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A job for a couple who'd had a protracted court case to get eighty 60' Leylandii removed. Cost them 20k in costs. My mate and I did them after finishing our contract work at 6pm one summer evening. I felled the middle one out onto their neighbour's lawn and then we both felled moving out to each end. Ended up with the most enormous, tangled pile ever:001_smile:

 

We then sat in the client's garden admiring the new view over the gorge popping champagne corks. Straight to my head it went and ran the truck into the back of a car on the way home.

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Continuing the alcohol theme. We were taking a Lombardy down for a chap. He was very impressed and brought us a bottle of his birch wine at breakfast. We drank it with our snap:001_smile: Needless to say the job went a little awry with much laughing and swinging about with the 020!

 

This was the Levi's for climbing era though.

 

Another time we were pruning trees for a private school. They overhung a fence and the other side of the fence was a huge rambling veg plot. There was a shed where a chap who looked like Wurzel Gummidge lived.

 

A lovely recluse who made his own cider and wanted the logs. Swaps were done and as it was a hot summer's day we drank it. Like the above it went awry and I don't think the fence ever looked the same. Wurzel didn't mind and we made it home.

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Continuing the alcohol theme. We were taking a Lombardy down for a chap. He was very impressed and brought us a bottle of his birch wine at breakfast. We drank it with our snap:001_smile: Needless to say the job went a little awry with much laughing and swinging about with the 020!

 

This was the Levi's for climbing era though.

 

Another time we were pruning trees for a private school. They overhung a fence and the other side of the fence was a huge rambling veg plot. There was a shed where a chap who looked like Wurzel Gummidge lived.

 

A lovely recluse who made his own cider and wanted the logs. Swaps were done and as it was a hot summer's day we drank it. Like the above it went awry and I don't think the fence ever looked the same. Wurzel didn't mind and we made it home.

 

I want to work with you lol

 

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I want to work with you lol

 

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I've always been of the opinion that if a client offers you alcohol then it's rude not to drink it:biggrin:

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Can't beat a bit of drinking on the job! I remember a few summers ago- nice hot sunny weather and we were putting up a stock fence far out of public eye on the moors. Out came the fosters, we were camping on the job too . Happy days!

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I've always been of the opinion that if a client offers you alcohol then it's rude not to drink it:biggrin:

 

Very true its the polite thing to do. Lol

 

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June last year i had a root pulling job at a lovely indian couples house got there at 8 and started work on removing two oak roots and a lime root. At 9.30 had a pone call from the husband to say his wife and mother in law were making lunch at 12. I was expecting a sandwich and a coffee. 12 o clock come and the wife came out set the garden table for me and my two staff and treated us to a home cooked curry. The only problem was there was no meat in the food but it was still good food.

 

 

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

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The only problem was there was no meat in the food but it was still good food.

 

 

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The finest veggie cuisine in the world AND YR STILL NOT HAPPY........

 

Some people......

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