Setting up as a saw for hire

[Robert Lavin]

Evening all,

 

Mods, please move if in the wrong forum.

 

I'm currently self-employed, working in a number of trades and I am becoming the proverbial "jack of all trades, master of none". Even so, I'm adding forestry and tree work to the list.

 

My other jobs have me spending quite a lot of time away from home and with the way life is heading, I'll need to spend a more time at home, probably working up to an hour or two away.

 

I'm interested to hear if there is the market for someone with basic kit and ground-based chainsaw tickets, and perhaps selected others, to operate on a freelance basis? Most of the work I've seen seems contracted which is encouraging for the trade but not what I'm looking for.

 

I'm thinking of landowners who need someone to help take a few trees down, someone with piles of wood to process, conservation felling eg. taking down aliens / invasives or just small scale / awkward clear-felling where machinery isn't an option.

 

Is anyone out there operating on this basis or is everyone attached to a company of some variety?

 

Also, any thoughts on what the "selected other tickets" could be? Chipper perhaps?

 

Thanks,

 

Rob.

Edited May 15, 2017 by Robert Lavin

[Stefan Palokangas]

Get a mini loader, most folks got the ground saw.. You must get what small company tree surgeons might not afford. Mini loader and a digger, and stump grinder. And a 120cc chainsaw. Then you can offer the marker something. Kind regards Stefan.

 

 

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[Robert Lavin]

Get a mini loader, most folks got the ground saw.. You must get what small company tree surgeons might not afford. Mini loader and a digger, and stump grinder. And a 120cc chainsaw. Then you can offer the marker something. Kind regards Stefan.

 

 

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Thanks Stefan.

 

I think for me, those will fall into the longer term, business development category!

 

I take your point about offering something different though.

 

Rob.

[aspenarb]

Have saw will travel is just another way of working,I cant see why it wont work . Get emailing your details, as a mate of mine says " nothing moves unless you push it"

 

Bob

[Stefan Palokangas]

Thanks Stefan.

 

 

 

I think for me, those will fall into the longer term, business development category!

 

 

 

I take your point about offering something different though.

 

 

 

Rob.

 

 

Need to take some risks to generate money in my opinion. [emoji3]

 

 

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