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Retired Climber

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  1. Retired Climber
    Good post. Having staff on the books is one of the main differences between actually having a business and simply 'winging it' to pay the bills.
  2. Retired Climber
    My first thought is always to make sure there is money in it for you. We always used to use the very rough rule of knowing that an employee will cost you twice their hourly rate. Make sure you can charge them out at more than that.
  3. Retired Climber
    Haha. That I can believe.
  4. Retired Climber
    Did you take advice on those discount levels? It's impossible to give accurate advice without data such as your customer lifetime value and your average spend per transaction, but those discounts don't seem optimal to me. There's been a lot of research done by some very knowledgeable teams in this area, and there's a lot of research data available if you want to optimise such things. How exactly are you using these discounts, and where exactly in the customer journey are they being told about them? It's really important when giving discounts that you gain leverage from doing so. If you don't, you are simply giving money away.
  5. Retired Climber
    Whether they actually know anything or not.
  6. Retired Climber
    I take your point. Whilst I see your point, I don't agree. I only really post on subjects about which I would consider myself an expert, or at least those in which I have a great deal of experience or expertise. When someone then posts a load of poorly thought out nonsense which contradicts my point (whilst at the same time being full of holes), I tend not to sugar coat my objection. I don't lack humility (far from it in fact), but I do admit to not suffering fools gladly.
  7. Retired Climber
    I'm not trying to shoot you down, I just don't think that saying a contract isn't worth anything is useful to the OP or anyone else. A contract is incredibly useful when it comes to collecting money owed; nothing more, nothing less. Edit. Have you noticed that those who I "rub up the wrong way", are always those who say something stupid, then get in a strop when I don't agree with them?
  8. Retired Climber
    I'm not sure what that opinion is, based on what you've written. You said "contracts mean nothing", but you agree you should have one?
  9. Retired Climber
    Having a contract is still a good idea.
  10. Retired Climber
    The long and the short of it is this. Get yourself some terms and conditions written, and get them signed before you do any work. That way, you've got something to fall back on if people mess you about. Do make sure you are actually a self employed contractor though.
  11. Retired Climber
    There is always a contract; it doesn't need to be written. Anyway, if no agreement was made before hand, you'll just have to negotiate when it gets paid. Nothing written on an invoice after the fact will be legally binding. You need to contract prior to acceptance; there's no point adding clauses to an invoice.
  12. Retired Climber
    In which case, it depends entirely on the contract.
  13. Retired Climber
    I don't lift a finger until I've been paid in full these days. However, for most business transactions it's dictated by whatever is in the contract. If you were subbing, we'd need to see a copy of the contract and T's and C's before telling you how to proceed. Are you sure you were a bonafide sub contractor, and weren't just a cash in hand worker who should technically have been on the books?
  14. Retired Climber
    I've seen similar from very irregular watering. Trees that are subject to drought and waterlogging sometimes split in that way. Not seen it on that species though.
  15. Retired Climber
    That's only the rate I get directly from homeowners who value what I bring to the table. I've looked after most of their trees for 20 years, and they'd not want to look for anyone else. I'd never be able to charge that as a freelance climber, subbing myself out to other tree firms; I simply couldn't do enough work in a day to make myself worth that in those circumstances.
  16. Retired Climber
    Higher density air does technically contain more oxygen for a given volume, but it also contains more of everything else. For this application I can't see it making even the slightest difference. For an F1 racing team, air temp and density are very important, for combustion in a stove, not so much.
  17. Retired Climber
    You are going to need to learn to articulate your ideas if you want to find people to work with. There are loads of ways you can approach what you are trying to do; all of them will require you to build a coherent and persuasive 'pitch' in order to get people on board with your ideas.
  18. Retired Climber
    Could you not just get someone to copy and paste "I need everyone to know how much I earn working off-shore", into every thread? That would save you an awful lot of typing. 😀
  19. Retired Climber
    Pretty much everyone on the forum has experience in these matters. Most of us are (or were) professional chainsaws users with many years of experience.
  20. Retired Climber
    Yep, understood. I'm not for one second pretending I know more about milling than RH (I don't). I don't think his suggestions are useful for the OP though.
  21. Retired Climber
    We know all of that. None of it makes your statement about having to loosen a chain true though does it. Ps. I've deliberately ignored the parts of your posts that are wrong, in the interests of avoiding a semantic argument which won't help the OP.
  22. Retired Climber
    I'm all for a bit of mechanical sympathy, but telling the OP he MUST, loosen the chain or he will bend the crank is firmly in fanny territory. I doubt if the OP will ever even need to buy a new bar, never mind bend the crank.
  23. Retired Climber
    I get that it's different for milling, but we aren't talking about milling, we are talking about a bloke cutting up a few bits and pieces for firewood. If he's new to the world of saws he'll be spending more time moving stuff than cutting, and I really can't see the saw working that hard (or hot).
  24. Retired Climber
    Does anyone bother with this stuff in the real world? Where does the specific time of 45 to 60 mins to cool come from? I've never taken the tension off of a chain when I'm done with it, and have never bent a crank.
  25. Retired Climber
    Only just noticed it.

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