Stephen Blair

Morning, bright eyed and bushy tailed this morning, must of been yesterdays long lie!

Leave high stumps in my village for 1 reason! Oakley loves his picture taken on them

Morning, sunshine out and managed a long lie!

Morning, hazy start in my head due to going to the pub last night after work for a few ciders. Firewood day here and a bit of pricing later. coffee first!

Morning, blustery and dry here today! have a Good Friday folks!

Morning, torrential rain all night and the winds picking up now, blustery I’d say.

Morning! Doug hope you feel better soon! Nice morning here, I didn’t bother closing curtains last night and not light till just before 7am now. I best go get the kettle on and make the peaces for lunch.

Morning, yesterday was a typical Monday? Broken bolts, badger thumb with hammer and worked till dark! So todays got to be easier ! 😂 have a good !

Morning! Nice here, blew itself out last night! Enjoy your chocolate Scone Doug!

Afternoon, I actually managed a long lie till 9am! autumn fresh here!

Morning! Nice fresh Saturday here! Have a good day!

Have you got the digger? if not then they may not take the money until then.

Morning! Dry and cloudy here! I’m just going to put the waterproofs and wellies on before leaving house just to be realistic!😂

Morning! Wild night here! Up and away early down to Fife and Perthshire to look at jobs!

Just 30 plus years of graft and stress! I’m pretty high strung and don’t deal with stress well. So I’ve implemented changes that should help my future health.

Late here too, up and out for physio then some breakfast and then looking at a rather tricky site! It’s actually not that soft he said 😒

10 years on from me starting this thread and my Arbdigger life has come to an end. Had to face facts that my back can’t take the bouncing about and sitting for hours. Luckily I’ve a good friend who has 1 with lots of attachments who loves sitting on his.

Just hearing me on the phone is too big a risk Mick, those on the forum who have will vouch for that! 🤔

My best repeat customers I have never met, I get a WhatsApp, I go and look, take a few pictures, mark up a line of where it’s getting cut back to or mark the removals, show them on a pic where chip and logs will go, send the price, they give a time frame it suits because it’s usually an Air BNB , I do the job, send finished pics with an invoice, money gets sent straight away! Proper job done!

I stopped answering my phone about 17 years ago so I could remove that type of customer, the bolshy arrogant type. Leave a long informative answer machine message stating how is the best way to get me to get in contact with them promptly. The good people follow the instructions and send me a text or email and the more information they put on that text then that allows me to go on my phone and vet them and their location, so when I do get back to them I’m in a more knowledgeable position to give them answers. If I see any red flags I’ll put more filters in place to see if I can draw out their true colours and the best way to do that is talk money straight off the bat, minimum price job, money up front and get them to send lots of pictures of the job, I usually never hear back from them and hopefully they go and annoy the opposition😂, but tbh I’d rather give a fellow tree guy a heads up of a bad customer and vice versa I’ll call them up asking about past experiences if I get told any tales of the other guy this or that.

Old canker?

Does this mean the end of the Stunt Fell leave the rigging kit in the van and just fetch me the 500i!!!! surely not!!!🤔😂

Morning Excels1or, thank you for changing the thread title! I’m now starting to think it was your bad customers that were in the wrong! Sometimes a few bad ones slip through your defences, learn and tighten up the gaps! Have a good day! 👍

Morning, cold and dry here!