oldwoodcutter
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Have you noticed that bringing out coffees is often linked, almost before they have put the tray down, with “now can I ask you a favour, can you just - lower that 40 yards of bramble choked conifer hedge by 4 feet, or take off that one and a half ton of bough over the conservatory from that scots pine with no top in. Yeah, give us a minute I’ll sort a price out for you missus.
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How to grow my business, how did you grow yours?
oldwoodcutter replied to Chipperclown's topic in General chat
Do self employed bricklayers or electricians go onto the big sites and work for way under others doing the same job? Do petrol tanker drivers (British) chug up and down the country for peanuts? Of course they don’t, there’s enough trees in the country for all of us to make a good living, and if you underprice every job day in day out the only people that are winning are your customers, who will let you work for the crumbs off their table all day long, while you’re on their property with the sweat rolling off your back. -
My lads are under strict instructions to not do any ‘can you just, without calling me first, as we all know that some customers, if given an inch, will take 10 miles. And talking of peeves, today again I realise the chipper has been running flat out for the last 10 minutes with no one within 50 yards of it, and all 4 doors of the tipper are wide open, the seats and dash hip deep in chip dust and leaves.
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They say that, apart from your family, you are forgotten about in around 6 weeks after you’ve gone, that’s a sobering thought at my age when I switch off the light at night.
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How many hours do you put into your business?
oldwoodcutter replied to Stefan Palokangas's topic in General chat
and when you’re in your sixties you can walk around the work site watching others work hard making money for you. -
You make me laugh Gary [emoji846]
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This thread has gone bonkers.
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One unexplained phenomenon I can’t put my finger on, is when I occasionally want to use a saw to help out towards the end of a job , any one of the five that have been left laying around by my young scallywags are bone dry, and yet whilst preparing them last night for today I filled them all up.
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Brewers fayre full english is too much for me nowadays, I tried it and was busted halfway through .
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I go along a stretch of single carriageway A road with 7 or 8 average speed cameras on, as I’ve a double cab transit tipper I keep dead on 50 all the way with a queue behind me. I thought the cameras could instantly tell I wasn’t a car , I’m not about to put it to the test and blast along there at 60, they can tell the diff can’t they?
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The premier inn beds are more comfy than my own , although the beverages leave a lot to be desired.
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I cleaned my daughters bbq once, that’s the closest I’ve been to one [emoji106]
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Not a peeve but i did chuckle when i had a catch up with an old oppo of mine who happened to be working in the same street. I always knew that Statutory training of his lads was never very high on his to do list, as he prefers to train them himself, so after we had put the tree world to rights, I commented on the number of nptc stickers plastered on every available panel and piece of glass on his latest truck. He shrugged off my remark by saying his grandson gets them off eBay for him around .10p each.
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We were stacking big chunks of connie on the side of the road for 4 days solid and it was being taken away by a guy even older than me in an Astra van throughout the day, flippin tons of it. Apparently he lived a few doors up, and was helping himself as fast as we put it out there, not that I was worried too much. By the end of day 4 I strolled out and introduced myself to him, and said tomorrow we’ll be finished,if he would like to give my lads a drink then,that would be appreciated. Needless to say there was a no show the nx day, so others got a look in and had a chance to take what was stacked that day.
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Not really a peeve, but the times a customer creeps under the radar and starts nattering to me while I’m lending a hand on the chipper,at full chat with my earmuffs down, or whilst bucking a seared elm trunk with my ported 660 they’re passing the time of day with me like we’re sat in a church pew at a funeral.
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I don’t like the sound of your job Carl, you may be ok but it may jump back and bite you, disclaimer or not. As above, move on to the next job and let someone else get sucked into those connies.
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I must have done hundreds of them over the years, just lay into it Dodge, won’t come to any harm, keeping some sort of shape is all you’ve got to worry about really.
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They were getting on my nerves too, I think I’ve stopped them now though.
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I may be imagining it, but at times he looks a little out of his comfort zone.
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Impressive
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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]
