Recession?

[Steve Connally]

Yea, that's the funny thing is that we've very methodically ruled out any food issues. It's stress and anxiety. When I get good work done and get to work really hard, and am not stressed, and eat less volume of food, of basically any kind, I don't have problems with my bowels. I typically eat pretty healthy, home made foods, and various fermented foods- raw kraut and kimchi chief among them. I have had great movements eating many different things, and the only thing that consistently wrecks me is cashews.

Cashews are pretty big on the irritation list. Sound like to you have the information you need. Hope you get some relief!!

 

[Steve Connally]

Thanks Steve , yea I hope it picks up for us all
My problems thus far were inherited on a used crane
None self inflicted YET

Oh no. Yeah others peoples bad habits are expensive

 

[Steve Connally]

Fermentation article.

 

[evo]

I have to get two more years of documented professional experience to get licensed in CA. I have just crossed the documentation threshhold this week to get started on my ISA certified arborist, so I am applying right now. I can start a business and get insured, but I technically can't do jobs for over $500 w/out a contractors license. I am told that this only becane a thing in 2019, which is when I started learning, but I dont have documentation for anything prior to Feb '21.

I have been doing about 4-5k/yr in side jobs for embarassingly cheap, but I have learned my lesson, and understand now what it really takes to actually make this work financially in way that is sustainable when I have to factor in X, Y, or Z; helpers of various sorts, machines, trucks. Definitely getting better at bidding my own work.

I have recently done some paid consultations involving no cutting, as word of my knowledge and expertise has gotten around, and I am also getting good paying gigs doing arbor adjacent work, such as large scale irrigation, and planning orchards and gardens. I am almost as busy as I want to be, and have a modest flow of under the table work for an older guy that is known to be one of the top pruners of very large decurrent trees. He does want to make it more official as paperwork allows moving forward, but he trusts me with everything, and is now regarding me as equally capable, bragging to everyone that he got me started, and now I teach him new stuff all the time.

I am getting $30/hr from the guy that does mostly removals in Paradise and Magalia, and would likely get more pruning jobs if he would do them better, but he has a reputation for being a sub par pruner. He doesn't have the patience for those jobs, and insists that my way is not worth doing. He also still climbs a tautline, and doesn't know what a split tail is. Between him and my side jobs, I was as busy as I wanted to be, but things have been slowing down since Thanksgiving. He and the foreman have been working together almost 14 years, and there's supposed to be a changing of the guard when the situation allows, but theres hardly a business left to hand over. The foreman really likes me, and knows that I can bring a lot more to the table under the right circumstances, but I live in the town of Oroville over 35 minutes drive away, so for me to try to go uo there to try to engage in the style of direct sales that have served me reasonably well in hard times would be much less of a reasonable proposition. I just stay in my area, and hunt for solo work unless I see something more suited to his style.

I really just wanted the prestige of the lead position, but ultimately I have a bigger plan, and will be making better money again in no time. I was just hoping to be busier during the bouts of weather that were good enough for tree work, but not for getting my foundation done. I am gonna probably be glad to not be too busy soon enough, and after that, I will begin officially building my nursery. Which reminds me: I have to cakl a friend about that idea for some specific advice.

Couldn’t you just bill daily and cap your time on the job to 5/6 hours? That way you’re still under the $500 limit.
Good luck on the cert, I bet you will find it easy. New tree biology, arboriculture by Harris, the study manual, and maybe biology of seed plants are really all you need in that order. Libraries can get some of the harder (and expensive) books on intra-library loan. I trust ya and hit me up if you want a loaner

 

[Treetopflyer]

Oh no. Yeah others peoples bad habits are expensive

Catchy phrase and as a small company owner I’ve certainly paid for other mistakes in my own company, part of the game! I wouldn’t say that the guy who ran the crane had bad habits, quite contrary I think he became and is very sound operator and took good care of the crane.

 

[data farm 26]

Really interesting stuff here about the diet, stress and health topics. ironic that it's in the thread about economy? I hope that y'all can heal up soon. I've got a friend with possible barrets (sp?) disease or similar and he can't eat anything, it seems brutal.

 

[Steve Connally]

Catchy phrase and as a small company owner I’ve certainly paid for other mistakes in my own company, part of the game! I wouldn’t say that the guy who ran the crane had bad habits, quite contrary I think he became and is very sound operator and took good care of the crane.

Thats good. I just know what the crane file looks like on a lot of units. Most people don't know to get a copy of that before they buy a used unit. When you said that, the normal assumption is the truck was used like 80% of what I see online. I wouldn't buy 80% of the trucks I see online because of the way they're beaten over and over every day. Glad that wasn't the case with yours.

 

[jim454]

You know what I just learned? There are carbohydrates in cardboard! So stockpile now because that’s exactly what this woke agenda is counting on!
#cardboardcarbohydrateskickinarse

 

[rico]

I'm eating a stack of cardboard blueberry pancakes with a side of bacon as we speak. Who knew cardboard could be so yummy?

 

[ghostice]

Some interesting reading about food additives - see also pp 217 on.