Mesterh

Well it looks like we have got about as many votes as we are going to get, so thanks to all that voted Looks like your twice as likely to have a chainsaw accident while in a tree/mewp than on the deck and four times as likely to be using a top handle saw when the chain bites. I realise that the stats dont really reflect alot about the percentage of operators who do or dont have chainsaw accidents but the info I was interested in was which type of saw and what circumstances caused the most accidents.

And what is wrong with wearing girls shoes while pricing up? I mean come on we all do it(did I say that out loud)

Lol here we go again

Ooops so you did sry missed that bit Dog eggs are nasty business

Cant you just clean them? I doubt you'd get the job if you openly added it on to the quote just do it sneakily if you have to

Do a plumers/electrician/gas fitter apprenticeship instead.

I bet he either finds an air leak somewhere or a carb/adjustment fault. I have an 066 which gets well abused and doesnt miss a beat. Still as powerfull as the day it was made.

Yep I can feel my arm and shoulder aching now (Although literally 10 secs with a hedgetrimmer causes me major shoulder pain) Youre a better man than me for taking that job on.

collered. Narr we have man sized chimneys over here mate made with bricks and everthing

We aint got no hardwood left either, going to have to start mooching about looking for timber to steal

Just buy a Husky helmet and be done with it, nobody looks cool in any type of helmet whatsoever.

Manna? Look nice but fall to pieces.

Nice job just the way a tree should be thinned

Lol I know I shouldnt laugh but "poking them with a stick" reminded me of Steve Erwin "This nasty little snakey fella doesnt like it when I poke em with a stick"

I've also refused a few jobs because of the dog crap, never got a phone call back saying they had cleaned it up so I wonder what unfortunate gits did the job The S***holes I've seen are unbelievable sometimes, Deffo some mental problems with some people, and they have there kids playing out in it!

Sod that I wanna slow down If I can help it I'd book it in for a week

Well I've yet to take down a 120ft tree but 2 men 2 days seems like an underestimation to me mate. Sounds like a proper site inspection is needed on that one.

I can never be bothered to eat anything in the mornings, I know it aint a good thing to do, unless its a bacon,egg and black pudding on toast

Any advertising is good for business, unless its on rogue traders

You need to target as many companies as poss, especially the ones where the owner doesnt climb With the amount of work dropping off I can see lads being laid off and the "boss" dusting his harness off. I see what you mean but I would have thought the lads who got laid off would be the first to get a call when the work comes in not a subbie, dunno but its what I would do.

Cheers for that, I have no imagination so I'll to go and find a cow to practice on . They are the big ones with rings through there noses aren't they?

With a new rope that is likely to milk (a new one on me shows how long ago since I trained) whats the procedure to milk or de-milk it then The new england I was talking about if I hadn't destroyed it how would I go about "fixing" it so I wouldn't have to cut the eye off? This is all new to me since I usually just use the Yale which is white with a yellow strip and I've never had a problem with it.

Surely its from poor manufacturing? Shouldn't it already be stretched at the factory, if there were an eye spliced on each end you would have to loose one of them. I had a new england Hi vis do this on me fooked the spliced eye end up, ended up cutting it to bits by accident before i could take it back

Oh dear It's a good job no one had fallen asleep were the 026 was That'll teach him to check next time.

Well I'm gonna have a bit of a moan here so get ready Firstly I hate the way people give "estimates" and not "quotes" You look at the job and give them a price simple as that. So what if you underestimate the amount of chip/log to take away its not the customers problem. I've lost jobs because some unnamed muppet has came in and underpriced the job giving an "estimate" completed the job then gave some sob story about he didnt think there would be that much brash (using a trailer) and it cost him more to dump it all off therefore asking the customer for more dough which ended up more than my original "quote" I mean why an "estimate"? do you basically say "I think it will be about £400 quid mate but I wont be sure until I've cleaned up and put the gear in the van so don't fill the cheque in just yet"! Secondly, if you get to a job and realise there is more work than you planned then you should discuss this with the customer BEFORE you start not get halfway through or finish the job then ask for more cash. We can all under estimate things sometimes although 2 days instead of one is very excessive, but If I was halfway through and realised it was going t***s up then you just have to grin and bare it or walk away and not charge anything, thats the way I see it. A couple of times I've thought S**t what have I done but we have always finished the job. It's a different ball game if things have changed since you priced the work up, new shed,conservatory etc in the way or more work added on, the price gets changed before we even start. Anyhow looks like you really screwed up on the price there so I hope it taught you a lesson Winge over, seems like youve only done this once dont make a living out of it eh like some peeps I know. At the end of the day we aint a bunch of thieving builders/flaggers/fencers/roofers etc.