the 'todays job' thread

[Mark Bolam]

I’ve got a couple of these every year Stu.

What you have done looks awful, but you have retained the head frame.

Who is paying, him or her?

Thought so....

[Mick Dempsey]

Hé was right.

 

They look ace the first spring after a topping.

Edited October 5, 2019 by Mick Dempsey

[Mick Dempsey]

9 hours ago, Jwoodgardenmaintenance said:

That's was the customers Responce when I checked up with him later on 

 

Jack 

It’s a repollard/retopping of some HCs, no need for soul searching, good job.

[Ty Korrigan]

2 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Hé was right.

 

They look ace the first spring after a topping.

Finding a balance for a couple can be difficult.

I'm just glad we left before the lady returned.

Regardless, it helped as we where on site for only 2 hours and the boys went home early.

   Stuart

[Rich Rule]

On 04/10/2019 at 19:58, Jwoodgardenmaintenance said:

That was this mornings job constructive criticism welcome and it looks hard cut back it was the customers request 

 

Jack 

You could say that if the customer is happy you are happy...

 

Yes, that tree has been pruned hard, looks absolutely terrible though.  

 

Why not just pollard it back to the previous points and not leave all the random stubs everywhere?

 

We sometimes have to do work that isn’t ideal.  You position as a professional is to try and do it to a good standard.   Cleaning up that mess wouldn’t have take much more time.

[tree-fancier123]

25 minutes ago, Rich Rule said:

professional is to try and do it to a good standard.

do you think there is anything to the seasonality of pruning, where if at all possible hard pruning in autumn is to be avoided due to all the fungal spores being released? People have to fill their diaries and earn money, but it strikes me that September, early October would be the absolute worst time of year if given a  choice. I suppose if the customer is unaware it doesn't matter, if the wounds do attract gano etc, it may be decade or more before it caves in, by which time the 'arborist' may have paid off his/her mortgage and retired

[Jwoodgardenmaintenance]

49 minutes ago, Rich Rule said:

You could say that if the customer is happy you are happy...

 

Yes, that tree has been pruned hard, looks absolutely terrible though.  

 

Why not just pollard it back to the previous points and not leave all the random stubs everywhere?

 

We sometimes have to do work that isn’t ideal.  You position as a professional is to try and do it to a good standard.   Cleaning up that mess wouldn’t have take much more time.

I've got to go back in a month or so anyway as once I was nearly finished I found a nest with chicks in so cut around it and said I'll come back when there gone so ill tidy it up then tbf I thought it looked fair tidy compared to what it was it was a quick job for a good wage started a 8: 30 was gone by 11:50 and only 1/2 load of waste it was all to the customers request he didn't want any more taken off that was perfect in his own words so I left it as he wanted it he pays at the end of the day so I can only do what they request 

 

Jack 

[Jwoodgardenmaintenance]

22 minutes ago, tree-fancier123 said:

do you think there is anything to the seasonality of pruning, where if at all possible hard pruning in autumn is to be avoided due to all the fungal spores being released? People have to fill their diaries and earn money, but it strikes me that September, early October would be the absolute worst time of year if given a  choice. I suppose if the customer is unaware it doesn't matter, if the wounds do attract gano etc, it may be decade or more before it caves in, by which time the 'arborist' may have paid off his/her mortgage and retired

The customer wanted it done now apparantley it was done 5 years ago same time of year so I made a gap to fit him in and get it rattled off 

 

Jack 

[Rich Rule]

15 minutes ago, Jwoodgardenmaintenance said:

I've got to go back in a month or so anyway as once I was nearly finished I found a nest with chicks in so cut around it and said I'll come back when there gone so ill tidy it up then tbf I thought it looked fair tidy compared to what it was it was a quick job for a good wage started a 8: 30 was gone by 11:50 and only 1/2 load of waste it was all to the customers request he didn't want any more taken off that was perfect in his own words so I left it as he wanted it he pays at the end of the day so I can only do what they request 

 

Jack 

To an extent I hear you but on the other hand...  you are meant to be a professional.  

 

Meet the customers requirements with correct work.

 

Pruning cuts and target pruning and not just wanging a saw through the regrowth and leaving a two inch stub with an angle.

[Paul Cleaver]

17 hours ago, tree-fancier123 said:

do you think there is anything to the seasonality of pruning, where if at all possible hard pruning in autumn is to be avoided due to all the fungal spores being released? People have to fill their diaries and earn money, but it strikes me that September, early October would be the absolute worst time of year if given a  choice. I suppose if the customer is unaware it doesn't matter, if the wounds do attract gano etc, it may be decade or more before it caves in, by which time the 'arborist' may have paid off his/her mortgage and retired

Are the wounds not open to fungal infection for up to 2 yrs? If so then perhaps not so important . The thinking on this may have changed now as this info was dredged from the vaults of my aging temporal lobes.  

Edited October 6, 2019 by Paul Cleaver
spelt vaults wrong - dam it