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oldwoodcutter

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  1. 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 .
  2. I understand your thinking Eggs, my post was just showing how I like to work. Funnily enough I do have a first name - Tim
  3. I get my truck and cars serviced,repaired and mot’d on the same day so everything’s hunky dory.
  4. 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 .
  5. 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.
  6. That’s a sobering thought when you switch off your bedside lamp at night
  7. 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.
  8. 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
  9. I’ll second that Pete, Reg’s trolley saves miles of walking. Hope I’m not going to receive a solicitors letter from the trolley cloners.
  10. Potential customers I don’t like the look of , or get a bad feeling from, are taxed this way by me, often simply adding a zero on to my normal price.
  11. Dawbarn & son in Wisbech, do every kind under the sun including old school stuff . 01945 461741
  12. Husky Balance, seem alright, think I’m on my 3rd one now.
  13. Yes with nearly all domestic is payment before we leave. Estate agents,housing associations, or solicitors work, is cheque within 7 days. Maybe 1 payment in 50 is Bacs. Like mr.Dempsey I’m still in the 70s [emoji846]
  14. Sounds like you got off on the wrong foot, Mrs oldwoodcutter prefers Sue Ryder for footwear [emoji52]
  15. We understand that as a farmer you may be strapped for cash if all the subsidy’s and handouts are a bit late coming in so to help you I’ll do it for nothing if I can keep the firewood [emoji106]
  16. I never liked using the hycrack,and stopped using it before I did myself any damage. My modern 2 handed vertical splitter was normally safe, eye protection being compulsory, but every now and again, perhaps once or twice a day, a hard old lump of beech would go off like a hand grenade just as the blade started to bite. Jumped out of the way to avoid a smack in the face a few times, I guess it would have busted my cheekbones, sockets or jaw if any had got me. My reflexes aren’t what they used to be, which is just as well, as I stopped doing logs a couple of years ago now.
  17. Mrs Oldwoodcutter went through the menopause yonks ago, I don’t think the snip had been invented beforehand. So I never had that problem, sorry can’t be if more help [emoji52]
  18. Pointless is the biggest load of old cods on the tv, what a pair of smarmy twats those two are, saying the same phrases to every one, about as entertaining as a washbasin full of cold sick.
  19. I seldom venture into supermarkets , but on occasion I get to the till with 3 or 4 things and am asked have I got , or want, vouchers, cards, cashback, tokens, loyalty, and other promotions, half of which they havnt even got in America yet, the last time I was asked by the tillgirl, as if in a trance, “do you want help packing”. My reaction to all these questions is to say absolutely nothing except thanks as I take my receipt and finally take a deep breath as I step out of the self opening doors to the real world again.
  20. Friend of mine just had to spend time in hospital after accidentally eating some xmas decorations. He’s got tinselitus. [emoji52]
  21. And of course if they can identify and prove which tree firm or guy actually had them down,and diced them up, they can also be £20k lighter in their savings account.
  22. Just this last week I had a cycleway/ footpath coned off solid and double hazard taped, below some high pines we were top thinning. Even with a high viz and helmeted guy solely responsible for that small section, some still came through by shoving my cones out of the way and breaking through the tapes.
  23. Flippin heck Ty, how can 1 business partner cause so much stress, and all over a blinkin parcel. I’m guessing that to dissolve your partnership with this French git would hurt you deep in the purse.
  24. Or the Irish lad with a young family, decided that his time would be better spent working from home . . . as a multi drop delivery driver [emoji52]
  25. A group of Irish divers have been swimming round the titanic recently , and where surprised to see that the swimming pool was still full.

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