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The MultiTrac has an
attachment that we use for blowing show. It is a two stage hydraulic blower that
can handle the deepest and heaviest snow the season can throw at it. We also
have no trouble digging through the packed mess the lovely snowplow leaves at
the end of each of our customer's driveway. Being 4' wide the blower generally
needs to make only one pass on a residential sidewalk to clear all the snow from
the walk.
In winter we are still able to remove trees but generally have
more days down due to snow and cold. Time on the job is much less due to shorter
daylight hours and due to the deep snow combined with wind and cold. To
supplement the winter income we started doing some shoveling and snow blowing of
residential, small businesses and apartment complexes.
In (2006) we only did a couple of apartment
building parking lots as we carried at least two weeks of work at all times and
really did not have time to do snow removal. In 2007 we started to pick up a
couple of residential accounts as we figured out we could do the plowing since
tree removal could not be done after a snow storm. We were beginning to settle
in on the tree removal and felt we could branch out a little more now.
In 2008 we expanded our snow blowing accounts as Aaron was
help out being layoff from fencing and due to the agreement with Home Town
Tree, we were not doing as many tree removals. Those tree removals we did
usually involved Home Town Tree as our company strategy had changed to eliminate
our license and insurance. We now rely on Home Town as a contractor and they
carried the license and insurance.
The expansion of the winter accounts was enough to get us through, paying bills
and keeping equipment running. Next year we plan to expand our
accounts again to fill out our capacity.
Many jobs I do I am accused of doing "a little too
extra", more than most companies. But, I get irritated by companies that trade
off service for speed and money. Some "Snow Removal" services refuse to shovel
sidewalks for example. To me this indicates a company that wants to plow the
driveway (the easy money) then move on to the next one. This is not SNOW
REMOVAL! This is a "HIT AND RUN" ... a "WHAM BAM". It's a company that is
looking for the easy buck, not looking to provide a service.
Guess I am old school here, broke, but old school.
When our company does snow removal we do the sidewalks, the
driveways, the steps (front and back), around garbage cans, the walk through
(from the sidewalk to the street) and even blow the parking areas in front of
the house. If there is a mail box in the street we will blow the snow around and
within 25 feet of the box so the postal service has good access to it.
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