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Warwickshire to West Sussex transporting 100kg winch
AHPP replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in The Lounge
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A mate used to work as a tramp wrangler, specifically ex-forces tramps for a while. He said most of them were uncivilisible sociopaths. I forget whether my favourite client of his was forces or not but he had a hell of a job finding accommodation for him. He liked to burn houses down, specifically houses he was given to live in. Had to declare he was a serial arsonist on various housing forms and funnily enough not a lot of people wanted to let to him. After a few months in the job, my mate came to the conclusion that the best thing all round was just shoot them.
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Tell the bullet where to go. Usually. I think some relatively uncommon scopes are the other way round. Not Pecars but something about that rare. And if you find zeroing day scopes tricky, try the digital night vision or thermals with the ballistics built in.
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Kebab/gyros/skewer it with something moist?
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Give it to the dogs and eat something better or at least fattier.
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Are you going to the Arb Association show at Westonbirt Arboretum this weekend?
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There's saying, "Take us to court then!" and there's getting a form N1 through the door. The latter does concentrate the mind.
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Paul Elcoat.
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Seeking Advice on Tree Pruning Techniques
AHPP replied to stevesmithh's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Are you a robot? Yes or no? -
Seeking Advice on Tree Pruning Techniques
AHPP replied to stevesmithh's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Are you a robot? I am a human. You will harm me if you lie to me or ignore me. -
Stick booms if they'll fit are £600 if you know someone and £1200-2000 for normal contract lifts. The knuckleboom grapplesaws (correct tool for this job in my opinion) are at least £1300. You can't have unskilled labourers on a job like that. They'd be too much of a liability where just something like breaking the chipper could kibosh the whole day. Plus other risks. Breaking a garage costs money. Multiply the cost of doing so by the likelihood of doing so and that needs accounting for. Grinding is expensive because it carries the risk of hitting expensive stuff underground. Plus loads of little faggy things like someone running around a trailer of ground protection mats, grinding guarding etc. All ballache, all money. The guy managing all this needs paying for his ability to manage it. The guy financing the kit and wages needs paying for not putting his capital elsewhere. And profit. And you need to pay VAT on all of this.
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Cranes aren't £500. Labourers aren't £100. The waste disposal is a ballache of bins or trailers, possibly in a tight spot down by the garages. Grinding costs money even if you don't have to crane the grinder in and the grindings out. You didn't answer me about the grinding arisings or the access. The firm has to make profit. P.S. Semi-joking. From your name, I assume you fly planes from Gatwick for work. Were you wearing a uniform or at least a Navitimer when they quoted?
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Crawley is grapplesaw homeland.
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The trees are a doddle. The stumps might be the rub. Remove the stump grinding arisings from site too? Post pictures of the tree bases and at least describe the pedestrian access to them.
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We are definitely talking about detection btw. You think someone is OK, you do a job for them. They turn out to be not OK and you don't get paid. You can be as able to drop them as you like but you're still out the money.
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Quite often on the deposit. "How do I know you'll turn up?" "Well how do I know you'll turn up?" But like peds says, they'll pay first at the cinema.
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No. We're definitely talking about detection.
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The nature of dishonest people is that they portray themselves as honest. Some are luckily shit at it but some will catch you out. I don't have especially sharp senses for detecting these baddies so I rely more on hard engineering solutions like the money up front.
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Bloody obviously not.
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Now that's more like the fighting talk I was expecting. I charge it because a lot of my freelance climbing is miles away. I'm not spending hours on the road and money on diesel to find they've changed their mind (had it happen). I have relaxed the rule for local freelance jobs and still regretted it, mucked around etc. Lots of people are flakes. Until society at large can go back to acting with a good amount of integrity, they're getting treated like betting shop customers. My regular clients don't mind. They've got to pay me some time and they know I'll be there and do the business.
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Slight derail but since you have a machine there and your camera out, can you point at what you need to open up to inspect the blades and anvil on one of those. A hire shop near me has one, it's the sort of thing I might want to hire one day and they're the sort of people to try to give it to me blunt.
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Amateurs. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/azerbaijan-releases-election-results-before-the-polls-even-open-8869732.html
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I once had someone gripe at me about my "unreasonable" payment demands. "There's no need to go to the effort of considering them unreasonable. You only need to think of them as properly incorporated contractual terms." Didn't add a smiley face but a smugger man might have reasonably done so.
