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  1. tomstrees

    At my limits for a log splitting job

    Largest job doing log splitting; initially customer contacted me on cutting up some smaller tree length wood, 5 or so cords, then a storm hit, much bigger wood, multi ton red oak tree lengths, some were cut up to reasonable sizes but logs are still around 1000 or so at least a good number of...
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    Hourly rates

    I would not want to refer anyone I don't really know, a lesson you learn the hard way by losing future work. I had a good customer in town I did a lot of work for, she wanted her apple trees pruned. I saw an ad at Muench's in Stamford spoke to the guy with an Indian accent, referred him to her...
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    High and low ranges for tree work across the country

    A friend who is struggling to survive after serious bouts with alcoholism quoted me per person rates he and others got back in the 80s which are completely unrealistic in 2020; the rates have gone down if anything with the floods of foreign labor. The last time I went to the local arborist...
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    Oregon or cheaper saw chain sources?

    I ordered a couple loops of twenty inch chain, one Oregon and one with good reviews. I don't do a lot of cutting these days. A few hours here or there. I am a little surprised that Stihl makes chain loops good for a lot of other saws, like Huskys. When in a pinch where do you go for saw...
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    Oregon or cheaper saw chain sources?

    Who do you use for chain saw chain, Oregon or is Laser/Cutter's choice good enough? Chisel or semi?
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    High and low ranges for tree work across the country

    Free markets have huge challenges; true, customers can be smart and educated and ask most of the right questions and get good value, but I have seen too many who are lazy and accept the first or second estimate or get turned off on a trivial issue. We also have those who take advantage of...
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    A good all around Husky or Stihl saw for around $500

    Here is a 372xp ending soon on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Husqvarna-372xp-non-x-torq-Chainsaw-No-Bar-And-Chain-New-OEM-Rebuild-365sp-371/254688633030 I would be concerned with totally rebuilt units for the long haul, or am I being overly critical?
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    High and low ranges for tree work across the country

    Here in CT, Fairfield County has some pretty high rates. $3K- $4K a day for a tree crew; climber or bucket truck, chipper, truck, several workers. Line crews, can be less; Lewis Tree specializes in that, I don't know what their rates are. Smaller operations often charge whatever the market...
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    Handling add ons

    I had a supersplit for a number of years, the flywheel unit definitely paid for itself; did both firewood sales and splitting for people. I worked for a contractor out of Norwalk, Harold Self, in 1993, he paid me around $10 an hour, charged the customer $65 an hour. He had a good schtick...
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    A good all around Husky or Stihl saw for around $500

    Thanks for the overview on the Husky 365; I would link the online saw but last time I did that someone beat me to it. So some of the models were better than others but you would have to modify the later ones? I don't do a lot of cutting now, log splitting has been a niche I have done a lot of...
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    Jonsered 2077--how to fix?

    Fixed, turned out to be a simple gas filter replacement. A repair shop did the tune up for around sixty bucks, runs fine again. It took a nearly three month wait for the shop to get to it.
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    Handling add ons

    I have a Jonsered 2077 which I use with a 20" bar; all I need for most stuff. Went back there today to do the small tree lengths, they are going to have the service that dumped the wood and was still working in the area cut up the monster trunks. Then I'm doing to have to try to split it.
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    A good all around Husky or Stihl saw for around $500

    How about a Husky 365? How much worse is that than the 372?
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    Handling add ons

    I agreed to do the smaller wood not those huge tree length pieces, so I didn't look at that until today and didn't agree to it yet. Thanks for the perspective.
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    Handling add ons

    I have a customer who just wanted a pile of mostly tree length wood cut up and then later split. So they called me last week after a major storm and said they had more. Most of these properties are million or so an acre. So I got there today, worked a couple hours, had quoted them fifty an...
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    A good all around Husky or Stihl saw for around $500

    I was checking around on ebay for a good used saw on ebay. I had a lot of experience with Stihl 440 and 460, there are a few of those online. What would you recommend for a comparable Husky? The 394/395s are probably out of reach in my budget.
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    Industry post Covid19

    I had wealthy hedge fund customers say that they can always replace trees that are cut down! As a result, in this town we have many properties with ruined tree scapes, trees that were there way before we were born! Sure you can replace trees with nursery grown stock, but you will never usually...
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    Jonsered 2077--how to fix?

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    Industry post Covid19

    I went through a type of greed, money making phase about 20 years ago, unfortunately was blind to my character defects, hopefully I have better conscience awareness now. I'd like to see a lot more win/win situations where those of substantial means pay their fair share. Many of us probably...
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    Some firsts on a job

    I finished the job yesterday; another 6 or so hours. Probably 5-6 cords, I wish there were an app to measure firewood accurately in heaps as it was. But cordwood is done in split stacked condition. I remember Thoreau writing about how some dealers didn't want accurate measurements: "When I...

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