Tio
ArboristSite Lurker
I sometimes read or hear comments like:
“Oh. . . I had a lawn-care business when I was ten years old.”
Or
“You seem too smart to be cutting down trees for a living.”
Let's get a couple of things perfectly clear here, folks.
Point number one:
When you were ten years old, you mowed a few lawns for money to go to the movies.
Simple as that.
No licenses.
No insurance.
No certifications on pesticides or herbicides.
You cut grass for soda money.
I mow approximately 40 acres of lawn area a week.
I don't do that with a 21” lawn-boy mulching mower.
Point number two:
As for being too smart to “cut down trees for a living,” you can trust me on this; if you are stupid, you will not be in this business for very long.
I don't “cut down trees” for a living.
Cutting them down is a small portion of my income.
I call that fire-wood.
I, and others like me (no matter the rough exteriors), surgically remove dangerous trees with all of the precision that a skilled heart surgeon would use to replace a faulty heart valve in your precious little ticker.
That's 'bout all I gotta say 'bout that.
“Oh. . . I had a lawn-care business when I was ten years old.”
Or
“You seem too smart to be cutting down trees for a living.”
Let's get a couple of things perfectly clear here, folks.
Point number one:
When you were ten years old, you mowed a few lawns for money to go to the movies.
Simple as that.
No licenses.
No insurance.
No certifications on pesticides or herbicides.
You cut grass for soda money.
I mow approximately 40 acres of lawn area a week.
I don't do that with a 21” lawn-boy mulching mower.
Point number two:
As for being too smart to “cut down trees for a living,” you can trust me on this; if you are stupid, you will not be in this business for very long.
I don't “cut down trees” for a living.
Cutting them down is a small portion of my income.
I call that fire-wood.
I, and others like me (no matter the rough exteriors), surgically remove dangerous trees with all of the precision that a skilled heart surgeon would use to replace a faulty heart valve in your precious little ticker.
That's 'bout all I gotta say 'bout that.