Free tree felling

[doobin]

I disagree, what your are doing, IMO, is devaluing the industry and giving customers the idea that we make fortune from their timber.

 

As I said, it still felt a bit wrong. However had I refused, would someone else have done it? Dead straight 2' diameter ash, tiny crown. Down and loaded in an hour.

 

As the customer saved money, he was happy to part with money for extra work. Win win for us both. Happy customer = recommendations.

 

As for devaluing the industry, that old chestnut always pops up. The figures either stack up or they don't, and whether they do or not is very dependant upon personal circumstances. Which is the reason I never moan about being undercut. If it doesn't make money I'll just find something else that does.

 

We do not operate as a cartel!

[Mark Bolam]

The simple answer to the customer banging on about timber value from a dismantle is to price to leave it all on site then they can sell it for whatever they want.

[gensetsteve]

I can see all sides to this but while hardwood is £70 a tonne delivered in the odd nice straight ash tree in a farmers field suddenly looks ok for a mornings work. Unfortunately some of the easy jobs tree surgeons used to get will be done free leaving the difficult take downs.

[mendiplogs]

So how far off are we from the point when people are having trees taken down without having to pay for the arb work. There has to be a point where the logs are going to be worth more than the labour?

 

Just off to put my tin hat on!

 

HI GYP not if you have £100k plus and more of kit mate your pulling my leg :lol::lol::lol:thanks jon

[skyhuck]

The simple answer to the customer banging on about timber value from a dismantle is to price to leave it all on site then they can sell it for whatever they want.

 

:thumbup1:Thats the one!! offered that many times, strangely no ones done it yet:sneaky2:

 

I don't every cut and split the timber I get for nothing from job, I sell it on in lengths or burn it on my boiler, my hourly rate just to high to be covered by selling logs from a tree I've felled for the timber.

 

I worry that many of you don't value your time highly enough, do your record the hours you spend processing logs and work out what you're actually making???

[NI Tree]

then there are us who pay to be able to fell a tree and it called forestry

[skyhuck]

then there are us who pay to fell a tree

 

Not a tree, hundreds or thousands of trees, big difference.

[doobin]

I worry that many of you don't value your time highly enough, do your record the hours you spend processing logs and work out what you're actually making???

 

Fully agree. I have a very tight grip on log costs, and don't mind telling you that a 0.65m3 bag costs me £38.66 to produce, and that's with timber costed at £40 a ton in the yard (cheap). Therefore I need to sell at £70 within 4 miles to make £30 clear profit.

 

That's clear profit without me personally doing anything other than answer the phone.

[Ty Korrigan]

Slightly different subject.

Tomorrow, we are dismantling 6 pines.

The chips, we'll take home to avoid the tip fees but the wood...

Well, I'm charging 600euros to 'remove' the wood.

So I've put out a free ad on the web inviting people to come and help themselves to the free 'firewood' for which I have charged to remove.

I would be surprised if any wood remains in my experience here.

I do this regularly, even with the chips but they are harder to sell.

99% of clients keep hardwood whilst the resinous stuff we get to shift.

Ty

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

I disagree, what your are doing, IMO, is devaluing the industry and giving customers the idea that we make fortune from their timber.

 

devaluing - 100% correct

 

Not a tree, hundreds or thousands of trees, big difference.