Rich Rule

@Mike Hill Any ideas?

Is the chain sharp enough?

Or AT&T installing the state of the art telephony system in the Nazi party and Hitlers headquarters. War is good for business... apparently!

Yes, a quiet night, few beers and a bite to eat can soon make you become a couple hundred quid lighter.

There are good a bad folks everywhere as we all know. I spent 6.5 months travelling around the US in ‘97. I met some right strokers and I met some really cool people. However, as with a lot of Americans views bigger is better. The strokers were really bad and the cool kids were exceptionally cool. I worked with one guy who told me regularly that they had won the war against the brits. One day I got fed up of him going on about, so I told him to his face.... ’you keep going in about a war as if it was a big event. That’s because the US has little to no history, unlike Europe, so you were clinging onto minute facts. When in reality you tipped a load of tea in a Harbour a said it was a war. Mere skirmishes at best. Where as in the UK we’re taught that we realised all the criminals had been shipped off to Oz and all the idiots to the America’s. It dawned on us that it was a nation of idiots so we gave it back...’ i thought the redneck was gonna try and kill me until I couldn’t keep a straight face anymore and almost pissed myself laughing. ???

I think you wrote it Daniel.

Free mate. Get with the times. Trees are everywhere, how can you have the brass neck to think you can charge for them. One of the trees I took down for him was an oak. Half the tree was dead standing. He got a load of logs, cut to 30cm. Bear in mind Silver Birch is seen as a premium firewood here... 1700 NOk for a pallet. A pallet of mixed is 1500. Mixed consists of goat willow, aspen, and 3 pine and 3 spruce logs. I left premium oak, which if they actually realised how good oak, elm and beech is... for a pallet I should be charging 2 million NOk.

It also gives them the opportunity to cherry pick jobs between contractors to try and reduce the price again. nip that shit in the bud before they get started.

I live in Norway mate. I just used a rough estimate of 10nok to the quid. So one day onsite with 2 men and chipper was 11500nok plus vat. The second day, 2 men and chipper 11500nok plus vat. It costs a lot more to live here. Wages are higher and at 3.50 quid for a loaf of bread you would go very hungry and very quick if you charged UK prices.

I know mate. I even asked if he wanted a written quote. He declined but I almost sent it regardless, then something came up. He paid and I half expected him to cancel the second day but was all up for it. But yes, next time I will follow your advise and my own intuition. it wasn’t so much the vat issue, more the fact he expected 4000nok approx 400 quid to pay both mine and my helpers wages. He has no excuse as he used to own a Ltd. Company before he sold it to a huge multi national. He knows how much employees cost in this country and taxes etc. He is just oblivious to anything other than sitting behind a keyboard.

I hardly every use my rings. Have the beast rings spliced up in a whoopie config and a couple of eye to eye types. Probably due to the knot on my rigging line being impossible to remove, I tend to plum for the Rigging block and redirect pulleys.

I had a guy last week, who used to rent a flat from me. Had a catch-up, walk around and talked through removing quite a few trees. Estimated at 2 days with two men on site each day. He agreed and asked the price. I told him 500 per man per day, chipper will be 150 plus vat. Total 1150 plus vat at 25%. I got in there last week and cracked on got the first part of the job done and afterwards I explained I would send the invoice so it will be in February’s accounts. He agreed. I get an email that night, offering the advise that if I quote someone verbally it has to be inclusive of vat. So he was expecting 2 men on site for a day for 400 plus vat at 25% making the bill 500. Not the 1437.50. i explained everything that I had said during the quoting stage and his response was he must have missed the plus Vat bit... what about the rest he chose to ingore? Extra man, chipper and plus Vat? Anyway, I am booked in for the second day this Thursday. He seemed ok when I explained the lot to him... But really, expecting two men on Site and machinery for 400 quid and having to pay the wages of the groundie?

I see the petzl / Kit Kat wrapper combo has failed again... Glad the climber wasn’t seriously hurt.

That’s a pie mate. A growler is something totally different where I come from. I thought you meant you had had a bit of the Singaporeans growler at that exact spot.

Congratulations Steve and family.

I would agree 100%. I have trained Muay Thai since the mid 90’s and did BJJ for a few years since I moved to Norway. Nothing better IMO than a sparring session at the end of the week to reduce stress. As for the BJJ being safer, I am still sporting a sore knee I picked up when I twisted it grappling. That was about 2 years ago. Other than that, learning a new skill, especially MA is akin to water and a sponge. I try and soak up as much as possible.

Far too complicated for a knot Luddite such as myself Ben. Ill stick to my single line thanks.

Lawrence Shutltz will teach you every thing you need to know and more. So much content. Subscribe and just stream the episodes. Or download to watch later. The final chapter shows him working a big tree with normal doubled rope and then does the same simulated climb but SRT.

Paul, if you are dabbling in SRT. I can highly recommend the Schultz effect. Best 40USD you will ever spend.

True. TBH I have seen lots of really good comp climbers who are great at getting round a tree. It doesn’t necessarily mean they are good tree workers. Treework isn’t a simulation of comp climbing it is the other way around. So being good at one doesn’t mean they are good at the other. Yes, I am generalising and there are always exceptions. I have never met Jo in person, seen her compete, seen her working or even teaching. A lot of things are taught at college. Basically that is where the learning starts, ie when you actually start doing work. The best for of learning is through experience, unless you are a dunce. The brighter dunce will pickup on titbits if information handed down by old timers. Sadly, there are not that many old school tree workers left. The job still used to get done without all the shiny bling, bling crap.

I dont believe Boel is a world champion.

I’ve got long legs so only seem to catch the back of my leg with a 20” inch bar.

It is cryptic. He was referring to someone being a C yoU Next Tuesday. Bit harsh I feel. To whom were you referring?