oldwoodcutter
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I list everybody that can walk, that way if something happens I’m covered [emoji106]
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Been using the John Deere leather ones which are excellent, as are their ordinary knitted ones with bit of Kevlar in them, I randomly picked up a pair of each whilst at my local dealership, and have been very impressed with their quality.
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That’s true Spud, I’m half deaf nowadays, but I’m told that ported 660 can be heard 3 villages away.
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I wouldn’t know about bmi, but if you can spend your day either stacking rings and cord, or feeding a chipper, or stood behind a 660, without sitting down and blowing like a train, I’d say you’re fit enough to keep alive for a few more years.
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We get up about 30 feet then strap the spikes on, that way the dozy tree officer doesn’t notice [emoji106]
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After reading Tom’s post at that time,I sat down and thought yes,here we are, running around chasing every enquiry and trying to beat all the other quotes that potential customers were pushing under my nose. And what to show for it - a bank balance from hell, early starts late finishes and a bad back. So I jacked my pricing structure right up, and surprisingly my life and bank balance has changed dramatically, my equipment is new or newish and all paid for and I generally only work 4 days a week now. So I’d say go for it, charge a realistic rate for your professionalism, and your bank statements will look a lot more pleasing to the eye.
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I can usually smell a dodgy customer or an even dodgier job a mile off. For dodgy jobs I massively overprice them, like adding a zero on the end of the price ( which is accepted fairly frequently) For dodgy customers I give them a stupidly low price, and when they accept 6 weeks later, then say I’m sorry we’re too busy to do it this side of next year . And I’m thinking to myself ‘do it your blinkin self mr muppet’
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Do you buy your cordwood by the tonne or cu mtr?
oldwoodcutter replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Timber hauliers will charge you by the ton, and it is then usual that log providers sell to joe bloggs by the cubic metre. -
Rates for Self Employed Handcutters
oldwoodcutter replied to MattyBuist's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I’ve never met anyone who became rich handcutting year in year out. All they finished up with were bad backs and rheumatism. -
I’d say quick thinking based on a lot of experience Gary.
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He certainly wasn’t going to hang about
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Yes, Spuds the top man, [emoji106]
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I try to refuel when back at yard at end of day, everything is always empty for some reason anyway, and clean the filters. I seldom sharpen chains on the job, or at the end of day, I keep a load of spare sharp chains for everything in the truck at all times. As above, sharpening done at weekends instead of following Mrs oldwoodcutter shuffling round Asda.
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I’m going through a particularly busy spell at the moment, I had 3 tree customers to meet this morning and quote for, all within an 8 mike radius . Just for the hell of it I kept a straight face and way overpriced all 3 jobs, and unbelievably got the lot. And don’t think I’m normally too cheap because that’s certainly not how I roll.
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An old favourite is to say iv just signed a lengthy contract with the forestry commission , so as much as I’d like top your 40 foot high Connie hedge that’s full of brambles and honeysuckle, I can’t this side of next Christmas.
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What kind of cypress is this, if at all?
oldwoodcutter replied to Big J's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
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I got a web firm to do mine, what’s it called, Go Mummy , or something [emoji52]
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Reminds me of an old girlfriend, who admittedly had , to use a modern term, been round the block a few times. She said sex and snow were the same - you never know how many inches you’re gonna get, or how long it will last. I often think back to her when it snows .
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I understand your thinking Eggs, my post was just showing how I like to work. Funnily enough I do have a first name - Tim
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I get my truck and cars serviced,repaired and mot’d on the same day so everything’s hunky dory.
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You’re right to stick with your quoted price, a few months ago I quoted at £1200, he texted and said would I take £1000 as he was a bit strapped at the moment, but I told him my biggest expense is wages and my lads won’t take a cut in hourly rate just to suit him. I got the go ahead at 1200 and passed by last week to see he was having a large detached house put up in the garden . I found out yesterday he has the cleaning contract for 2 well known building society’s for the whole of England. A millionaire and then some .
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She expected her silver tongued boyfriend to pay her back , as he said he was getting a lump sum from his pension in a few weeks, and she believed him.
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Stupid mistakes you've made doing tree work
oldwoodcutter replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
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Sorry sent too soon with my arthritis fingers. Was going to say Amigo changed from the happy friendly voice to about as heavy as you can get, she scraped the lot together from family friends and bunged it at them. But at the time she was bricking it.
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A lady friend of mine, completely out of character, got a £10 k loan from Amigo, because her man friend at the time wanted a decent car instead of his old banger,and promised to pay her back. You’ve guessed it - he gets car then disappears from her life
