Seriously! Get to know as many farmers as you can! The longest drive to a dump spot is 10-15 min for us...usually under 10. They let us park trucks there too.
We just hired new kid who grew up on a farm...knows even more farms/dump spots!
Hurricane with a grapple, now that's productive!
I just succumbed to the fact an excavator is going to be on our shopping list soon. Let alone being able to use it with tree workbought a few other properties and they all are gonna need some excavator love.
We rarely work where a whole tree...
A solid 12" (bandit 250xp) will cut the mustard just as well, my 1890 only has 120hp, so its not that much more productive then a same powered 12". Just make sure to get a chipper with the throat/feed wheel opener upper/crush it option!
Yea you need a bigger chipper! Then bucket. Try to find one that is being sold by a private tree service that bought it new...as opposed to a fleet done been beat truck. Or seriously skip the bucket and look at the tracked lifts. Up equip is financing @ 0% 60 months $1800/mo. For a 70'...
If are a climbing owner operator...
Bigger chipper and mini!!!
We started with a 1990 f-150 ($1000)...stacked brush in the bed for two years.
We then got a bandit 90 (65hp) ($8k) and a 2001 f350 ($25k) with a box on it.
Next a 6'x12' 12k dump trailer ($7k) w/box on it (12-14yards) and a ram...
I work within 30min for 95% of my jobs. Only reason I travel up to and no further is a very wealthy lake area. Charge accordingly.
Basic business plan ideas are...figure out your costs and expenses. Then figure out the costs and expenses of a tree service doing the exact same thing, but with...
Word up! Been at it for about 10 years now. Just figured out where I want to go in the next 15 in order to "mature". Got a family going on with a 3 and 6 year old who want to work with me as of now, or fly helicopters. Retirement does not even make sense to me, I love what I do and don't ever...
Depends where you live.
Shitty technology in the beginning gave em all a bad name.
We have gasification units around here that do not smolder or smoke.
He only has a 12k capacity (legally). Crane can pic 7k next to it. The bed is 20'. He has short 2' removable side stakes. He is overloaded, like every load...farthest he usually has to go is 30min. Most of the time around 10-15min.
Super sweet when we get into pines. We leave them in 20'...
Yo Reg!? How is the hair hanging? Give us a pic will ya? I'd oblige, but I'm in this declined stage these days, not as impressive as I remember your flowy locks! You might be wondering...maybe not, no worries mate!
Very nice sir, indeed!
Spent some time there on our way to Tofino. You know surfing en whale watchin shit...Saw a tractor trailer navigate a corner with a tree (some kinda cedar with big ass butt flair) three pieces filled the whole fucking trailer! Serious troubles trying to get a good pic in...
all I know is...
My buddy loves to burn them in his outdoor wood boiler. Oh and he has a knuckleboom so you know where the non mill quality logs go...did I mention he takes this shit for free, and thanks me, and thanks me again when he works on my trucks and only charges me his cost for parts?
Season them, mill them, season some more, then kiln dry them, then plane and sand one side nice...then we will talk. Until then, all you got is junk! See how that goes for you on Craig's list! Lol
Forget the slab...Should see what a table made out of a fat cottonwood slab gets!
Um no...forget that, you guys keep (the market up by) throwing your logs away.
There is a principle of management similar to manifest destiny. Many levels to this, but simply...
If you trust your employees, they will know it and will work when you are not there. you will catch them working and it will reinforce your trust.
If you do not trust your employees, they will...