Foreign Objects in trees

[TIMON]

I don't think there's anything wrong with what the Op is suggesting, big trees are hard work before loosing a day + on the job..

 

Though I do think you would have to be tactful with wording, not just slap it on the end of the quote, but actually verbaly go through it with the customer, make sure they understand how much of a pita it is and then go from there to come up with some sort of hourly rate should the job go on due to metal/concrete in the tree.

 

 

This is along the lines of what I have done in the past when faced with a stem that is suspect. As long as you can get the customer to understand that you will be fair and not take advantage, generally they are sympathetic and you can come to some kind of agreement. Killed two brand new chains in a nail ridden stem last Thursday. One of them snapped which could of been nasty.