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Re: Hazardous Trees Redux

dblbraid@aol.com
Tue, 23 Dec 1997 16:13:56 -0600


There is no doubt that you can make as much money with
snips as you can with heavy removals . Taking down large
hazardous trees isn't chest thumping for every body .
It is as much a profitable business as anything else in
tree work . Think about it , to remove a large dangerous
tree takes a little more sense than prunning shrubs.
There are twelve working months a year in the Philadelphia
area , and you sure aren't going to clip bushes all year.
As sure as you will be back to prune that shrub next year,
there will be another dangerous tree that has to be removed.
Around our area we don't have one tree that you can say is
our Trophy tree. Beeches , Oaks , Tulip Poplars , Alantis
Ash's , White pine's , Locust , there isn't one of these
trees that you can say is bigger or badder then the other.
We are loaded with large Hardwoods , and Hazard Removals is
a healthy business around here . I am sure if you are
operating a landscape business along side your tree business , the
numbers are probally in the landscapes favor . Spraying ...
makes a killing for a business in half the time tree pruning
does . Repeat clients , if you remove a large Red Oak that
is a disaster just to look at , and everything goes well,
you will have that customer for life . Plus they will tell
everybody they know . It is worth the gamble . On the Storm
damaged trees , and an insurance company is footing the bill,
I don't think one of your steady clients is gonna care what
you charge . To sum this up for you Tom , you can make a lot
of money removing Hazarous trees , around here . I think
people are more inclined to shake each others hands then
they are to gather around the stump and chant like yahoos.

Glenn