Does anyone run another business? Or not do tree work full time?

[Cordata]

9 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Selling items online that you don't stock, then having them shipped straight from the manufacturer/distributor. We do it for the bigger things on our website. For example we've sold 4 £200 toy kitchens the past week. We make £60 on each one yet will never touch or even see the product. I just have to ping an email and payment to the supplier as and when the items ordered. Im happy to do that all day long for £60 a pop!!!

 

Wow.. I vaguely knew from being here a while you did this arb website and the webdev stuff but that's cool you've gone into other things as well, mega entrepreneur !

[Steve Bullman]

7 minutes ago, Cordata said:

 

Wow.. I vaguely knew from being here a while you did this arb website and the webdev stuff but that's cool you've gone into other things as well, mega entrepreneur !

It’s not a normal week to be fair, only selling more of the larger items as Christmas is coming. The baby shop is the missus’s little business that we opened during lockdown; slowly growing it bit by bit though 

[Cordata]

7 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

It’s not a normal week to be fair, only selling more of the larger items as Christmas is coming. The baby shop is the missus’s little business that we opened during lockdown; slowly growing it bit by bit though 

 

That's cool, hope it goes well 👌

[JonnyRFT]

On 19/11/2024 at 09:54, Cordata said:

Yet another day off with a back injury, going 110% all day every day has caught up with me. 

 

I've often thought about running another business alongside my tree one to give my body a rest. I'm the main climber, do almost everything myself, and don't really have any days off because I feel like I need to keep going to make it all work.

 

I'm pretty uninterested in consultancy and surveying even though they are an obvious type of work to get into, which doesn't involve manual labour.

 

Does anyone do something else? Can't keep ruining my body at this pace, but if I could split days between the physical labour, and another thing I could make it work.

I run a few businesses while working full time. 
 

I’m predominantly an employed consultant most of the time, but on the side I run a small outfit with the Avant even though that’s pretty much been knocked on the head now. I also own a farm which works with charities and schools around animal centred wellbeing. I also do caravan collections/deliveries and other towing jobs with my truck. I have just set up another consultancy business to mop up some more local domestic work. None of my businesses brings in work everyday on their own, but collectively keeps me busy.

[AHPP]

Tree consulting or something else?

[JonnyRFT]

1 hour ago, AHPP said:

Tree consulting or something else?

Yes, tree consultancy and root exploration mainly.

[Joe Newton]

On 19/11/2024 at 09:54, Cordata said:

Yet another day off with a back injury, going 110% all day every day has caught up with me. 

 

I've often thought about running another business alongside my tree one to give my body a rest. I'm the main climber, do almost everything myself, and don't really have any days off because I feel like I need to keep going to make it all work.

 

No disrespect intended, but it sounds like you're running a business model that isn't working for you.

 

Time off is necessary and beasting yourself on the daily isn't viable long term.

 

The phrase "busy fool" springs to mind.

 

Try charging more. Get freelancers in when you can.

 

You can't run a business and be on the tools full time. 

[Mick Dempsey]

How did you hurt your back?

[Conor Wright]

34 minutes ago, Joe Newton said:

 

Try charging more. Get freelancers in when you can.

 

You can't run a business and be on the tools full time. 

This is where I'm at right now. Trying to get multiple freelancers lined up for jobs can be tricky. I've spent the afternoon looking at jobs I can't do alone. They're still worth it, but if I had the right guys full time it would be much less complicated.

 

You can still be on the tools 3 or 4 days a week but you're right, trying to stay on the tools full time plus managing a company isn't viable long term. I struggle with this as I like being onsite.

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Tbh it just seems like a bit of a winge, which is fair enough.

 

Of course you can run it and be on the tools, most of us do.

 

Sometimes it seems too much, but it’s only trees, they can wait.