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  1. rawtree

    Contract Tree Climbers Association (CTCA)...

    I want to re-create what I have experienced in Europe with my "band of brothers". I'll tell you the whole story tomorrow if I have time to deal with this. American tree climbers are different; too independent; cause they're scared that we'll all find out! I've got a couple of big days ahead of...
  2. rawtree

    Contract Tree Climbers Association (CTCA)...

    Are you saying that you have worker's comp? If so, are you "included" on the policy or is it a "blind" policy?
  3. rawtree

    Contract Tree Climbers Association (CTCA)...

    Especially at the start everyone will keep selling their own work. When we begin to advertise and the first inquiries start coming in then location would be the factor. Whoever is closest would be responsible with pursuing the lead and would have the backing of the group to help influence the...
  4. rawtree

    Contract Tree Climbers Association (CTCA)...

    ps I hope that pic on your profile isn't you. That'll be a little hard to sell...
  5. rawtree

    Contract Tree Climbers Association (CTCA)...

    I don't know. How is a co-op run? Seems to me that the first few people that band together would be making it up as we go. I've already run a contract climber ad in the "Job Finder" and had some interest but location has been the limiting factor. The biggest factor is going to be the rates we...
  6. rawtree

    Contract Tree Climbers Association (CTCA)...

    If I implied that you'd have to be "in the top ten" then I apologize. If you meet those qualifications then you have every right to be considered. What I am saying is that if we had even just 10 qualified members that that would be a "Dream Team". There aren't many companies that could field 10...
  7. rawtree

    Contract Tree Climbers Association (CTCA)...

    I would imagine that a company bringing in temporary contract climbers would expect a certain level of experience considering the added expense compared to their normal overhead for in-house climbers. You would need to be capable of doing anything and everything asked of you and on-sight and...
  8. rawtree

    Contract Tree Climbers Association (CTCA)...

    CTCC: Contract Tree Climbers Cooperative
  9. rawtree

    Contract Tree Climbers Association (CTCA)...

    No problem, I'll take you off the list of candidates ;).
  10. rawtree

    Contract Tree Climbers Association (CTCA)...

    Too complicated. That's a job for TCIA.
  11. rawtree

    Contract Tree Climbers Association (CTCA)...

    If we were attempting to "unionize" all the tree workers in America then I could see where big business might take offense. My vision of an organization like a "CTCA" has more to do with jobbing out available work and standardizing pay rates so that all parties benefit. Earlier I had said that...
  12. rawtree

    Contract Climbers: Show us your T...

    That's what I'm talken 'bout! Where do you put the dog?
  13. rawtree

    Contract Tree Climbers Association (CTCA)...

    I imagine a concept like CTCA would have some characteristics of a "union". Tell me what you perceive as being the negative qualities of a union of workers and what would need to be avoided to make it positive for everyone involved...
  14. rawtree

    Contract Tree Climbers Association (CTCA)...

    I'm from Pittsburgh so I know about unions and what they were meant to do, what they did and what happened to them...
  15. rawtree

    Contract Tree Climbers Association (CTCA)...

    This is a project for a co-op of people sitting around a round table "considering the absurd"; another way of saying brainstorming. Anybody can get worker's comp as I've described above. The greater part of the picture for this concept is jobbing out work. This would be the central hub for...
  16. rawtree

    Contract Tree Climbers Association (CTCA)...

    The only way I could ever justify having myself (the owner/operator/lead climber) "included" (the box you educate your clients to look for when you have worker's comp and your competition says they do too but didn't pay to have owner/operator/lead climber "included" in coverage he probably has...
  17. rawtree

    Contract Tree Climbers Association (CTCA)...

    Every insurance company I've had worker's comp through had companies offering multiple state coverage, it seems to be common. That's what I told them I needed for storm jumping.
  18. rawtree

    Contract Tree Climbers Association (CTCA)...

    Gonna contact a couple of insurance companies about the concept. Can't imagine coming up with much more than 50 qualified members so they may not be too interested (who knows not too many co's out there with fifty employees) but I think Co's like ArborMax will at least give us advice and I think...
  19. rawtree

    Contract Climbers: Show us your T...

    Nice, give me a call if you want to do something funner. You work in Aville? Who with?
  20. rawtree

    Contract Climbers: Show us your T...

    Highlands, NC. Headwaters to the Chattooga; 60 miles south of Asheville; 130 miles north of Atlanta; 10 miles up the hill from where N. Carolina, S. Carolina and Georgia meet!

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