The underpricing thread.

[Dan Curtis]

Apparently she had bought the house for that tree. Feel a bit sorry for her!

 

That's a shame, seemed a nice lady too

[markieg31]

i dont know why this happens....

i go and look at the job then get overly optimistic!!

example:

 

looked at a large birch to reduce in height by around 50% and to shape. also had three apple trees to remove.

 

i told her my price and she accepted.

 

did the job a month later

 

but thought in some deluded moment that i would fit all of the brash in the back of my fourtrak van and was thinking it would of been an easy day, what an idiot!!

 

i had finished the cutting by lunch time, birch looked real sweet but i had barely one apple in the van!!

 

so had to drive 20 miles to a mates to borrow his trailer. Had it about 12ft high and hanging off the sides by about 4ft!!

 

i wouldnt say i lost money but didnt make as much as i thought!!

[SKStrees]

Most underpriced job I ever had to do was a conny hedge reduction, gaffer told us it was 20 man hours! Lmao when we got there 182 50ft ish trees to be reduced by approx 15ft, told him to cancel the rest of the week. Took me 4 1/2 days and about 14 ton of chips! Not a job I ever wish to see again!

[mark_goldfinch]

Most underpriced job I ever had to do was a conny hedge reduction, gaffer told us it was 20 man hours! Lmao when we got there 182 50ft ish trees to be reduced by approx 15ft, told him to cancel the rest of the week. Took me 4 1/2 days and about 14 ton of chips! Not a job I ever wish to see again!

 

LOL sounds like 90% of the jobs i get sent on.

[WoodED]

i priced a log spliting job thinking it would take 2 hours max.. was there for 8 hours.. 3 times more stacked under a hedge than i could see

[felixthelogchopper]

i priced a log spliting job thinking it would take 2 hours max.. was there for 8 hours.. 3 times more stacked under a hedge than i could see

 

Never price a job in a hurry or in the dark.

[D A Tree Surgeons]

D A Tree Surgeons 23 years we have been trading and i still get the odd one wrong!

you got to take the good with the bad

We Just have to Man Up and dig in and get on with it(Its for the Love of the Job first and love of the Money Second.)

im glad im not the only one who gets it wrong!

[testcricket01]

Im yet to muck up and make a loss yet, but ive climbed for a guy who really messed up on 2 conny dismantles! Said would be a easy day! Took 3 crack of dawn to evening days to get them down to make it worse we were on a really rough estate so had to watch the kit and all the so and sos all at home watching us every minute he sure hasnt made a mistake like that again!

[testcricket01]

Saying that ask me again on the 20th or 21st of this month thats when im doing a dead 110ft wellingtonia dismantle removing all chip and timber from site priced it tight cause i wanted the job once in a life time tree round these parts!

[Billy]

Went out to a 40ft ish conifer hedge of about 30 trees today coming down by 15ft but topped before at about 12ft. Was worried on Sunday and on the way about having under priced it got there and did 3/4 of it today whilst allowing 21/2 a pleasant surprise :-)