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I have a phone full of work pics and vids but Ive never grasped how to send them to anyone, my phone has a lot of features, but hasn't got any of those things on that I can see Peatff.
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I read the bit about posting pics, as I do from time to time, and still can't understand a word of it. I have an iPhone 6 Plus.
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Ah, the phantom door knocker finally unmasked , you make me laugh Mark, Tim.
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I had to chuckle to myself yesterday, we were treeing in a lady's garden and when she brought the coffees out I asked her who had cut her hedge, ( I'd noticed someone had really hacked into her Connie hedge and there wasn't a straight 12 inches in it anywhere. )Apparently this was the work of a door knocker, she had asked him first to dig her flower border but to pot up some things she wanted to keep. After he'd gone and been paid she went out and had a look to see he'd dug the lot in but had potted up some dandelions.
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This is always a worry for me too, expecting a slanging match from anybody at any minute. I can't offer any legal help but just the other day we pulled up and because of the junction had to park truck and chipper near a neighbors but not blocking them in. I knocked and told a lady that we would move if required and warned politely about noise. All good natured . We just get the greedy boards up when out comes her loud mouthed cockney partner I guess and gets right in my face saying 'I know what one of those is and you're not covering my brickweave in dust and he threatened to call police if we didn't move. We shunted round other side of junction, three times as far to drag brash but what can you do when you want to get on.
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Am I missing an opportunity to become a log Baron
oldwoodcutter replied to Dean Lofthouse's topic in The Lounge
I got court out once like that , I had priced to take all arising away on a 3 day job. During the second day the customer says his neighbour will be coming round to pick up some of thinner lengths of cord we had on the deck. I thought well that's less for us to cart away. But when the time came to settle up my customer said the deal was for you to take it all away and you didn't did you, my neighbour took some. And that blinkin skinflint would not give me the full amount no matter how long I stood on his doorstep and argued the toss. Another lesson learned . -
Am I missing an opportunity to become a log Baron
oldwoodcutter replied to Dean Lofthouse's topic in The Lounge
You can't believe the brass neck some 'customers' have. Cheeky git. -
Sadly the goblins that helped themselves to some of my stack of best quality cordwood left no such letter. They opened a farm gate, drove 1/2 a mile up a dead end roadway, and grappled or hiabed it on to something big. If I had court them up there, severe internal injuries would have been measured out. As it is, they may return at any time.
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In our world of treework, dealing with all kinds of scenarios that the natural world can throw at us , the words 'always' and 'never' are seldom used. The exception is always avoid the question of time,and never tell them. If you go about telling potential clients how long a job will take, you will certainly live to regret it. If asked I just say 'oh it depends how many men come on the day, what the weather is like ' and they accept that. Tell them it will take a day,and on the day you may have a first class climber on the job, and a team of groundys who've really got there skates on,you do it by lunchtime . Or tell them that big job will take 4 days and you do it in 3, your clients will be arguing the toss and trying to deduct your coin by a hefty amount.
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I bought one couple of years ago, and yes, would be OK for light use on small stuff. I fancy my lads used it for much heavier work and busted the guts out of it . Disintigrated after a year, and that was that.
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To get rid of that, and grind the stump out, got to be worth £400 to £450,depending on drag.
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I expect someone will tell me they're useless, but I get on very well with screw fix valved masks type FFP3 NR. Unlike some valved ones they're not like having a balaclava over your face, and can be worn in conjunction with some safe eyes with a degree of comfort.
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I developed a constant cough and wheeze which X Ray's couldn't show up anything 'sinister' as they put it. I have wised up to these blinking spores and dust now, so if we're short handed and I put myself on the chipper all day,I wear good quality valves masks, and also when crosscutting all day or splitting. Often when you're in the zone you can't see the dust that's all around you. Never used to bother but I certainly do now.
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I will look forward to seeing it working, next time I drop into your yard mate
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Do trees have feelings too?
oldwoodcutter replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Training & education
I had a feeling there would be a comedian along afore long haironyourchest -
Do trees have feelings too?
oldwoodcutter replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Training & education
A funny thing happened one day years ago which made me wonder at the time if trees had feelings. We were cutting the roots through with a dozer blade of a mature oak with a view to winching the whole tree over and getting it out of this building site. After a few of the main laterals had been sliced through, the whole tree in full leaf just stood there and shook violently for I suppose a few seconds. Never seen it before or since , but never forgot that. -
It came true for a friend of mine , he thinned a holly tree and died. That I do know because I went to his funeral recently, he was 92.
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I have a guy in his early twenties work for me in the winter (in the summer he does tractor work) . Now I didn't realise for a few weeks that he couldn't read or write except at what you would expect a 5 year old to do, but this doesn't bother me. His work ethic is beyond impressive, you could not want for a harder working lad. He is also immensely gifted in all things mechanical. He also has a photographic memory so for example instead of giving him a written way to drive to a job,which would be of no use to him, I have to tell him, and he remembers all the route that way,first time.How he passed his theory driving test I have no idea . He will never be prime minister, but he has adapted his adult life from what must have been tragic schooldays.
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I need someone to cut my grass,I never have the time. Bit of a hike though.
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One of the young fellows that claims to work for me , apparently does not wear underpants at work, and of course has come in for a bit of leg pulling from the other youngsters about it since he joined us. Obviously it's no business of mine,but I can't help chuckling to myself when I see him walking around.
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That's very true Dave.
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Well Mull my friend, I'm no expert on dogs so I will take your word for it.
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Just last week a friend of mine was out walking on a public footpath with his aunt, when a big mastiff type attacked his aunts pooch, and he himself sustained hand injuries that needed stitching. Police attended but just gave a warning to mastiffs owner. Aunts vets bill came to over£900 which other party paid. Later in week they took mastiff to be castrated and it ripped up another dog in the waiting room, so they had it destroyed there and then.
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In our world of tree and hedge work, the words ' always' and 'never' are seldom used ,as nature can often jump up and bite you. But never ever give your client a day rate , or you will rue the day you did.
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Holidays, time off and notice periods for PAYE employed people
oldwoodcutter replied to Rhystree's topic in General chat
I don't know the letter of the law, but when I've got a busy Monday morning lined up and a mum calls me at 7 am to say her little hero is still stoned from last night and won't come out of his bedroom, I would say that's a little on the short notice side.
