Treework Capital of the USA

[Al Smith]

Oh yeah the fourth great misconception .Checks' in the mail ,I'll respect you in the morning and I won't -------

 

[mccauleytree]

I'll give you one example of many. An acquaintance of mine from the philly region has in his fleet a 25 ton crane, several buckets, log truck with roll off container, chip trucks, grapple chippers, pickups, tracked stump grinder with enclosed cab, standard stump grinders, and so on.

I'm not talking heavily used older equipment either. I'm talking chromed out peterbilts and kenworths.

Are you talking about Rick's? The guy has so much equipment and its all brand new! I have done some removals of poplars and oaks down on the main line in philly and they are BIG! I would still love to go out west though and spend some time in the redwoods!

 

[Tucker943]

I come from the main line. Newtown square actually. No, I wasn't referring to ricks, though I know all about his gig. I was referring to Knight Bros.

Ricks is a wild operation. He crippled A LOT of other companies when he emerged a few years ago.

 

[MasterBlaster]

That Rick fellow sounds like a Dot Palm operation!

 

[mccauleytree]

I come from the main line. Newtown square actually. No, I wasn't referring to ricks, though I know all about his gig. I was referring to Knight Bros.

Ricks is a wild operation. He crippled A LOT of other companies when he emerged a few years ago.

I actually do some work down in newtown square its about 30 minutes from me though. Knight Brothers is quite the impressive operation I have seen them around before.

 

[Tucker943]

Butch, ricks has a slogan to the affect of "call us last for the best price" and they aren't kidding. They blow other prices away but a HUGE margin. They run 4 crews 7 days a week.

Yes, knight Bros is huge. I've been on a lot of crane jobs where we've used Marty knights crane. I worked nights for a few weeks awhile back when knight Bros got the contract to take trees down along the PA turnpike. The removals had to be done between 8 pm and 4 am.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Rick sounds like a Rawking MoFo.

He should be a TreeHouser, just to cover all bets.

 

[Tucker943]

Ya I dont know him personally to extend the invite.

 

[MasterBlaster]

And that's a crying shame.

The Treehouse needs to be out there more.

Really. We've evolved into a Pretty Cool Place...

 

[Tucker943]

Quality, not quantity. The TreeHouse is top shelf.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

 

[OTGBOSTON]

I don't have an accent. Honest.

Yeah guy, me 'neither..

 

[woodworkingboy]

With those big tree companies around, could a person good with a saw and or a climber, find employment pretty easily? Sounds like a good gig for a single guy that wanted to work some, then take off to do some traveling, then come back to work when the money runs out.

 

[Tucker943]

Jay, employment in the tree biz in the area I referred to isn't tough. A climber, who can get it done, is like good around that region. There aren't many new ones coming up in the biz. If you can climb and kill the big ones with no issues, you've got a $400/day bounty on your head if you just want to sub and not commit to any one company.

 

[Burnham]

We still need a definition of "treework"

I can already feel that the full scale logging, I do is not included in that definition.

Here you go, Stig. Back several pages...I stood up for us .

Define treework, please.

Doing pruning and especially removals in a residential/commercial setting, no logging. Maybe some landclearing too.

Wellll now, if that's the definition of treework, ain't much of great account being done anywhere then.

Zing!

 

[stig]

Great
Glad I've got you covering my back, we loggers need to look out for each other with all the crazy arbos running rampant in here!

 

[Tucker943]

B, and Stig. You still get loads of glory. Both of you fall into the said parameters of tree work, plus, you also fall into the loggers group. Basically, you are kicking ass on multiple fronts.

 

[stig]

We're just funning around, really.
Both of us tend to do that a LOT

 

[Burnham]

 

[squisher]

I've often said you need to have a sense of humor to be logging, otherwise you'd go insane. Orrrrr maybe it was you need to be insane to go logging, otherwise you'd? Oh hell I dunno!

 

[stig]

I think whichever way you turn that one around, it is still true, Justin

 

[tophopper]

we loggers need to look out for each other

uuuuummm

 

[Frax]

Well, it sure isn't Calgary Alberta! Our trees are tiny by eastern standards and any big one is either a spruce or a poplar. No exceptions. There are no arb outfits with cranes. You want a crane you hire it and hope the guy knows something about dismantling trees. It makes for a fun day when it comes up!
On the plus side, there is a real wide variety of work from the smallest of ornamental pruning to removals. Every day is different. some easy, some hard.
Callgary is probably a good place for those who like to do more pruning than removals because there are loads of weathy people with fancy properties.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I've often said you need to have a sense of humor to be logging, otherwise you'd go insane. Orrrrr maybe it was you need to be insane to go logging, otherwise you'd? Oh hell I dunno!

I need a sense of humor just to get up out of bed in the morning before my first cup of coffee.

 

[woodworkingboy]

If there is someone on the crew that doesn't have much of a sense of humor, it makes it even more essential that there is somebody else that does.