Touting for work!

[the hedge man]

Hi guy's , i've got a bit of a business idea and am after a bit of advice and hopefully a few bites on my line.

 

I want to get into selling timber in a pretty big way (don't all groan at once ), well up to the £65k a year tax threashold anyhow.

 

My idea for the service I want to provide is this.....

 

I'd work for local'ish tree surgeons on on sub-contracting basis looking for site clearance work, or large jobs. I will provide myself, my employed groundsman (we're both NPTC qualified) and all the necessary kit including chainsaws, PPE, a chipper, and two trucks - one flatbed transit and one 4x4. in return for our good honest graft, I want to be taking away all timber, doesn't matter what kind (yes, even conifer for kindling!) and a small payment to cover our costs, or as much as you think we're worth. I want to be really busy, we leave the house at 6.15 every morning and don't get back till 6 so the company we work for would be getting a good day out of us.

 

What do you reckon chaps, is it likely i'd get a thousand square meters of timber a year?

 

By the way, we work within a 70 mile radius of Grantham, lincolnshire for anyone that may be interested in taking me up on the deal.

Edited January 20, 2012 by the hedge man

[Steve Bullman]

In theory it all sounds good(except the 12 hour days) but I think you might be disapointed how much wood you'll be able to get your hands on..Its just not available like it once was.

Edited January 20, 2012 by Steve Bullman

[Tyz05]

Will you remove all the arisings from jobs? ie chip,large trunks?or just processor sized stuff?

[the hedge man]

Will you remove all the arisings from jobs? ie chip,large trunks?or just processor sized stuff?

 

 

All sized timber,

 

any big stuff i'll split by hand- im getting married in april so I want to be ripped as Van Damme ever was, so a bit of hand splitting would do me good

 

 

 

and yeah chippings too. cheers

[RobRainford]

you may very well have a market there, a couple of site clearance jobs ive been on we had to take logs and having a dedicated team on that instead of having to lose a dragger/sawman because he could operate the bobcat to load a tractor trailer was slowing the job down a bit.

 

if you dont already, make sure youve got CSCS, thats becoming ever more popular now.

[Hodge]

Hi guy's , i've got a bit of a business idea and am after a bit of advice and hopefully a few bites on my line.

 

I want to get into selling timber in a pretty big way (don't all groan at once ), well up to the £65k a year tax threashold anyhow.

 

My idea for the service I want to provide is this.....

 

I'd work for local'ish tree surgeons on on sub-contracting basis looking for site clearance work, or large jobs. I will provide myself, my employed groundsman (we're both NPTC qualified) and all the necessary kit including chainsaws, PPE, a chipper, and two trucks - one flatbed transit and one 4x4. in return for our good honest graft, I want to be taking away all timber, doesn't matter what kind (yes, even conifer for kindling!) and a small payment to cover our costs, or as much as you think we're worth. I want to be really busy, we leave the house at 6.15 every morning and don't get back till 6 so the company we work for would be getting a good day out of us.

 

What do you reckon chaps, is it likely i'd get a thousand square meters of timber a year?

 

By the way, we work within a 70 mile radius of Grantham, lincolnshire for anyone that may be interested in taking me up on the deal.

 

I'm all for enthusiastic people but I really don't think you would get enough timber to sustain a living 12 months of the year in a poor economic climate, the wood game is hard as it is, what about breakdowns, weather, running money, drying wood, etc. stay small and don't try to run before u can walk.

[the hedge man]

you may very well have a market there, a couple of site clearance jobs ive been on we had to take logs and having a dedicated team on that instead of having to lose a dragger/sawman because he could operate the bobcat to load a tractor trailer was slowing the job down a bit.

 

if you dont already, make sure youve got CSCS, thats becoming ever more popular now.

 

Thats the news i was hoping for cheers dude. doing my cscs tommorow morning and my work mate is doing it next week. it's the building sites that require it mostly well before the first foundations have gone in, which I think is a bit odd - hardly a building site! But then they want to have there backs covered if anything goes wrong I suppose.

 

looking to contract for a few guys exclusivley, so here's hoping

[the hedge man]

I'm all for enthusiastic people but I really don't think you would get enough timber to sustain a living 12 months of the year in a poor economic climate, the wood game is hard as it is, what about breakdowns, weather, running money, drying wood, etc. stay small and don't try to run before u can walk.

 

 

that advice is heeded thanks. I have however been going for the last 5 years already, and having built up an exsiting client base I have plenty of private work to fall back on. But what got me thinking about this business plan in the first place is that private work can be a bit of a bind sometimes being messed about by customers and then there the waiting to get paid etc. I just fancy getting out there and doing the bigger sites and offering some of the larger firms a viable service in the process.

[Big T]

Large firms are ok but alot more cut throat with very little loyalty! Also have to wait for ages to get paid, if you have enough of a finantial buffer then it might be worth a shot. Private work can be a pain to get money out of sometimes but in my experience you usually get your money quicker in the long run.

[Lee Winger]

I have a job for you, 3 days of poplar lol