Can You Make Money Planting Trees?

[Boomslang]

$4000 profit, 2 guys, 1.5 days!? Wow. I'm impressed.

I quoted it crazy high because I didn't want to do it. Unfortunately (or fortunately) the client is quite well off and didn't shop around. He wanted me from the start.

 

[ATH]

You are correct, but I’ll bet my house the nurseries water those trees everyday to keep them alive.
I don’t offer a warranty because I have no idea if the customer will water the newly planted tree at an inch a week. It’s pretty obvious that they didn’t but you can’t prove it otherwise. So loss of money and time.
But I will say I haven’t lost any trees that I have planted for customers.

We installed our first drip irrigation systems this spring (did them at two separate properties). Really easy to install and didn't cost all that much. I was talking to my helper and said "maybe we should make a warranty contingent upon us installing irrigation with a timer then we could make it two years."

On the surface, I like that idea. But that also sounds like a lot of callbacks for people who catch the hose with a rake or hit something with the weed wacker or who knows what else! I don't want to be an "irrigation guy" spending our time chasing those kinds of problems.
Nothing wrong with that, just not where I feel like we can provide the best service.

 

[ATH]

PS: I wonder if clients water trees better if there is no warranty?

 

[VenasNursery]

PS: I wonder if clients water trees better if there is no warranty?

Good luck
I think 70% do and 30% do not and if you warranty it you’re replacing it if not they bad mouth you until they die and then their kids continue

Sucks that customers that take care of their trees have to pay for the customers that don’t
Facts

 

[ATH]

I was just wondering if there is no warranty (and maybe even a higher price) does the mentality become I need to protect my investment. Vs. "I'm not gonna go out of my way to water it, they'll just replace it".

Do you offer multiple replacements or just once?

 

[VenasNursery]

I was just wondering if there is no warranty (and maybe even a higher price) does the mentality become I need to protect my investment. Vs. "I'm not gonna go out of my way to water it, they'll just replace it".

Do you offer multiple replacements or just once?

Just once

 

[tomstrees]

I did reforestation work in the south; pine tree seedling planting paid for by the paper companies. I never liked the work because I'm not a machine and don't work well as one. I raked blueberries up in Maine with a fellow who did that in the winter for many years with some others and stayed busy with decent money.