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dealing with rude/wrong customers
oldwoodcutter replied to onyx landscaping/fencing's topic in General chat
Thats ok Steve,i made good money on his later jobs,so i kinda got my own back on him for mimicking my (slight) norfolk accent. Always get on better when quoting if you try to be friendly and laid back a bit,rather than talking to them like your reading a police prosecution statement. -
dealing with rude/wrong customers
oldwoodcutter replied to onyx landscaping/fencing's topic in General chat
Few months back i said to a retired american business man,when he finished telling me what he wanted "You're looking at around £300". He repeated what i said in a poor copy of a norfolk accent,and came out with "what sort of quote is that?" and he said it again. So i rather sarcasticly said "it will cost £300 to do this work" thinking to myself take it or leave it mate. After that got on real well,and he gave us a stack of other treework which we did later in the year. Takes all sorts. -
Yeah,i was going to say £450/£500 plus £100 call out.
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I used to get a couple of dairylee triangles dropped in my lunchbox,but for some reason she now puts in laughing cow triangles,both good but a devil to get the blinking silver paper off sometimes.
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Ive never had the pleasure of owning one,but a neighboor has one he parks on the street,and every time he goes off in it, ive noticed there are a few more little pyramids of iron oxide left on the tarmac.
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Fellow i once knew built up a cesspit emptying firm,few tractors n tankers,also 1 or 2 tanker lorries,and plastered accross the back of them all he painted 'you make it,we take it'
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Not a relation,but an old friend,who was almost completely deaf, was in royal norfolks and had been captured in the far east and spent much of the war in a pow camp. One day we were talking in a farm yard when some lads started taking the micky about his deafness until i went over and explained to them how when he was in captivity a jap took a dislike to him one day and ruptured both his eardrums with a rifle butt. Due to his weakness and diet at the time,they never recovered and he remained handicapped until the day he died.
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Mrs oldwoodcutters dad was a driver,drove the colonel around belguim,then right though germany to the end. My own father would never say to anybody what he did,where he went,or what he'd been through,just used to change the subject.
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Pair of slippers off mrs oldwoodcutter (as usual)
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No commandments about the use,or non use,of ladders in treework please.
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I know theres nothing wrong with it,thats why i spent my hard earned on it Harvey.
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Husky forest helmet,a 25"Sugi hara for the 460,and a little husky 135 for the chipper boy.
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The last time i worked for them,i would have earned more money if ide have sat in the house in front of my fire all week drinking tea.
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4 golfers wanted to have a round on xmas morning,but knew it would be difficult persuading their wives on that day of all days.They decided to go for it,but if anyone of the 4 couldnt get away,then he would have to pay for the other threes round. On xmas morning all 4 showed up at the clubhouse,the first said 'i had to buy her a £10,000 diamond ring to get here today' The second said 'i had to buy her a top of the range bmw sport to get here' The 3rd said 'well i had to pay for a fortnights skiing in switzerland followed by a fortnight in the sun in florida' And the 4th man,who had been silent up to now said' I said to my wife this morning i cant decide whether to make love or go golfing and she said' you'd better take your jumper,its cold out there today'
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Wouldn't want to be within 20 yards of that lash up.
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Last week while wearing ordinary treework gloves,i pulled a lump of shrub out of the way at the base of a tree i was felling and some kind of blinking thorn went straight under my finger nail,my fingertip is numb now but all i can do is hope it grows out with the nail.
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Ordered a 25" one for my 460 yesterday for the benefit of weight and rail wear,so will soon see how it shapes up Jake.
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Seems to me matty that there are not many tree men left in your village and those local to it,that hav'nt had their gear stolen,do you think it is someone very local?
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You're not wrong there mike,ive been sawing n chipping in swaffham on quite a few jobs this past fortnight and they havnt been near or by me,and they can hear me from their reservation.
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All ive noticed,time after time, is the blinking tractor and plough that goes for miles and miles and wont pull over even to the point of driving past laybys is almost always of the younger generation. Look at the driver who has pulled over for you,and he will be of the old school,looking over his shoulder at you as you pass him by.
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One of the top climbers hereabouts,and a fellow arbtalker, helped me out couple of weeks ago,he asked for my pole saw to be sent up on one occasion,as he couldnt get a safe anchor in 1 of the pines to remove a branch that the customer insisted be removed. Nothing wrong with that in my humble.
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Had mine completely resrayed,including wheels and towbar bracketry,600 notes. Hope this helps Chris.
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Looks like its got a bit of a pedigree chum.
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Had a stihl budget one on the floor behind the passenger seat,had to pull up quickly and a box of 250 cartridges slid off back seat and crumpled the helmet like it was made of paper.
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What Eddie said.
