oldwoodcutter
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Everything posted by oldwoodcutter
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Will we still be allowed to continue our progress in Euro 2016, or will they send us home now ?
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Big k at Whittington have a massive operation there now,I would thing one of biggest players in the country. Kriss started off more than 30 years ago from very humble beginnings,and built it all up .
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Spud gave my 660 the full treatment a few weeks ago - it cuts like an 880 now and can be heard 3 villages away 🙂
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How tall would you say this Hedge is?
oldwoodcutter replied to CharlieBoulder94's topic in General chat
The connie hedge, bread and butter to many hedge men and part time tree surgeons up and down the country. -
Perhaps she wanted to germinate some laurel bushes from scratch? 🙂
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Worth a 'punt' Eggs.
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Most of us in the tree game know to treat laurel leaf chip with a small degree of respect, but for a customer to go off at you like that is barmy. Glad I'm not the only one with mad customers.
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I believe that you can get tablets for it, which may help.
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To draw £50k in wages for yourself out of the business, I suspect there is either a blinking lot of tree work to do in your area, or that you have little competition. These are figures I can only dream about,and I reckon I'm not alone on here. Fair play to you to achieve that.
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I like it when a householder stands nearby, hardly able to contain himself that you're going to balls it up, and you do it in one . They usually say something like " ah I can see that you've done that before" as you get out of the cab.
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It's nice to take pride in being able to reverse into tight spots. Well done there Johny.
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I've found nothing wrong whatsoever with the 230, it swallows stuff impressively with its wide open mouth. In my humble it runs, performs,and tows, all better than the ST6. And, more importantly, my boys haven't managed to block it once.
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You're not wrong there Dave, I've been out this afternoon and priced 3 different domestic jobs up, I priced normally and could see each potential customer rock back on their heels. I tried to grab something from nothing by asking if they'd had any other quotes (I guessed they had) 1 said I was a third higher than the highest so far, the second showed me a duplicate book type quotation half the price I gave him, and the third proffered a business card with a figure on the back that wouldn't buy a hand basket of tescos basics.
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Unbelievable.
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I've got 3 spades, but will never be that well off to retire.
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I'm told that bogus nptc stickers are easy enough to buy off eBay , this was told to me by the owner of a high profile tree firm hereabouts, who admitted not being registered, but was proud of the way his truck was plastered with them. Doesn't bother me though.
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Their wives and partners are out doing what they can working full or nearly full time bringing some in to keep their heads above water Dave.
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38k ? I know of several sole trader tree firms locally that, from what they tell me man to man, and reading between the lines, don't draw much more than 8k in wages for the fiscal year. They price jobs as much as they dare, buy another old chipper a bit more reliable than last years one, trade that old truck in for something not falling to pieces,and really try to swim against the tide of entry level guys pricing against them.
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Reminds me of the old boys on the forestry commission cutting gangs 40 years ago. Sometimes during the lunch break, our resident joker in the pack would amble off and turn the chain round on someone's saw, when we got up to start again those that knew what was afoot would see how long it would take the butt of the prank to notice it . Happy days.
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Red fir. Knock that top out before someone else does 👍.
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You're right there Tom, I would recommend steering well clear of buying a 261,unless you want more stress in your life.
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When my quote is accepted, if I've not got much on I will ask when would you like it done, to which they usually say as soon as possible. Then you can say well if I jiggle my jobs around I can bring you near the top and do it next Tuesday. They don't know you've nothing much on, they appreciate you fitting them in sooner, and also this avoids a chainsaw Charlie nipping in behind your back and doing it in the meantime. Works for me many a time .
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I left a brash dragger on site once, well actually he had been involved in an altercation with a co-worker , squaring up to each other etc. I got between them and as it was nearly leaving off time I suggested he sit in the truck and cool down a bit, while the other one kept out of the way. He decided not to do this, in fact he wouldn't even get in when the job was finished. I learned a few days later when he called round to get paid that he had hitch hiked/walked back to his home, some 20 miles, and had made several wrong turns in the process.
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Also it depends how busy your firm is, if you are snowed under with offers of work then you may not bother to call them back, but on the other side of the coin if your diary has more blank pages than full ones you may have a long wait for your phone to ring,so calling your quotes back will pay dividends. Some potential clients have so much going on in their lives that yes they do forget about their trees and hedges. We live and breath trees but they don't.
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Unusually I was lone working, when I nearly brained myself with a log sappie, all I could do was stagger to the truck and hold the kitchen roll I keep in there to my eye socket to stem the bleeding with one hand,and drive with the other hand back to civilisation. After what would now be described as chilling out for an hour or so, I began to think clearly again and realised my 460 was where I'd left it. Mrs oldwoodcutter drove me back and it was still there, and I still have it to this day.
