First off, in all seriousness, I as a person love and respect animals tremendously. If you think this is degrading to animals, that is because you are imagining me treating them like a tool, which is just that… all in your imagination. Moving on…
This is half joke, half serious: Being a tree professional, could you train some beavers and sick ‘em on customers’ trees?! If you could train one, all the others would follow suit. Those little devils can cut basically as fast as some small chainsaws, and they NEVER bog down! And their cutting blade never needs to be sharpened because they grow constantly! You can have a fleet of beefed up beavers, they go out on the trucks, they crawl all over customers trees and stumps and naw the hell out of them. You might even be able to use some of the small beavers as a hand-held trimmer. Hey, a beaver is lighter than a stump-grinder… Smaller truck, better gas mileage. Maintenance would be some tender loving care and some corn and roots, easy.
You could call your business “Leave it to our Beavers”. There wouldn’t be any workers comp insurance cause those things just don’t get hurt, their pro’s. And while working for you, they would be doing what they want anyways… no disgruntled employees!
Also, what is the difference between a beaver and a WOOD CHUCK?
Since they don’t make noise, you could trim at night with lights, unless they got tired.
You would be able to underbid all other companies in your area and shut the big boys with their big toys right out of the local market.
Who thinks this idea is legit? Can beavers be trained? Shoot, if you keep a beaver out of its habitat, where he can’t gnaw, if you show him a tree, he MUST want to go at it, right?
Let the jokes ensue! Go beavers!
