Mick Dempsey
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Everything posted by Mick Dempsey
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Bit more than that, persistant rule breaking then persistant lying about it. But you didn’t want him to go did you?
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If only she had shown as much moral fibre and followed the rules like Boris eh?
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Desperate stuff.
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Cheating how? Post it up.
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I did, you got nothing.
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Who did she cheat on her husband with?
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Your words not mine. Who did she have sex with?
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I guess because she’s not a ‘proud housewife’ you disapprove of her.
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Finnish PM clear of drug taking. People having a good time 1 Miserable gits. 0
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Where is this lack of respect you talk about? As for the ‘holding each other up and respecting our fellow arborists’ well that’s just New Age touchy feely nonsense. Anyway, give it ten years and everyone will be in Mewps or using remote control lorry grab things.
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Yes, this is a factor.
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Why is Arb poorly paid? You weren’t completely wrong, just putting too much store in your theory. Better now:)? Ok, so give us a little glimpse of the magic, throw us a bone so that we can understand a bit better the psychology of it.
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I have 27 years experience of standing in front of clients trying to secure tree work, I have listened to hundreds or even thousands of clients trying to get the price down, sometimes succeeding sometimes not. You can listen to what I have to say, or you can apply you’re own algorithms or pre conceived prejudices about rich people. No skin off my nose either way.
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Change the word ‘worth’ for ‘cost’
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I did a job for a guy over here, 5 easy oaks to dismantle, leave wood onsite, easy days work. €650 plus VAT iirc. A few months later his mate asked me to quote an absolutely massive deodar, restricted access, limbs 2ft diameter over the house, absolute nightmare material. I told him 5k is a ballpark figure, he was totally gobsmacked, said I thought as you charged €650 to my mate it’d be about the same. 10 years later, tree is still there.
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Well, I can only imagine that they do like I do when I take the car to a garage, a chipper to a repair shop or any other trade in to do a job. You sort of guess, using experience and a rationale. Then you add 30% cos life is like that.
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Clients usually have a figure in their head of what they hope it’ll be. What husband and wife hasn’t said to one another ‘how much do you think it’ll cost?’ Followed by the other one saying ‘dunno, a grand maybe?’ You walk in and say £800 and the jobs yours. If they won’t pay what firms are charging for an expensive removal, it doesn’t get done. Same for any trade, window fitter, roofer or whatever.
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Wouldn’t a rake be quicker? (on the digger)
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5 Tips for progressing your arb career after 30...
Mick Dempsey commented on KateH's blog entry in Member Blogs
I started a thread, ‘Problems and issues this industry faces..’ as a direct consequence of your post in a hope that we could address your question. Could you post those on that thread? Thanks. Mick -
Is this the same? Found on a sweet chestnut stool.
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If my aunt had bollocks she’d be my uncle. Look we’re going round in circles, I’ll leave it for a bit
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You’re wrong, they’ll pay what it costs. Not all in fact not much of tree work is formative pruning that people can make a choice about. Big trees near houses, dead stuff etc. HAS to be done.
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My post was about climbers pay.
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I don’t agree. The money is what it is, it’s not the market’s perception that dictates pay, it’s the supply and demand of capable climbers that dictates the pay.
