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  1. oldwoodcutter
    Timber hauliers will charge you by the ton, and it is then usual that log providers sell to joe bloggs by the cubic metre.
  2. oldwoodcutter
    I’ve never met anyone who became rich handcutting year in year out. All they finished up with were bad backs and rheumatism.
  3. oldwoodcutter
    I’d say quick thinking based on a lot of experience Gary.
  4. oldwoodcutter
    He certainly wasn’t going to hang about
  5. oldwoodcutter
    Yes, Spuds the top man, [emoji106]
  6. oldwoodcutter
    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.
  7. oldwoodcutter
    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.
  8. oldwoodcutter
    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.
  9. oldwoodcutter
    Red fir
  10. oldwoodcutter
    I got a web firm to do mine, what’s it called, Go Mummy , or something [emoji52]
  11. oldwoodcutter
    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 .
  12. oldwoodcutter
    I understand your thinking Eggs, my post was just showing how I like to work. Funnily enough I do have a first name - Tim
  13. oldwoodcutter
    I get my truck and cars serviced,repaired and mot’d on the same day so everything’s hunky dory.
  14. oldwoodcutter
    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 .
  15. oldwoodcutter
    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.
  16. oldwoodcutter
    That’s a sobering thought when you switch off your bedside lamp at night
  17. oldwoodcutter
    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.
  18. oldwoodcutter
    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
  19. oldwoodcutter
    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.
  20. oldwoodcutter
    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.
  21. oldwoodcutter
    Dawbarn & son in Wisbech, do every kind under the sun including old school stuff . 01945 461741
  22. oldwoodcutter
    Husky Balance, seem alright, think I’m on my 3rd one now.
  23. oldwoodcutter
    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]
  24. oldwoodcutter
    Sounds like you got off on the wrong foot, Mrs oldwoodcutter prefers Sue Ryder for footwear [emoji52]
  25. oldwoodcutter
    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]

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