Le Sanglier
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Everything posted by Le Sanglier
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Firm but fair!
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You should've agreed the extra cost before removing the other two trees. (The OP is difficult to understand btw) If he has paid up front you are in the driving seat. However I would have thought the extra cost of grinding is negligible (once the machine was there etc) Customer sounds a pain but at the point where he says "could you do those two as well?" it's up to you to say "that will be XXXXX extra.
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Why do you even bother going to look at them?
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This has come up from time to time, you are the bloke that makes the profit, you either swallow the cost or get rid of the blokes, charging groundsmen/brash draggers for damage is having your cake and eating it. I imagine they are on little enough as it is.
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Hugh Janus
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I feel for you on this one:001_smile:
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One Saturday morning at 10ish turned up to price some conny removal in a back garden, customer was a honey in a bathrobe, she smelt like a newly mown meadow in early june, she smiled knowingly and sent me out to the garden to inspect the trees. Upon my return to the house I managed to splutter that I would take the lot out for 250 quid.....3 days later I was still ferrying the stuff to the burn site (pre chipper days) Moral; don't quote with your you know what. I never saw her again, husband posted the cheque.
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Getting back to thread, next time ring bark them while he is on his way back to the office. (don't blame him it's his job!)
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Having spent years wearing chainsaw boots I finally went over to the dark side, For me it's heavy duty work boots from the DIY store, never going back. any near misses I've had are always near the toe. So I am covered there.
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I use it for football gossip, sick jokes and pictures of females celebs in the altogether.
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Not for glory shots like this! Also a long dead stump like that would grind like butter, hardly worth getting the saw out.
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Lovely looking machine, very jealous........enjoy!
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The few I've seen hit hard threw out like Limes.
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As Roy Walker might say "it's good but it's not right" -
ok, enough of that, can we have some New Age hokum please?
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That's.......he who lives by the sword etc.
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Not smart enough! but imagine using a half hitch instead of a pulley and cutting out a small gob behind the hitch to act as a false crotch to prevent downward movement. I am sure someone here can provide a diagram. It was actually taught as standard practice in the early nineties.
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Half hitch with a smiley cut out behind to stop the rope sliding down.
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At that price it's probably a pedestrian grinder. A real pita, Not certain if any companies hire out hydraulically controlled machines, TBH you would need a good day to learn how to use a bigger machine. Just my thoughts.
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Speak for yourself, I'm in it for the money. (oh the shame!)
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100 Percent right:thumbup:
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Really? they are teaching students to go to the TO and get orders put on trees they may be quoting on! Against the clients wishes. Confirms what I thought about some (and only some) of the tutors.
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I know this an age old discussion but when you flick through General tree pics thread and Hama"s reduction thread you see a lot of TWs behind the trucks. They cannot all be wrong!
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I suppose you could take the grinder back in and chase them out, bit messy but shows the client you are willing to sort the problem.
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Easy in hindsight I know but I always poison the stumps with neat glyphosphate then grind after a few months. Are the runners above the surface?
