What was your humble beginnings like?

Like a lot of folks, worked for a company for a while, then bought a few of my own tools and started doing side-work in the city where I lived at the time. Picked up a Husky 335XPT climber from a coworker for $120 that I still run over a decade later, then bought an 046 and a 361. I still have all three of those saws actually... Just did the occasional 'cut and leave' job for folks on the weekends. Very occasionally, I'd haul away a bit of brush in my 4Runner and later my Impreza wagon. Then I got out of tree work for a few years before moving to a rural area that had a need. I needed a job, so I started working for a company again and doing a little side work out of my 1970 Baja Bug.

When I started the actual business though, I went straight to the F350 with the tool/chip box I built and the BC1000xl chipper. At this point I've got literally all the 'small' tools I can think of needing and a new truck on the way.

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Jem4417 said:
Dump trailer mulching... never again
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You mean slicing and dicing with saw?

That ain't bad man. Dump trailer was my first piece of equipmente I invested in and that worked real well. I do mainly pruning though, I suppose if you are doing real large removals I could see how it might get tiring.

I have since added a small chipper to the dump trailer which works nice.
 
metaspencer said:
My biz started out with a truck and a trailer ... and it's still based on a truck and a trailer. I see no reason to grow (add people and equipment). Work and $$ are great at this "humble" scale.
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you know what you need? a small chipper mounted on the trailer somehow, nothing crazy, but just something to reduce the volume of the little stuff thats always a pain to load
 
Before I was using the chipper I have now to chip into dump trailer, I just loaded the brush in there. We had a good system. Ground worker would feed brush into trailer and I stand in there to dice it up. Very easy and simple. By the time it was all sliced and diced, trailer would hardly be full even on a big job.
 
sounds like a good setup

what do you do with your chips and brush? my local arborist just outs and ad up on his fb page asking if anyone wants chips, I know I would just take brush to the landfill, since it backs up to my house, and its $12 for a trip
 
Depends. I’ve used some chips at my house. I’ve given some to my worker. Brush I will bring to dump as well as chips if I don’t have anyone who wants them and need to dump.

I have thought about giving more chips to people who want them or keeping a stockpile of chips on hand in case etc.
 
Yeah I’ve heard of them, and I have a buddy who uses it. The majority of my work is pruning so it isn’t often I have a full load of chips from just one job.

I’ve got two jobs worth of chips in the trailer and it isn’t even half full.

I might check that site out at some point.
 
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