First up let me make it clear I don't own a business, I work for someone else in his business Northern Tree Specialists, you have to factor into your price all of the overheads that the business carries..ie all the repayments, insurances, tax as well as the normal running consumables. When you do this then a small business like the one I work in has to charge around $200 per hour, even that figure is not making a huge profit, it has to run and maintain 1 truck and chipper, 2 4wds 1 trailer, two complete climbing kits (one is mine) small rigging kit 6 chainsaws 1 pole saw.
When I think about the costs annually of simply running and maintaining 1 chainsaw for the year I can't understand how the hacks can make any sort of legal living with the rates they charge.
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We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
- Kahlil Gibran
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