Retired Climber

That's a bit ageist. I can be just a crap with a load of shiny kit as with a length of old rope and a couple of prussick loops.

I chose to pick up on the technical issues rather than the English as I presumed that it had been written by a foreign student. I always give a bit of slack to anyone not using their first language, as my own foreign language skills are embarrassingly low.

That survey will give you very little useful data. It seems like you are 'going through the motions' rather than actually trying to get useful responses. I'd expect a much more polished survey for a Masters course. Several of the questions lead the respondent, some of the options are very limiting, and the ratio of qualitative to quantitative questioning is poor. Sorry to be negative, but if you are going to get responses you need to make sure they will be useful, significant and genuine.

Accounting and business are very different things. Obviously we don't know exactly what type of assistance the OP requires, but I can't think of any circumstances in which I would take business advice from my accountants.

That's easy; because he's an accountant.

We should probably agree to disagree. I was going to use the point that 2 blokes can take 600 quid a day as a point to bolster my own argument. Doing those sort of jobs needs nothing more than a cheap truck, a ladder, a couple of hedge cutters and a blower. I don't think the bloke on the hedge had a helmet and I reckon PPE, method statements and risk assessments might be a bit thin on the ground too. I mean no disrespect to the OP, but if 2 unskilled labourers can consistently bring in 600 quid a day I think they are doing alright. I take your point regarding my pricing knowledge being a little out of date. I started charging £275 quid a day for a two man team.

The value of the job is about 300 quid. The job isn't a good fit for your business.

It's a couple of blokes, a ladder and a hedge cutter. I personally think that more than 100 quid an hour would be a bit steep.

Of course. However, I think the OP said a couple of cars a week would 'do him'. Selling 100 cars a year is not a hobby, it's a business.

Any sideline is taxable income ( off the top of my head I think the limit is a profit of over a grand). As such, all of the above are applicable.

300 sounds about right. You'd be pushing it charging much more for 3 hours.

What specifically do you need help with? IMO, you'd be better off looking for someone who knows very little about tree work. Most business issues aren't arb related, and an arb specialist will generally know what everyone else in the arb world knows.

We've all had a similar thought at some point. It's easy to look at such things with rose tinted glasses though, especially when you've bought the car from someone local or someone you know. What you've done with this car is not a true representation of what you could do with many cars. If you were dealing cars for an income you'd have VAT, tax, warranties, buying a lemon, trade insurance and all sorts of things taking a slice out of your pie. Dealing in bangers has got to be a hard way to make a living. You'd need to sell multiple cars every day to make it worth bothering with.

If the first 2 projects are anything to go by, this is going to be a cracking thread.

How many quotes do you do? Do you do enough for the downturn in conversions to be statistically significant?

In my not so humble opinion, if you want to join a mastermind group or find a mentor, make sure they know nothing about the world of arb. You can find out anything you need to know about arb specific stuff on this very forum. What you will lack is all the stuff arbs don't know. If you want business advice, don't ask another tree worker.

Yep, they are excellent. Little bit of smoke until it starts doing its thing (gasification I think they call it), then hardly any smoke at all. I've only used genuine solo stove ones, but Chinese knock off ones are an awful lot cheaper, and some look identical.

Take some photos from much further back so we get some context. Close ups of trees with no points of reference for scale are of little use.

Sorry lads; I had intended to go into more detail on this. I'll give a proper explanation when I've got a bit more time. In its most basic form, the reason we use the 'how many pages do you need?' as one of the really quick ways of weeding out less competent web designers is that by asking the question they are showing that they fundamentally misunderstand what they should be doing. Any designer who asks us how many pages we need isn't going to have the skills / knowledge/ mindset required to build a decent site; they are simply thinking about the process in the wrong way. It may appear that a 5 year old can understand that a site with more pages costs more, but we should really be setting our sights a little higher than doing what a 5 year old would understand. And yes, I'm aware of the Einstein quote about being able to explain something to a child of a similar age. If there's one thing to learn here, its don't think like a tree surgeon when designing a website. I'll include some very specific examples of this in my fuller response. Arbs almost universally include some simple mistakes on their websites that will undoubtedly harm their conversion rates.

You might want to delete the first word of your advert.

I wouldn't consider reducing the height of those. I'd thin them and leave a few of the best ones. Pictures must be deceiving, none look anywhere near 30m tall.

There is no specific law you need to worry about, per se. It will all come down to a test of reasonableness. As long as you are being reasonable, and not causing a 'nuisance' (using the legal definition), you have nothing to worry about.

I hope you enjoy it, I know I would.

I'm not a fan of the broken glass or plastic but usually my favourite part of any garden is the bit that's hidden away and used for very utilitarian purposes. You can keep your finely manicured lawns, show me the best place to have a bonfire. Your next step sounds perfect; I'm jealous. Where is the world are you?

Nice space. How much land do you have there?