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Do you rates go up as much as they should each year..
oldwoodcutter replied to benedmonds's topic in Business Management
Boy English and I try to squeeze a living out of the same area, and what he says about the competition is absolutely correct. There seems to be a new fresh faced crew starting up almost weekly , with new vehicles,chippers,and grinders signwritten with the latest catchy name. Others may say that’s good for competition , but when their dayrate is from the 1970s that’s debatable. -
Working in proximity to viscous thorns is part and parcel of everyday tree and hedge work. Most of us see them coming and avoid the devils but 3 or 4 weeks ago I got stabbed in the back of my leg, in the muscle. After a week the infection got worse and in no time looked very bad. Mrs oldwoodcutter cast an eye over it and booked me an appointment and the quack gave me 56 Flucloxacillin, after a week the infection has shrunk by half got another week to go.
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I was jokingly called a rogue trader a few weeks ago by the crew comedian after taking cash off a little old lady In my defence I simply stated that she was younger than me [emoji846]
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Do you rates go up as much as they should each year..
oldwoodcutter replied to benedmonds's topic in Business Management
And what would it say on my tombstone Mike, “ He always gave his clients the best deal, but sadly died a pauper”. I reckon not. -
It’s not just standing in dog muck, it’s the way it then gets on your truck pedals and mats and with the heater on , well it’s sickening. It’s mats out and disinfectant under a tap when back at yard, with pedals and boots too.
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Just a few weeks ago I gave a recently ticketed climber a days experience with us. He talked a good account of himself so I let him loose dismantling what was I suppose an 80 foot grey poplar. I called to check progress with my main man on the ground at 11, only to be told that after 3 hours he had only now got up to the top and fixed his anchor point. I headed over there to see what the holdup was, to arrive just after the first main limb came down, not rigged and lowered but cut and let it go, butt end first straight through a pan tiled roof, through the void, and penetrated the plasterboard ceiling below. No wonder my hairs turned white and I look about 85.
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Do you rates go up as much as they should each year..
oldwoodcutter replied to benedmonds's topic in Business Management
Young friend of mine runs a 3 van pest control firm, he meets up usually weekly with the owners of the other pest control firms in his area. They swap customers, and generally sort the job out. All maintain a good standard of living and their respective firms grow ever more prosperous. Most tree company bosses in this area find it difficult to even acknowledge anyone they meet on the road, let alone meet up and talk rates. -
I walked past the young fellow who the timberwolf dealer sent out to service my 230, as he was peering in at the blades. He said he presumed I was using genuine ones, and when I said no they were from rotatech, he tutted loudly and shook his head, as if I’d committed some act of wanton senseless destruction on my wolf.
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Rheumatism, arthritics, finger joints that lock up so tight I have to use my other hands fingers to straighten them out again, feel about 85, apart from that I’m in excellent health [emoji52]
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Everyone’s at it round here lopping n topping and thrashing around. It does have its lighter moments though, as I saw this afternoon an unfamiliar tranny with greedy boards on my patch,with several swarthy types trying to look busy.Closer inspection revealed one guy standing on a wallpaper hangers steps pruning a Curly willow roadside with a long reach hedgecutter, while another fellow was laying on top of a high close clipped Connie hedge reaching down vertically with his hs45 about to break his neck at any moment onto the pavement 15 feet below. I gave them a cheery wave as I pulled my tranny away but was blanked by the entire happy band.
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Where does your domestic work come from?
oldwoodcutter replied to Tom D's topic in Business Management
I've got a website, and Facebook, get recommendations,and spend the equivalent of a third worlds defence budget on advertising, but I think pushing fliers for treework through letterboxes in high rise flats is the way forward for today's professional company. -
The trailer brakes came on alright but didn't stop it skidding across the road onto the verge. It was a tandem axle and doing I suppose 50mph the forward momentum alone had to take it somewhere. Wasn't like it tried to overtake me.
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I've always classed a stunt fell as one where wedges and ropes were used if necessary or not, and in the case of firs where the outermost fond tips just lightly brush past that commercial glass house, or 18th century summer house, leaving 6 tons of timber safely on the deck.
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I forgot to check a trailer was properly on my ballhitch after a new member of staff had dropped it on. Few miles up the road , right outside the back gate of raf marham, the trailer came off, the brake cable did work and then broke, and as someone said above, the trailer went across the road and ploughed into the verge. Gave the soldiers on the guardroom gate something to look at anyroad.
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No breakaway cable can be deemed by vosa as 'ineffective braking system and can stop movement until new cable fitted.
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I liked Shelby, may be mistaken but he seemed fairly genuine to me.
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Yes I shall be turning the blades in my 230 before chipping anything.
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Timbers fairly dense Mr Sword, often full of sap under the bark, and yes, the leaves are as sharp as a witches tongue. The striking colours are where the knots are of course.
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Will be coming down weds 27 sept, heavily branched from base to top. If of interest please txt 07867 764307
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Good luck with that Adam [emoji846]
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Where Di you have your chipper blades sharpened ?
oldwoodcutter replied to RichieR's topic in Large equipment
Saturn lost a pair of my genuine t/wolf blades for my 230 and it took them yonks to begrudgingly send me a pair if their pattern ones to shut me up. I now drop them in to a local machine shop who do them as quick as you like for £25 a pair -
Many years ago now I was walking along a forestry commission fence line beside a compartment. On the other side of the fence, in the middle of a field, was a tractor cutting hay, with what was then a new type of disc mower. A second or two after I heard something solid go through it, one of the little flat blades embedded itself into a post next to me. I always steered well clear of farm machinery after that. I recalled the incident only the other day when I happened to be near that same compartment.
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I wouldn't have believed this had I not seen it with my own eyes , but Wednesday I felled a reasonable spruce and what wouldn't chip, my lads loaded onto my tandem axle trailer and sitting on top of the loaded cord was a big hornet eating the spruce sap. 15 miles later and after doing up to 60 on a dual carriageway, they spotted the hornet back at my main yard still sitting on top there. They shood him away to unload in disbelief.
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Weirdest thing ever is my motion detector at my house yard rings out in my bedroom, when I'm downstairs the high pitched whine is exactly the same as the intermittent ringing in my ears, so often I get out of my chair to see who's poking about outside,only to find when I pass the stairs it's not the detector ringing,it's inside my ears.
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Dealt with one first thing this morning, it had blown onto a neighbours expensive new fence. Had that converted into firewood in no time.
