Overview of Professional Tree Removal Operations

see how this goes. We own this company. We started in 1993. You know, our main chainsaws are all steels. What else do you bring into the bolt to run a tree company? You got to have a loader, a bobcat, or we use a swinger. You got to have a chipper chip truck. You got to have a log truck. Otherwise, you're you're just spinning your wheels. [Applause] So, why do you have to roll the blade like that? I loaded up with sawdust. It's cutting so fast. It's so much more than the sawdust gets built up underneath the chain there. So, you charge how much? 6 to 650 an hour for the crane and for the guys, correct? So, this job is bid by the hour. Yes. Okay. We pretty much do all our work by the hour. So you come in, you look at a tree like this one right here, but in front of your swinger, right? Yep. I'd probably figure three man hours to get here, do the work, and then be driving down the road. Always thought you guys would bid just look at a tree and go, "Oh, that's a $1,000 tree." You know, it might be 50/50 where some of the companies do it that way, but by the hour fair, they're paying for exactly our time here. Could you have done a job like this without the crane? Yes, we would have done a ton of property damage and it would have taken about five times longer to get it done. So, even though you have the additional cost of the crane, generally the cost comes out either cheaper or about the same, but it's so much safer for the guy up in the tree and for the guys on the ground. That was well said. It's almost like you know what you're talking about. Almost. So, it's been 30 days. Let's find out how this went. I put all four on my uh garage floor last night. Yeah. Two smaller ones are leaking oil. They get a lot of abuse. They're brand new. It's not surprising that something would have loosened up. Okay. But but they shouldn't be leaking oil, right? It's not surprising with a new saw that gets used and abused. But when you're trying to convince someone who's using a Porsche to kind of take a step down to save the company some money. So the guys, they wouldn't go from a steel to an echo. They would be pissed. They would feel like, why am I being treated this way? Let's look at it this way. You can't put a wadded up pile of newspaper covered in duct tape and give it to Tom Brady and say, take me to the Super Bowl. Can't