trigger_andy
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I’ve clearly stated since covid hit my brothers business has been affected. There’s no need to frame your retort as a redundant question. I have yet to mock the “concept of arb workers” it’s a legitimate role and a much needed one. I take satisfaction in the work because it’s a beautiful satisfying lifestyle. I love how you justify abusing some kids slightly less than the other mobs do and try and make it sound like you’re the white knight.
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Excluding vehicles I think I’ve close on £40k in machinery and equipment. Small change to some here, maybe significantly more than the man & saw type with a few tickets. Clearly not enough to satisfy those who feel I only have a voice here if I slave away 10 hours a day every day of the year for peanuts and keep my head down. I think any work paid from the neck up is worth £200 a day. It’s certainly worth that to me. If I could get another lad in to lighten the load on me and my brother and he was sharp then £200 a day is what I’d pay. Id expect results, quotas and initiatives to be displayed obviously.
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Money to be made hand over fist. I’d almost give up the off-shore game to do it full time. But then I can orchestrate a lot of it from a laptop sitting on my arse off-shore. Come home, knock out a week or two in the 4-6 weeks I’ve got off milling where making £350-£400 for 2-3 hours work a day is not unusual. Paying someone in this game £100 a day is just pure greed. So yeh, I’m still concerned.
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I am set up myself. Have my own wee budding business that’s building rather nicely. I pay my brother £200 a day for general milling and firewood production. He can easily mill £1000 of timber for me in that day. I take the orders, he does the milling when I’m otherwise occupied, I get the wife to do the books. Second easiest game I’ve ever been in.
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I’m on here as I have interests and equipment that covers at least three sub-forums on Arbtalk. I just choose to not make it my main source of income, it does not mean it’s not a source of income.
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Likewise Mike. It’s very important that you also understand that. Can’t say it’s not fun watching you guys scrape the barrel and justify earning £2-3 over minimum wage and try to justify it. Paid from the neck down I guess?
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Exactly. £2-3 more than someone working in Tesco’s? It’s utterly ridiculous. But the argument seems to revolve around loving what they do to justify the near on minimum unskilled wage.
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Conversely I work off-shore mainly to spend more time with the family. I work 80-120 days out of 365 days a year. I’ve done the on-shore thing and I hardly seen the family. Out at 06:30, home at 16:00 then trying to squeeze all the jobs that need doing into a few hours in the evening. No thank you. Endless days out with the kids year in year out suits me far more. Plus I love my job.
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I’m not even remotely comparing work. I simply asked if you’d work for less than what Mark suggested. I’ve grown up with family in this industry and wages have always been bad but in light of inflation and the rise of costs it amazes me how little folk in Arb are willing to work for. When I’m home I’m milling and now processing and sell firewood and timber. The money is a nice income that covers all my costs and provides me free timber and firewood but mainly I do it because love the work.
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Fair enough. But why sell yourself short? If you’re good at what you do and respected then command the wage you deserve? I’m quite sure you where being facetious when you said you work 11 hours for £80 though.
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So that’s a yes then. 🤣
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Would you work for less?
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Cracking kiln but I envisioned it being so much bigger. I might take the easy option and buy the Logosol Tent offering.
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With three threads started on the same subject paying someone £500 a day for communications would be worth their weight in gold. 🤣
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Sorry, not really. When Im over next I'll take some pics and get some better info.
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I really cant remember, it was in 2020 when I was there, I was more interested in the Chevys and what kinda carb they where running. They where not called Chevy V8's, but thats what the cores where then re-branded. As far as I can remember they each had their own generator bolted into the Crank. Output was monitored in a small control room. I thought I had some pics but all I have is the big old Ash Slabs I got for near on firewood prices as they where clearing everything out to expand the electricity generation expansion. They had huge piles of hardwood logs that the Millers had refused to mill for whatever reason, going back decades, all found a use in the chipper.
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A local sawmill to me cleared out their hardwood drying shed to install woodgas generators. They run 3 Chevy V8 based engines at a time and have one in reserve. Very little maintenance from what they told me when I toured the set-up. They chip and fill huge hoppers and power the whole mill whilst making a tidy profit off of it as well,
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From someone who gloats about having an accountant find loopholes for you to pay virtually no tax and justify that because its what the Party you despise does. From someone who is openly discussing the idea of moving to a Country to make use of their 'free' benefits such as Uni and Prescriptions but is openly looking at keeping his business in another Country to even further minimise his tax exposure I find this post yet another example of your blinkered and rank hypocrisy.
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I was a bit excited about it. Not paying that though.
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He seems like a right bellend. Im glad Im shot of him. No time for folk like him just now as Im out the door with Timber orders and Processing work this coming time off.
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It crossed my mind to lift it and replace with clogged up Beech. Id be doing him a favour really.
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Nothing remotely like that. After a year of dealing with him regarding this tree and a nice 900mm Ash he wanted Milled up and assisting him along the way his attitude and his threats to turn it into firewood as he claims Im charging to much for milling time I told him to burn the fecking lot then. Dave can testify to how my customers regard me. Ive passed his number to Dave as a matter of fact. We're playing good Cop/bad Cop. Dave will now sound like his savior and get a good price outta him.
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This Walnut looks like it could be a cracker. 700mm diameter and 4.5m long. He’s gonna cut it up for firewood now though because he’s taken the huff. 🤣
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Thats why I let the lads get on with it and I supervised with a coffee in my hands.
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Yes and yes. The weather is very odd just now. 3" solid ice on the deck and blowing a blizzard and the next its all melted. -5 one day then +6 then next. Its -20 with the wind chill though. Never had so much layers on at work before. Making Electrical terminations in a sideways blizzard at those temps with bare fingers is a challenge I can tell you.
