Your videos are great, wonder if you left the Business.

Man! Like to see your pricing now....

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the tree industry in the states is going to waste with this whole bunch of Hispanics doing tree work for peanuts, now every home owner wants to pay cents for tree removal.

It’s called a “POLE SAW” not PULL lol

I'm from a small town and bid by the job, but figure my rate around 200/hr. I climb and lower my branches and it takes a little longer than using a bucket truck, but I feel way safer. Main thing is be safe out there and have fun. Work hard for people and go the extra mile on every job large or small. Be diligent, consistent, and as word travels about how safe you are and how good of a job you've done you can increase your cost.

I went from $800. an hour to about $30. an hour, largely due to the fact that the elderly heiress I was boffing whilst doing her "tree" work (more like bush work) died a couple of months ago. Dang.

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I'm T+1 and I charge $100 ph for chop and drops and $200 ph if any rigging is involved. In the way hazards are extra.

Are you in Oklahoma?

Hi Shawn, thanks for the videos. I have a question. So you charge by the hour and not by the job? Or do you figure the man hrs, equipment, etc, and bid the job?

Hello? Where you?

I really enjoy your videos bud!

Well I’m guess I’m killin it 🎉 I got my daily average from 3k to 4500$ plus per day. I do all the sales. I have 6 man crew (too many), 100k dump truck, and 50k dollar chipper. Houston Texas

Love the video!! I’m 21 and run a small landscaping business with my 2 brothers in Phoenix, AZ. I want to split off from them and do tree trimming and removals because I love the tree work more. I know I can make good money doing solo trims and small removals and having my brothers come out and help me with bigger jobs for a % of the job... I just need to do it!!!

Your Father is AWESOME!! He did you a great favor that made you grow and go on your own!!

Hey, Shawn. Nice videos. I noticed that your most recent videos are several years old. Are you still doing tree trimming? I'm a fit 55 year old from OKC, and very unhappy in my career, so I'm considering a trim trimming and/or lawn service business. Building up to $1,000 per week income within a few months would allow me to successfully make the change. How realistic is that goal, in your opinion?

I'll forget about the crane seems less risky and more money for it.

Are you still doing tree work? Do you have another channel

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What about garbage? How do you incorporate that into the pricing?

I love how simple you make the mathematics mixed with real-time situations all at once. Great info!

Vid really helped out alot thanks

Good information, thank you.

I recently got started doing tree work. I found your videos and they have been incredibly helpful. I hope you decide to start making them again.

OK, I agree with the hand loppers price about right. I paid $42 for my Friskars, & you can get cheap hand pruners for about $25. BUT if you want to get serious about pruning branches you need (this is just my opinion) Silkey telescoping aluminum pole saw for average $300, pole lopper with extra 8 foot extension pole for about $200 & finally a Stihl power pruner for about 450-550 used or 659 + tax new. Get HT 131 or 133 only, not the HT 101 - 103. If you need to reach higher then get an A frame ladder 10 feet or 12. Not as stable as an orchard ladder but hundreds of $ cheaper.

This is informative but is at best a basic guide. You have to take what applies to you and ignore the rest. It is a tough business to get off the ground (no pun intended) & even harder to keep going when there are so many factors beyond your control. I know a climber who was making $30 an hour which is top $ for my area go start his own business. He said he had $80K invested which may be correct since he did buy a new loader for 25K. He stays busy but can't find qualified help to help him knock the work out and now has to pay top dollar to find people knowledgeable to do the work. Then add competition and equipment maintenance such as heavy equipment breaking down to stolen chainsaws, cut or damaged ropes, cost of replacing worn gear, etc. Then taking time to drive to give a quote knowing what job costs and people say we are going with someone else b/c they are much cheaper. LOL

Me again, also for you guys new to this, bigger is not always better. The bigger the job, the bigger the seen and in unforeseen expenses are + liability + potential for accidents with the xtra helpers. Me for example, it's just my son and I, we can do 4-5 (small 6-800.00) dollar jobs in 1 day with low overhead and no heavy equipment. Decide if you want to stay small or go big, for us, small is the right formula.

Question: what about the xtra truck and trailer to haul tractor once trailer is full of branches to return it home? You can't leave it there until return from dump. Also, how do you factor in trip to dump and dunno fees? Here were I live, it's 90.00 entrance fee, 1 hr drive each way, 2 hr wait in line at dump, 1 hr to unload once there. I have to charge 300.00 per load just in dump costs to cover my out of my pocket expenses. Thanks Mike

great job! i'm very inspired/ motivated by your video to keep working hard and learning about the tree service industry. Otherwise some other opportuity may present itself. Appreciate yer shared knowledge, keep on keeping on bro.

Hire your workers as independent contractors then no OSHA or safety inspections or insurance

I know someone who gets 2500 for 3 guys 1/2 day

Every tree company around here charge by the job not the hour. Because working 5 hours taking a big tree down that's go over there house is a lot harder and way more dangerous then working for 5 hours on trees not next to anything so you can just drop them

Can you start with a car and a chainsaw just doing "no clean-up" jobs?

I was ask to cut a tree between a small school and a grave yard. tree stands inside the grave yard and it is near the school which is 15 feet away. I do not have licence n insurance but I know how to cut a tree down for firewood. This tree is a widow-maker. it got to be remove. help. what do I need?

I run a 100 ton grove with a log truck every day. My crane crew makes a minimum of 10k a day (8 hrs) on my best days that one crew makes 25k. I have 2 crane crews and 2 bucket crews running 5 days a week. My 5th season this year and I could not have imagined how fast it grew.

Every job is worth what the customer is willing to pay! Fact! I usually make 130 bucks an hour minimum as a climber. For an extra hundred I may risk nicking the ground and bucking it up. Fact!

So,,,, you work the cones huh? Your the flag man on your own crew? All your videos are in a classroom setting? You have no clue how to do the work

Your math is good,,, but that’s not the way it works in the real world. I’m in California and we get way higher rates than you,, and you are way off on the price per hour. It’s in how much YOU can get done in an hour. by looking at you,, you would be slow and clumsy. I guarantee one of my crews of four would get a weeks worth of your jobs in a day,, each crew is expected to bring in at least $300.00 an hr. Each crew has one climber who also runs a bucket truck, a large dump truck, a 1ton dump truck, a Ford F-150 to tow the stump grinders. They have a Vermeer bc1500 chipper. You are nuts. You look at a job, say it will take me so many hrs, you do some math in your head. My bucket truck goes to every job wether we need it or not. That truck carries everything you could possibly need. Some jobs you don’t need a dump truck, chipper or stumpers, but the price stays the same per hr. Everything is factored into each job, not just this truck needs factored in on this one

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Congratulations - nice to see enthusiasm, energy, self-motivation. Bravo!

Is 3800 alot for tree removal

Great video I wish you all the best. I'm a plumber by trade but also a handy man landscaper , whatever the client needs picking up dog poop I've done it all . This week one of the clients asked me if I could take off the tops of some trees that are blocking his view .the trees are massive and hard to access due to thick vegetation . I have no idea what to charge him. Any advice

my husband used to work for aspludh and loves what he does but I feel he can start his own business and make more money. thanks for sharing

great info. thanks for sharing.

I'm in a small town outside of Tampa, FL and have guys coming over this weekend. They are bringing: trucks, bucket truck, skid, and four guys. They are charging about $450 per hour to get the job done in two days. The work we are having them do is: removal of four trees, pruning four trees (big ones), and clearing about half an acre of smaller junk trees and over growth, turning felled trees into firewood and log lengths, and mulch piles. Probably going to take them 20+ hours to do the work. Your pricing chart is close to what it is in central Florida.

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This guy can't tell a story to save his life, cut out the bs and get to the point

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