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Lamo. The delivery & cadence is perfect.
That was almost c/linkedinlunatics material for a second. Well done.
I agree with this guy but to the plumber trying to charge my mother 450 to re install the float valve assembly....fuck you man.
Yeah, funny how it works. Of course of you know that's like a fifteen dollar part from the hardware store.
Another cheap but expensive one when a capacitor goes in an HVAC. Super cheap quick and easy but an HVAC company will probably charge $500 if you called them.
Can save a ton of money just knowing a few basics on your plumbing, HVAC, and cars.
Don't they say not to take apart microwaves because the capacitor could shock and kill you? Is it the same with HVAC capacitors?
You should be careful, but it's not hard to drain them real quick before working on them.
Yup.
Crt monitors are the stereotypical "surprise, you just pushed the dead button!” device, but microwaves too.
Their transformers are the bit that kills the most hobbiests though. Crazy high frequency high voltage transformer that chooses not to fuck around when you plop it in your project.
It's one of those things where it would be great if you could make an informed choice on whether you needed to hire a Master Plumber or save a bunch of money with Dave who has a pipe wrench and a youtube premium subscription. One of those things where if you knew enough to know whether you could get by with Dave, you're probably pretty close to doing it yourself.
If Dave were worth his salt - he would be capable of telling you this job is over his head, or if you legally need a professional.
That's part of being a handyman. If he can't do that then he's dangerous, and not worth any amount of money.
And you'd best pay him for coming to this conclusion....
What’s incredible is the number of commenters who don’t recognize obvious satire when they see it.
It's the internet so if you're making a post with satire you'd better clearly mark it as such or else you don't careabout other people and how they might feel if they get fooled.
That, and I met people that if those words came out of their mouth it would not surprise me.
Two things at play: people don't seem to critically/carefully read things very much, and Poe's Law has been so thoroughly beat into the ground the past few years that satire has taken a huge blow.
Hmm, most of the comments I read add interesting tidbits about the life of an arborist and the costs of removing a tree that people might not expect. I wouldn't say that the commenters don't understand the joke, I for one appreciate the extra information.
I grew up with a wood burner for heat in the winter, so ever summer we'd go out and cut down a dead tree somewhere, cut into chunks that can be rolled or carried to a truck bed, hauled home, unloaded, and repeated until the entire tree was collected. That would mean probably 5-10 truck loads in a standard farm truck. With 3 non professionals running 2 chainsaws, that's 4+ hours not including drive time.
So while this is satire, for anyone who's not cut down a tree before, especially one with consequences if you fell it wrong, the pros make it look fast an easy.
The same with almost every work. We don't see years of expertise and background calculations behind every their action. Especially with good tools they are used too.
It's porn to watch a professional do what they are skilled for.
Make humility great again
Completely missing overhead costs. We had a couple trees removed and it cost a fortune, or so I thought. But a crew of 6 showed up with 3 big trucks that probably cost 6-figures give or take. A chipper, a lift, and a tractor-trailer combo to haul off the trunks. All that has to be paid for, plus insurance, licensing, bonding, health care, payroll taxes, etc etc.
Everyone gets paid, of course, so they’re making money. But putting big bucks in the bank for the owner? Not likely.
The thing is, it's hard to discern where to stop... Could it be done safely with 1 guy and a truck? 2? Cherry picker? Did they need 6 guys, 3 trucks, and $300,000 worth of machinery to make it safe and easy? One costs 5x the other method, but it's just easier on them and not necessary at all in some cases.
My experience so far:
For the big company you pay a big chunk of money and they show up on time and are done in an hour or three. The tree(s) comes down fast, everything’s hauled off, chipped up, or ground down. They likely do several jobs in a day, so that’s where the money comes from. You know it’s 99% chance they are actually insured.
The small business consisting of a guy or two might get to you in a few weeks. He might or might not show up for the originally discussed time and day. They’ll be there for several hours, probably take a few breaks, and then they’ll need to drive off and retrieve their chipper truck. Maybe he’s insured. Maybe not. You’ve just got to go by his word. Grinding the stump might happen same day, or maybe a couple days later when they drag the stump grinder around to the last 5 jobs they did to finish them.
The big company will cost more. But not a whole lot more.
That depends entirely on the customer and how long they want to be hearing chainsaws, chippers and having trucks and equipment on their property. Can it be done with just one guy? Probably not reasonably, especially if you live somewhere like I do, the Pacific Northwest and the trees are big. But a few guys and a small operation with small trucks and minimal equipment? Sure, but they still need to be licensed and insured, they are doing a hazardous job, and with the time not being saved by machines you’re paying for significantly more labor hours. The reason tree trimming businesses do it that way is it’s generally more efficient and more efficient typically costs you about the same but puts a little money in their pocket. Things have a built in cost that you can’t undercut with out straight up losing money, you pay what you pay or you do it yourself (and you still have to pay some of that for the equipment or gear needed). Business works best at scale, that’s just how it works in most industries.
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I have helped remove a tree before, it wasn't over a house or in a dangerous place. We sawed the limbs top down. fell the trunk, cut it into firewood sized rounds, split it. and dug out the stump by hand.
It was a 15' tall tree.
5 unskilled labor, 20+ hours.
If we had the right tools, it might have been a couple-hour job for that tiny tree.
It's definitely a job worth paying someone with the right equipment to do.
Right equipment makes it infinitely easier and safer, but even a 10 foot tree could easily be lethal or life ruining if the people working it don't know what they're doing or aren't paying attention. Felling or even trimming trees is extremely dangerous
feh, we don't even need the tree to be dangerous, a bunch of 20/30 somethings running a chainsaw
Fuck brah, the first tree I felled was a 35' poplar that was way too close to the fence. I used a corded Sawzall with a 9" wood blade. Managed to cut it completely through and it just stayed there wobbling. Had to push it over and run once it started falling. Neighbour was just watching and chewing Tylenols right from the bottle.
Rise and grind...a stump.
Being an arborist is one of the most dangerous careers there are, this "passive income" guy would probably die in under a year.
If that post was sincere, I will eat my hat.
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Clearly fake - if it were real everyone would have clapped.
The condoms are under the sink
As a former groundsman for an arborist, I was shocked at how much of what seemed like a ludicrous sum just bled away to nothing. Guy earned the equivalent of maybe 20$ an hour after expenses. This was 20 years ago, so that was livable and more than double what someone at McDonalds could expect to make, but the actual income he brought home to the family was microscopic compared to the 1.2 million he took in before expenses.
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