Climbing Kit, Loler and the Sole Trader, Whats the Point?

[skyhuck]

£90.... I have a climbing kit and a lowering kit inspected and it was £200!

 

2x climbing 1x rigging ropes, harness, ascender, strop and the usual array or Prussiks, karabiners and other shines things.

 

I'm happy with the service I get, I'm just interested in what the £90 lower covers

 

Its £110 lower, not £90

[leswold]

I don't bother, not a bravado thing mind.

 

I'm not the worlds most masculine man, but I know what I am.

[Pete Mctree]

So what should people be charging for a inspections?

Everyone complains that they don't earn enough as people treat them like glorified gardeners, so where does that leave the inspectors?

Guess we are just taking cash out of people's pockets for messing around with there stinking lot & receiving abuse because we fail it because it is only 10 years old & has been frayed like that for the last 6!!!

(Rant over)

[eggsarascal]

So what should people be charging for a inspections?

Everyone complains that they don't earn enough as people treat them like glorified gardeners, so where does that leave the inspectors?

Guess we are just taking cash out of people's pockets for messing around with there stinking lot & receiving abuse because we fail it because it is only 10 years old & has been frayed like that for the last 6!!!

(Rant over)

 

You're getting your self in a muddle Pete. When you want a service/purchase you want rock bottom prices, when you are providing a service/product you want top end money.

[agrimog]

everyone seems to be missing an important point here, the inspection calls for a compitent person, go and read what H&S deem as a copitent person, a lot of inspectors will be starting to look for other jobs. I have been through this with a crane fitted to a mog, put a timber grab on it......its a loader, no loller reqd, put a hook on it, its a crane, loller reqd, who can do the loller ? a compitent person, as an owner operator, I am deemed to be a compitent person and can carry out the loller, bur H&S would rather I didnt, note, not cant not do it, just rather I wouldnt, getting confused yet ?....... go back to the start of everything H&S say....its an ADVISORY statement, ie they wont commit to anything preferring to leave it to someone else to make a desicion. so as a one man climbing operation, are you compitent to loller your own gear......yes, in the eyes of big brother YOU ARE A COMPITENT PERSON ........dont believe me, look it up for yourself

[Stubby]

There is no point, which is why I don't do it.

 

The same . Never done it .

[markieg31]

The same . Never done it .

 

Its that sort of attitude that is killing my beer fund!!

[Stubby]

Its that sort of attitude that is killing my beer fund!!

 

My mate still climbs in an old Willans T22 that he bought in 1987

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

everyone seems to be missing an important point here, the inspection calls for a compitent person, go and read what H&S deem as a copitent person, a lot of inspectors will be starting to look for other jobs. I have been through this with a crane fitted to a mog, put a timber grab on it......its a loader, no loller reqd, put a hook on it, its a crane, loller reqd, who can do the loller ? a compitent person, as an owner operator, I am deemed to be a compitent person and can carry out the loller, bur H&S would rather I didnt, note, not cant not do it, just rather I wouldnt, getting confused yet ?....... go back to the start of everything H&S say....its an ADVISORY statement, ie they wont commit to anything preferring to leave it to someone else to make a desicion. so as a one man climbing operation, are you compitent to loller your own gear......yes, in the eyes of big brother YOU ARE A COMPITENT PERSON ........dont believe me, look it up for yourself

 

 

Like it! 👍🏻

 

TAKE responsibility rather than outsourcing it!

[markieg31]

My mate still climbs in an old Willans T22 that he bought in 1987

 

so much material i would be surprised if it ever dies