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    Am I going a little overboard with this?

    I wasn’t offended by your post or anyone else’s. I understood what you were getting at.
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    Am I going a little overboard with this?

    @ghostice Honestly for the chainsaw I was just leaning towards a new chain afterwards, maybe a bar as well. Wipe the head down with some Lysol wipes or something. Still have the 14 ft orchard ladder and rake too. I think the easiest thing for that might be Lysol wipes and then rinse with water...
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    Am I going a little overboard with this?

    I’m not surprised that it goes against popular opinion about being worried about inhaling certain things on a job site and wearing a respirator. When I worked a construction gig, I was the only one wearing a respirator when we were cutting or jack hammering, and even though we were wet cutting...
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    Niwaki pruning photos. Let’s see yours

    I wasn’t speaking strictly from an aesthetic point of view.
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    Rigging with karabiners

    Like others have said, hooking the line onto itself with a carabiner for easy rigging isn’t uncommon. I myself do it plenty. Being aware of the forces on the carabiner, and knowing when to adjust your technique or use an entirely different technique altogether so as not to overload the carabiner...
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    Niwaki pruning photos. Let’s see yours

    Pruning truly is a form of art. Nice work. Beautiful trees.
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    Am I going a little overboard with this?

    No matter how informed I am I would probably still worry to some degree about this kind of thing. For example, if I’m working with someone and they have a snack or lunch, privately I may be wondering about their dirty hands touching that sandwich if they didn’t wash or sanitize their hands first.
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    Am I going a little overboard with this?

    Today I pruned a tree with black knot fungus. Pretty sure it’s my first time working with it. For some reason I was feeling real anxious about how to handle myself around this fungus. I read you’re supposed to burn or dispose in bags the material but that simply wouldn’t be realistic for the...
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    Do you ever have the occasional customer service experience like this?

    There could be any number of possibilities for why they weren’t receptive to the offer to come back out to look at what other deadwood they were referring to. And continuing communication if they are ready to move on could be counterproductive at this point.
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    Do you ever have the occasional customer service experience like this?

    Honestly, I don’t believe I’ve ever charged by the hour. I have occasionally provided a price range (minimum- maximum), but mostly just quote a set price. The wording in the estimate for this job was very specific in regards to removing a lead / limb that was dead either down to a healthy...
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    Do you ever have the occasional customer service experience like this?

    I wouldn’t necessarily call this a real bad experience, but not typical from what we usually see. Long story short, recently I had a situation where we did exactly what we were contracted to do, plus some extra, and after following up a few days later with the client via email to make sure they...
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    Being a “Young” Business Owner

    When you were in your 20’s or early 30’s, did you ever notice some people that were in their 40’s and 50’s, or even older, ever referenced you as being “young”. I wonder if some people are surprised to see an owner of what may appear as a “successful” business to be around that age. As if...
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    High standards vs lower standards for preventing damage and incidents | Business owner vs employees and subcontractors

    Yes, I’ve had service drops disconnected before, and had I rigged everything out, I might’ve had all those wires disconnected. Considering what happened, maybe next time I will anyway. Lol, you’re not the first person to question using a crane for a prune. But it eliminated having to lower...
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    Damage Clauses for Driveways, Walkways, Lawns, etc.

    That’s something I’ve researched a bit about, and have so far come across different views that even if there is a clause in there, it isn’t necessarily 100% guaranteed whether it would hold if it was to become a legal matter. Ultimately, I think a big factor might be whether it was determined...
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    Damage Clauses for Driveways, Walkways, Lawns, etc.

    Do you include any sort of clause or waiver stating you’re not responsible for damages to certain surfaces from the weight of a vehicle or equipment traveling over, or being present in, areas where these surfaces are located? Being primarily a pruning-focused operation, doing most of our work...
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