Too many tree surgeons?!

[Steve Bullman]

If someone was working a second job stacking shelves in a supermarket at weekends would that offend or would you think good on them for working hard and providing for their families??

 

my thoughts exactly

[Mesterh]

Yep way way way too many around here.

 

Cant knock people for starting up and giving it a go, well everyone of us has been there. Its when people do it to top there dole money up, use it as a front or try the blag the customer quick in bash it out have the customer off and on to the next one that peeves me slightly!

[Dionysus]

im all for good honest firms starting up, ive seen a few with nice brand spankers vans and chippers, but i also see a lot of shoddy looking firms with old old gear and a ancient transit without even so much as a greedy board, london is like a mecca for bad tree surgeons, but theres also good ones out there.

[Steve Bullman]

i have a crappy rusty ldv with no greedy boards. does that make me a bad tree surgeon?

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

...there wasnt a choice that i wanted to pick tbc, sorry... QUOTE]

 

TBC - To be clear? Timber butter cartmoor ?!!

[Dionysus]

hehe but do you use ancient saws? i seen that new husky you bought at the fr jones show. also im sure you secure your load properly in the back of the ldv.

[Mesterh]

i have a crappy rusty ldv with no greedy boards. does that make me a bad tree surgeon?

 

Without a shadow of doubt.

 

 

Actually if you look at the smaller firms who do it all by the books then most of them have old tatty looking vans( myself included) its the ones that dont pay tax,insurance etc that can fork out for a nice new one!

 

Well imo anyway

[Steve Bullman]

nope. in all fairness, i am a bad tree surgeon. always judge a book by its cover!

[waz77]

Agreed if they are on the fiddle its not on but if they are having a genuine go at it and going the right way about it fair play to them,as said everyone started out at the bottom except those who were handed it on a plate

[Tom D]

I noticed that when I started in 2000 ther was 1.5 pages of tree work in the YP. now there's five. However despite that and the recession I'm really busy, I have averaged £500 a day for the last 5 months which is good for me, I think there are a lot of newcomers out there fighting for work but us established guys with long lists of happy clients will always come out on top. I loose the odd job here and there, but so what there's plenty more work out there. Looked at a job this morning which I got: £1800, got a £500 one yesterday... can't complain.

 

And you can't blame people for trying; If you took away everything that I have tonight, I'd be back out tomorrow looking for a second hand chainsaw so I could start all over again.