This is helping out a great deal, actually.
The gear you provide your employees or team members depends so much on the types of trees that are in your area, the kind of tree care you do, the tool selection (that you'll provide) should mirror the stuff you use, if you expect a similar result and quality of work out of them, higher quality than your kit if you want performance beyond where you're at yourself. Fair?
If you were to consider your new team well-skilled, and you gave them a bunch of crap tools to work with, as if to put out the message "I don't care enough about your quality to give you quality tools."
Except their quality is YOUR quality. They're working alongside you, or doing jobs for your company and you might not even be there. Their kit is profoundly connected to the quality and working state of the their tools and gear.
And not YOUR gear. Let's put this in context.
Let's say youy want to ramp your company up to the next level, not just hiring the next groundguy. You've done that for 15 years. You are tired of untrained groundhelp with no intention of a career in stick picking-upping.
You know there are talented dudes out there and you think 2 guys. You three can work together, or the two of them can do treecare while you go do estimates, or while you go do another peaceful climb elewhere.
Aside from the obvious truck and rolling rig aspect and insurances, the rest is saws and tools,
hence,
the excellent title to this thread.
I think if we pushed the outer limit of personal (non-heavy equipment) Arborist gear, I am very interested to hear what key and critical tools would YOU provide to a pair of pro-helpers in helping create THEIR system?
(which is actually yours when it comes down to it) |