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Dean Lofthouse

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  1. Wanstronian... If you are near me I will gladly give you FOC a bulk bag of two year undercover seasoned mixed hardwood, guaranteed on or below 22% moisture content Just to set the standard so you know what to expect
  2. You'd get more work in calling your company, "We know nothing about Trees but we are cheap Tree Services Ltd"
  3. I take all the conny out of the logpile and save it for myself. A chap the other week asked me for a load of just Oak, this week he asked for another load but asked me for a mixed load as the oak burnt too slow
  4. Carl, it is very very rare you will get a response to a thread like this from me. All I can say to Wanstronian is if you distrust a seller of logs so badly, go and see the load of logs at the sellers yard. See before you buy, always the best way. Then if you are happy with your load of logs and they burn well, stick with your supplier and dont be tempted to go elsewhere if someone offers a cheaper deal.
  5. Actually you asked if a navara level load was a cube, you then went to the trouble of visiting the Nissan website for the spec of a navara, which you then presumably sat down with a calculator and worked out the volume. You forgot to figure in the wheel arches so asked about them and how far they protrude, not satisfied you visited the local supermarket where a navara was parked and took a nosey to figure in this detail. Still not satisfied you asked about airgaps in the load , then went on to phone the seller to ask if they were in the pickup or in a bag in the pickup. Then you went on to start a whole thread on how you recognise ash because the seller described the load as "mainly ash" What you have to have in life is a bit of trust and not treat everyone as they are going to rip you off. Most of the users of this website are logsellers and if you take time to read through the numerous threads on logs you will relaise that most of them do their best to give the customer value for money, me especailly. You come across as the typical steriotypical nightmare customer. Have a little faith in people and they may have a little faith in you, you go through life with such deep distrust and it will come back and bite you on the ass. BTW if you ask for a pint of guiness and receive half a pint of weal lager, complain. Something I'm sure you will excel at
  6. It is a problem to me though, because as a log supplier I have to sit and explain to people over and over . I have spent 14 years in the harshest retail eviroment known to man, dealing with up to a 1000 customers a day, all whom are penny pinching and after something for nothing. Two rules to follow Cheap generally means rubbish Dear doesn't neccessarily mean your getting ripped off By all means ask, but you have gone a bit overboard imo and it is only my opinion
  7. Oiu oiu monseuir. It wouldn't look good on the CV !!
  8. Hey...I've got some gloves exactly like those !!!!!!! Come to think of it, them wooden leg pads look familiar
  9. Chipboard and laminates have glue and plastic in or on them which choke your chimney eventually and then set on fire
  10. I sort out any conifer in my log stash and keep it for myself, it makes my stove glow Conifer is tops
  11. Not being funny but I have read your posts.....if you are so paranoid about volume, type, price and whether you are being ripped off or not I would sell your stove and go back to gas Best advise is buy a load, if you are not happy dont buy off that supplier again, when you do find a supplier you are happy with, stick with him
  12. I carry four pieces of wood about 2ft long which are double thickness scaffold boards, they have worked a treat in all conditions
  13. I have a load of Sapele parquet flooring and I sorted the rubbish out and it made my stove glow almost white hot
  14. Most of it is the hoops I have to jump through for trying to be a good employer by putting my groundy through college
  15. Let the statistics speak for themselves. One cutomer in a thousand doesn't warrant the extra hassle plus you know when you price the job if they are pratts so over price the ones you dont want
  16. I'm a very trusting person, I do get shite on and used every now and again but I find it is mainly family members that abuse your trust
  17. If you are doing mainly domestic then I dont think it's worth it, there's enough paperwork. Most jobs are one day or sometimes half a day. If we were talking big jobs lasting 3 to 4 days then yes, but we are talking piddly little domestic work which isn't such a big loss losing the money for one day out of a years worth of work. I've had one awkward customer in 4 years, hardly worth the effort. Contracts are because of lack of trust
  18. I think asking people to sign things puts them off. They need to trust you as much as you need to trust them. Out of the last 1000 jobs I have done, I have only had one that did exactly the same as Grahams client 4 posts above. The only difference is he told me over the phone, but he instantly paid when I knocked on his door. Is it really worth showing distrust of everyone of your clients for the sake of one in a thousand. I'd only request a contract on large jobs or jobs for the construction industry
  19. I use ladders a huge amount on domestic work. If you work on big trees all the time I can see no need for them unless you are ascending 15 -20 trees a day deadwooding. I have used ladders to access a conifer up the outside and up through the inside. I use step ladders almost daily for hedge trimming and for small fruit tree pruning. Ladders dont make you look less professional, they are essentail in some cases, extremely efficeint in others and in some cases the job cant be done without them
  20. Some skiing footage in awkward lighting conditions, the footage I had previous to these two was on a sunny day and you could make out all the marks in the snow, excellent quality footage from a relatively cheap headcam. In the second vid there's a bit of water on the lens after my tumble at 4.20 in vid one [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFCdmIVB_PU&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - Skiing part 2 the fall[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyYxCffwthg&feature=channel]YouTube - part 4 last_0001.wmv[/ame]

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