How many of you guys sub climbing work out? I'm a small company and its usually myself doing ALL the aerial work and a ground guy maybe another hand if the job is really big or requires extra amounts of traffic control. Currently when I have a job that I know I can get done faster and safer with a contract climber I make the call. I know this will get a couple replies from the school of thought that if you never take the hard, nasty jobs you'll never get any better and I understand that. However, I would rather spend a little extra money and get the job done quickly and be profitable that day then take on something that I know could be done faster if someone else did the climbing . I guess the way I look at it is, If I wanted too I could remove a 48" stone cold dead nasty tree hauling around 660 the whole time and pound my chest at the end of the day with alot of pride but having a bunch of pride won't pay the bills only being profitable on a regular basis does that.
If your contract schedule is full, turn the job over quickly. If it can use some more appointments, take the extra time, and make the extra money.
The way I figure it is say you have 10 jobs lined up, and you want to do those by yourself because you think you can make more money that way.
That is fine if you don't have any more customers hiring you until the month is done, and you are nearly finished with your 10 jobs. If you do have customers hiring before the end of that month, then you're going to want to tell them you can do the work soon, or they will hire someone else.
So now "John's Golden Tree Biz" is going to have 20 customers that month, and it's reasonable to believe there could have 20 more the next month. This is when you hire up crew hands just so you can turn those jobs over as fast as possible.
Yeah, you put the money into your pay roll, but the cut that goes to you and your company plan for the month overall is bigger simply because you are taking more small cuts from each job which totals more over all than the fewer big cuts from the each job that month because you didn't hire out.
Does this even apply to your current situation?