and away raked clean.

Her jaw is going to drop when I tell her 400. I could have went up there by myself and did it for 300 if you know what I mean. Having Andy along is expensive and it makes me work harder keeping him working.

Have another not much " less than Vet status" client I can't wait to say the same things to. I was just going to run over and do it while we were close yesterday but I din't tell him how much I wanted. I could have done it and maybe charged him 400 with out telling him but I want to charge more like 6. Considering the material for the cable and having to watch Andy flounce around in a couple zelkovas.

After pruning I might use Arbor Tie instead of 1/2 inch hollow braid Nerex. Its not like I won't be married to it cause I will be.

The one had a rip out like a Bradford. We cleaned the fallen limb and coated the rip on the trunk for now and are going to work on the two bigger ones which really aren't that big at all.

I am lucky enough that I have a pool of people that somehow have time to help when needed. One guy is pretty damn smart and is a small time contractor just does small jobs. If I give him a couple days notice he is there for me. I do a fair bit of smallish jobs that if I had a guy with me it would be overkill. A lot of days I can gross between 800-1000 bucks by myself. In my market its hard to sell those $1500+ jobs. Those smaller ones obviously sell a lot easier. I really kick around the idea of a full time employee. As of right now where I sit there isn't room for one. I can see how that sucks to have to pass the extra expense to the HO just to make the same money that you would have working alone.

 

[gorman]

She lives! New bearings, belt, shaft and teeth. Got about $9600 in her as is.

Saaay What? almost 10K for four bearings, a shaft, a belt and some teeth? Dude, you must be omitting something here.

 

[Brendon Phillips]

I think he meant the price of the machine included.

 

[Zale]

Picked up a 5 year chip.

 

[Blakesmaster]

Saaay What? almost 10K for four bearings, a shaft, a belt and some teeth? Dude, you must be omitting something here.

All the parts were 2600. The machine was 7K.

 

[Brendon Phillips]

It's always amazing to me how much parts cost. I know you didn't over pay, buts that's still steep. Like how my local Stihl dealer wants $167 for a new carb for my 441. ****** ridiculous.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Just got home. Had Fleetwash come in this morning to wash all the trucks. Now I can start my weekend.
Jeff

 

[BuckmasterStumpGrinding]

The sad part is that his phone is probably blowing up.

The calls I get from my yard signs are usually good customers. Although I do pay for quality signs.

 

[BC WetCoast]

I am lucky enough that I have a pool of people that somehow have time to help when needed. One guy is pretty damn smart and is a small time contractor just does small jobs. If I give him a couple days notice he is there for me. I do a fair bit of smallish jobs that if I had a guy with me it would be overkill. A lot of days I can gross between 800-1000 bucks by myself. In my market its hard to sell those $1500+ jobs. Those smaller ones obviously sell a lot easier. I really kick around the idea of a full time employee. As of right now where I sit there isn't room for one. I can see how that sucks to have to pass the extra expense to the HO just to make the same money that you would have working alone.

It's not an extra expense to the HO, you charge the same, you just get the job done in half the time. What it means to you is that you would have to sell.

But thnk of it this way, when you bid the job, it's based on an hourly crew rate of ~$150 (an easy example rate) /hr, but as a single worker you would only bid based on $75/hr. So you are bidding your helper out at $75 and paying him $35 (wages, WC, taxes etc) so you are making $40 off his labour. Naturally the numbers in my example will vary, but the principle is the same.

This is what made Henry Ford rich. One person can build and assemble a car, but it can be done cheaper if the job is broken down into smaller components and people focus and specialize in performing their one component. A Focus is cheaper than a Rolls Royce.