Woohoo it's my first time / Boohoo it's my last time

[Woodworks]

It's the last time I get sucked into giving a fixed price for a job for a vague job. I asked advise on here and everyone said just give a day rate and I did not heed the advise. Worked Monday and Tuesday for nada as have to pay assistant who wisely only works on a day rate. Lesson learned

[Mat]

That's the problem with being a 'certain' age. I did all the good stuff before we started carrying little cameras about everywhere.

 

I did once find a live flare whist messing about on the firing ranges on Dartmoor. I think it was called a smueley or something.

 

Let that off one dark night - don't think I would do that again even if I had the chance..... phosphorus burns on the skin would not be a good look!

[Rich2484]

That's the problem with being a 'certain' age. I did all the good stuff before we started carrying little cameras about everywhere.

 

I did once find a live flare whist messing about on the firing ranges on Dartmoor. I think it was called a smueley or something.

 

Let that off one dark night - don't think I would do that again even if I had the chance..... phosphorus burns on the skin would not be a good look!

 

ah now these i get to play with still as we have these on the boat, but they are called illumination flares they do burn white, and play with them when we need to remind ourselves how they work.

[Mat]

It's the last time I get sucked into giving a fixed price for a job for a vague job. I asked advise on here and everyone said just give a day rate and I did not heed the advise. Worked Monday and Tuesday for nada as have to pay assistant who wisely only works on a day rate. Lesson learned

 

Gutted. Last time I did that I had bought in a now lowering rope for the occasion, and also hired in a better chipper.

 

The customer paid in cash (a result) but I remember handing out the £20 to all interested parties until there were none left for me. Maybe its a Devon thing, because coming to think of it, that job was at Belstone on North Dartmoor.

 

Anyway woodworks, how is the weather in Devon currently - expecting a nice mild winter

[Woodworks]

"Anyway woodworks, how is the weather in Devon currently - expecting a nice mild winter "

 

Pissing it down today and probably will until April/May as is the case for this part of the world. Mild yes dry no but the logs sell regardless

[Mat]

ah now these i get to play with still as we have these on the boat, but they are called illumination flares they do burn white, and play with them when we need to remind ourselves how they work.

 

I guess if you get to mess about on an unsinkable boat, letting a flare off is a bit tame.

 

Do you Lifeboat boys get the chance to go out or do training in different areas?

 

I reckon that a gale and choppy sea in the Bristol Channel or Irish sea would be a bit different to dodging ferries around Dover.

[Mat]

"Anyway woodworks, how is the weather in Devon currently - expecting a nice mild winter "

 

Pissing it down today and probably will until April/May as is the case for this part of the world. Mild yes dry no but the logs sell regardless

 

You can't beat a good fire indoors, especially when the rain is falling horizontally outdoors:001_smile:

[leafcut]

Most of us do it, the helmet is left out front near the chipper, we have a break in the sun in the back garden then see a limb or bush that needs a quick cut-"h it,ll be ok not take me a minute"what happens, no visor, got piece of sh**e in the left eye and low and behold green gammy gunk thismorning, thats the last time I cut without my helmet/visor down, nuff said I think lol...Nick Pearson, Timberline-Roe Ltd.