treeclimber101
UNCLE BUCK
wow a Italian in Ohio whats up you in the witness protection program:hmm3grin2orange: , just kidding the truck looks awesome great work ...finally got this truck finished and back to work this morning
whadja do today?
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BlackOakTreeServ
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Finished the big and small porta wraps last week, now I got to get em dirty...lol
2treeornot2tree
Dont cry, just do it
Got my new helmet today. I think it makes me look fat. What you think?
So i get this email from a lady today via my contact form on my website. Here is what she said.
"I'd like an estimate on tree trimming and shaping for the crab apple tree (it is huge and needs significant reducing) at the front right of my house as well as trimming the other tree in the front yard. You can just leave an estimate by the front door, as that's most convenient for me. If you need to contact me, I prefer e-mail. Thanks so much!"
I dont know about you guys, but I like to meet with the customer and talk and make sure we are on the same page as to how much is gonna get trimmed and what not. Sounds like this should be a fall / winter job. It seems like more and more people dont even want to have meet with you to go over a job. Everything via email and phone.
So i get this email from a lady today via my contact form on my website. Here is what she said.
"I'd like an estimate on tree trimming and shaping for the crab apple tree (it is huge and needs significant reducing) at the front right of my house as well as trimming the other tree in the front yard. You can just leave an estimate by the front door, as that's most convenient for me. If you need to contact me, I prefer e-mail. Thanks so much!"
I dont know about you guys, but I like to meet with the customer and talk and make sure we are on the same page as to how much is gonna get trimmed and what not. Sounds like this should be a fall / winter job. It seems like more and more people dont even want to have meet with you to go over a job. Everything via email and phone.
2treeornot2tree
Dont cry, just do it
Finished the big and small porta wraps last week, now I got to get em dirty...lol
Did you paint or powder coat them?
Finished the big and small porta wraps last week, now I got to get em dirty...lol
Why not just buy a real porty once, and just be done with it?? Seems like that would remove a considerable amount of liability from your company too.. supposing something does ever go wrong.. Just a thought..
Try home brewing!! I hear it makes for a good hobby!! :msp_laugh:
Pelorus
Uva uvam vivendo varia fit
"I dont know about you guys, but I like to meet with the customer and talk and make sure we are on the same page as to how much is gonna get trimmed and what not"
X2. Deadbeat clients have been the ones I never met in person prior to doing the work.
X2. Deadbeat clients have been the ones I never met in person prior to doing the work.
treeman75
Addicted to ArboristSite
View attachment 239119View attachment 239120View attachment 239121 A few pics of a couple jobs, nothing special. The ash was a real easy one the oak was kinda a PITA it was over both trailers. I did the oak for a couple buddys that refer alot of work to me. It was at their trailer on Lewis&Clark lake about an hour away, they said I can use the trailer some weekend this summer along with their boat.
mattfr12
The Bulldog
i hired someone. much much easier.
deevo
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Got my new helmet today. I think it makes me look fat. What you think?
So i get this email from a lady today via my contact form on my website. Here is what she said.
"I'd like an estimate on tree trimming and shaping for the crab apple tree (it is huge and needs significant reducing) at the front right of my house as well as trimming the other tree in the front yard. You can just leave an estimate by the front door, as that's most convenient for me. If you need to contact me, I prefer e-mail. Thanks so much!"
I dont know about you guys, but I like to meet with the customer and talk and make sure we are on the same page as to how much is gonna get trimmed and what not. Sounds like this should be a fall / winter job. It seems like more and more people dont even want to have meet with you to go over a job. Everything via email and phone.
Oh I didn't know you are supposed to wear it like that? lol! Yeah I get requests off my website like that quite a bit, more less for cottage work, people just tell me which ones, if they like the price, do it, and then pay me. I do like meeting the owners but sometime I don't. I have done a lot like that never meeting them. As long as I get my money I am happy! :msp_tongue:
deevo
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Went to start an insurance job I mentioned last night this morning, salvage guys never showed up to remove the remnants of the building! So the insurance guys calling calling calling.....no answer at his shop or cell-----come back at noon, still not there! Wasn't too impressed! Only good thing is they added 7 more trees for removal that had been scorched lightly but is where they are building the new building. 1-2 day jobs going to be a 2-3 now! I didn't complain! 5 of them are 75-80 poplars! It'll be a nice $$$ job!
mattfr12
The Bulldog
Picked up a scale for the cranes on ebay. Price was right so i thought i would give it a try. its supposed to weight 10k.
mattfr12
The Bulldog
Got kind of freaked out in walmart today. When i was checking out the cashier was an older guy with a chrome dome haircut going on. he asks me if i like spongebob. I said sure why not. Then he asks me if i want to here his impressions of patrick and squid ward. why not right? he wasn't half bad at it but still really creepy guy had to be 50. Then he goes i sure hope obama gets back into office. after that i might be staying away from that walmart for a while.:msp_unsure:
arborjockey
ArboristSite Guru
Frontline on pbs just got done watching a documentary on tower clibing fatalities. Crazy stuff. Lots of deaths.:taped:
That's why I stay away from any Walmart
Anyway picked up a referral for another GD spruce. Damn. Seems like spruce are the only thing anybody wants removed around here. Huge, over grown, filthy spruce trees next to ugly houses and over fences. After my last one I might consider doing a get-it-on-the-ground only bid. Let the HO haul it. Shee-it...
sgreanbeans
Treeaculterologist
Beat down
We are just about done with the big reno project, man I am beat, sun up to sun down. We still have about 150 stumps to grind, all small, well a couple bigger ones, but nutin major. This guy is dumping some major coin, already has the construction crew there, gutting the inside, all they way to studs, which sucked.........big time, as then we where on top of each other. Made me mad at first, but he is the one of the biggest commercial/private property owner in the state. Owns 100's large scale shopping centers through out the state, some of them are over 50 acres..........so I think it will lead to big things.......or I hope anyway.
We are just about done with the big reno project, man I am beat, sun up to sun down. We still have about 150 stumps to grind, all small, well a couple bigger ones, but nutin major. This guy is dumping some major coin, already has the construction crew there, gutting the inside, all they way to studs, which sucked.........big time, as then we where on top of each other. Made me mad at first, but he is the one of the biggest commercial/private property owner in the state. Owns 100's large scale shopping centers through out the state, some of them are over 50 acres..........so I think it will lead to big things.......or I hope anyway.
We had an interesting day we were working up the road from the local highway dept, we knew they were doing some kind of tree work but they were too far to get a good view. It wasnt until we took lunch we saw that they were taking down some big sugar maple with the ladder truck from the fire dept lol. I guess it worked for them but i sure wouldnt wanna do tree work that way.
Finished our two-day job after two and a half days.
The bummer is when the guy came today to pick up the container we loaded the wood and branches in, he drove too close to the culvert edge of the driveway on his way out and cracked three-pieces of nice stone (about 24" x 18"x 10" each) that were there. We didn't notice until he left. We called the container company, and I'm sure we can work it out, but in the meantime we have a nice job mucked up by property damage. We'll have to take care of it and recoup from the container company after.
Oh well, hit shmappens.
Like this, but a deeper ditch and larger stones.
The bummer is when the guy came today to pick up the container we loaded the wood and branches in, he drove too close to the culvert edge of the driveway on his way out and cracked three-pieces of nice stone (about 24" x 18"x 10" each) that were there. We didn't notice until he left. We called the container company, and I'm sure we can work it out, but in the meantime we have a nice job mucked up by property damage. We'll have to take care of it and recoup from the container company after.
Oh well, hit shmappens.
Like this, but a deeper ditch and larger stones.
superjunior
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Cracked a nice new concrete driveway today on a job we've been working at this week..
Had the crane truck loaded to the gills with logs, just too much weight. He's a repeat customer and a good guy. Hate to tell him he's s##t out of luck but it clearly states on our contract NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR CRACKED DRIVEWAYS DUE TO HEAVY EQUIPMENT. Not sure what to do here.. Going back over there tomorrow to grind all the stumps and talk with him..
Had the crane truck loaded to the gills with logs, just too much weight. He's a repeat customer and a good guy. Hate to tell him he's s##t out of luck but it clearly states on our contract NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR CRACKED DRIVEWAYS DUE TO HEAVY EQUIPMENT. Not sure what to do here.. Going back over there tomorrow to grind all the stumps and talk with him..Similar threads
