Estimated quantity of logs from tree sugury

[Mark Bolam]

I think this is just classic miscommunication.

It would take a few loads of logs to offset £1k.

We’ve all agreed to the ‘We’ll keep the logs, cut to 10” long, and you chip the brush’ situation.

Then the customer comes roaring out when the first 2” piece goes through the chipper, and it turns out he wants pretty much the whole tree logged.

 

All avoidable by more detailed discussion at quotation stage.

 

As for the price thing, it is what it is.

The trees are gone for the agreed price.

Which seems on the high side to me, but I haven’t a clue about the situation.

I may have priced it higher. Who knows? I don’t price from pictures on the internet.

 

Sorry your first trip onto Arbtalk is to report a bad experience Woodowner, but as you will now know it’s a complicated industry, with some complicated characters.

 

BigJ I’m surprised at you, you’re not one of them and you should know better. 

You wouldn’t price a felling contract from some low quality pictures would you? Your experience on the willows for mates rates isn’t comparable, and just makes everyone on here look like a robbing bastard.

Vesp would call you a robbing bastard for charging £400!

 

Finally Woodowner, why were the trees felled, just out of interest?

[Khriss]

...here is a piece of string..... it's this long... k

[trigger_andy]

Just now, Khriss said:

...here is a piece of string..... it's this long... k

Twice the length middle to end...

[htb]

4 minutes ago, Vespasian said:

and anyone with a bit of common sense could tell what I was saying..   

 

Well that counts you out vesp

[The avantgardener]

3 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Finally Woodowner, why were the trees felled, just out of interest?

He wanted to make room for a large wood store so that he could sell logs to offset the £1000. Felling fee.?

[Joe Newton]

7 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

Well if a double negative infers the positive then a triple surely implied the negative again?  

 Bloody hell, he was right!? I was quite literally baffled by bullshit!

7 minutes ago, Vespasian said:

you do realize you're on a arborist forum right?.

 

 

Yes but evidently they're not too strict about that. 

[Khriss]

..or long enuff to hang himself with k

[peatff]

What we have here is several failures to communicate. That's how I ended up with 5 chainsaws instead of paying someone to cut my tree down

[trigger_andy]

1 minute ago, peatff said:

What we have here is several failures to communicate. That's how I ended up with 5 chainsaws instead of paying someone to cut my tree down

GnR fan?  

[Vespasian]

2 minutes ago, Joe Newton said:

 Bloody hell, he was right!? I was quite literally baffled by bullshit!

Yes but evidently they're not too strict about that. 

hahahha  got me there...   anyways, I watch enough Utube vids on tree choppin I'm as near as damn it an arborist..  ?