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Dean Lofthouse

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  1. Dean Lofthouse
    Haha...There are more negatives than positives to being self employed Rossy, like 18 hour days pricing jobs at night, Sat and Sundays, keeping equipment running and serviced, paying accountants, paying insurance and worst of all...having to do books I wish I was employed sometimes
  2. Dean Lofthouse
    So....on my lazy day at home I have trimmed the privet, brought up three bulk bags of chip from the yard, got it up the stairs and spread it on the beds at the back of my house, then I have washed and polished the Micro truck and now I'm off to price two jobs. I'm off to work tomorrow to avoid the wife's chore list
  3. Dean Lofthouse
    Did the spider try grabbing you by the throat and drag you in with the beetle
  4. Dean Lofthouse
    Now there is a very intelligent man Now is there anyone working in the Hudderfield area where I can come and watch before my ice cream melts
  5. Dean Lofthouse
    Haha..10 degrees is perfect for me
  6. Dean Lofthouse
    It's a barmy 28 degrees but when your used to working in the minus,s it's like being put in an oven.. I hate heat, I can acclimatise to it no problem... But when you get 51 weeks of winter and then only one week of summer, you don't get time Why work in it if you don't have to.......?
  7. Dean Lofthouse
    It kept you southern bunch warm in the blitz when you all come running up here
  8. Dean Lofthouse
    I might even drive round and find some of the LA guys or other local tree surgeons working and sit in the truck in my shorts watching them whilst eating ice cream
  9. Dean Lofthouse
    I've worked today not gone for a ride on my shove iron in a Spider-Man like suit with my baws hanging either side of the saddle and then I've been potting trees into half barrels not laid on the sun lounger while the wife fires up the Barbie you suven puff
  10. Dean Lofthouse
    It is far too hot to work in PPE so cancelled tomorrow...it's brill being self employed
  11. Dean Lofthouse
    Just put up a reasonable sized one that people aren't likely to complain about as I did. They have now been up over ten years
  12. Dean Lofthouse
    Just put some up, if there's a complaint then put in for retrospective
  13. Dean Lofthouse
    Firearms licencing came today for my licence renewal, he asked me if I drank, "only whisky" I replied
  14. Dean Lofthouse
    Lagavulin 16
  15. Dean Lofthouse
    All empty
  16. Dean Lofthouse
    It can be that if you haven't got even pressure on all four legs or you are working full out on one side, the opposite or light side leg/legs can move a bit and jiggle off the pad. If it isn't a self levelling system you should always lower or operate two legs together so pressure equalises in those two legs
  17. Dean Lofthouse
    Where there's blame Huck.... Whatever he did the council would have been at fault
  18. Dean Lofthouse
    [ATTACH]128447[/ATTACH] I have some big blocks of wood around 2ft x 1 ft x 3" thick, you can put two side by side and another on top cross ways if you have extra soft ground but one is normally enough. You can just see them on the photo below which was on Tarmac, but in this case they were used to provide friction to stop the mewp sliding down the hill....note how steep it is
  19. Dean Lofthouse
    If I'm unsure of the ground conditions I always go out to full outreach just off the floor over the leg I'm not happy with then bounce the boom up and down, if it stands that loading it will stand normal use, Its pointless for me to speculate on setup as there is insufficient information to do so, Its just a good tip to do the above when setting up on soft ground and do it over the legs you will be mainly working over
  20. Dean Lofthouse
    Yes...it is hard at first, it does take a few year to build up a big enough customer base to get the word going round
  21. Dean Lofthouse
    I have a pricing model based on my setup. I can go in and price a job fairly accurately. I could go back and price it again and get it almost exactly the same. Why would I spend so much time getting to know my business for me then to add a few hundred on just in case the customer wants to chip me down a bit. I would much prefer a tradesman I hired to be honest with me and tell me he has price competitively and he had factored in quality materials at that price and not cheap crap to get the price down I personally feel someone dropping their prices to win jobs very unprofessional, negotiating spec such as leaving chip or logs etc is an acceptable way of cheapening a quote
  22. Dean Lofthouse
    That's the ticket Ty, your price is your price, bollox to everyone else's price. You could be matching a quote that someone has made a big cock up on
  23. Dean Lofthouse
    Gift of the gab doesn't mean you can do what you say. Recommendation is the way to win jobs
  24. Dean Lofthouse
    I quoted £8k on a two week job for five men, I was told he had been quoted £4k and if I could match it I could have the job. How can someone expect you to drop £4k and still look at you as a professional
  25. Dean Lofthouse
    Spot on... If you can negotiate price without changing spec you have not quoted competitively

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