Your niche?

[TheTreeWiseMen]

Being the only goddamned Limey on Long Island with a tree company that has an amusing name. EVERYBODY remembers me!! That's my niche.

 

[Rborist1]

Estimating.

 

[Rborist1]

Oh and giving advice.

 

[Peter]

Dont forget looking snazzy in Speedos!

 

[bill22]

I specialize in big, dead trees with no access. I've run right up trees that have been dead 10 years or more without a second thought.

 

[MasterBlaster]

So, you recommend doing that as safe procedure?

 

[bill22]

No, I usually tell people to do as i say,not as I do. I've had a few that i guyed off, strapped together and took nice a slow because of the state they were in, wobbling in the ground, stress cracks.

 

[MasterBlaster]

What's your worst injury to yourself, so far?

 

[sotc]

The last couple years I guess consulting with folks about how to make their yards do better. I used to do it free and realized how stupid I was when folks would say "how much do I owe you?" , " aww, just pass out a few of my cards". People actually smile as they write me a check now

 

[bill22]

What's your worst injury to yourself, so far?

In treework? a minor nick with a handsaw. Outside of treework, blowing my right knee out.

 

[Koala]

I like light pruning, and crown reductions....when you go back to the tree and not even one sprout is comin' out..like you've never touched it......problem is that with all the hackers around it's gettin' harder and harder let it understand to customers.

 

[Koala]

just thinkin' about the future...like making advising my niche...just go to the customer and tell him: "that tree is fine there. right position and all this stuff. Let it grow his natural way." And charge more for this advice than for a pruning or a removal.....

mmmmmhhh......better to start thinking seriously about my future

 

[Blinky]

While I think I am pretty good at difficult removals, I am feeling less and less interested in them. I don't think they pay as well as some of the easier, less stressful work. Still my ego usually gets the better of me and I end up doing a lot of that stuff. [....] Compared to a bigger market, I am just OK. I think my real strength is working with customers.

This fits me pretty close but I'm also a lot like Adrian's dad... having been a photographer and taking a lot of pleasure in doing formatives on small trees. I love pruning young landscape and parking lot trees.

The thing I end up doing a lot is piecing out bigass pines in back yards. We have gobs of'em here and lots of folks moving in from out of state are prejudiced against them.

I get plenty of dead TD's but I don't like doing them and price'em high. When i started professionally I scampered up dead wobbling trees without a thought... then one fell with me in it and i haven't been the same since. I view the primary tree structure as the weakest link in the system now, particularly roots.

I guess i don't have a niche other than I can do large TDs in confined spaces without breaking stuff.

 

[Greenhorn]

I stab people

 

[Birdy]

Utility player fairly good at everything. #1 at working hard.

 

[arborworks1]

I've taken a liking to Crane Removals and Restoration pruning. Stump grinding, while rather boring, is making good coin.

 

[squisher]

Lol, stumpgrinder specialist I am not. That I delegate out.

I'm good at most things, takedowns are my favorite.

My niche that I bring to my market though would have to be the quality of an overall service that I do. One of my flyers reads, "Expert pruning and removal, attention to detail and clean-up second to none".

My uncle who worked with me for a few years always tells me, "Blow your own horn, cause no one else is going to do it for you".

I'm not good, I'm the best.

 

[arborworks1]

It helps when you can sit in the truck and run the stumper!

 

[squisher]

Lol, my take on stumpgrinding stands. It's like a nescessary evil. It sucks around here, not much money in it guys do it cheap. I basically offer it in order to facilitate the whole removal, I don't look for anymore stumps than come my way.

 

[zale]

Tree preservation on construction sites. In our area, all new construction has to have a Tree Preservation Plan for existing trees on site. You get to work with the engineers, builders, LA's, new homeowners during the development of the project. In some cases that can take years. It feels good to look back 5, 10, 15 years later and see the trees still living and thriving.

 

[Bodean]

I stab people

HaHa.

My niche, Is ready and willing to work everyday.

Unless it's Florida, then fergettaboudit.

 

[MasterBlaster]

One of my niches is always willing to work on a weekend. Nobody around here ever wants to do that.

 

[squisher]

I'm taking good friday off and the saturday and sunday. Then it's straight through for probably 12. I try to keep it to a normal work week and than quotes and maintenance on the weekend, but spring is crazy time here, gotta make hay.

 

[bill22]

One of my niches is always willing to work on a weekend. Nobody around here ever wants to do that.

I work Saturdays, but I usually won't work Sundays as that is my meditation/ spiritual refinement /rest day.

 

[Tucker943]

My niche? I dunno. I can twist up a suuuuuupppperb mixed gas cocktail that would make your chainsaws mouth water.