Rich Rule

I can see you point about the wages. I started on 43 pound a day and had to get my own PPE out of that. That was a few years ago though. I think you need to change your mindset a bit. You say you want to climb? The best groundies are lads who can climb imo and the best climbers are people who have done their time on the ground. Instead of thinking about how hard you are working and what you are getting paid every month. Appreciate the point that other people have already brought up about lack of experience etc. Look at it as though you are getting paid in valuable experience. You are learning to do the job from the ground up and have a goal to become a climber. It just so happens that they are paying you 18 g a year for the opportunity to learn. If you stick at it and keep your head down. Every day is a learning day, even if you just learn how not to do something, you will be a better person for it. The money will come with experience. Is your glass half full or half empty? Change the way you think about your situation and everything will be ok. Good luck.

Mackenzie?

Nice. I take it you are in Oz with a setup like that?

That book was written 10 years ago. The 1st of May 2021 was 2 days ago.

Genius

Reminds me of my dad in the 70's and 80's. Numerous Maxwell House coffee jars, each with different types of screws, nuts, bolts, washers etc. I used to think it was a bit excessive. I am 47 this year, I now know where he was coming from.

I test drove one here as my lease was up. Lovely truck and drove well, bags of power. I ended up buying my 2018 model off dealer for the time being but will get the 2.8 in time.

What’s up? Flux capacitor gone again?

So, approx a 30% increase when you retire. How did you get on @Steve Bullman?

So spill the beans. What’s your retired weight then?

Into his bed.

Any of you UR’ers read David Goggins? The guy is a comic book animal. His book Can’t hurt Me is a great read, if you enjoy audiobooks it is even better in that format

I am miles away at the other side of the country. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to interfere.

Ooh, I feel a bromance blossoming!

It takes two to tango and both sound like arseholes IMO.

Thanks, I think 😜

They were in such a bad state, tbh I didn’t care what they looked like as long as we didn’t break a headstone or put one of the legs of the MEWP through a grave.

You mean the MEWP or the topping... cough, cough, I meant Pollarding?

As I mentioned earlier, we have been in a Graveyard for 4 days. Pollarding 10 Crack willows. The spec is purely based on safety and the trees will more than likely be removed in the next couple of years. Hangars galore, big tear outs of limbs and deadwood throughout the canopy. We had a 29m MEWP onsite, which made the job somewhat safer but there were still plenty of targets to avoid. Gravestones and the small gardens mourners have around them. Today was a bitch. Blowing a gale and pieces were going everywhere. 3-4 rows of graves away. We managed to get everything down with only one piece of damage. One of the repeater lights on the MEWP clipped a stone and broke the lense. I didn't get a picture before but you can see the state of the last one we tackled today. BTW, Pallets stacked up against the gravestones helped a lot.

What does that mean? I thought you worked for railway, or power lines or some other utilities type co.

I have been in a graveyard for the last 3 days. Crack willows that were rotten and falling to bits. There were breakouts and snapped limbs within the canopy. We have pollarded 9 of them and the last one tomorrow. Luckily, we have had a 29m MEWP. High pressure indeed, with gravestones everywhere. The tree work aint pretty but at least they are safe for now. The church will see how they respond with a possibility for felling them in future. I haven't taken any pictures as yet, but will grab a couple tomorrow.

Why 192? Just a random figure to persuade them or is there a reason?

I don’t think I have seen them advertised as groundwork boots, anywhere. Why were you insulted at the offer of 10% discount? You could have just returned them at your own cost and bought some different boots. Look on the bright side, you have a comfy pair of boots for wearing.

I have a bit of bitcoin already, aswell as a couple of other currencies. Just wondered if I could transfer the doge into etc for use elsewhere as I don't use the free wallet app and cannot log into it.

Not the end of the world I guess. The 200 you transferred is worth 640nok About 60 quid.