Chrissy

guilty

As I said in the opening post, this isn't the first time this has happened

Not yet no

Just to add there was ample time allowed on the job. They were done by 2

Your bog standard side alleyway. Arm fulls of large branches bullied through rather than cutting them smaller and carrying them through in bundles.

This one comes up time and time again and im sure im not alone. I had an irate customer complain today that my lads had dragged branches across the side of his rendered house leaving marks. He's within his rights to be upset about this and we will be going back tomorrow with a pressure washer to hopefully sort this out. Thing is, the lads have been told time and time again to cut stuff smaller but insist on still doing the same thing, whether its just lazyness or they just don't give a toss I dont know. They are hard working lads and on the whole don't do an awful lot wrong. How would you tackle this? Im not sure legally I can make them pay for this sort of thing, nor would I want to be the boss to do that.

The worst ones have to be some of these LWB mercedes panel vans. I've seen them looking like they are literally scraping the floors before now. Some of the older Ivecos really showed when they were overloaded also, not sure about the newer ones. The test we always used to use was to see if the rear tyres were touching...if not we were good to go and obviously fully legal 😁

We are also in the process of looking into this. I can't get my head round the whole benefit in kind thing. Being only newly formed as a ltd company I don't really understand the difference in company vehicle types. I will post if/when I get a better understanding. That Jaguar looks mint!

nice work 5 shires

I keep seeing the most infuriating comments on social media, things such as 'people are making too much fuss about this', or 'people are too set in their ways'. Looking at the profiles it seems people with this attitude fall into 1 of 2 camps 1. Office bods who are little or no climbing experience. If the former, its likely they were never a climber of any note. 2. Training providers/bodies...surprise surprise, they are looking to make a tidy profit from all the retraining they can offer, not surprising more of them are on side. I saw a comment from a training provider stating that they were going to be training the other training providers to teach twin rope working. Just what we need, more clueless trainers with no real life experience in the industry teaching even more techniques they are not well versed in.

Looking forward to seeing the finished bed. Stuff like this is worth a small fortune to the right people. Your daughter will certainly love it, yet she might not appreciate for years to come

Gorgeous looking little pup!

Probably my most embarrassing was whilst working on a large contract maintaining some roadside trees. A larger mature Ash tree that broke into 4 stems at about 6ft up needed one of the stems removing. Plenty of room to fell so rather than getting up there I went for the lazy option and felled it from the the ground, obviously with the saw above my head. It happens, everyone does it. The problem in this case was my cuts involved a certain amount of guesswork and I was way out. As a result when the limb started to fall it barber chaired and ripped out a section of the trunk right to base level ? I was lucky not to have hurt myself but my primary thought was how embarrassing leaving that wound was. Few years ago now and I still cringe whenever I see it! Whats the stupidest thing you have done?

Really interested to see how the 500i plays out over time. My 461 is still going strong at the point but im sorely tempted. Does it really offer that much more power?

can't quite work out where they get the 15 billion figure from