cancelling jobs due to weather

[flatyre]

I try to spend an hour or two a week on my equipment, servicing saws or slapping more waxoil under the transit. Unfortunately with this prolonged wet spell, I'm all serviced up. As i'm a fairly new operation still trying to drum up business I've been out driving around spying up possible jobs, if I see a house with an out of control hedge or a dying tree, or a house with plenty of trees on the property, i'll stop and pop a letter through the door. Might drop a hundred letters and only get a couple of jobs, but its building up the work for when the rain stops.

[kentjames]

Same here with the wet boggy gardens, it creates such a mess the client would rather wait.

 

Today's job has been put on hold as the garden is underwater in places.

 

On the plus side, our admin is all bang up to date

[HertsWood]

With our deltrak, we can cut tall grass, brambles & other vegetation, regardless of the weather, terrain or ground conditions.

Don't believe me? What happened the video on our website: http://horticman.co.uk/irus-deltrak

 

[dan494]

got these ones to reduce around 50% today, forecast said dry when booked it in on Monday and just started again after being dry on the way here 😡 make a bit of an effort and early day I think

[tree-fancier123]

I googled this topic the other day 'arbtalk climbing in the rain' been discussed in some depth over the last 5 or 6 years

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/47517-do-you-climb-rain.html

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/climbers-talk/3506-climbing-when-its-raining.html

[dan494]

At least it's not another thread of what chainsaw should I buy for £250 followed by four pages of arguments over echo dolmar, stihl bearings and someone chirping in with buy a husky 560!

[woody paul]

Been canceling job because ground to wet, spent last two days in a bit of woodland carrying out hand work cutting hawthorn regrowth/ brambles and cutting back over grown rides, with chainsaw wellies on after two days walking in to wood and around once in there I am having a job lifting feet up this morning.

[Mick Dempsey]

Same here with the wet boggy gardens, it creates such a mess the client would rather wait.

 

Today's job has been put on hold as the garden is underwater in places.

 

On the plus side, our admin is all bang up to date

 

I used to have scaffold boards to use as walkways, on sodden gardens they help a lot.

Underwater is a different story of course.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

I avoid really bad weather if possible, the important thing is that it continues to rain during the day, nothing worse than putting the phone down and then the sun comes out.

My stock line to clients is "the trees been there for a hundred years, it can wait another couple of weeks"

 

 

Especially when they've had the quote for months but phone up and ask if it can be done next week!

 

Might do a rainy job on a Weds before the kit goes away for the weekend, but not on a Mon or Tues.

[Mick Dempsey]

So I've sharpened the grinders teeth and some other stuff, now it's Ax Men on catch up with a cup of tea.