I have two quotes right now in the system where I was asked to go out and work in a psuedo consulting fashion offering advice for works.
In the event of the quotes not coming to fruition they are to pay me $100 for the visit. That's was established clearly prior.
Neither has paid as they promised I'd have the job ... which I haven't yet (yet, used loosely). Give a few more days and I'll have to be on the blower to see if I was dudded.
On protected trees they need qualified people and paperwork plus works schedules for pruning etc need to be submitted to council. You have seen on this forum where I have shown the caliber of work and advice given by shonksters. One of the works invovles treatments which go further than chainsaws.
Furthermore isn't it ironic the amount of times we need to do restorative work where some other hack has butchered the tree.
Consumers please realise once a piece is cut off it cannot be glued back on, cutting is wounding, in some cases the tree gets removed after a good dosage of hacking.
The number of times some-one dead woods a tree and never talks about why it got dead wood in the first place and what to do to ensure it doesn't keep declining is a joke ... because they dont know and dont care. In fact if it does die they think it's more work for them.
Good arborists are hard to find, some may have paperwork but practice little of what they learn and continue to hack away. I suppose it's like any trade, you get good plumbers and bad plumbers for example, so if it's the first time you are going to use an arborist you need to check them out well ....
.... which means more than "Oh, they're a big company they'll be fine." What a load of rubbish that is, it's all about that 1 person, the arborist. |