TCI's Effer 655 Knuckle Boom

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Is this latest batch of pics from one day of work?

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All but one picture is from the last 6 days of work. I didn't even get pictures of all the work we did in the same 6 days.
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Great pictures. I can't wait to get me one. I love how there is a bucket truck in most pictures but not being used, haha who needs a bucket with that new truck. How is it working out for you? Are you doing more work faster with less people or just doing the jobs that much faster. I always wonder how the big purchase equipment works out. Charge the same amount for the tree but just able todo it in half the time. Or do you set an hourly rate for each man then each piece of equipment? I have seen people work things out different ways. Keep the pics coming they are great.
 
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It seems the more equipment I get the cheaper the trees get. Didn't think it was supposed to work that way.
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Hey brendonv, that seems to be the way I feel. Log truck and 75ft bucket, big chip truck, new chipper... but trees get cheaper and cheaper wtf....
 
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You have to have volume or big equipment is useless. Nosense having a bigass truck n crane with only a couple weeks work on the books. I price trees based on whole market value. Market goes down my prices go down market goes up my prices go up. Supply and demand. Right now all the big boys where I'm from are doing quality work dirt cheap, so in turn I have to be cheaper big equipment or not. The problem most salesmen have is feeling sorry for other people in a bad situation. I always hate to hand over that $6000 dollar price tag for a big removal, but there is a reason for the price tag. This stuff isn't free. You bought a piece of equipment to use it and be more efficient, now you must raise your daily rate; be that either by increased volume or increased price for the same amount of time
 
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Interesting thoughts...

I don't think, if you used the new equipment prices, that our pricing structure justifies this equipment. We never decided to purchase something and increased our prices to justify it.

We have kick a$$ people that work here. They bust their butts everyday. They take our average tree jobs and bring them in under quota almost every time. At the end of the year there is a profit and the accountant says you need to spend X to offset that profit... So we buy equipment... that happened over and over, year after year... As the equipment mounted the jobs got done faster and these guys started really beating their quota's... It snowballed. It really comes down to the guys that make up this team... When we get a crappy price on a job they still bring it in...

I do believe that arboriculture is market driven (as Jeff stated) and knowing your market will increase your revenue. But the real secret is kick a$$ people! I can't say enough about the people that work here!!! Without them this equipment is worthless!
 
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how is this 1 sling pick tied in 6 places faster and more efficient if you still need to go back and get the rest of butt nevermind untying all that crap?

1 sling and and easy laydown to prep for the log truck.


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I guess my questions were not so much just to raise prices when you buy equipment. But rather if you figure say 65. a man hour when you bid jobs does that include all your equipment or do you add on extra for equipment heavy jobs. I guess you can say it all works out in the end. This is the questions I have when I bid jobs, if we are using say 65. an hour now if we are planting trees or pruning small trees and shrubs we are low overhead. But when a big removal comes and now you send the effer, grapple truck, bucket truck now you are very equipment heavy with overhead. Or do you just bid trees like that is a 800. tree, that is 1000. tree? So my question was more how to go about figuring costs into the price structure when you add new equipment. Because the equipment needs repairs and needs to be replaced one day.

I must say you are dead on about having good quality people who want and can get the jobs done under estimate. That is key in this industry.
 
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I think my thought process on this is still developing. I have been adding a flat fee to our rate for the k Boom on a daily basis. We have only had it 3 or 4 weeks and didn't have a crane before.

I would be interested in how others are handling this too...
 
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