Uh...clean the truck while I...

[Nickrosis]

What do you ask people to do when there's downtime on the job/at the shop? It seems to happen a lot, and I'm sure there are some ideas out there besides just cleaning!

 

[treeman82]

Start weeding. Load this... sharpen that... fill this.... put that there. etc.

 

[Lumberjack]

Put junk back where it goes.

Push up the brushpile with the tractor.

Chores.


We decide to quit work and go fishin!!

 

[Guy Meilleur]

A certain tree co. owner in SE WI (who was PC but not necessarily Politically Correct) would get the guys to weed his landscape. I thought he was nuts for asking because all I wanted to do was CLIMB!

Nowadays I get my help to weed my landscape and didn't understand why they hate it until you posted.

Thanks NC, I had to learn that one again from the other side.

 

[NeTree]

I usually tell them to kick back and relax for a few.

Lord knows I make them work like dogs when I get cuttin'!

 

[a_lopa]

clean out the saw locker, change oil ,stump teeth. go to hotel drink beer

 

[MasterBlaster]

We have a tailgate party and review this;

http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14578

 

[ScottyStump]

Flyers

I get the kid going door to door with flyers. I tell him to come back when he hears the stumpgrinder shut down.

I do this because he does a lousy job cleaning my truck.

-Scotty

 

[Nickrosis]

Re: Flyers

Originally posted by ScottyStump
I get the kid going door to door with flyers. I tell him to come back when he hears the stumpgrinder shut down.

I've been doing the same thing myself. First I walk the property while the other person sprays, then I fill out the paperwork and post the property. With any free time, I put flyers in storm doors or paperboxes. When I hear the whistle, I come back to shut off the PTO on the sprayer and hit the road.

Any work I sell, I get a 5% commission on. If I line up and over see the work, too, I get something like 15 or 20% plus the hourly wage. But I'm switching to salarly with the next pay period...

 

[MasterBlaster]

I've NEVER had a salaried position where I didn't get $crewed.

Be carefull there, Nick.

 

[Nickrosis]

Originally posted by MasterBlaster
I've NEVER had a salaried position where I didn't get $crewed.

Be carefull there, Nick.

It's not too bad, I'm my own management.

 

[dbeck]

I say 'anything you do now is something we do not have to do later'