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I was helping a friend out this morning when a neighbor came over wanting a price for some trees. My friend told the neighbor $3,000 and later on showed me the job. It's a bunch of trees, but the job itself is a piece of cake. No unmoveable targets, you can pretty much just drop everything from the ground, you can drive right up to the trees, etc.

This afternoon I was working for somebody I have done work for for a long time now. The guy comes out and we start walking around the property when he says something about wanting to take down this BIG silver maple. Immediately my mind said, "Ok, this is gonna be about $4,000 - $5,000." It's only over a house, fence, swingset which can't be moved unless you really bust your ass, etc.

So my question is this; would you rather do a bunch of easier trees or a couple of monsters for the same moderate sum of money?
 
hahaha

And they say there are no stupid questions! /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
In the end, it's about net amount not gross.

If I could make the same coin trimming shrubs with my Astro van and a trailer, why would I go and do crane jobs with all of the risk and overhead?
 
They do say that the most profitable piece of equipment is a pair of hand snips.

I see that we are at 100% for easy ones right now. I figured I would put it out there though because I am sure that some of us would prefer that challenge of a big nasty one to having to go up and down a number of smaller trees.
 
Hey John,

The Astro is still in service with 235,000 miles on it. Dilapitated??? You're thinking of someone else's van. The Astro is/was the best looking ship in the fleet.

Actually, a buddy is going to be looking for a newer Astro at the Dallas auto auction tomorrow. The other one is still in fine shape though :)
 
I like the big ones. I get bored of the lots of smaller trees type jobs and then they seem to run over time more often than the bigger ones, which you can really get stuck into, one set up and then your off and swingin'.

Profit wise though the smaller ones are best, but I'm often under bid on those as there are more people around who will do them cheap.
 
as a freelance climber i prefer to big trees but thats only because people wont pay my rates for climbing small trees.
if i was going after my own work though id prefer the smaller jobs with less liability
 
I'd kinda prefer a few big ones every once in a while. Then again, its an army of one so rigging out stuff is very tedious.

Its a lot about the climbing. Getting rid of my land legs for a few hours in one stretch is more fun than just escaping the first 10 feet in order to crawl around a bunch of gnarly cedar elms repeatedly. Of course, I get no pick, my jobsite being the same 164 acre campus.

I will be taking tickets for rides in the Astro at N'ville. Place orders online. Priority seating is available--- at a price.
 
I would say that $5K is upper end to me (as far as private home owner stuff goes). A $5K job means that I only have one stop for the day. $3K is moderate and means that I have more to do later.

And to answer the question, I really enjoy a mix. I love the fact that the career I chose has so much diversity from day to day operations. Both equal for me.
 
I personally like the bigger trees. I like getting all my equipment to a job and ger-r-done! I don't mind the smaller jobs but just hate the drive time and loading and unloading the loader and trailers and getting everything figured out. The bigger trees after about an hour you have the area down pat where to go where not to go and it just runs so smoothly.
 
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