Would you hire out your GRCS

[TREE-SURGEON-ESSEX]

Just wondering if it might be an idea to hire one out with a arial tree rigging and rescue qualified operator ?.

[Scott Walker]

I wouldn't hire mine out, and I cant see there being much call hiring it out with a member of staff. Also you have an advantage over your competitors having yours being able to complete jobs quicker therefore beating them on price. Hiring it out will give them the same advantages as you.

[TREE-SURGEON-ESSEX]

Yeah good point actually

[WeeDee]

I wouldn't hire mine out, and I cant see there being much call hiring it out with a member of staff. Also you have an advantage over your competitors having yours being able to complete jobs quicker therefore beating them on price. Hiring it out will give them the same advantages as you.

 

If you could hire it out to your competitors for more money than you gain by having it, then that would be different.

[Scott Walker]

If you could hire it out to your competitors for more money than you gain by having it, then that would be different.

 

Ye but if they had that much use for one they would buy one themselves.

[explorer arb]

the guy we bought our smart winch goes out for £200 with his winch, several rigging lines including a super static one, heavy duty speed line pulleys, loads of impact blocks, 2 porta wraps, spider slings, whoopies, dead eyes, 10's of slings, basically a van load of rigging gear.

[John Shutler]

the guy we bought our smart winch goes out for £200 with his winch, several rigging lines including a super static one, heavy duty speed line pulleys, loads of impact blocks, 2 porta wraps, spider slings, whoopies, dead eyes, 10's of slings, basically a van load of rigging gear.

 

thats all well and good, but do you get £200.00 pounds worth of climbing and dismantling ability?

[explorer arb]

you get £200 of directing rigging operations ability, i doubt very much he'd climb leaving us to operate the SW unsupervised, maybe though, as we're pretty experienced on these sorts of device, that said he was better placed on the ground, my boss was well pleased, he instructed us to do things & take sections we would never had believed possible boss reckoned we saved 2 days work with 4men, job was 2 days with us 4 +mike and another 2 rigging down the last of the timber & clearing up. I learnt loads, just wished id videoed everything he taught us or wrote it down

[dexta]

the guy we bought our smart winch goes out for £200 with his winch, several rigging lines including a super static one, heavy duty speed line pulleys, loads of impact blocks, 2 porta wraps, spider slings, whoopies, dead eyes, 10's of slings, basically a van load of rigging gear.

 

That's cheap! He must have several thousands pounds worth of equipment in his van,surely he can't make a living at £200 a day

[TREE-SURGEON-ESSEX]

That's cheap! He must have several thousands pounds worth of equipment in his van,surely he can't make a living at £200 a day

 

I thought that, a decent subbie rigger is worth £100 and only charging £100 out for the gear is dirt cheap if your paying tax as well ?.