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When I first got in this biz I offered 10% discounts in my advertising ,but I heard it just made my company look dishonest after people figured out that I don't charge by the hour but by the job, with exception of stump removal charged by inch diameter. The best promotion for my company is...

Stump removal is one price I charge by the inch.

I seldom see who buys my certificates, and most are thrifty enough to not mention it or present it until after I give them their written estimate. Then I'm obligated to get the job done no matter how small it is.:munky2:

I donate $100 gift certificates towards treework for fund raisers like Chinese auctions etc. Many many people give me a high five for this.

Same here Pelorus, the way I see it if someone is willing to spend money on a tree they are good to go with the payment. I only had one customer over all these years who I had to take to small claims court, and the lady coughed up the $900 a day before court. I can see the ones coming who...

Sounds like a good plan Sean. I need to make a few changes to my estimate forms which I show here with the customer in question that went with the line clearance guys. She still has her stumps in the ground though , just waiting for her call to remove them, ha. As I mentioned $2200 earlier with...

900 LBS with the 300lb Muck Truck barrow sitting on the tongue. Class IV hitch , trailer fully loaded still under 10,000LBS. Furthest I have to haul a full load to the local landfills on the average is a mile. Firestone airbags on the Dodge diesel pickup with only 30 LBS air in them. I get...

I think the insurance companies are the most generous ha ..........reason I said that was a couple of days ago I got a check in the mail for $1,530.50 from an insurance company that I bidded for with an estimate on a arson claim job last summer. It appears the contractor who removed the burnt...

Tom, no I don't have my customers sign my written estimates maybe I should start doing that. The customer who I mentioned was a new customer, but can't prove how many others have gone that route also. When I call a customer that I'll be over to do their job after a long delay past the estimate...

Yeah you never know Butch. I know this tree service owner who probably never leaves the office has a pretty big operation. It never fails to surprise me how some of these big shots will do some pretty cheap things to make a buck. I have one regular customer who owns 3 Dodge Chrysler dealerships...

This year I lost a lot business that I had already estimated on and the customer says go ahead. Before I could get to them a roving utility line clearance company from our capital city 400 miles away named Kildonan Tree Service Ltd. steals my work by doing it super cheap while they pass through...

Stig, actually my unit would work quite fine on your small streets. My pickup truck and trailer unit is only 6 foot and 6 inch wide. Total length is approximate 40 feet long. But I have moved my trailer unit into tight yards with just my Muck Truck power barrow. I just pull 1 pin and the...

ClimbMIT, yes you are correct, I had a 10"X10" 8 ft long timber with 1 1/2" holes drilled through its top and had 1 1/2" 3 ft pipes hammered in 2 ft apart. the steel pipes kept a 3'X8' piece of 1/2" plywood in place. To pull this "wall" across the trailer deck to dump the load I had a cable...

Thanks Jamin, my "blue ox" in the photo below is the best employee I've ever hired, rated for 800 lb load on a 38% grade but I've had double that on it, not a lick of trouble with it in 6 yrs now. Thanks Mark, when I first built my trailer before the dump box I had a 8 ft beam with a plywood...

Put it together all by myself in a few winter off seasons.:)

Yes I learned very early on that hydraulics rule:)

Yes there is never rest for the wicked, ha ha .

Starting small and staying small is good , I started my tree service company as a sideline job in 1995 with a pickup and flat deck trailer . Still small today with a pickup and a side dump trailer unit with chipper, stump grinder and power barrow all in one unit and I work alone, from once...

Jay, nothing new for all us Tree Housers:lol: My opinion is the only two benefits we all enjoy in this trade is we enjoy seeing a brand new job site almost every day..........and it's cool work8)