Tree Care Company Owners

[macrocarpa]

What is your most profitable service?

What service do you find most awarding?

 

[Crazy_Jimmy]

Profitable-removals
rewarding-large tree pruning

 

[guymayor]

Same hourly rate so profit is equal.

Root invigoration of veterans (Happy 4th!)is the most rewarding tree service, when the results are good.

Writing a good report that increases tree appreciation and value is also rewarding. Other writing can be fun too.

Climbing trees I planted years ago is rewarding as well.

 

[GibsonTreeCare]

I'm with Crazy Jimmy here...

 

[Treespotter]

Hazard evaluating is probably most profitable.

Pruning very old pollards (this is an old modelling custom in Holland to shield old farm houses from the sun) is the most rewarding.

 

[ronnyb]

most profitable- phc
most rewarding- pruning big old trees

 

[theXman]

most profitable: Emergency storm work with the crane to remove a big tree that has fallen on a house.

most rewarding: Deadwood trimming and overall trimming of say a very large old tree that has been neglected for many years, along with cabling and bracing in that tree for weak areas such as a tight V crotch. Throw in cutting out some bad girdling roots.... and that job would be most rewarding. Tree looks 100 times better and you feel good that it might last another 50 or 100 years.

 

[Erlend]

Most Profitable: The trees customers only wants cut down, and all you have to do is pull out your saw, maybe a couple of wedges and let it go. I allways feel a wee bit ashamed of charging our minium cost, when the job takes 5 minutes.

Most rewarding: Pruning young trees. The feeling 15 minutes of work gives, makeing sure the tree will have the chance of becoming an old and structurally strong.

 

[tomthetreeman]

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Most Profitable: The trees customers only wants cut down, and all you have to do is pull out your saw, maybe a couple of wedges and let it go.

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Profitable in the short term, yes, but convincing that client to keep a potentially valuable tree and then coming back for years to care for it is both profitable AND rewarding!!!

-Tom

 

[Erlend]

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Most Profitable: The trees customers only wants cut down, and all you have to do is pull out your saw, maybe a couple of wedges and let it go.

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Profitable in the short term, yes, but convincing that client to keep a potentially valuable tree and then coming back for years to care for it is both profitable AND rewarding!!!

-Tom

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Ah, that is true in a climate where trees give shade and shade is apreciated. But move to Norway and you'll experience the sun is highly wanted. During the winter in my area we have the sun for aproxematly 6 hours (not taking hills, mountains, trees or builings into concideration)

Trees close to houses gives shade (more need for heating inside), rain gutters full of needles or leafes and damp/shady enviroment that causes moss on the rooftiles and fungi on the wooden housewalls (98% of all houses are built in wood, and with a harsh enviroment they need to be painted every so often) Combind this with the fact that our 3 most common types of trees in my district (85% perhaps) dont take (or need) pruning very well. (Silver Birch (Betula pendula), Scots pine (Pinus Sylvestris) and Norwegian Spruce (Picea Abies)

The climate thing here also makes for slow groth, so for repeat customers we are talking looong term

But I do agree on your point of rewarding work. Those few "exotic" trees we have that reach some size (Beech, Ash, Horse chestnut, linden and oak) and need pruning/deadwooding are among the the jobs I apreciate most.

But seeing big things fall is just as fun today, as it was when I was 3 years old and could tear down the tower of wooden blocks my dad had built up!