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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.
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Interesting turn of phrase. As though it's the natural position for the customer to set payment terms. I've heard people plenty of times saying things like, "We've been put on net 30." like they had no say in the matter and some benevolent corporate overlord has chosen which teat they may suckle. My back goes up abruptly if anyone tries to tell me when they're paying me.
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Not even when you might have to disburse £2000 of crane hire etc?
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Watched this video. The main thing that jumped out at me was the deposit red flags. As a labour only subcontractor (freelance climber) I take 50% or 100% up front, depending on whether client new, especially sketchy, short notice etc. As a principal contractor (owning the job, done for a consumer) I take 0% or 50%, depending on client vibes, expenses like machinery hire, job size etc. Bona fide subcontracting somewhere in the middle of the two approaches, tending towards 50%. I've worked for people who haven't paid, cancelled at last minute etc so from my perspective deposits are a way of weeding out (or at least partially protecting myself from) bad clients. I'm aware of how it can look desperate or whatever for a little round the corner job though. So what say we? Perspicacious precaution? The preserve of pikeys? Somewhere in the middle?
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Sex worker shamed by relationship with ‘politician’ – NewsThump NEWSTHUMP.COM Sex worker Sharon Williams has admitted she was ‘mortified’ when she discovered the man she’d met online was actually ‘politician’ John Whittingdale.
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You must be better at your job than I am. Or at least more likeable.
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Three weeks later. Pad is stuck to his foot well enough to walk on it with no strips or bandage. Still keeping him off running, charging up banks etc but broadly speaking fixed. Have replaced it with a different injury. He was obviously annoyed with the bandage, chewed it off and kept chewing for something to do. Less concerning, just a bit annoying that he looks like a crackhead.
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Jesus christ. There's your thread, Cliff. Sorry.
