How'd it go today?

[davidwyby]

I run into people wanting a flat rate with no explanation of work. There are too many options. Just drop it? Drop and firewood? Drop and haul off? Branches hauled off or no? Do you care about the rest of the landscaping or lack thereof? etc etc. It's just not that simple. They compare apples to cantaloupe. I try to do only what requires my skills and eq. Get some cheap knucklehead to sweep and rake...

 

[WoodCutr]

nextdoor is like a community facebook group but an independent app, super handy for business actually

btw, all your info like email and street address is public, most counties have a GIS map where you can type in a full name and get the lists of properties owned by that person, house info, property lines, etc, like OnX but free

 

[WoodCutr]

(BTW, I suggest getting to know your local GIS mapping website really well, its handy to find out if someone really owns the property they want work done at)

 

[Burnham]

What I would like to know is how it is that both M and I continue to get occasional snail mail come-ons addressed to any of the four of our long deceased parents, here at our address where none of them ever resided.

 

[davidwyby]

 

[WoodCutr]

What I would like to know is how it is that both M and I continue to get occasional snail mail come-ons addressed to any of the four of our long deceased parents, here at our address where none of them ever resided.

they probably just send mail to whoever has the same last name if they can't find the actual owners address

we've lived at this address for 8 years and it wasn't until maybe last year we quit getting junk mail addressed to the old owners

 

[SeanKroll]

Got a 10yd gravel spread to get ready for the winter.

Finished a 2 day hazard-reducing pruning job. 2 climbers. One groundie. Mostly electric saws. The Golf Course's dump trailer and onsite dumping.

25 ash and 1 maple in the grove.

Sweet.

We did the removal portion previously for this grove. Tons more work to come over years.

EAB is closing in. Might be a good reason to get a bigger chipper.

 

[Dave Shepard]

31S battery conversion with new cables and master disconnect. Making the world a better place one job at a time.

 

[WoodCutr]

Might be a good reason to get a bigger chipper.

don't say these things infront of me LOL, I'm trying my best to not drive to the cat dealer and buy one right now 😆

 

[flushcut]

Customer: I want a FREE estimate on a tree, also have special instructions about how to contact and what times I can text back

me: checks his nextdoor page, sees its nothing but complaints, bad reviews and wanting something for nothing, also sees that he has contacted 15 tree companies over what looks to be about a $900 job in the pictures, doesn't reply to his texts

customer: I'm closing bids tomorrow, why aren't you messaging back?


I dunno bud, maybe because I don't feel like dealing with you, driving almost an hour each way to look at a job when you told ME what time to be there, and since I don't price match I have zero interest in having anything to do with someone getting 15 bids on a job that would take me 3 hours to do?

(also, the tree has clearly been dead for years, bark falling off and you know he won't pay for a lift or crane, and I'm not in the business of dying on the job, I climb a LOT of shit nobody else will, but even I have my limits, only fell once and that was enough for me)

Even if you got the job you are four hours on the road already. Times however much gear you need to do the job. $900 naw! $9000 sounds better if the job an hour away, excluding my brother in Milwaukee.