SD–CON–08 · United States · not scoped to any state · proposal and work contract
44-page contract · 14 sections · plus fill-in checklist, how-to guide and sources · 87 pages across 4 files
A protected tree came down and nobody had asked the city, or a wire nobody had identified came down with it.
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A removal proposal and work contract for a tree service company or an independent arborist, with the four pages the commodity versions leave out: a 28-line hazard assessment written down before the price is agreed, a permit-verification record for protected and heritage trees that names the office, the person and the date, a property and utility-line damage waiver signed on its own page before the first cut, and a debris and stump-grinding addendum with a measured depth rather than a promise. 1,024 fill-in blanks across 15 sections. It states no clearance distance, no voltage and no approach rule, and names no protected species, size threshold or permit fee anywhere: whose conductor that is comes from the utility that owns it, and whether that tree may be cut comes from the city. It cites no regulation.
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Businesses like yours usually start with these. It is where a trade starts, not a complete legal inventory of everything it could ever be asked for — no list on any website is that. Every line below says where it came from.
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Landscaping & lawn careEleven items on the list, two of them a multi-file kit rather than a single document. You are looking at one of them. We sell eight of the other ten; two we do not have yet.
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Named because leaving them out would make the list look complete when it is not. Tell us which one you need and it goes on the build queue with your trade attached.
REGA regulator asks for this.
40 CFR 171.101
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Your state can add to this. We have written down two places where this trade’s set differs from one state to the next. What we sell is written to the federal baseline, and a state that runs its own programme can ask for more than the federal rule does. We have already written the difference down for California.
Print this checklistTree service / arboristNine items on the list, two of them a multi-file kit rather than a single document. You are looking at one of them. We sell six of the other eight; two we do not have yet.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
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OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
Named because leaving them out would make the list look complete when it is not. Tell us which one you need and it goes on the build queue with your trade attached.
REGA regulator asks for this, and which one depends on your state.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
Your state can add to this. We have written down one place where this trade’s set differs from one state to the next. What we sell is written to the federal baseline, and a state that runs its own programme can ask for more than the federal rule does.
Print this checklistInside the file
01The contract itself, 15 sections with 1,024 fill-in fields, as a fill-in PDF you can type into
02A 24-question page on the rules where you work, plus a 20-line record of exactly what the utility told you about this address, with a name, a date and a reference number
03A 24-area site survey and a 28-line hazard-assessment checklist, each with a photograph reference against every row
04A 26-line permit-verification record and a per-tree permit status table, filled before the work is scheduled
05A 14-row tree inventory that numbers every tree once and carries that number through the schedule, the permit record and the invoice
06A debris and stump-grinding addendum with a measured depth per stump, and a page saying in advance what grinding does not do
07An 18-line property protection plan, a pre-work condition record, and a damage-waiver page that arrives blank by design, structured for the paragraph your own lawyer writes
08A priced schedule, an invoice, a change-order log, a per-day site record and a 14-line completion walkthrough
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Section 4 is a permit-verification record filled before the work is scheduled: which office was asked, the name of the person who answered, the date, exactly what was asked and answered, the reference number, and the permit number and expiry. A per-tree status table follows. It names no protected species, size threshold or fee for anywhere.
No. It contains no clearance distance, no voltage and no rule about who may approach a line, because those answers come from the utility that owns the conductor, per line and per job. Section 1.5 records what the utility told you, who told you, the date and the reference number.
Stump by stump, measured from the surrounding grade rather than judged. The addendum records each stump's diameter, the depth to be ground, what happens to the grindings, the backfill and the price, and the depth achieved goes on the completion sheet. A separate page says in advance what grinding does not do.
A 28-line checklist worked at the tree, not at the truck, before the price is agreed: dead or hanging limbs, previous failures, cavities, decay, cracks, included bark, lean, root plate movement and more. Each line records what you saw and what it changes, and a line that does not apply is written NOT SEEN.
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These are the real rules this plan is built on. Every citation was read against the published text on the date shown above, and each link goes to the official source, not to a summary.
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