Clients who line up their garden rubbish for your chipper.

[Stubby]

We were working in a garden dragging down the side of house to chipper when I cought the local gardener chap tipping his lawn cuttings in the truck . Not even from the house we were working in ! I couldnt say anything just carried on .....

[kimtree]

ive been to a few jobs where the client has bulldozed the trees over then shoved them into a pile resembling fiddlesticks covered in dirt.then cant understand when i wont chip them

[ArborClimber]

Had a good one today when the customer was also outside trimming a few shrubs with his loppers ("others doing tree work gets you in the mood, y'know"), and asked if he could put his cuttings in the chipper as well. I said, "of course, not a problem", as I could see what it was, it wasnt much, and it was in neat little piles.

He even brought the branches to to the chipper, but the look of disappointment on his face was priceless when the lad chipping just took them out of his hand and lobbed them in poor guy, he just wanted to have a go with the chipper:lol:

[Hodge]

99.9% of the people I work for are brilliant, if its a bit of brash they want chipped or a bit of log cut to specific size and obviously not to time consuming, why not. This a gesture of good will and will enhance a company's profile meaning you may get more work from them or their friends or family.

 

 

I agree but it's when they try it on and take the pee that I don't like it.

[Hodge]

ive been to a few jobs where the client has bulldozed the trees over then shoved them into a pile resembling fiddlesticks covered in dirt.then cant understand when i wont chip them

 

 

So true!

[54gka]

Im running a business not a charity.Sorry only chip what we cut.Had all these can i can you just wire and crap in the bundles sorry if i sound mean but its a BIG NO for me.

[Mountain man]

I was in lengthy negotiations with a really tight American about an oak and pine takedown.

Eventually he got the price down for just doing the oak, "don't worry about the pine" he said

Turn up and there's the pine laying on the ground cut up left right and centre, a real nightmare to chip.

Big grin on his face, "you can chip up the pine now, I felled it myself" like he'd pulled a stroke on me or something!

"Nope" I said, "it would have been less bother if you'd left it standing"

he was aghast, a'muppin and a'squealing till I told him "forget it, it ain't gonna happen"

I enjoyed that.

[kimtree]

the other classic is "we've cut our tree down can you come and chip it"

I get there and its been cut into 1000 pieces and takes 2 hours to chip instead of 15 minutes.

 

Or they have stacked it like fiddlesticks and it wont then loader feed easily

 

One client who was given instructions on how to stack "butts all at one end"

proceeded to beautifully stack about five ton of brash with the butts hard up against a huge rock with no chance of getting the chipper anywhere near the pile.this was before i had a loader and was hand feeding a 12'' vermeer