jamesw
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Just an update on the cards i have applied for one and am siting a test monday! Call these guys and pay them £30 for the card CSCS - Construction Skills Certification Scheme Then call these guys to sit the test £17.50 ConstructionSkills - Home Page I am getting a green card as work is slow and i have been offered a very good job as a gopher for a few weeks/2months on a site. Tree surgeons card is white and is exactly the same test except its another £30 for a different coloured card however you only sit the test once for them both. so bit of revision this weekend but been told if you fail it you must be a plank:laugh1: Hope this can help someone else:thumbup1:
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Oh and for the "well its a quick £50 job for 15mins" we don't know that do we? I have known people who expect me to earn that for 2 days work:laugh1:
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I am with you mozza now way take on a job like that over the phone bet he didn't even have a £50 quote! Maybe even not a geniune customer, competition messing round or a gardener trying to sus a price. The easy fells 3 cuts and outta there are rare IME. As skyhuck said and IMO you have a duty to leave it safe which enevitably means more time/work then the customer will want more:001_tongue: I would have told him "bite the guys hand off mate" then put the phone down with a smile:lol:
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sorry mate the smile should have been at the end. otherwise looks like i am taking the p outta your misfortune which i am not:thumbup1:
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:lol:I was in a similar situation to you except i had signed and completed the sale on my new house and barclays pulled out the day before the move:sneaky2:. So when i was sorted i took all my savings the lot from them! even cancelled barclaycard i hate the name!!!! Oh and was employed at the time, still trying to get money back off them 8 months later thro ombudsman. Wish someone had told me in school to be a banker!
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cant garantee that but thats what i was told and they have given me a good shot with the business:001_smile:
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sorryany chance of that?
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Try a RBS bank i have found them great this year. They say that due to being backed by the government their lending is still the same to a certain extent:sneaky2: I am trying to get one at the mo basically i own 60% of my house but self employment is frownd apon:confused1: so trying to get a mortgage on my partners wage alone, it looks like it might work and chance of that?
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I am on a tesco contract and if i top up by £10 i get another £10 free. lasts all month with lots of calls and texts:thumbup1:
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One job advertised in arbjobs Thornton!
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done mine yesterday! I put it into a pillow case (sneakely done whilst missus was out:laugh1:)and put on a cold wash in the washing machine with no soap (and the trays cleaned out), job done its now drying outta direct sunlight.
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Some people! beech reduction, too much?
jamesw replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
It will annoy you for a little while but as long as he paid the jobs good:thumbup1: -
Some people! beech reduction, too much?
jamesw replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
Business says you did what he asked "take off as much as you can" take the money. He obviously isn't going to be a regular repeat customer, as he said he didn't want to bother with it for another 10 years. Its done and thats that! Arb side yes it was a little harsh, but it will grow back. seen alot worse! it will be one of those jobs that you keep taking sneaky little peeks at. your dark little secret. fwiw i find that customers and bosses who have the same kind of attitude as him are nothing but control freaks. He obviously got into your head:laugh1: sorry for the wombling ramble! Plus did he pay you? -
Nice one and congrats on passing them both! I would say just be honest and open with any potential employer. Stress that you are new but you are chomping at the bit to get climbing and learn, and take on any job that you are capable of (know your limits tho). Most decent people will know where you are coming from and if they give you a chance they shouldn't expect you to be running at full speed! sorry rambling:blushing: hope that makes sense:001_rolleyes:
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Yesterday I walked 1.5 hrs in the snow to get to my missus who had been stuck in her car total mayhem! she spent 4 hrs in her car so took her to work in the hospital this am in the 4x4 can't get over the idiots! I drove through lanes just passable to a 4x4 to meet a guy trying to do it in a golf. he failed:lol:
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Come on then guys anyone scanned any photos yet?
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Protecting his family and kids when they had threatened to kill them, i think he was right and should be left alone to pick up the peices that the crimanls have left behind. Like his traumatised family and also to deal with the pain, trauma and mental issues that will be with them for life:sneaky2: This is why our country is a joke! we have no money to put criminals in jail and keep them there. But we can cover the criminal banks and bail them out! This is why we could never be called great britain again:cursing:
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that is a shame i wonder how many hours went into that beast of a TH. Oh well better on a street corner or at home on the x box's than in nature:sneaky2:
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oh and scared a groundy the other week by taking a top of a beech out (small, but lines etc all around) not using a pulley block but a peg instead. Totally safe but he had never seen it done before and he thought i was just banging the top out:laugh1: had to re assure him i knew what i was doing
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I learnt from an old and bold climber. Natural crotch, taking wraps and he defo didn't use a topping out strop! Most of the time working was spent him swearing and shouting from the tree because things didn't run freely and it was slow and he wanted to be in the pub for 4. I now use loads of new techniques and a capstan lowering system with pulleys. However i use alot of old school techniques and obviously most of the modern gadgets are an improvement on the old. Now from my experience i am a better climber because i am calm and not flustered by getting wraps wrong, rope not running through crotches etc. As for climbing one rope and a long strop. On the rope a VT hitchclimber the long strop a blakes with pulley, and on the harness a split tail incase i need to use the other end. To me a good blend of old and new.
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awesome editing:thumbup1:
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I am with tommer lucky gits getting snow! Us westerners would like to get some
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That was good:lol: All i can imagine is the customer walking outta his door to offer you a cuppa and seeing you two and turning on his heel Loved it:thumbup1:
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Layers! and wicking properties! I wear a thermal long sleeve top with holes cut in the hem to put over my thumbs so no gap appears between sleeve and glove:blushing: Then i put on a normal t shirt then a jumper then a light work fleece followed by a body warmer and i am like toast also i like to wear hat thin but lined (a lot of heat can be lost from the head). Might look like a yeti in the mornings but you can always strip layers when getting warm working and put them back on when cooling down having a cuppa. My favorite bit of kit though is my buffalo shirt very comfy in the cold
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congratulations and enjoy every minute:thumbup:
