Most vague work specs?

[Joe Newton]

"Reduce Maple"

 

I left the roots

[Dan76]

Phone rings...hello, I have a tree...how much to fell it?

[Dan Curtis]

"General prune" regularly when I worked for LA.

[Mark Bolam]

"Crown", get this quite often "I just want them all crowning"

 

When you ask them to elaborate on this they normally get all confused, and have absolutely no idea what they want....

[treeman]

Crown thin (no amount) -- when asked by how much they say "just make them look nice" I wanted to walk away from them, an avenue of 12 Prunus padus that have never been touched

[Paul Barton]

To be fair, on LA contracts where thousands of trees are being inspected and worked on, a detailed work specification is unfeasible.

 

I also worked on contracts where 'general prune' was one of the common instructions. Actually, this can be ok as long as the scope of a 'general prune' is defined somewhere so everyone knows what it does (and doesn't!) mean.

 

On LA contracts you could simply use codes for each job, which are referenced in a tree works specification manual...

[SmudgeCTS]

I've been asked to remove a couple of Ash branches for firewood, couple turned out to be many.

Customer "oh, I thought it would only take 20 mins? £100 alright"?

[Craig Johnson]

prune so we can see the church clock, with no idea of where they were looking from.

[Breezeblock]

Phone rings...hello, I have a tree...how much to fell it?

 

had this one loads

[jose]

i got a contact who constantly emails me as says " just cut the tree, its in london"

 

every time i have to ask him where as london is a big place!

 

the phone call with " how much to cut my tree" is almost weekly.

 

even had a gardener mate ask me today how much to grind out a stump?

umm where is it? how big is it?

 

maybe i should invest in a crystal ball