How busy are you this year compared to other years?

[CurSedVoyce]

One can hope.
This job will keep food on the table till something breaks.
Rob and Kave are more my worry.
Hate to see the Goodman & Cole Tree come to an end. But it might....

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I kept threatening the place, over the years, that I would come work for them.
Guess I'm making good on my threat.

 

[flushcut]

It’s been a weird year, it seems like work comes in surges get a few then nothing get a few then nothing. Slightly frustrating.

Everyone else feeling the pinch, full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes! We are too damned stubborn to call it quits.

 

[Bodean]

Hella slow

 

[davidwyby]

Busy for a part timer due to storms.

 

[Mick!]

Financially I’m about in line with last year, which wasnt a record breaker by any means.

The différence is I’m telling peeps I can do it next week (or even tomorrow!) Could be worse I suppose.

 

[SeanKroll]

Staying busy...some but not much backlog of sold work with no advertising or truck signs.

More work keeps showing up to the point that I am having a hard time taking time off. September's the best time of the year to work here.

 

[cory]

I talked to 2 tree guys in Maine this week.
One has a 3 man crew, charges 2-2.5k/day and is booked into November. He just finished a 6 day job at a summer camp removing many white pines (24”-30”x140’H) for a new camp building. I saw the stumps, lotta nice Humboldts.
Other guy is a solo climber, gets ground help when needed and also contract climbs for other outfits, is fairly busy.

 

[cory]

Btw their pricing is identical to mine in CT which I find surprising bc the area is definitely less affluent

 

[SeanKroll]

That sounds to cheap for 3 men and a chipper, even without haul-off/ disposal.

 

[lumberjack]

Yesterday I somehow misread that as $5k a day.

We’re an outlier for equipment/ efficiency I reckon, but we absolutely wouldn’t work as a crew for $2000-2500/day. I’d send one of our part time guys out solo with the little excavator and/or stump grinder for that.

Even before the latest additions, using the lift, grapple truck, and such, a bad to ok day would have been 2x that.

 

[cory]

Go figure.
During Covid with 3 men, 75’ rear mount Terex, 18” chipper, Kubota R520, large stumper, I’d be averaging 2800. When things calmed down after Covid, 2300-2600 was typical.

 

[cory]

When we’d use a crane we’d net 3500-4k

 

[Dave Shepard]

Day rate on 75', Cat 305/Volvo 58, F550 and a 1590xp or 1990xp, and three workers was 4200 in 2023.

 

[Mick!]

Things filling out a bit
S’funny, cos when you get into your 60s the die is cast to a certain extent, you’ve only got a few more years in serious business.
The debt load is minimal or nonexistent.
You now know you’re not going to take over the world, but you’ve stayed solvent for 3 decades, running decent machinery, paying your taxes, paying your employee(s)
So the anxiety reduces a bit.

 

[cory]

Old folks generally report higher happiness levels than young folks

 

[Mick!]

Old folks generally report higher happiness levels than young folks

Yeah, I read that somewhere.