Don't worry, he's one of "those guys" too.What's "those guys"?
Don't worry, he's one of "those guys" too.What's "those guys"?
What planet are you from?probably 1/3 to 1/2 of what I do just needs the proper knotch and maybe a tug.
I get $200 per stump to notch & drop. Not uncommon to have days where its noon, and I'm up a grand, and burnt maybe 2 tanks of gas in my 372 or 395, and 5 to 8 gallon of gas in my pickup.Notch it and drop it doesn't pay **** around here. The only way here to justify charging a lot of money for tree removal is the technical removals. If anybody calls and mentions "just drop it" or some such crap I just hang up.
And you guys do the truly cool work. I enjoy the hell out of looking thru the "Wadja do today" thread (or whatever it's called). TreeMd in Connecticut with his tree-man ****--the coolest line of equipment I've ever seen, altho I get tired just looking at his roads of 3/4" plywood into someone's backyard. Yeah, tech removal is the real stuff in the arb world. (Apparently you can't use the 4-letter word for pronography here, as it gets turned into asterisks.)The only way here to justify charging a lot of money for tree removal is the technical removals.
Very true jolly. Everyone has a unique style & market you cater to. We rarely lower stuff, cut and pitch is fairly common on our bucket jobs. I'd find little use for a 32" wide loader. My everyday loader is a 6' wide, 5,000 pound tractor and I would go larger before I went smaller. I've brought in 30,000 pound log skidders and dozers in to help pull stuff over. Remember one job in particular i fell a 60' tall 24" spruce, hooked it to my 240 timber jack and skidded it whole out of the yard, and done.... every job is differentI guess the thing to remember is we are all in the same industry, but the environmental and geographic differences are huge. Big difference between an urban environment and a rural or semi rural environment. Sounds like Tig is in an area where felling is most of his business and technical removals are the exception rather than the norm.
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