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    What to tell customers to expect from working with a Crane Company

    Here's a scenario. Suppose you have a hazard tree that is imminently going to fail. Client books your services, you schedule the crane, crane cancels and, in the intervening week before it can be rescheduled, the tree fails. Are you, the contractor, liable for the damages?
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    What to tell customers to expect from working with a Crane Company

    We must be in very different locales with very different trees and very different geography. In my area you don't just string together a bunch of big removals for the 275 ton crane to zig and zag from. The trees are so different, the topography and traffic wouldn't allow for this kind of job...
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    What to tell customers to expect from working with a Crane Company

    I could see that working with some types of jobs. Given the distances in some jobs and size picks, a 30 ton crane is perfect. A lot of jobs a 270 ton crane or a 115 might be needed. Wouldn't want to have to lug that up and down the hillsides of portland chasing a string of removals.
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    What to tell customers to expect from working with a Crane Company

    Sorry, the only part of my quote on a crane job that is variable is the crane price itself. All other aspects--our work--has a particular fixed cost. Also, the crane class is a lot larger here (115 ton) which puts me (the little fish) needing the services of the big crane outfits which...
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    What to tell customers to expect from working with a Crane Company

    In the first place, the smaller crane companies in our area are awesome and are good to work with, but they don't have the heavy artillery. So, we have 2 large crane companies in our area and they are highly money driven. They don't pull cranes away from work that needs to continue (usually...
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    What to tell customers to expect from working with a Crane Company

    Had a misunderstanding with a client recently about crane company cost overruns. This after the crane company had rescheduled the work 4 x over. Got me thinking to tighten up my language about what clients can expect from working with cranes and the billing practices of crane companies. Let me...
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    The EPA Administrator, without proper compass bearings, will run aground. The achievement will be in discrediting the science that drives its own regulating hand, to show that there are alternative facts after all. See climate change is happening, but not by us! But isn't that the deeper...
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    Your moral political values are your lodestars: they set your bearing. With Trump, there are no moral political values, no lodestars, no bearings.
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    arborist position in the caribbean

    I guess you can take pride in the fact that you are part of the process of providing cheap power to the mega rich assholes. It probably wouldn't feel that good, however, the day after one of your locals gets arc welded to his flip flops as he is pole sawing banana leaves away from the high...
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    arborist position in the caribbean

    Working around power lines even in a tropical power lines is serious work. Training people to work on powerlines in a tropical environment is serious work. To do this for so little money seems to be more than mere adventure, more like crazy. This is not canopy research work or eco tours. And...
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    arborist position in the caribbean

    Hi Ward, it works out at about $2600.00 a month, wages are paid every two weeks, the plus side is no tax deducted, the down side is groceries etc are all shipped in, so prices in the stores can be more expensive than living on the mainland. Rental properties are considerably higher if you want...
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    arborist position in the caribbean

    Sounds like you want a crew leader who will do all the pruning around electrical lines whilst educating the local crews on all manner of good arboricultural practices.Could you elaborate on how far CI$15/hr would go in that local economy?
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    I think 'opportunist' is more accurate. He saw that he could cozy up to the conservatives and so he did. He's playing them for what he can, because he couldn't have run on the democratic ticket. But he's his own man. He uses everybody equally to get him where he wants to be. He uses Russia when...
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    Looks like our Orangutan-in-Chief is in a military spending mood. I wonder whether this is the opening sortie for a larger rearrangement of the chess pieces. I think Trump wants to make a name for himself on the world stage. The greatest Orangutan in history!
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    Just another brick in the wall. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/us/politics/rules-of-engagement-military-force-mattis.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
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    Marketing planting

    Lot of landscapers around here "guarantee" the tree for a year or more. I think they are crazy. How many times I've seen the customer simply not water the trees we planted and they die in the summer. Just drove by a customer who we planted (10) 8' Arborvitae--all of them browned out from a...
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    Tree Jobs and Job Adds

    So, the upper limit of the foreman pay scale is determined by the competitive marketplace and the structure of companies, which I think you understand. In a word: capitalism. You also understand, I'm quite sure, what it takes to jump up to the next pay grade, which is to go from proletariat to...
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    Tree Jobs and Job Adds

    I can see how that is true in a lot of cases. There's always a story the capitalist tells to justify his exploitation, as Marx taught us. But inequality of outcomes is fair provided that there is fair compensation throughout the pay chain. There are reasons here. I think starting a groundsman...
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    Tree Jobs and Job Adds

    What Steve brings to the table is worth $30 an hour and more. So why isn't everybody worth $30 an hour? Because they don't have all of the value added components that Steve brings. Younger employees typically have issues with reliability and competency. That means somebody has to look over...
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    I think many of us in USA have no real experience of this kind of thing. Our (US internal) experiences with Muslims or Eastern peoples has been, on the whole, pretty good with a few exceptions. (Our external relations are another matter). We love our friends and it may be because we don't have...

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