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    Love tree work. Not the tree business.

    I don’t remember who it was, but someone on here once made a post about knowing two people in the tree business. If I recall the post correctly, one of them runs a big company and the other a small, maybe 1-2 man operation. They said the individual who owns the bigger company is constantly...
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    Offering additional services such as lawn mowing / landscaping

    I’ve been on a few cat rescues over the course of my career, but it’s not something I’ve got called for often, and I don’t list it as an official service. I never really charged a set price because I suppose I was trying to do a good thing, but I can also see the benefit of charging.
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    Offering additional services such as lawn mowing / landscaping

    I haven’t made it through all the posts yet, but there are some very valid points here. Certainly wouldn’t want to do anything that would harm my current brand or take away from my current work. More recently I’ve started branching out into a little more removal work then what I did...
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    Offering additional services such as lawn mowing / landscaping

    The last 1-2 years has been a challenge, but part of that is my own doing. Rewind back to 2023, and I had a pretty steady stream of organic work coming in, in addition to call backs, referrals, etc. That was with a website, social media profiles, and me regularly keeping them up to date and...
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    Samson rope ID

    Sherrill and TreeStuff both list a rope that looks very similar, one calls it Samson Ivy as @Tuebor mentioned, the other calls it Samson Tango Ivy. Can’t say for sure if it’s the same rope. I suppose the online pics could look slightly different than what it looks like in-person.
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    Offering additional services such as lawn mowing / landscaping

    Since I first established my company over 8 years ago, I’ve primarily focused on trees and presented myself online as such. Gradually I got into shrubs and hedges, but you might still consider that part of tree care. For a while now I’ve been contemplating adding some additional side services...
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    F450 surplus auction ambulance as equipment truck and tow vehicle???

    My buddy has all older trucks that he bought used and while they aren’t the biggest or prettiest, they get the job done and he’s not paying a loan off each month. There’s a guy on social media who is known for running a smaller alternative setup and he was using a van like what is typically...
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    F450 surplus auction ambulance as equipment truck and tow vehicle???

    Lights and siren on a tree truck, interesting idea… @Reach is right about the weight on some of those even if they don’t look that heavy. When I used to work in towing I had to move a box one once and it had some weight to it.
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    tool/chainsaw lanyard attachment options while in a bucket truck?

    I’m usually in a lift that has an open style bucket with bars, so I’m sure it doesn’t apply to some of the buckets you all may be using, but what I will sometimes do is hook the saw to one of the bars using a chainsaw lanyard and / or a webbing sling. Whether the saw stays connected when...
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    Google Local Service Ads

    Thanks. Just curious, in was scenario would you consider a job in our industry “sensitive” if it’s all outside? Maybe if you were sending a crew out by themselves and an owner who was background-checked isn’t present? I mean from my understanding google might present it as “anyone who is...
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    Topping, Pollarding, or what??

    Well that’s what I was thinking. Basically when done you’d be left with a head that has a bunch of pruning cuts where each stem was.
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    Google Local Service Ads

    Seems like these have become more popular and widely used in the last year or two, at least in my area. I’ve seen some of my competitors using them. What I was curious about is, depending on the industry, they say it may require any employees who are interacting with clients to also do a...
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    Topping, Pollarding, or what??

    What I was wondering is when making the final cuts, would you just do one flush cut at the “head” area where the stems are growing out of, or make an individual cut for each stem?
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    Topping, Pollarding, or what??

    I already got the contract and the job is set to be done towards the end of February / early March which is what they asked me to do. I wrote everything down in the estimate about how there are risks to the tree, that it would require continual maintenance for it to be effective, etc. They...
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    Topping, Pollarding, or what??

    One of the reasons I was willing to quote it is because the tree has already somewhat been trained for this. I think the lack of maintenance recently might’ve been due to physical limitations or it just becoming too much. The clients are older… So it’s a little different of a situation than...
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