How Many T-Shirts?

[CurSedVoyce]

White turns grey with poison oak sap. Might as well throw it away after a couple days work.

 

[Burnham]

Y'all get no sympathy from me...been on the fireline too many times in full nomex to buy your whinin'.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Well hell yeah... fire requires more clothes for certain!
Burn baby burn

But it' a dry heat

 

[MasterBlaster]

White turns grey with poison oak sap. Might as well throw it away after a couple days work.

My white TreeHouse tees last forever if you know how to use bleach and let stuff soak. I've yet to wear one out and for the most part, they are 90% white.

You just ain't holding your mouth right, brudda... ;>)

 

[arborworks1]

Push the sleeves up, maybe?

But wise one, that would defeat the purpose of the sleeves long...

Just for you 2, I'm gonna give it a go in long sleeves this summer.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

My white TreeHouse tees last forever if you know how to use bleach and let stuff soak. I've yet to wear one out and for the most part, they are 90% white.

You just ain't holding your mouth right, brudda... ;>)

PO sap is basically a lacquer. Good luck with bleaching it.

 

[Burnham]

Long sleeves down when actively working, sleeves pushed up whenever appropriate...geez, now I'm having to teach you punks how to dress...

 

[arborworks1]

Was that directed at Willie???

 

[Paul B]

3 shirts for a weeks work is easy, just do laundry once a week and you're good to go. Tee shirts here for spring and fall, wicking tee shirts for summer. wear your raingear otherwise I have a couple sweatshirts and I just got my first hoodie with my logo on it for myself. Generally though since we are now required to wear 3 color hi viz I am starting to care less about shirts folks wear under them. Good news on that front too, Stihl is having a sale on them, $16 !

 

[NickfromWI]

Neat thread. I was thinking ten. If you work 5 days a weeks, I don't expect people to do laundry every week and I don't expect them to wear a stinky shirt.

All you guys that say you want a TreeCareLA shirt are going to think again once you find out how expensive they are! Organic cotton, American Apparel brand (made in LA), with a 6 color screen print. Right now I'm looking at like $30/shirt!


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[sotc]

Yeow, thats going to add up fast

 

[Paul B]

10 shirts? Wow, hope your employees stay for the long run. You dont expect them to do laundry each week? lol, so long as they dont have kids, heck we are conservative and likely run 3 to 5 loads a week easy!

 

[emr]

That's nothing, I do 1-2 loads per day! Come to think of it I could get by with two work shirts.

 

[FJR]

Six colors is a lot for a work shirt that is going to get dirty and thrown away one day. Six colors would be nice for everything that is not going to get trashed. I do two colors and that raises the price drastically, as opposed to just one color.

 

[Jack]

Five - look fresh every day and do laundry on the weekend. Tech-T, wicking fabric rather than the 50-50 or 100% cotton; I feel they hold up better and don't stretch out as soon.
Open up sales to TH'ers and get the quantity discount to make them more affordable. I'd take one or two...

I guess it would be over the top to ask that somebody gave no sleeves to their crew. No sleeves with the name of the company tattoo on each person's arm would be a rocking crew.....or indentured servitude.

Sure, if you go Tech-T, I'll buy one or two ... might help with the quantity discount. {But, Jay, I ain't gettin' no tattoo! }

 

[MasterBlaster]

I have yet to throw a TreeHouse tee shirt away. A couple are getting stained, but that's about it. I'm telling ya'll - the way I do my wash, my white tees STAY white.

 

[brendonv]

I just about wear the same three shirts all week. Wash the pants maybe once. I'm not a smelly guy though, so I can get away with that sort of thing.

6 layers of color, thats crazy Nick. Dumb it down to black and white. Leave the nice logo on the truck and cards.

 

[arborworks1]

I agree simple logo on the shirts. Spend the extra running some ads or something

 

[squisher]

Y'all are clean machines. lol.

I rarely to never wash my cutting pants. At work I get dirty, I'd have to wash my cutting pants everyday to keep them clean and within hours they'd be dirty again anyways. Work shirts are hi-viz. Not slime green high vis that's for flaggers and construction workers, orange hi-vis is for treeworkers.

 

[NickfromWI]

Six colors is a lot for a work shirt that is going to get dirty and thrown away one day. Six colors would be nice for everything that is not going to get trashed. I do two colors and that raises the price drastically, as opposed to just one color.

That is one way to look at it. But the is also the idea that your shirt is advertising and a consistent brand presence is more memorable. If 1,000 people see the shirt and only one single person says, " neat shirt, what do you do?" and that person hires us, the extra cost of printing is already covered.

I also believe that if you give people nice things (tools, shirts, etc) that they will recognize and respect the quality and your consideration. I fully believe that Felco hand pruners get lost a lot less than Corona hand pruners do. My shirts will be the felco shirts!

love
nick


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[MasterBlaster]

Good luck Nick, LOL!

 

[squisher]

I wouldn't wear a $30 shirt while doing treework. Sorry, I'd wear it to the pub. I think for actually working on the job-site, good-signage on the trucks and a consistent appearance to the crew, all wearing proper ppe makes a better impression than the extra moola to have a fancy shirt. In our line of work imo nothing looks more professional than everyone wearing the same high-viz, not to mention the safety aspect. Often we're on roadways or near traffic or under a climber or above a groundy, high-viz it only makes sense. I don't know about down there but up here high-viz is required around traffic. If your employee gets struck by a vehicle up here they aren't gonna care how many colors are on the t-shirt, it better have high-viz over it or you're gonna be fined out the whazoo.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Word.

But I don't wear em.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Hi viz orange helps me keep groundies in view so I don't bop them on the head...
Hi viz orange also helps keep groundies in view for when they need a bop in the head

 

[woodworkingboy]

Hi viz.... the crane guy was giving me a hard time for wearing green gloves and signaling him what to do with my hands. Made sense....