Rupe
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Thats the way!
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I've made a few swings. They are always for free!! Stick any costs onto the tree work side of things, if using an actual swing get the client to buy it themselves!
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I'm fairly sure the fully comp bit would become invalid. So still ok to drive on the road, insured for third party claims but crash and damage yourself only with no mot its unlikely you would get the money.
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Is the swing for a client?
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Agreed, referalls nearly 100% success and at reasonable % proffit.
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Sure, but that 20% profit margin isn't necessarily all available for advertising. Up to you if it is, but profits can go towards many things advertising is a small part of it. But your sums do prove the point! 20% profit from YP seems good, but you probably get 30-40% profit from referals and more work overall. It is a no brainer IMO.
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I don't think they are interested in lowering premiums. We all seem to be paying them, even "subbies" that don't need it seem to be queueing up to give their money away for insurance they will never claim on! To be fair, my premiums have gone down over the last few years (for similar gross income)
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Guiness you mean?? Years ago it was coke (cola!) and ciggs all day long and I was lighter and fitter than I am now!!
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The floatign retrieval (is just an old biner on the rope) sometimes more hassle than its worth cos it get twisted round the lowered limb. Sometimes easer to throw the end down each time while ground is untieing the limb. I'm putting the spikes on cos I'm running out of branches to stand on.
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Well, because I've never drank diet coke its best that I don't take my shirt off!! Couldn't resist the product placement though!! Advertising deal coming soon!
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Is that metric ton or american ton? Mines 25t I think that must be americano!
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You don't "see" profits, you live off them instead. If you could see profit at the end of the year that would be called savings.
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The higher the turnover the more kit you buy, when turnover goes down you buy more personal comforts instead and they are taxable!! Thats how it seems anyway.
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Oh, ok! So you can lower the deck?? How low will it go? It may not need to get quit to ground level, if you have 1 foot rings and it will go to one foot (a fraction less than a foot) from ground level then you can slide each ring along one on the floor and under the splitter. Easier than sliding them along the ground anyway. MAybe it is better than I thought then. How much power??
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Too high aswell. You need the splitter at ground level (or an option for that) so that you can get 4 foot rings under it.
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Ha ha. He's a new one! First job lowering for me on his own. One misunderstanding but then got it sorted.
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This is little saturday job we did. The tree is right tight in a corner of a big back garden, there is a drop zone under slightly less than quarter of the crown, with one limb above the DZ that would do for the lowering point but it was much lower than we would idealy have wanted. Either sides of the DZ there are Hawthorn trees which are plenty tough enough so many of the higher limbs crashed into the Hawthorns on the way down, one even bounced right up and landed perfectly in DZ.(5.20) Behind the Hawthorns there are various sheds and houses all belonging to the nieghbours so nothing could go down that way. Only filmed up to the end of the rigging bit, chunked it down by hand after that. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aEj8q9dhrU]YouTube - Ivy covered Ash rigging.wmv[/ame]
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Only you know how much work you get form YP. Most on here will say quit if you can! My theory is that if a customer gets a quote from YP then they will probably get 3-4 quotes. Sometimes one person will stand out as "better" than the others, but I reckon 99% of the time its cheapest price wins. So if 4 poeple quote maybe one screws up a little and gets the job. That means that 99% of jobs done via YP are under priced, so have minimal profits, yet it costs a lot of money to advertise. It doesn't add up. Paying extra to earn less is not good business sense. The only companies I know that make it work have to screw the employees into the ground to get the turnover of work fast enough to make profit.
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They are here to make profit not provide a public service Thats one bit that I agree with. Thats why I don't think we should be fallign over ourselves to give them our money, if they are not going to pay out unless someone is seriously injured, I'd rather get sued by the person directly than have insurance companies chasing me for not having ticked the right box on a form. Does anyone have examples of claims made for property damage that were paid up ok? It seems to me that most excesses are so high that the likelyhood of anyone claiming is quite low. You'd have to wreck a house for it to be worth claiming, and the types of companies that have insurance are not likely to wreck a whole house! Of course things get broken here and there but that is nearly always paid for out of pocket, well in my experience anyway.
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You won't be covered yourself but the third party should be? Or am I wrong again? You would still get prosecuted though, so its not all fine and dandy to have insurance and no mot.
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Oh sorry that was the method statement in 32 letters. Risk assessment ...... Gravity sucks and Chainsaws are sharp
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Don't you mean 32 letters!! Get spikes out of bag, cut down tree, tidy. John, can you send it all to the client as a PDF and let them print it all out?? Mine runs to 70 odd pages, I don't print that out for anybody!!
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In fact it should be healthy OR safe. Can't expect anyone to manage both at once. Can I interest you in a method statement??
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It is our policy to be healthy and safe.
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The rot can still get in, thats why its not used anymore. Dependign on the species and location you could consider leavign a stub and letting it get on with it itself.
