Storms...How best to prepare your business?

I work for a large nationally recognized tree company that has great relations with HO insurance underwriters. The work orders usually read to remove tree from structure chip brush and leave wood as it lay away from the structure. Then another line item reads the cost associated cost of removal and disposal of wood an optional cost that the HO is reasonable for if they so choose. As far as removal of tree portions that remain standing insurance companies only pay to take them down low enough not to effect structures in the event of future failure. Again work order reads chip brush leave wood with the option of HO paying for removal and disposal of wood.
 
make sure your yard can handle to amout of wood, if you can't get to your dump spots make sure you got a spot to dump chips at your yard. take care of your customers that spend the money first, clear the driveways and free the house's/ house drops. leave the mess and come back to it. from a financial look, the bigger money is removal the derbis not cleaning it up, so if something happened and they wanted to have someone else clean it up at least u made the bigger piece of the pie. run two crews crane and log truck and and a chipper clean up crew.

equipment maintain everything on the regular. stock plenty chains bars oil, have bulk diesel/ gas tanks at yard. stock a couple extra saws. if your in it for the long haul which i think u are a couple 201's and a couple 461's in the box won't hurt ya.
 
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96coal449 said:
Royce, where in VT are you? I've a shit load of gear, small dump, and working on a 20'' chipper. Have a few other trucks that are almost ready for work. I'll still be in NY for the winter till I move south.
Here's another idea .... establish a link with the local emergency network. This way you can be reached by them for your services.
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I am in Brattleboro VT and Keene NH. We service about a 50 mile radius to those towns. We also have two large accounts that are a bit further north in VT. If a storm hits real bad. The first thing that I would need is a good crew with chip truck and chipper, with saws and rigging gear. That crew would go out with my bucket truck and possibly log truck. I would take crane crew with a truck and chipper as well.
 
ROYCE said:
I am in Brattleboro VT and Keene NH. We service about a 50 mile radius to those towns. We also have two large accounts that are a bit further north in VT. If a storm hits real bad. The first thing that I would need is a good crew with chip truck and chipper, with saws and rigging gear. That crew would go out with my bucket truck and possibly log truck. I would take crane crew with a truck and chipper as well.
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Battleboro is a little bit of a ride from here but definitely worth storm work. We'll keep in touch.
 
Watch for the course on working with insurance companies. They will cover much more than is even suggested here. If you need to remove something for accessing the site, or remove the trunk wood to make the work zone safe, etc… There is an art to writing the estimate/work order/invoice to ensure the maximum is covered.
 
Poop is going to hit the ventilator this weekend. Some damage maybe tonight.

Either really bad on Saturday, or hugely bad is predicted.

Anyone nearby? I'm looking for people.

360-584-5664 text or call.
 
southsoundtree said:
Poop is going to hit the ventilator this weekend. Some damage maybe tonight.

Either really bad on Saturday, or hugely bad is predicted.

Anyone nearby? I'm looking for people.

360-584-5664 text or call.
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Doesn't sound it's gonna blow much til the biggie arrives late Saturday....

Well, I hope not. I'm headed to Victoria for my 1967 HS Reunion bash tomorrow evening. I wanted to stay and do more sightseeing photog. but I imagine I'll head straight home Sat am.....

cliffmass.blogspot.com, if it will come up, has the best data..updated only about daily...maybe he'll keep a closer watch going forward..... The models are now predicting it to head right for us...but maybe with not as low a pressure as originally thought, but still tight pressure gradient. Winds inland could hit 65 knots plus.... that happens, it will do a lot of damage...but fall short of 1962.....
 
TJ, as th sez, the contractor can write their own specs, after agreeing with the client. Sux when someone who does not understand a tree writes work orders for someone who does.
 
John- Watch your accounts receivable. Require a 50% deposit up front. Its easy to get screwed on storm work. It is one of the few times that we are the commodity so charge accordingly.
 
djm said:
John- Watch your accounts receivable. Require a 50% deposit up front. Its easy to get screwed on storm work. It is one of the few times that we are the commodity so charge accordingly.
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Thanks Dan! Words to live by. I am an honest person and often think that everyone is. Not always the case.
 
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