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Another job or two and I think I'll be ready to do that. On a completely different subject, the homeowners approached me about planting some trees as a privacy line. What do you guys do? Avoid dealing with replacements?

I believe it. If you had to guess, how much reduction would you estimate you get? In other words, how many truckloads of regular brush do you think you get in one truckload of chips?

I believe that. I've looked at smaller ones but haven't found one yet that want. I need to get a couple more jobs in the bank before I pull that trigger. I can definitely see how it would save me labor costs vs. loading and unloading a trailer a couple times a day.

Thanks. I'm glad it worked out too. The climber was money well spent. I would've been a day behind if he hadn't come out. I'm afraid that's where critical and possibly life-threatening mistakes come from, trying to get a job done in time and taking chances. Now that I have him as a resource it...

The lady was sad to see the ash trees go, but they were happy with my work. They want me to look into planting a row of cedar/pine trees to give them some privacy. They had several people at the country club ask them about who was doing their tree work. They said they gladly recommended me. Nice...

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Ha! I'll get some tomorrow of the last logs and the lift. I think my partner for some over the last couple days. Butch, I wore your "Kiss the Sky" shirt on day one. Figured I'd start the job off right!

Well, two trees turned into ten. The lady that lives there wasn't home when I was there the first time so she had me come back out to show her which ones were dead. While I was there her husband came out and basically said "Let's get them all down NOW while we will have the lift and we'll plant...

Well, what's he gonna do with all those straight ash logs? Fence posts. That's lemons to lemonade right there.

On a side note, anyone in Ohio have a hand arch they'd rent for a weekend?!

$1500 is a little lower than I would've done if it was the only tree. I built the remainder into the other nine trees on the bid. Most of them are 30-40' with very few limbs left on them. The price is contingent on doing all ten.

Ok. Thanks for the advice. I'm going to submit a bid and see if I get it. We work safe, so I'm not overly concerned about us. I'll let you know how it goes. This could be our first really big job. It'd be nice to be able to put a big chunk (for me) in the savings account.

The rental places here all have different requirements. The best I've found wants $1,000,000 per occurrence and $2,000,000 aggregate plus $100,000 equipment rental insurance. Another one wanted that PLUS a $2,000,000 umbrella policy. Crazy.

I appreciate that. I try to be pretty cautious. Gravity-It's not just a good idea, it's the law."

I think I'd be all right with the timeframe. There will be two of us and we'll have four days planned with three more available if/when we run into snags. I wouldn't have a problem doing the trees if I could just drop them. I just didn't know what legal stuff I'd run into. It looks like since I...

What I've figured out on the job so far is: 1 ash, 60' tall $1500 9 ash, 35-45' tall. $500 apiece to dismantle Lift rental and Fiberglas mats (Bil-Jax 55' towable but self-propelled with out riggers) $1500/week I'd bill for cutting, splitting, and stacking on site, as well as removing any...

I'm just trying to keep my luck out of it! With my luck, I'll be cutting the first one and OSHA will pull up. My few hundred dollars profit goes poof and I have no idea how much trouble I'm in. This is a REALLY nice neighborhood. When I was looking around I spotted eight other ash trees that...

Hi all. I had a guy ask me about taking down two 40' dead ash trees the other day. They're deader than door nails. There's no trees near them that you could put a tie in point. You can't just drop them due to other trees that he doesn't want damaged. The only way that I could see doing the job...