Thanks man appreciate it!

Neil Roth had my wife come pick me up 👍

sure does

I bet its gonna be hollow, because he made the cuts on big branches with the chainsaw, so the bark is shredded and the stick dies one day. I prefer to do it with sharp handsaw (fine clean cut with bark nicely attatched to the wood and leave some life branch close to the cut as the futuru terminal...if it makes sence.

Or if I top it at 16 feet, how fast will it continue on the sides?

Yep, better seal those big cutting with melted wax.

No not at all. These are very hardy shrubs and will come back easily

@@AmbrosLandscapingInc Thanks very much for the response

Stanley Genadek is the only person I know who is willing to talk pricing. Everyone thanks it is taboo. But I feel it would do the Lawn community some good to share this information . I always do. I know we all have different overhead so there is no exact formula but I like to see people in my area get the most money they can for a job. Heck everyone knows basic lawn care pricing in are area here in Florida. If you do good work you want loose a customer over pricing in my 12yrs of business. I would think this would be an averaged hourly payed job. But you would have to add in all the equipment overhead he has onsite . I actually charge a lower price for basic lawn care maintenance . I would consider this tree service which is a higher hourly rate. Not to mention the additional insurance coverage you should have. My insurance will not cover me and my employees if we have to go taller than a six foot latter. So I would have to use a bucket lift on this job to get it done and stay within my policy. So there are a lot to think about when charging for such jobs. It will be interesting how he replies to this question.

Normally contractors charge by the job that's what me and a lot of other guys I know do. Normally only the "weekend warriors" or "lowballers" who are basically running non-legit, uninsured mowing runs charge a low hourly rate or a ridiculous flat price ($30 lawns etc) far easier to charge by the job once you get your quoting right

JWN could you share your thoughts on quoting this job. I would be interested on how you bid this job without an hourly rate applied." By the job" I would think you would have to know how long it will take you. I do understand the minimum rate concept . But if you have never done a job like this how would you be able to quote without your shop hourly rate. This is not your basic hedge trimming. I would love to know your thoughts.

Ok. You don't really need to know exact times for this kind of "by the job" quoting. I quote all my work as a final price not hourly (if customers knew my average hourly rate even just for mowing they would probably go nuts!) and yes it does take some getting used to but you can make a lot more money than quoting hourly. I basically go up and look at a job (I never usually give final prices before seeing the job in person, looks can be deceiving in pictures) and get a price based off roughly how long I expect it will take (which is important especially if you have employees like I do because they get paid hourly), what tools I am going to need to complete the work, whether I will need to take any green waste to the tip (tipping fees are ridiculous here in Australia) and what kind of complexity the job is (obstacles that need to be worked around, access to backyards etc). I can knock out most of my regular lawns with my helper in less than 30mins now that I have my ride on mower with me so charging by the job means that although I spend less time on the job and therefore have to pay my helper less I still get the same amount of money whereas charging hourly I would want to take as long as I could lol. So I can charge AU$85 for one corner block I mow for example but we can get that done in less than an hour so therefore my average hourly rate for that property is more than $85. Now the clients are very happy with that price because there is a fair bit of work involved (many areas that can only be trimmed, most of the backyard can only be push mowed etc.) but if I told them it would be $90/hr (which is what it is close to in terms of hourly) I'm fairly confident they wouldn't still be a client ;D As Ron said before a lot of guys do keep their prices quiet as do I in most cases because again if many of my clients found out how much I charge hourly they would fire me for "charging too much". I know I maybe didn't relate specifically to this hedge job like you asked but the same principal goes. Have a look at it, figure out roughly how long you reckon it will take, how complex it is and what tools you are going to need. Once you get enough experience even if you come across a job you haven't done before you can normally still get a pretty accurate quote. Hope this helps ;D

@@LegendLength Yeah it's around the same for us here. I go to a tip a little further out normally as they use flat rate pricing. $50 for under 500kg I think it is so it's easy to quote for the customer (adding in travel time etc. I charge $100 for green waste removal). Our local tip in monash is awful, so touch and go on pricing. Depending on who you get at the gate, I've been charged $25 for a trailer load of green waste, and then another time they wanted $178 for the same load! Impossible to quote a customer for that when you never know what they're going to charge.

Relax

@@brocktonma.1816 fall off a ladder and find out