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Not much going on here. Work has dried up and the phone quit ringing this week. I suspect it's because school starts back up next week and everybody is spending money on other stuff. It's scary though because last year this happened and I only worked about 10 days between the start of school and...

Andrew, it has a problem shutting off unexpectedly and the idiots at Vermeer can't seem to fix it. It's a '94 (I think) 1230 and Dave would like to get $6k out of it. He's spent that much on it in the last 6 years because Vermeer does all the work on it including oil changes and knives.

Good deal, Robert. Hey Brendon, tell me some more about that BB250. A good friend of mine locally has a Vermeer 1250 that he's ready to replace. It has a gremlin in the motor that has plagued him for about 2 years and he's over it. He doesn't want to go too big since he's only pulling it with...

Here also. I've been very busy since getting home from the WCGTG the second week of June. The last 30 days have been my best month in a long long time. A good time to be socking it away for winter.

I just sold a $2200 trimming job for a massive old live oak and 3 other oaks. They don't need much, about a day to trim and there might be an hour's worth of chipping on the whole job. The customer is a wealthy gay lawyer who loves his trees and dislikes big tree company salesmen so I didn't...

I've worked every single day since getting home from vacation almost 2 weeks ago. My job for tomorrow was postponed a week but I still have two 'floater' jobs I was supposed to do sometime this week so at least I might get caught up tomorrow. Next week is almost booked up also (that's a long way...

Where's Jamin Mayer been? And we have a couple other Colorado Treehousers who haven't been around in a while.

Andrew, my suggestion would be to get your name in the online yellow pages and not worry about the print version. But word of mouth/ referral work is always best.

Who uses phone books any more? I quit saving phone books about 4 years ago when I realized that I had been saving them every year and it had been over 3 years since I had used one. So ever since I just chunk them into the trash whenever they get dumped on my doorstep.

Volusia is up near me, central Florida east coast. Daytona Beach area. That's about 400 miles from Gigi.

HAH! I got an address for tomorrow, I guess I'm working!

I'm working tomorrow, first job all week. Assuming the guy calls me back tonight with an address.

Paul- Isn't removing the old landscaping material part of the job when installing new landscaping?

I'm booked through ... uh, this afternoon. :( Nothing scheduled as of this minute. I had a message earlier from one guy I work for but haven't been able to contact him yet. Hopefully it's a job for Monday.

Cool deal. Just be sure and learn from him as well. Don't let yourselves get in a position where your business is dependant on one employee. Not only does that give him too much power, but it can also put your family in a tremendous bind when the day finally arrives that he leaves (whether on...

I'm trying to scoop up as much work as I can right now while the dollars are flowing. When guys call me at mid day and want me to come out for 'one limb' or 'one easy tree', many times I can talk them into doing it that same afternoon. Since most of my jobs are only a couple hours, it's nice to...

Yup, our little blast of work is drying up quickly. I've had a nice little blast of income in the last 2 weeks that has helped me catch up with bills but I'm still in the 'survival mode' mentality and not spending money on anything extra.

A couple of my regular guys are stringing me out a little as well, everybody is tight right now. Since I only have a limited number of clients using me on multiple jobs, it's hard to cut them off. But I just keep calling them a couple times per week until they get paid up. My biggest pet peeve...

Sorry to hear about your neck injury, Bermy. I'm scared to death of messing up my neck or back, already have a little bit of old damage but nothing critical yet. Good luck in the hockey tourney! :D

Good luck finding good lawn customers. After doing that for 7 years in my younger days, I'll tell you that the easiest customers to find are the ones nobody else will work for. There's usually a reason for that. The good customers already have lawn guys and aren't going to change to save a buck...