One liners from customers

[Gray git]

I dred the "while your here could you just..."

The best reply iv come up with is- no problem, do you wont it on the same invoice or invoicing separately?

[firewoodman]

whilst crown lifting street trees, resident comes out and says "can you take that branch off? the one right there. thats the one that drops all the leaves in my garden"

 

nothing to do with the other 20 trees in the street then!

[firewoodman]

" when i bought it the label said dwarf conifer"

[dazlog]

When they look the chipper over, then say ,could you put the mother`n law through that thing:001_cool:

[Frank]

"Are you not scared of heights??

[Mr. Bish]

I've not been doing this too long yet for the one liners to really grate. Some of the common ones seem to be the same as the rest of you. Apart from

 

"How low can you cut it?"

"can you dig around it and take it lower?"

 

Last one I offered some special chips that would cover it over nicely so that he wouldn't have to look at it. He said yes :-)

[Ian Leach]

Went to do a quote the customer was cuckoo, the quote got excepted and she said hold on a minute. I waited and she come out with a cheque said here you go:confused1:. I said i haven't even done the work yet you shouldn't give out Money like that.

Certain people these days would have taken the cheque and ran.

 

Another one, Hot sunny day doing a conifier hedge and the customer comes out and says I'll be out for the rest of the day the house is open help yourselves to tea, coffee, sarny. Oh and also sit down in the front room its really cool and shady in there. The whole house would be full of conifier the dry stuff that chaffes everywhere.

I turned around and said no thanks for the offer i would preffer if you lock everything up.

[A_lopa]

We had another big tree cut down and blah blah blah

[Scottie]

Thought of another one. "I was a forester in my time and I would paint the cuts, do you still do that?

[treewizard]

had a customer phone my office to say the stump hasnt been treated because it hasnt got black paint on it, and he use to be in trees and he can tell