Mind blowing price.... lost the job

[Ty Korrigan]

3 minutes ago, Stephen Blair said:

1 man with a 500i will log that in a morning and walk away with £350 in his hand with a labourer throwing it into a pile if need be and still earn a good wage.  It’s a 9th of your price so customer will be happy with that for now until insurance gets sorted would be my theory.  
  Best of luck to them, most established companies have an owner with a bad back due to jobs like that when they first start out!

speaking from experience! 

 

  

 

The quote is for brash removal and digging out of speared ends. 

You'd need to be on a whole Blitzkrieg of Pervitin to get through that in a day!

[monkeybusiness]

£3k looks like a mental price to me tbh. 
Talk the customer into burning the brash on site and just ring it up - a couple of guys for a day should easily sort that surely?

[openspaceman]

2 minutes ago, monkeybusiness said:

£3k looks like a mental price to me tbh. 
Talk the customer into burning the brash on site and just ring it up - a couple of guys for a day should easily sort that surely?

I'll not comment on the pricing as apart from being out of it for many years I was awful at that job.

 

Looking at the pictures and given the description of the drag out plus the fairly informal garden I would have suggested burn on site.

[James905]

7 minutes ago, monkeybusiness said:

£3k looks like a mental price to me tbh. 
Talk the customer into burning the brash on site and just ring it up - a couple of guys for a day should easily sort that surely?

It's way bigger than it looks on the pictures. There is a full day in logging if it's metal free and that would be without tidying the mountains of saw dust. The brash would have to be taken back through the knocked down building to burn in the garden the tree came from.

I'd say 3 days for 2 guys to pile it up leaving the area tidy and the timber all at a size that it can be lifted by hand

 

Another big problem is the building and wall will fall down around you as your cutting so no way insurance will cover you and a big risk

Edited January 15, 2023 by James905

[briscoe]

If logs are staying on site and stacked nearby and the drag for brash isnt hundreds of meters then I reckon 2-3 guys could do that in one day. 

A bonfire for the brash would make it an easy day for 2 people.

[Steven P]

If the building collapses that loses you an hour or more sorting that? All manual labour.

 

Suggest go back to the customer and say you are concerned about the low price, accepting that you have lost the job, suggest they get a third quote and check you are all quoting like for like. Might be the 3rd is £300 - £500 mark which means you are way out, might be the 3rd quote is nearer yours - but then you can't say you didn't warn the customer that something wasn't quote right

[James905]

Just now, Steven P said:

If the building collapses that loses you an hour or more sorting that? All manual labour.

 

Suggest go back to the customer and say you are concerned about the low price, accepting that you have lost the job, suggest they get a third quote and check you are all quoting like for like. Might be the 3rd is £300 - £500 mark which means you are way out, might be the 3rd quote is nearer yours - but then you can't say you didn't warn the customer that something wasn't quote right

I know a couple lads quoted for it also similar to me and more.

 

The actual tree owner is a bit of a red flag for paying and other stuff. The area its in is a communal kind of setup. With the plan of insurance covering costs. 

The tree owner will only be interested in the cheapest quote as its not in his land anymore and that isn't his building or wall. 

He was told to take the tree down a year ago by the council 

[Dan Maynard]

2 hours ago, Doug Tait said:

they think they've hit the firewood motherlode

This could be it.

[woody paul]

Never worry what someone else charges just get on in life and be happy 😊, words from a old teacher I have do work for. 

[GarethM]

If the guy failed to take the tree down last year at the orders of the council within a reasonable time frame.

 

Wouldn''t the insurance tell him to jog on and make him foot the bill for everything including the neighbors damage ?.