i remember a time when potential clients were telling me how dangerous climbing was when I expressed that it would be the easiest and quickest way to manage their tree situation. I could only imagine that another tree service provided them with an estimate prior to me, and that perhaps they couldn’t/wouldn’t climb and thought it was a good idea to make blanket statements about climbing and safety in order to sell them on shoehorning their bucket truck through the garden.
I’ve been around long enough to know just how many ways a tree COULD be done, and it can be good to have some flexibility and options in your quiver. Also long enough to understand that some people have never been exposed to safety minded, incredibly knowledgeable and competent tree workers, leaving them with a narrow vision of what can and cannot be done, or what other options are out there.
This isn’t even to say there is a right of wrong way in every case, but just to say that the apparent lack of barrier to entry in our profession creates an avenue for all types of go getters willing to have a try. So we get what we get. It’s not a complaint, just what I see. And heck, that lack of barrier is just what allowed me to get into the game!
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