Learning curve Jeff at least your customer relations skills have been tested to the full😂 Heat doesnt help either . My least favourite customer move is allowing you to tidy up , pack all kit away then ask for something else to be done . 😢

I know that feeling! Good vid

Hey Jeff, just want to say thanks for the extra effort with setting up the camera and your editing difficulties, but please don’t loop me in with the frustrating, frugal, terrified, panicked, anxiety ridden homeowner did I mention he was cheap😂

Heat takes it out of you for sure! Saw sounds good however so there’s that! lol 👍🏼

Not being a tree person, I wonder how a dead tree can have so much sap.

Jeff, can you comment on the end where you were discussing the work permit from the fire station? I'm a lowly east coast man and have never had to deal with that like you do in fire country. I'm just interested in the process. I really enjoyed watching you work this job despite all the sap and the chirping from the homeowner.

It boils down to whether or not, you needed this customer's work and the expected payment thereof.

Been there in the past with my Gardening and Landscaping business. Unfortunately those customers exist. Hope you and your wife are rested and refreshed. 🙏

Sorry buddy. Sometimes people are weeeeeird. 👀 And dude, you are so low key... it's great and also c'mon say stuff!! Like we gotta taunt ya. lol. No worries, ur good!

I love learning and would love to help my contractors but this is my exact fear so i never help unless they ask for it. At the start i just tell them to let me know if they need a hand or anything and tell them I'm serious and leave them to it. Have had a few take me up on it. Most don't and that's ok lol 😅

I had a client like that recently that wouldn't get off my back. Was doing a storm damage prune on a large ponderosa and almost everything was hanging over their really nice deck and involved some technical rigging. It was a stressful situation on it's own but the homeowner felt the need to be outside watching everything and trying to bark orders and backseat prune everything I was doing. At a point I had to politely tell him he's just adding more stress to an already stressful situation and to just let me do my thing. You get a lot of different flavors of clients in this industry and sometimes we gotta deal with the less then enjoyable ones to get that check. Anyways stay safe up there man and appreciate your content!

the ground camera had some good shots. Thanks for the video

Thanks for sharing the bad days as well. You’re an upstanding man.

You were not wrong👍, as a homeowner who has always done everything myself I can understand the wanting to help and in no way defending the homeowner. I started out as a logger/cutter did a bit of groundie work for a couple of tree companies and switched into the Fire Dept. now retired I help my sons in their tree service when they need a gimpy old man getting in their way.🤣

So, do u guys work for August when ur not doing ur jobs?

The struggle bus is real.

Lol atleast you were up a tree most of the time, I bet the misses was getting an ear full from yo dude down on the ground. Thanks for the video.

Glad to see you got the trees done, this heat is brutal.

Wish you had a ground guy dude,,,, I feel it's such a safety factor

Been there. Annoying as fuck. Makes ya want to just walk away and say " you do it then"

Owner can not help, my insurance says so!

Site prep counts as part of the job.

Normal bid rate: $85/hr Client wants to “help”: $135/hr

The heat will definitely get to us buddy trust me these last few weeks have been horrible on me I can tell my temper is a little bit short because I get so hot and so tired God bless you buddy great job as always stay safe

The heat has been brutal for so many - zaps energy so fast. You stuck it out under heavy adversity from the client and that's a true professional! I'm curious what you use to clean the sap from your equipment - has to be very time consuming. Great job Jeff!

I commend you for keeping it real when really, you didnt have to. Ive had a few of those jobs as well since i started solo treework. Keep the best treework content on youtube coming. Great job Jeff!

Jeff, that intro was perfect,. I’m 14months into tree trimming/climbing for a large company, where I’m told I could work faster, like some other guys who take on more risk and break more stuff. Your perspective was helpful to hear.

Some times Jeff we have to deal with those kind of customers. At least he was a nice man. Have a good one.

Thanks for sharing. Many lessons there. :)

How do you clean sap off your equipment.

Fancy today! Great work! Great videography!❤❤❤

Poor tree. It tooks it several year to grow, and someone cut it because of a road that passes under... Sad.

Do you know what those farm fields are? It looks like a sod farm

Sally McPeel!! 😂😂😂 stay cool bro!!

Nice job

👏👏👏💪💪

Nice short Jeff

Those Willow trees can get huge if they can enough water. Great job

You were on par on this job. Two strokes on the LoL minute.

Mad skills Jeff. Wish I had your talent! To quote another great”work hard, be kind”.

Awesome job brother

Golf course hazard 😮😅

You should talk to @ThorenBradley and have him review one of your axes that you hang and have forged he has a lot of followers. That way you would get more viewers on your channel especially in the ax department just a thought

Did you hear that thing idle after coming off cutting? 🫡merica

Hey Jeff, you ever think about getting another camera leave it by the truck and do like a Time-lapse just something to add to the video

Cool to see the Stihl 880 in action - that massive base - wow!

Thanks for setting a good example with PPE in the bucket!