Mark Bolam
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Can you get me a price please.
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To be fair, I think what the lad is getting at is that he's paid good money to play by the rules, and others have given eBay a tenner and pretend to play by the same rules, he's not slating experienced lads who don't necessarily have tickets. It pisses me off as well tbh, but every gyppo round here says 'Fully qualified and insured'. Show your tickets at quotation stage and hope the customer asks the next guy. Some of them probably don't give a toss and just want the cheapest price. Remember you choose your customers as much as they choose you.
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I probably won't either tbh. Decent slippers are where it's at.
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It doesn't hurt Mick. I used to properly look after mine, getting Nikwax right into the cleats and stuff. What also helped massively was rotating my boots a lot, and only wearing my £200 boots for chainsaw work instead of digging, dragging and fencing in them when some decent £50 safety boots are just as good. I pretty much only climb in my Salewas now as well. Fair enough, that's £400 worth of boots, but they'll last much more than 2 pairs of £200 boots if that makes sense?
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Would it be ok if they didn't have NPTC stickers?
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Hahahahaha! Priceless!
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There's a few monkeys out there Kev.
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Nasty job, very well executed. Shame about the tunes! Little Echo looks great.
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Change of line. Daft term really.
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You've got a great eye for line Tom, but there's 3 or four horrors in that return!
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It's £27600. That's a median average. Which is total bollocks. I can remember stats at school, mean, median and mode. For a £27600 median average, the lowest paid PAYE employee would have to be on £0, the highest on £55200. That's a fact. Trying to massage median figures is fiction. The modal figure is probably more relevant, but seems harder to get hold of? Lies, damned lies, and statistics. The real question should be 'what is the average salary for people doing a job they enjoy'? -
😂😂😂😂😂
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The ash are generally looking weedy down here near Ashford as well Duncan. I hope they're just flushing late.
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Slowly but surely mate. I'm back on the bike again, should be climbing within a month.
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I have to get a g coupler. It will be the best day of my life.
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Haha! I was amazed how little 61Nm was. I'd overtightened them for years. I do them by feel, which is only a half turn more than finger-tight really. Depending on how greasy my fingers are.
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61Nm for my TW Mick. I'm pretty sure Screwfix should be paying me for a torque wrench that maxed out at that!
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I wouldn't drop the price at all. We're talking about a professional follow-up query, not a begging letter.
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Dave, you've got nothing to lose. Why don't you trial it for a month and see what happens? Admittedly it would make very little difference to my workload, or yours I expect. You have got your council licence?
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Valuable feedback though Les, surely? At least you know now to get your council licence sorted.
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Everyone's done it when they've done a bit. If you don't notice at tensioning stage though you should smack yourself with a blackthorn limb. In the goolies.
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Don't get him started Reg, that probably wasn't rain.
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You Darrin, are another one of my heroes, of course. You'll get a pint when I meet you, but Jesse will get a chaser as well.
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Keep them coming bro. Vids like this are a big part of what Arbtalk is all about for me.
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Yes. Get your priorities sorted son.
