Marula

So you pulling your kids away from a great outdoors lifestyle for heavy traffic, bad weather and low grade pay? Brave man. [emoji23] all the best to you and your family mate.

Does anyone actually get that many mortgage report requests it warrants all the hassle of traveling for a days course?
It's certainly not a survey I'm asked for.

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From my experience of work travel I don’t know how a freelance climber makes any money. After my b&b or travelodge, fuel and grub I walk away with x, I try as best I can to factor in travel and food but I can’t always get it right when quoting. If you’re a freelance climber you’re getting £150 a day, so after all expenses you go home with what, maybe 60 to 80 quid, this industry is struggling for climbers for a reason.

I cannot see any benefit to the AA, 90 percent of customers think its where you go to sober up and the other 10 percent think it’s like signing up to checkatrade.

Jeez!!!

https://www.treereach.co.uk/

Top of North Yorkshire

What's your location and range?
Very nice looking bit of kit you have.

23m working Reach, the basket takes 280kilos on full stretch. It makes for a comfortable day, gets stuff down in no time.

Hello chaps and chapettes,

I’ve got a few days available if anyone if interested in hiring us out for a day or two.

Hire on a day rate will get you:

23m Working Reach platform.

Qualified NPTC & IPAF arborist.

Our own saws + fuel.

Our own rigging kit if required.

Feel free to drop me a message if you have any questions.

Brave man stepping into this den. I think you'll find the majority of people here look at it as "I cut it, I get paid".

I'd like to add it's not down to the company doing the work, the problem lies with the council. If the company in the video didn't take the contract another company would have.

When will be a good time? It is never going to be a good thing but it will happen. 
 
Im not sure why people choose a forum primarily used by Tree surgeons to try and get justification on stopping people taking trees down. 
 
It is a perfect oxymoron if ever I have seen one. 

Great ain’t it, price to  remove a tree >1500cm girth
 
Highway location requiring TM?
Ivy?
Power Lines?
Telephone lines?
Immovable targets?
Access?
Decay- requires Mewp?
Mewp Access?
 
Just provide a cost based on girth!
 
No wonder, I think, most overprice
 

You see, this is half the problem.  The protestors, like you, think that they are right and that's that. 
 
 

But it's not about that specific tree, the guy in question said he did it because he knew as long as the crew were wrapped up dealing with him then no other tree would come down. The residents protested the trees coming down legally in multiple meetings and a fat cat in the council went ahead and drew up a nice contract to have the work done anyway. If this is what must be done to save these trees then so be it. At what point do we stop cutting g down mature trees in this country? Especially ones that are decent avenue trees like these.

When I first saw this story I went to get the full picture unlike the majority on this thread throwing around comments.
I found out who the protester was and exactly why he did it. This group of residents are trying to prevent the trees in this street from being cut down by the council. The guy in question was holding on to the brash because it stopped the crew from working thereby stopping the trees from coming down. As was stated earlier these trees are a monument to ww1 soldiers who didn't come home.
These trees should not be coming down! End of.

Monuments to our fallen what?

Good on the protesters (that wasn’t easy to say), the fact these trees are marked for removal is ridiculous. If we don’t get a grip on removing mature trees we’re going to find ourselves in a bad position tree wise in the not to distant future. These trees are monuments to our fallen too.

I don’t see how you can tender if you don’t have the specs.
You need to know exactly what they want and when it needs doing by.
When you know that you can price for it.
Then breakdowns of of everything that will be done and importantly anything that would not be inclusive in the price and need to be agreed separately.
Include insurances qualifications etc

Thanks bens, that's a brilliant reply.
I'm the one trying to tender for the contract. There's very little information on their site to go by except please tender[emoji849].

No one has written a tender for a government contract? Or no one wants to offer help?

I’m looking for a bit of help with a government tender for tree surveys. I’ve never written a tender of this type, any help with either templates or advice would be greatly appreciated.

I guess I'm staying with arborisk then, unless someone here has a recommendation.