Weather Alert: Treeblown threat?

[Guss109]

Blowing a right gail up her

[RMB68]

high winds spell a feast, but shortly followed by famine, as any long served arb knows well, be careful what you wish for, that is short term thinking.

Spot on!

[Stephen Blair]

gota love a storm, the last 1 served me well:thumbup1:

(as long as no 1 gets hurt)

[skyhuck]

A few years ago we had a blow that kept us busy for three weeks solid, while we were doing that work the other work kept coming in and we booked it for after we had finished the storm damage.

 

The storm made people more aware of their trees and so IMO generated extra work on undamaged trees.

 

How on earth does a storm reduce regular work??????????????????

[Robert_S]

wind is good for business!! in boxing day '98 when the storm hit it kept us in work for months either directly or indirectly and as huck says people got more aware of there trees.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

every time a big wind comes it takes out the range of rotten broken diseased trees that might be slower and sustain youin the longer term, a big wind DOES produce a feast and famine, a famine we still face from the last wind. where do you think the boom in arb came from?

 

every out of work biulder and ***** donned a saw and cleaned up, we had 400 calls a week and got to very few, thousands of jobs others got the oportunity to do because folk was desperate for service the real arbs couldnt cope with, and now theres a load of arbs wondering why the cost of arb is going down along with its pay!

 

wind overwhelms the industry and opens the door to a load of chancers, chancers you and me have to compete with, and also leaves few sick or damged trees for the next 20 years

[Big 'Ammer]

wind is good for business!! in boxing day '98 when the storm hit it kept us in work for months either directly or indirectly and as huck says people got more aware of there trees.

 

Boxing Day '98, me and my old boss were taking half an ash tree out the roof of three story building with a crane!

 

We got the storm christmas eve/ christmas day morning.

 

It was sheer luck that the occupants of that flat were away visiting relatives for christmas.

 

Tree had gone through thier bathroom ceiling and one of the branches was stuck in the middle of their bed!

 

It generated more work for my boss from this particular client, as the incident made him take a more proactive interest with the rest of his trees.

[Lorry thompson]

It's that new blower I got from Jonsie it's fired up a storm:lol:

[skyhuck]

every time a big wind comes it takes out the range of rotten broken diseased trees that might be slower and sustain youin the longer term, a big wind DOES produce a feast and famine, a famine we still face from the last wind. where do you think the boom in arb came from?

 

every out of work biulder and ***** donned a saw and cleaned up, we had 400 calls a week and got to very few, thousands of jobs others got the oportunity to do because folk was desperate for service the real arbs couldnt cope with, and now theres a load of arbs wondering why the cost of arb is going down along with its pay!

 

wind overwhelms the industry and opens the door to a load of chancers, chancers you and me have to compete with, and also leaves few sick or damged trees for the next 20 years

 

Err.......... mostly the vast increase in property development:001_rolleyes:

[Johny Walker]

what wind is this you all talk off still as a gill hear