Premises for name:

  1. Primary Moral Imperative: Save life on earth from climate chaos.
  2. Cannot maintain necessary infrastructure if human resources are mismanaged.
  3. Cannot have stability and security if volatile words continue to be used, e.g., blacks and whites. Better would be chocolate and vanilla.
  4. 30-second YouTube vid

Chocolate and Vanilla Arborists

Process ... Benefits ... Fees/Payments ... Homebase(Elementary) ... Equipment ... Homebase/Expansion ... Disaster Service ... Summary ... Why Vets ...

Process:

  1. Estimators: Walk the streets putting to gether separate bids before synthesizing into one. Bids of estimated time a
  2. Crew
  3. Homeowner participation
  4. Wood chips to charcoal kilns via cargo containers. Home owner can request as many bags of chips for personal use as he wants. Piles will be maintained at elementary schools for residents to use.
  5. A power company will be solicited to build the charcoal kilns (continual process). Chips will be provided free until the power company re-captures the capitalization costs. Thereafter, the energy value will be profit-splitted.

Benefits: top

  1. Property owner. Lower tree management costs and less personal injury from falling limbs.
  2. Power companies: Lower storm damage and associated costs. Faster power restoration after a storm. Bigger in-town, in-state emergency response team(s). Lower on-going tree management costs.
  3. Insurance companies: Lower tree damage costs. Window/gap between current insurance policy costs and downward market pricing pressure due to actuary table declines.
  4. Energy costs: Percentage decline as charcoal from wood chips becomes CO2/global heat via an energy transfer process (combustion) rather than a mere energy release process (decomposition).
  5. Insurance coverage adjustment: It is a common industry standard that if a property owner does not fix a known defect that the insurance policy does not cover damage from the defect. Documented dead limbs or trees that harm property or persons will cover be covered by insurance.
  6. Personal note: This homeowner removed all trees that were dead or dying. During a one-year period, a dying tree on a neighbor's property dropped limbs on three cars inflicting ten's of thousands of dollars in damage. The tree could be cut down commercially for $1500 or for $500 by Chocolate Vanilla Arborists.

Equipment: top

  1. Standard tree dismemberment equipment (saws, ropes, safety)
  2. Boom trucks
  3. 30-ton crane for removing crowns of trees for ground level sawing into small logs.
  4. Chipper
  5. Cargo container tractors for collecting and transporting
  6. Tree trunk hauler with attached crane.
  7. Cargo containers.

Crowdfunding: top

  1. Timism has a Crowdfunding page for people to pledge funds to start Chocolate Vanilla Aborists. Pledgers can use their donation in total for any future tree service.

Fees/Payments: top

  1. Estimates are given up front. Final fee is determined by the time spent on the job by the Chocolate Vanilla Arborists plus 33% for equipment repair and replacement. A breakdown of fees are included in the final bill. The "plus" percentage will be adjusted based on analysis of costs.
  2. Homeowner can assist in minor activities, removing limbs on ground, to reduce time costed fees (must have homeowners insurance in case of accident.)

Homebase Expansion: top
The initial Chocolate Vanilla Arborists will be based in Richmond, Virginia. Thereafter, satellite processes will be set up in other regions of the company from which offsprings will be created as the process is standardized. Tapes and manuals from on-line sources will be referenced for training purposes with a career ladder established from tree monkey to team leader.

Disaster Service: top

After natural disaster, the Chocolate Vanilla Arborists will be hired by the power companies and municipalities to remove trees for rapid return to normal community activities. As is, arborists are called in from other cities, states and, even, Canada. This external call-in results in higher disaster costs and longer disaster delays.

Preventative cutting: With droughts increasing, it would be good for trees if they were de-crowned, that is, remove the third of the tree so it does not need as much water to remain viable but its shading/cooling diameter remains intact. Trees would survive better and longer.

Summary of what Chocolate Vanilla Arborists does: top

  1. Puts vets to work.
  2. Cuts the cost of cradle-to-grave tree management by 50%.
  3. Cuts insurance costs.
  4. Cuts electricity costs.
  5. Speeds up recovery from natural disasters.
  6. Reclaims carbon in a renewable manner with an energy bonus compared to rotting in the ground or in a garbage dump.
  7. Helps, most importantly, retard or reverse global warming.

Why vets get first chance: top

  1. Personal repayment--While I did not pay in full my debt, the military training, honorable discharge and GI Bill was the beginning of the good life for me.
  2. As the existential meltdown accelerates from climate chaos destroying the biomass and foodchain, military personnel who know the system will take care of them first and foremost will be less likely to take, as has been the case many times, the steps to a military dictatorship to preserve law and order so they get their survival items.
  3. While I think horribly of the Veterans Affair Administration, my concern for the vets is unqualified. It is a akin to how one should support the troops but not the political decision to misuse them.
  4. Note: Some personal friends will hired into the first startup because of my knowledge of their technical and managerial skills as well as work ethic. All employees in the prooving out initial team will receive a one-year lifehour credit bonus after one-year of "good conduct" service. Any demerits cuts the bonus in half, e.g., late to work, intoxicated, drug-use, domestic abuse. (I believe working with vets gives a vet another avenue to decompress from military service as well as an understanding of PTSD.)