How'd it go today?

[FireFighterZero]

Hahaha!

I dont believe it.

 

[pantheraba]

Fences!!!!

 

[MasterBlaster]

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[FireFighterZero]

Hahaha!

Hello everyday.

 

[Stumpshot]

Was that The Daily Asplundh? The masthead on the newspaper was cut off, but that was my best guess...

 

[MasterBlaster]

lol!

 

[Burnham]

Sure.
I just like to eff with you when I can.

You devil .

 

[Bodean]

New favorite Client.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Noice!


They must think you are Santy Clause.

 

[Jonny]

Always appreciated that, Deva. Save a few cookies for the climber!

I got a cold. I turn into such a wimp when I get sick.

 

[Bodean]

She literally dictates every cut and where...

She is a rare one for sure... but she pays in us currency so I'm all like yeah baby....

 

[squisher]

Point and shoot? That can grow old quick.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Not if you charge enough.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

 

[Mellow]

I institute the PITA tax for those types of clients.

 

[Burnham]

I'd do the same, totally. With you, Brett. HEAVY tax .

 

[SeanKroll]

I 'hate' to sit in my saddle with lots of time to enjoy the view for a change, getting the same rate as actually doing stuff, while the hourly-rate customer hems and haws, trying to guess what to cut, when my experience from their viewpoint would tell me right away.

I'm doing view work at the moment (Olympic mountains and Puget Sound...rough!). I aim to get a camera that I can view from my phone, so that I can see the perspective from their dining room table while in the tree, etc.

Asking the groundman for advice about how the view pruning looks is always 'interesting'. A lot of hemming and hawing, and 'cut more'.

 

[SeanKroll]

Feeding and caffeinating the crew is a generous offer, and a wise investment.

I've come to the same conclusion about employees.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Sucks, but true.

 

[Burnham]

"View work", what I called "vista pruning"...surely can be a challenge to calibrate. What I did was spend a while looking at each tree from the viewpoint before climbing, try to mark in memory a kink in the trunk, a funky piece of bark, a branch with a funny shape, etc. on the stems where the cleaning out needed to go to. Usually worked. Didn't always .

 

[Mick!]

I think us Europeans suffer more than youse with the clients who want it to JUST THERE.

Possibly because we do more reductions/overall trimming.

After a while I learned to not look at the client who walks round whilst you reduce a tree (talking about a proper reduction, not the topping I put up on here for your perusal) if you get caught up in their facial expressions of worry and dismay you’ll fudge it and no one will be happy.

You can’t reduce a tree by committee.

Tea and biscuits always help though.

 

[Burnham]

Tea and biscuits is good .

 

[Stumpshot]

C-c-c-o-l-d grinding 2 stumps today. Would've gone for all 4 on the hit list, but it was so dang cold, it was hard to move (me and the machine). Frequent hand warm ups on the exhaust helped, as did the bandit rag over the face. But toes in the steel toed boots were numb when I got in the truck. Took off the boots and put my feet on the heater vents. The one consolation? It's going to be even colder tomorrow...

 

[Burnham]

Sounds like a misery, brother. Best of luck on the morrow.

 

[Bermy]

I'm doing view work at the moment (Olympic mountains and Puget Sound...rough!). I aim to get a camera that I can view from my phone, so that I can see the perspective from their dining room table while in the tree, etc..

Now that's a great idea!