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

[Johnsond]

On 20/11/2024 at 19:37, 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!!!

Capitalism at its finest Steve 

[Cordata]

On 01/12/2024 at 16:04, Mick Dempsey said:

How did you hurt your back?

 

Don't even know a specific thing, just after lots of physically demanding days something in it went when walking to the truck and could barely move at all. Had the same with my neck before as well

[Mick Dempsey]

1 minute ago, Cordata said:

 

Don't even know a specific thing, just after lots of physically demanding days something in it went when walking to the truck and could barely move at all. Had the same with my neck before as well

When you started this thread I was all ‘pull yourself together!’

 However my left knee is bloody murder at the moment, so I’m a bit less bullish about it.

Find yourself a good chiropractor, it’ll change your life.

[Cordata]

On 01/12/2024 at 17:18, Mick Dempsey said:

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.

 

How have you dealt with it over the time you've been in business? It's early days for me so obviously figuring things out 

[Domino]

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 suppose the obvious question is - what other passions or interests do you have and follow those into whatever vein to create a possible side hustle?? 

If the answer is nothing, then possibly investigate crypto trading?? I don't say that in jest, it's a very pivotal moment.  Trump and Musk are pro crypto and the market is hardening and expanding in anticipation of Trump's presidency. To make real 'gains' as they say, it's important to get in before 2025. 

Of course hindsight is all telling, but let's not forget bitcoin was $300 in 2016....as of today trading at over $100,000 per coin.  

Edited December 6 by Domino

[Mick Dempsey]

15 minutes ago, Cordata said:

 

How have you dealt with it over the time you've been in business? It's early days for me so obviously figuring things out 

It’s just life, one damn thing after another.

Compared to other stuff it’s easy.

Enjoy it, from start to finish, most days are great, genuinely.

[manco]

i run a second business making oversize religious statues.

you may mock, but theres some big prophets to be made.

[markieg31]

Jesus some of us are just glutton for punishment! Tree work, lost my main climber colleague and back to working on my own and getting various subbies in to ground for me, can be tricky, sometimes I am having to go reg coats on the job if no one available. My back has gone recently. Fine if I am working and moving around throughout the day but this morning got out of bed and it took me an hour to move from my hands and knees to standing. Yes other business is a farm

Edited Friday at 20:44 by markieg31

[Mesterh]

5 hours ago, manco said:

i run a second business making oversize religious statues.

you may mock, but theres some big prophets to be made.

That's class. 😃

[green heart]

So, in my sad pipe dreams... I'd love have an alternative 'wet-day' or retirement type business, using our fab workshop to make amazing contemporary furniture, from some of our timber which has been planked, years ago.

''Adding value'' I can hear, ringing in my ears..

I even know the perfect shop I could sell it through, a couple of miles away . And obviously, I'd sell it for thousands... 😶‍🌫️

 

My reality is:

The timber stack is now so seasoned, it's shot through with wood-worm.

There are loads better furniture makers than I'll ever be.

Two of my mates tried to do just this, for years...before they gave up. 

And who needs to spend hundreds on a fancy chair, when there's a spanking recession and World War 3 hasn't quite kicked off yet ? 🤔

 

But: for three decades now, we've quietly found plenty of interesting Conservation work and Invasive species control work.

These seem to dovetail well with our treework.. and they are certainly less...liability-rich...a bit more weather resistant...with interesting variety...and okay, possibly more profitable too. 🥴

-But I still love our treework/climbing more ! 

-And I wouldn't still be enjoying climbing for 38 years, but for the yoga, box-fit, tennis, dance and gym that all keep my body going well..