Price this up please.

[Hats]

Sorry I havnt replied for a bit I've not had PC access. Thank you very much everyone for your time and detailed opinions it's really appreciated. H

[Mark Bolam]

Ex BT guy, there's only a couple of live wires involved Mark (or so I'm told), you must have money to burn:001_tt2:

 

I get £600 for 30 mins work mate.

I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams.

 

Feel sorry for my ex-BT mate as well, he can only afford a 5-series BMW.

 

I try and help when I can.

 

 

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[luftwaffe]

I get £600 for 30 mins work mate.

I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams.

 

Feel sorry for my ex-BT mate as well, he can only afford a 5-series BMW.

 

I try and help when I can.

 

 

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If i quoted £600 for doing that work i would be just laughed at, the farmer who owns the trees would do the job themselves by getting the Merlo telescopic handler with his mate standing in bucket hacking away at the trees with others clearing up the the fallen sticks on the road.

 

I am gobsmacked at the some of the rates being quoted on Arbtalk...i have a 5-6 ton big spruce to fell and clear to do soon, to which i quoated £275 for, the looks on their faces implied i am a rip off merchant. People here in wales wether local or incomers dont like to part with their money and to help bring down the cost will get their whole family etc to help drag the brash and clear up. ..funny old world.. cheers.

[Hodge]

If i quoted £600 for doing that work i would be just laughed at, the farmer who owns the trees would do the job themselves by getting the Merlo telescopic handler with his mate standing in bucket hacking away at the trees with others clearing up the the fallen sticks on the road.

 

 

 

I am gobsmacked at the some of the rates being quoted on Arbtalk...i have a 5-6 ton big spruce to fell and clear to do soon, to which i quoated £275 for, the looks on their faces implied i am a rip off merchant. People here in wales wether local or incomers dont like to part with their money and to help bring down the cost will get their whole family etc to help drag the brash and clear up. ..funny old world.. cheers.

 

 

Surely your running costs dictate a big part of your costs?

[skyhuck]

Surely your running costs dictate a big part of your costs?

 

I'm not sure some operate their business in this what seems to us logical fashion, I am constantly hearing on the news about dairy farmers who continue to produce milk at an apparent loss :confused1:

[Hodge]

I'm not sure some operate their business in this what seems to us logical fashion, I am constantly hearing on the news about dairy farmers who continue to produce milk at an apparent loss :confused1:

 

 

Doesn't the tax payer make up the short fall there?

[luftwaffe]

Surely your running costs dictate a big part of your costs?

 

Well there isnt much cost on this particular job with me on the saw, and four of them dragging brash using the excuse that they have like to do that sort of thing, but the truth is that they will drag the brash to keep the cost down.

[skyhuck]

Well there isnt much cost on this particular job with me on the saw, and four of them dragging brash using the excuse that they have like to do that sort of thing, but the truth is that they will drag the brash to keep the cost down.

 

So you are talking about £275 for just you and a saw, the prices you say you are shocked by are for several men and machinery.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

If i quoted £600 for doing that work i would be just laughed at, the farmer who owns the trees would do the job themselves by getting the Merlo telescopic handler with his mate standing in bucket hacking away at the trees with others clearing up the the fallen sticks on the road.

 

I am gobsmacked at the some of the rates being quoted on Arbtalk...i have a 5-6 ton big spruce to fell and clear to do soon, to which i quoated £275 for, the looks on their faces implied i am a rip off merchant. People here in wales wether local or incomers dont like to part with their money and to help bring down the cost will get their whole family etc to help drag the brash and clear up. ..funny old world.. cheers.

 

Get a grip man! Of course they'll laugh at you, they'll try and make you work for peanuts, just laugh back and tell them you dance to your tune not somebody else's.

 

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[Mark Bolam]

So you are talking about £275 for just you and a saw, the prices you say you are shocked by are for several men and machinery.

 

That's you told you rip-off merchant!

 

Hucks right, I have to factor in the cost of my chauffeur driving me away in my Range Rover afterwards.

 

Smoking a cigar.

Have you seen the price of decent cigars these days?

 

 

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