How busy are you this year compared to other years?

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Hardly any industry up here. Majority is retired and fixed income. So when things get tight.......
08 and Covid, hardly felt a thing. CA has killed business with taxes and regulation.
Fuel should go up another .65 per gallon next month.
Everybody is feeling the crunch
 
I've been paying much higher prices than normal too, since our fleet station closed for upgrade. They are spending millions on new tanks and equip to comply with regs. But it forces me out 1/2 hour - 1hr to get proper fuel at up to 6.00 per for clear diesel. Dollar more a gallon than where I would fill up not going out of my way. So I have to plan fill ups careful to keep some cost down. Like today, I'll top off the Dodge down in the valley after PT. I had to run next town over Wed. but took fuel cans with me. The fleet station over there is the better price and good fuel. Wasted trip for the trailer coupler I went for. Could have saved myself 1/4 tank of fuel and done it today at just .10 more per gallon.
They have the coupler down there in stock with my name on it.
 
how is commercial work (probably the wrong term, i‘m refering to city trees) over there? is it a viable option to have some steady but lower paying work?
 
Town work here is most often done by North Eastern Tree, they come from 122 miles away in RI and they kick ass even before they got a Senneboggen with which they now bang out town work, even around wires. I don't know how or why they do it, coming from so far away, even given that they work fast. When I priced a round of winter town work years ago, I found winning bids were about 1/3 lower than normal residential work.

Before them, an outfit called Rockland Tree service would do alot of the town work, they came from about 50 miles away.

:O
 
Nutball said:
I'm sure there's a good answer, but how can you afford not to move?
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Dooood. Do overs are more expensive than toughing it out.
There are dozens of reasons to stay. We would have to cash out enough to do over. Plus my parents. I am the closest to them. So they depend on me.
Kids still in school and need a home base.
Just too much to let go or walk away from. Not doing a do over at 64. Hell naw.
Mortgage close to paid. Yeah
No
 
interesting, here it is definitely not impossible to do work for the city/county. you have to be the cheapest and have some certifications. those depend on the area. for me 85% of my work is for the government, the rest is private customers, some kindergarten and atm the least is for other companies (very grateful for that and i hope it lasts). i only stoped contract climbing last year so not a lot of private customers…
 
Dead.....
I might have work for October.
Had one job land to keep Kave and Rob busy today and Monday. One job just rescheduled for October.
I took a job at the local Hardware store and saw shop to keep bills paid and food on the table. Now that they gave me a schedule, I might be able to schedule two days in high country, job pending from last year.
If
the weather holds and the fires hold back
 
Scratching around a bit tbh.
Second week in september is when the retopping can begin, got some décent jobs in the diary.
Not fighting them off with a shitty stick thats for sure.
 
lumberjack said:
We’re as busy as we’ve been since I partnered with another company making them a licensed brand of my company.

They’re a young company with a strong marketing/lead funnel with a similarly aged owner that’s a fellow dance and soccer dad. He even bought his Nifty SD64 from me end of ‘23.

It also helps that we’ve had a very wet spring and our combined lead funnel has caught quite a bit of mitigation work. Our regular work has us busy into August with 20 bids in the queue (some are aged at this point).
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We’re still busy with enough work to get into October and ~35 bids to give (some are aged, which is still a problem; we’re working on a process to help with).

Could use a full time laborer that has aspirations, but we doubled down again on equipment to keep our 2.5 man operation productive.

We hired a kid that still worked at a restaurant, 102 hours his first two weeks, but only 6 hours the third week (his choice/doing), so we freed him up to pursue his life as he wanted.

Brad got his CDL yesterday, that should be a big help for our productivity as well.
 
Busy enough for the moment without much in the way of a back log.

Just simmering.


I think once school is rolling there will be some calls to prep for winter.
 
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