Thread: What to do?

i have rund and eamiled 100s of tree loppers and most are not even interested in what i have to say. i have 2 that sell me logs.

Originally Posted by weisyboy

i have rund and eamiled 100s of tree loppers and most are not even interested in what i have to say. i have 2 that sell me logs.

With those blokes, 99% of the time it's not what just you say but how you say it and how many cartons you happen to be carrying in the back of the ute.

In the bundy region they want the logs to chip the chip pays for their fuel.

oh i have nevre asked for free logs but offered bloody good money for them. more than 5 times what they get for there chip.

You also need to consider that us dumb tree loppers who cant operate something as technical as a LUCAS MILL, may find it better for bisness to get the job wrapped up in the day rather than wait a week+ for the miller to do his thing. I'm sure you would do it Allan and I know Carl certainly cleans up the flitches after hes done, but if they were my customer's and my reputation at stake (as far as the customer is concerned the miller is a subbie to me), I would want/ need to keep that job on the books till the miller was finished (or decided that the log is not what he's after and then I go back and clean up). Sure we can hire a crane truck at $80/hr (min of 2hr) and possiblly get paid $150-200/cube but I can understand other tree loppers wanting to keep it simple (in line with our mental capacity) and just shred it and get $15 a cube for mulch. Ok so you got the bite you were so innocently fishing for. Do you think this thread may of been hijacked?

maby just a little bit

i was not implying that loppers were dumb.

and i do understand why they just block it up and move on.

but if they gave us a chance instead of saying that its to hard they would not have to pay wages to block the log up.

if i get a call a log is coming down i will have a truck waiting to pick it up before its on the ground.

got a 15 ton load coming out on Friday from a mob in sallsbry that i have got over 200 cube from.

alright boys back on topic. who wants some firewood/turning blanks.

I don't think you've hijacked the thread. I think Stumpkicker has perhaps re-inforced my point. If you get consumers interested in what happens, then they are more than happy for a good outcome.

Weisy, you rang and haranged, but there's an easier way. Every day instead of using the yellow pages people are entering the words 'tree lopper' into their google search bar.

How do I know? Search for google adwords, then follow the links to the google adwords keyword tool (sorry, the direct link is a monster). Enter 'tree lopper' and reduce to australia. Something like the following table will come up:

Keyword: No of local (Aus) searches per month
tree pruner 720
tree lopper 1,600
tree loppers 2,400
tree lopping 9,900
tree pruners 210
tree arborist 720
tree removers 73

other words:
tree removal service
tree removal services
removal of trees
tree stump grinder

I'm not suggesting placing ads, just have some great information on some pages and some, just some, of those 9000 searches every month in Australia are going to be inspired by what you do and ask their lopper to maybe cut the tree down but leave nice lengths for my mate weisy.

Anyway, easy for me to say isn't it. No need to wait for national broadband.

Maybe someone does those fabulous chain saw carvings? My flying club would love an angel with wings we could nervously rub on the way to the runway.

Jamie