What’s incredible is the number of commenters who don’t recognize obvious satire when they see it.

Being an arborist is one of the most dangerous careers there are, this "passive income" guy would probably die in under a year.

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.

That was almost c/linkedinlunatics material for a second. Well done.

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.

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.

Lamo. The delivery & cadence is perfect.

you could probably do 2 trees at the same time. that's over a million dollars a year

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.

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.

You want to know about the big money? Look into cutting down trees on other people's property.

Cut down a mature hardwood tree on your neighbour's lawn and it might cost you tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars.

There's got to be a way to monetize that.

Pro tip: once you've secured the job just ask ChatGPT to do it. Same pay but more free time for you.

I like the little detail that they can't do math.

And that is the story of how I have my own personal chef and a team of arborists. Follow me for more advice.

Clearly fake - if it were real everyone would have clapped.

Rise and grind...a stump.