Ian C
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Bummer:blushing: thats where i went wrong...................doh:001_tt2:
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I found leaflets a waste of time to be honest, cheap tacky ones on plain paper go straight in the bin and nice glossy ones cost a pretty penny, i found that with leaflets people would barter you down aswell as they know its YOU who are touting for work not the other way round. Also people get sooooo much crap rammed through there door thses days most people just bin it with out reading it (im the same) Have a go but dont blow loades doing it.
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Don't compete on price if you can help it. It doesn't do anyone any good. Harrods aren't dropping their prices because lidl's opened up down the road! I fully agree and a big hedge i quoted on last saturday where i was £300 MORE EXPENSIVE because i wanted a lift for a day and £100 more for the day has come in:thumbup1: now prayin i get it all done in a day!!! It is hard though when work is light not to bring your price doen just to get the job.
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Im with NFU for truck, plant and house insurance, had great service and prices from them.
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Thats what they say, but they wont take it if its composting and at 12 months it will be, thats if things havent changed it is a while sinse i looked into it. What do ya do when the reject a load and have it delivered back? you have to pay the haulage costs.
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Hate to let mates down Deano.
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You will need a telehandler of some sort dean, you need to load it in a reasonable time and a compact tractor will just be too small, also they wont take it if its "composting" so really your looking at a months worth max before it goes and its a min of 28t at a time. Im still thinking about it, i can load easy enough its just the volume and storage.
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I agree with you Jon but i just wish people would stop p issin up peoples backs , one thing i really hate is time wasters, i dont waste other peoples time and i expect the same, don't get me wrong, i don't expect to win all jobs but wish people were honest and up front. I got a call from a woman the other night from Pudsey (20m from me) who wanted me to go and have a look at her climber that had come off the wall!!!! said no too far. there are Too many people working for nowt though, i know people just working for a wage, i am not willing to run machinery and use kit just to earn a wage, i can do that and not have the expense or hassle.
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Thats the one!!!
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not gunna live this down is he............Good old Deano bless im
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Busted
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Dry spray lude Dean.................works everytime:lol:
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You are, the bleedin lot of ya and soft with it! us northern boys are moaners.............hard as rock moaners!
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I agree but it's ok if you get enough in a short space of time, if you can move an artic a month it is worth it but if you stote it for any lenth of time and it starts composting down i was told it was no good.
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I did look into it and talkied to people that do it, it suits some, BB beechwood does it, works for him but he has loading facilities, can store it undercover and get a lot of it so its turned around quick, for a 1 man band set up i don't think its worth the hassle.
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Its not so much the bartering ones that get me it's the ones that have you travel ten miles each way to look at a job for £150 and say yes then call you back 2 days later to say they have been told 90 quid or not to bother, Looked at a big formal conny hedge the other day, 25' high and 200 yds long, told the guy 350 plus 200 for a mewp as im not working off ladders at that hight with a hedge cutter, "i quite agree" said they guy, H+S is paramount then tells me he has had a quote from a guy with a lad for 250 quid to do it !!!!!! was gob smacked. traveled 15m to see that.
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The last time i looked into it you had to load it yourself, i can borrow a telehandler no probs but for £7 a ton i cant do with the hassle.
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But you have to have artic acsess and load it yourself, so thats a telehandler needed aswell, and people do get loads back, i have looked in to it and unless you produce LOTS of it and can garantee its clean it aint worht the hassle IMO
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You wont get 13 quid a ton and its a load of hassle, just let them have it, i give all mine away to a local horse place.
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Just wondered how other S/E peeps are doing at the moment, have you much work in? im ticking over with a few good jobs in but im getting sick of being "dicked" around more and more, just had a guy text me re a job next week, agreed on a price to fell a small gum and grind it, text me today saying sorry but his house insurance firm are going to have the tree removed by there nominated contractors............peeing up my back just wish he could be honest and say i have had a better price. done loads of quotes in the last month or so and the amount of people that want it for nowt or start bartering is deffo on the up. Really gets me down to be honest, so much so im feeling like just getting a job more and more......
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but why do you want some one looking like quazzie to do it:laugh1:
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what it needs is a squirt of that fancy spray graphite stuff that you coat everything else with.
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Plenty of Redneck farmers here Dean to swing your axe, day rate is it?
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Oh dear, if thats the biggest and best they do, not really much hope then! get it fixed with some plaggy washers and buy an axe!
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No thats what frying pan coating do, both my splitters are lubed with good awd axle grease and are both working, in fact would you like to borrow one while YOURS is KNACKERED:lol: Looks a crap design, a bit toyish you need a proper one that takes grease and lasts a bit.
