It's been pretty slow here. I got a rash of calls right after the GTG and I think I made a mistake. Since I had a bunch of calls I went right back to pricing things like when I was busy before. I didn't get hardly any of the jobs. I got 4 calls today which is pretty good. I got a call from...
Last year during the year my residential started falling off but my apartment management company kept me going. Now whenever I talk to that guy he says that they are doing a bunch of ADA modifications and compliance stuff and he needs to get that money spent. I haven't done anything for the...
We were taking down some pines at a apartment complex and I had a lady yelling at me about endangered species and how she hoped I wouldn't get in trouble because of that and then without even taking a breath she said that she did hope I would get in trouble. I couldn't hear her very well...
I've had pretty much the opposite experience. The Post Office job I did recently was good money. My daily rate plus 25% and the Army Corps job was the same. I have also had a few jobs for some farmers in my hometown that just want an estimate and tell me to come and do it on a hourly rate...
Maybe one customer in 20 is like that. Yesterday I bid a willow tree that had lost a huge limb (18") and trim the rest of the tree. The limb would be around a half a load of chips and wood in my forestry truck and to trim the rest of the tree would have also been about that. I bid it for $800...
I was talking to my Wife's cousin today and his tree guy went from having a crew of 13 guys last summer to now he has 2 part time guys and he got a job as a welder.
It's real slow here. I don't have any work scheduled. I've been put on as a vendor for the Army Corps on some projects they may have upcoming when they get their "stimulus" money.
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