Some Tree Surgeons Suck.........

[Vespasian]

OK was asked to reduce a conifer hedge in the Winter for one of my customers..  Now I would of done it no problem but at the time didn't fancy doing it due to getting a pulled back every time I do tree work..  I've eased off on tree's of late, not that I ever did many to begin with...

 

Now heres the thing..  in amoungst the conifer hedge are two small tree's.  one amounting to a couple of branches sticking out to one side and another  small tree at the end of the hedge about ten foot tall.. dead as a dodo..   now talking to her today and asking why the two small tree's in the hede were left she told me they wouldn't touch them as they'd priced to remove the conifers and not the tree's in amoungst the hedge..

 

You fkin what I said, I thought maybe she'd told em not to bother as it might of been getting late in the day or something, getting dark in winter at 3.30 as you do.,..  no, they'd turned up at ten in the morning and gone by twelve..   why didn't you ask em to chop em down, throw em in the chipper.. five minutes extra if that I said..

 

Well they wouldn't do it, she says..   

 

Now as far as I can see, the tree's are part of the hedge. and as such aught to have been reduced with the conifers.....   

 

Now, what kind of tree men are they when they won't even chop off a couple of extra branches even if they had quoted to remove "just the conifers"..  

 

Talk about peevish..                                           scumbags.....

 

For the record I never refuse to do that one bit extra if asked..   like Buckin BIlliy says, price a job as not to turn down that extra bit of work, you know they're gonna ask you!!!!..  Nothin worse than pricing a job so as to make you despise being there a minute more than you have to...

 

 

For some context, the woman rents the house and the owner arranged for the tree surgeons to reduce it...   Now mugging here has to go round and tidy their shoddy work up for a favour..  cup of coffee and a chat..  only lives round the corner so no big deal..  

 

 

anyways, are these fella's scumbags or is it something some of you fella's would do?...   well I know its what some would do, but give me strength, for want of an extra five minutes they ruined their otherwise good hedge reduction..   and reputation..   Morons......

 

[wicklamulla]

i'd like to see pics of this conifer hedge and the trees they refused to do.

[scbk]

This is why it can get messy working at a rented house, tenant wants one thing, landlord wants (or wants to pay for!) something else.

[scbk]

Basically the woman wanted them to do extra work, and she wasn't even paying them for the job, or had the authority to let them cut the extra trees?

[Vespasian]

2 minutes ago, scbk said:

Basically the woman wanted them to do extra work, and she wasn't even paying them for the job, or had the authority to let them cut the extra trees?

Not exactly, the tenant wanted the conifers reduced, the landlord arranged for the reduction..  the landlord would of expected the whole lot reduced as well..  but the lads obviously being tart arses or scammers thought they'd save some bonus time by sneaking off without doin the job right..  

 

I think the the tree in the hedge isn't even as tall as the hedge, just a couple of branches sticking out making the job untidy, the tree at the end is about fifteen foot tall, two cuts and done..   

nothing to it..    

 

I mean the fella's might well of quoted to just do the conifers, but come on, even a moron would know an edge is an edge is an edge..  including the odd bit of weedy tree growing in with it..  

 

Its the attitude as much as anything else that gets me..   petty, peevish jobs worths..

[Vespasian]

31 minutes ago, wicklamulla said:

i'd like to see pics of this conifer hedge and the trees they refused to do.

when I figure out how to upload pics on here I can show you..   as it happens the hedge was about twenty foot long and ten foot high. reduced to six foot..  they haven't made a bad job of it to be honest..   I was singing their praises till I asked why the tree at the end hadn't been chopped back or those two branches sticking out to one side had been left sticking out like two sore thumbs...   

[Mark Bolam]

Have these trees got wires at the top of them?

[Vespasian]

1 minute ago, Mark Bolam said:

Have these trees got wires at the top of them?

Wires?..  no why?...   phone lines you mean?...   Nope just couldn't be arsed doin the job right as they imagined they could say they'd quoted for the connies to the tenant, not knowing the tenant and the landlady and me all know each other..  live in a village see, we all know each other for the most part...

 

I haven't spoken to the landlady yet, but I'll bet she thought she was paying for the job to be done to the tenants satisfaction...   

[eggsarascal]

They've done what they quoted to do, tell your customer to suck it up, or pay the extra.

[Vespasian]

41 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

They've done what they quoted to do, tell your customer to suck it up, or pay the extra.

And you'd know that would you?..   as it happens I have no idea what they quoted for, only their say so to the tenant...  and, even if the muppets had only the conifers in mind.. they're a bunch of wasters in my opinion as they didn't do the job they were paid for...   to cut the hedge back...

 

anyone else think a hedge doesn't include all the species in it?...