oldwoodcutter
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Its not a matter of confidence, i know ive done a good job,and exactly to what the customer has specified. Instead i generally say something like ' that looks a lot better' or what a great difference its made. With some customers, if you're not going to load up until they're happy, you could be there for a long time.
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I very seldom nowadays ask them if they are happy with everything, as you are then casting doubt in their mind, and by asking, they may then start to nit pick. Just in my experience.
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Do you mean putting yourself near the Lv , or felling in an area of an Lv line Dom?
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I would have wrapped his welding cable round his blinking neck weeks ago.
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I tried to be helpful and load the dishwasher once, mrs oldwoodcutter looked at my handywork and nearly had a fit, told me in no uncertain terms what she thought, so i steer clear of it now. My lads are at their most annoying when they fill my truck with an unpleasant gas mixture of sulphur and rotten eggs.
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Is vibration white finger related to grip?
oldwoodcutter replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
Ime no expert on white fingers, but the worst culprit to my mind is the hs45 hedge trimmers, due to the fact you have to have a good grip of the top and back handle to ensure you're cutting accurately, and to support it of course. Often after a days connie trimming my fingers are still tingling during the drive home. -
They moan when they are too big, others moan that my logs are too small, was told by one git they were too dry, another claimed to have found woodworm in his house "which must have come out of your logs" . I shall be glad when i retire and then when they phone up i will simply say, 'no, dont do logs any more.'
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Red fir.
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These caps have nearly ended in fisticuffs when a climbing saw's been sent up and dumps its oil all over a climbers trousers, and they are not simpleton groundies either. My gypsy sticks petrol cap was a devil until i changed the tank and cap.
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As Dom said - Burgess.
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Provided there are handy places to have a sit down now and again, no lower than two feet from the ground preferably
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Just when you think you've seen everything.
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This is the worse sort of publicity for our line of work. We try hard for years to build our businesses and work in a professional way,and in a few minutes of prime time tv these herberts give all our potential clients watching this a reason to be suspicious of every tree and hedge contractor.
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Ime reminded of my father in law, the more fat on his pork the better he liked it, i used to watch him take great slabs of the stuff and crackling and fatty lamb. His breakfasts would include large lumps of fat bacon and and the like,and i very seldom saw him eat veg, let alone fruit. He died about 20 years ago and was well into his 90s. As Dave said, genetics play a part.
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Price is about the going rate. As Eggs says insurance is a factor,i was under the impression that once the stove and flue liner and vermiculite was put in, then the appliance had to be commisioned and signed off in the event of a house fire and claim.
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I had a 135 but sold it within a year, as above,Shavey will sort you out.
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But one of the most blatant bad habits,and often resulting in a verbal warning from me,is an evacuation of gas comparable to a supa nova exploding, 15 seconds after getting into my truck of a morning.
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One of the bad habits i often pull them up on is not having their visor down when chipping,they start off with it down then have a walk about and come back visor up and chip a bit more up. And another i nip in the bud is reaching in the hopper when chipping short stuff instead of using a 'broomstick' .
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New husqvarna combi can, in a word . . crap.
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One of my favourite parts of the job is right at the end, on the doorstep,when they slowly rip that cheque out of their book, its the noise that it makes that ive always enjoyed.
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Gladwins spent £7k in parts and labour, and off the road for 7 weeks, after the front of my transit tipper was ripped off last year after a 40 ton beet lorry decided to try and kill me.
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Ide say something like - do you mind keeping it down a bit, and if that didnt work, i would say it in stronger terms.
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Clay shooting, and being thankful my eyes have opened again after a nights sleep.
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Happy birthday my friend
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Day off today, but yesterday was really good, connies topped, hedges all clipped, shrubs all pruned back, 4 of us finished in the pelting rain at 6:00. Customer paid on the doorstep and gave me an extra ton as thanks for slogging on. The evening was rounded off with a nice glass of beer - mrs oldwoodcutters headaches started in 1984 as i recollect.
