Burnham
Woods walker
Water off a ducks' back...a great lesson in keeping solid perspective, and ultimately your good mental health.
You are an astute man, Cory.
You are an astute man, Cory.
How busy are you this year compared to other years?
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Burnham
Woods walker
We, the smart but far more likely just plain lucky of us menfolk, have brilliant women in our lives for many reasons...one perhaps not intended at the outset but surely must be true if we are honest with our selves, is certainly to keep our egos in check 
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flushcut
TreeHouser
Charge accordingly, your time is valuable. It might be a stupid little job but you have hours of road time.
flushcut
TreeHouser
It’s just business nothing personal. I’ve had something similar happen a few times but it’s just business.
Kaveman
Treehouser
Eh, I'm with Burnham for the most part. But as usual I differ in the details...
@cory, you exhibit some considerable grace to shrug off what I would call an insult.
I can't say that I'd get particularly offended, but I would certianly point out how it was a pretty crappy move. But I'd do it later on, flippantly, with apparent good humor, the next time I was helping him.
Mom said, kill em with kindness.
Used properly, honesty can deliver blunt-force-trauma.
@cory, you exhibit some considerable grace to shrug off what I would call an insult.
I can't say that I'd get particularly offended, but I would certianly point out how it was a pretty crappy move. But I'd do it later on, flippantly, with apparent good humor, the next time I was helping him.
Mom said, kill em with kindness.
Used properly, honesty can deliver blunt-force-trauma.
Burnham
Woods walker
Well said, Kave...as refined to the highest level of the art by the old school women I was raised by in the deep South of my childhood could do, until you bled out near to death, never feeling the first cut....
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Burnham
Woods walker
Frankly, I still after more than 45 years of trying to learn better, can have issues hearing what my beloved westcoast born and raised wife is saying straight out, rather than interpreting them through the filter of the hidden cutthroat messages my mother and even more sweetly vicious grandmother laid just under the surface of their communication with me all those many decades ago.
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Billhowe1
Treehouser
I've been staying roughly 2-3 weeks out, definitely lower call volume, but steady, I definitely feel blessed to have what I have going on, I've talked to friends that went over a month with no work over the winter.
Eric H-L
Treehouser
This is a fascinating conversation! Especially interested in the impact of travel time since my wife and I have analogous experiences in her work as a visiting social worker and mine as a industrial/commercial electrician.
My wife is like Sean Kroll. She mostly gets clients in her urban zip-code which means a short walk or at most a 15 minute drive! By contrast I often commute 1 to 1.5 hours with no gas or labor pay. Sometimes the company will have me driving an hour north to work near another employees house who is driving an hour south to work near my house! This in-efficiency drives my wife up the wall! I think it’s just the way it’s always been and out of my control. Like Kile’s wife she also hated when I went on the road during the 08 recession. Work does seem to be slowing down for the company I work for. Still enough for their core people but they are using less temporary labor and easing up on the overtime. I see lots of commercial and residential new construction driving around but we seem to have less of the industrial machinery adding and musical chairs we did in other times.
My wife is like Sean Kroll. She mostly gets clients in her urban zip-code which means a short walk or at most a 15 minute drive! By contrast I often commute 1 to 1.5 hours with no gas or labor pay. Sometimes the company will have me driving an hour north to work near another employees house who is driving an hour south to work near my house! This in-efficiency drives my wife up the wall! I think it’s just the way it’s always been and out of my control. Like Kile’s wife she also hated when I went on the road during the 08 recession. Work does seem to be slowing down for the company I work for. Still enough for their core people but they are using less temporary labor and easing up on the overtime. I see lots of commercial and residential new construction driving around but we seem to have less of the industrial machinery adding and musical chairs we did in other times.
I'm insanely slow for mid spring, have a 2 day back log
Here is a recent vid with world class tree guy Mark Chisholm, he starts with comments re current work load. Other good stuff from him too. He is super legit.
Here is a recent vid with world class tree guy Mark Chisholm, he starts with comments re current work load. Other good stuff from him too. He is super legit.
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CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Sounds like my schedule. As of last Saturday, we had this week scheduled and a couple more later in the month.
Phone rang. Now I have two morw weeks before I need to find work..
Those of you that know me here, know full well we are normally 2-3 months out.
Phone rang. Now I have two morw weeks before I need to find work..
Those of you that know me here, know full well we are normally 2-3 months out.
Mick!
TreeHouser
I saw another tree guy on FB recently saw he was 9 months booked out, seems to have no decent gear.
Clearly not pricing right.
As for me, steady as she goes, not fighting them off with a shitty stick, but working every day.
Clearly not pricing right.
As for me, steady as she goes, not fighting them off with a shitty stick, but working every day.
9 months???
Firstly, I don't believe it even a little bit and secondly that's just plain stupid. As if there is a numb nuts on earth who would wait 9 mos. for treework. 2+ months is insane imo opinion but 9 months? Um no.
FB BS to the max
Firstly, I don't believe it even a little bit and secondly that's just plain stupid. As if there is a numb nuts on earth who would wait 9 mos. for treework. 2+ months is insane imo opinion but 9 months? Um no.
FB BS to the max
stikine
Treehouser
stikine
Treehouser
Never forget my friend! 
treebogan
Treehouser
Its been steady,off to a good start with some larger commercial jobs.
Slowing down now, but thats just the good weather effecting peoples habits.They will soon be spending more time at home.
Talking about clients going with the low bidder. There was a client of mine here that for the past 17 years I would visit to have a look at her large Sycamore tree,a real beauty of a specimen right out the front of her house.I would do this free of charge as the Tree was in slow decline and she wanted to keep it as long as possible. Each vist would have taken probably an hour all up with driving there and off to the next bid,so 17 hours all up over the years.
She Emails me saying that with a heavy heart the tree has to go,I go over for now the 18th time,write out the bid and by the time I got home she had Emailed me saying she had gone with a lower bidder.
Man was I fuming,I thought about writing a reply to her illuminating the fact that she had received free advice for nearly two decades at my cost,but honestly if she is that cheap and selfish it would simply be yet more wasted time.
Slowing down now, but thats just the good weather effecting peoples habits.They will soon be spending more time at home.
Talking about clients going with the low bidder. There was a client of mine here that for the past 17 years I would visit to have a look at her large Sycamore tree,a real beauty of a specimen right out the front of her house.I would do this free of charge as the Tree was in slow decline and she wanted to keep it as long as possible. Each vist would have taken probably an hour all up with driving there and off to the next bid,so 17 hours all up over the years.
She Emails me saying that with a heavy heart the tree has to go,I go over for now the 18th time,write out the bid and by the time I got home she had Emailed me saying she had gone with a lower bidder.
Man was I fuming,I thought about writing a reply to her illuminating the fact that she had received free advice for nearly two decades at my cost,but honestly if she is that cheap and selfish it would simply be yet more wasted time.
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