Day rate for a groundie......

[Mark Bolam]

My Stella induced tuppence worth tonight....

 

My groundie Stevo is ticketed, intelligent, picks new stuff up straight away, can run all the rigging, set up, clear up and grafts like a dog.

 

He is well worth £150 S/E on a £400-£450 day.

 

BUT - some days we take a lot less due to weather, poor pricing etc.

 

£150 out of a £200 thick end doesn't leave me and my £40k worth of kit a lot does it?

 

SO - he doesn't get £150 a day, but I wish he did. So does he!

[tommer9]

My Stella induced tuppence worth tonight....

 

My groundie Stevo is ticketed, intelligent, picks new stuff up straight away, can run all the rigging, set up, clear up and grafts like a dog.

 

He is well worth £150 S/E on a £400-£450 day.

 

BUT - some days we take a lot less due to weather, poor pricing etc.

 

£150 out of a £200 thick end doesn't leave me and my £40k worth of kit a lot does it?

 

SO - he doesn't get £150 a day, but I wish he did. So does he!

 

Its a good job somebody in your firm is:lol:

[farmer_ben]

My Stella induced tuppence worth tonight....

 

My groundie Stevo is ticketed, intelligent, picks new stuff up straight away, can run all the rigging, set up, clear up and grafts like a dog.

 

He is well worth £150 S/E on a £400-£450 day.

 

BUT - some days we take a lot less due to weather, poor pricing etc.

 

£150 out of a £200 thick end doesn't leave me and my £40k worth of kit a lot does it?

 

SO - he doesn't get £150 a day, but I wish he did. So does he!

 

nice post that mark, appreciation from the boss is worth alot of ££££ in my eyes

[farmer_ben]

I have 2 very good, hard working chaps who help me with firewood. For 8 hours they get £100, so around £12ph. I trust them and they just get on with it. They can have breaks when they want and we normally stop for some sort of hot lunch on the stove.

 

I know they aren't groundies but just having my say. If self employed I really cant see the point of working an 8 hr day for less than £12. I like to think my 2 chaps enjoy the work, they get free firewood and I'm normally the first one buying the beers and food in the pub. Establishing 3 new businesses at once has really worn me done, but at least these 2 can run the firewood for me and ease the worry there

[felixthelogchopper]

I have 2 very good, hard working chaps who help me with firewood. For 8 hours they get £100, so around £12ph. I trust them and they just get on with it. They can have breaks when they want and we normally stop for some sort of hot lunch on the stove.

 

I know they aren't groundies but just having my say. If self employed I really cant see the point of working an 8 hr day for less than £12. I like to think my 2 chaps enjoy the work, they get free firewood and I'm normally the first one buying the beers and food in the pub. Establishing 3 new businesses at once has really worn me done, but at least these 2 can run the firewood for me and ease the worry there

 

Here you have hit the nail on the head. Trust is priceless in this situation. There is more to a worker than tickets. I get a high wage if you only look at my qualifications on paper but the guys I work for know they can leave me to deal with everything on the ground while they get on with the actual job up the tree. They trust me with handling rigging out as happily as they trust me with dealing with the customer and general public on the ground ( nearly 20 yrs in the casino business has some uses ). They know I will treat their kit with the same care as I would my own and they know that if I don't know something, I won't blag it. Most importantly of all, they know I will work as hard for their business as I do my own. But then again, I only work for people I like so that trust has to be a two way thing.

[Will Ayers]

the appreciation from the boss is key to success, you'll be happy earning whatever, to a degree, if you feel like you achieved and done a good days work.

 

the other day i reduced a load of lombardy poplars and then a whopper of a lime, by the time i'd fannied around in the tree tidying up and getting hangers out, it was properly dark, the boss turned up and said what a cracking job i had done and that i had done better than he expected. maybe it was just because it was dark and he couldnt see, but either way it made me proud and i didnt begrudge working late.

 

the groundie i was with got a hand shake from me for a cracking days work and we all went home happy. if the boss hadn't of showed his appreciation i could of gone home feeling tired and rubbish!