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Retired Climber

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  1. Retired Climber
    If you feel that way often, your marketing strategy needs work.
  2. Retired Climber
    As a rough guide, if you are an individual you get some consumer protection. A contract contrary to your statutory rights won't stand up. If you are signing on behalf of a ltd co (a separate legal entity in its own right) caveat emptor applies. The waters are slightly less clear around sole traders as they are essentially individuals purchasing for business purposes. As stated above, we'd need to see the contract. Edit. It would also be useful to know how it was paid for. There are certain protections that come with using a credit card for example (above and beyond the ones people tend to know about).
  3. Retired Climber
    It gets complicated with businesses. Technically, if you are buying it as a business, you aren't a consumer so consumer rights don't apply (although some times they do). We'd need to see the contract to know if it would stand up.
  4. Retired Climber
    I'm 43. How old are you?
  5. Retired Climber
    That's what climbing ropes are for; you make a little nest for your saws to sit in. 😉
  6. Retired Climber
    😆 The guy was fatally injured in the groin. I'm thinking he didn't quite understand the basic principles of cock fighting.😆
  7. Retired Climber
    I'm new here; do you throw your toys out of the pram every time someone disagrees with you? Just wondering if it's worth explaining what i posted in more detail, or if you are going to act like a child whatever I say?
  8. Retired Climber
    Even a monkey will write something that makes sense if you let them bang away at the keys for long enough.
  9. Retired Climber
    You need bypass loppers, not anvil ones.
  10. Retired Climber
    Surely too much oil is as bad as too little as then you are burning too lean a mixture?
  11. Retired Climber
    Completely agree. If it will take a cut without churning it up, get it done. For all we know it could rain for a month at any time and then it will be a jungle when we do our first cut.
  12. Retired Climber
    Whilst it may work for you, it's not good business advice. You are simply engineering disadvantages into your business.
  13. Retired Climber
    Take photos before you mill it (or take it down). I've never seen one anything like that size.
  14. Retired Climber
    I'd use back handled ms201 for that.
  15. Retired Climber
    So you did; ignore me. As you were.
  16. Retired Climber
    I suppose my point really is that you shouldn't worry what the current going rate is, but that makes the whole thread a bit pointless doesn't it.
  17. Retired Climber
    You need to stop thinking of our services as a commodity; that's just a race to the bottom. Think of yourself as a luxury that people look forward to spending money on and build a business around that assumption.
  18. Retired Climber
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07RRD2VB1/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_57EB63WG4NAMRM5ARF6C
  19. Retired Climber
    If I'm in someone's garden they are paying my minimum hourly rate regardless of what I'm doing. If they want the gardening bits done cheaper, it won't be me who's doing it.
  20. Retired Climber
    Haha, nowt wrong with being a gardener who can climb. 😀
  21. Retired Climber
    It's not even just speed of training, it's the embarrassingly low level you need to achieve to pass the NPTC units too. Let's be honest, there aren't many qualifications easier to obtain than these units. With other trades you learn how to do the job, with the NPTC you just have to prove that you can manage to put a few cuts in without killing anybody. The units are supposed to make sure people are at a bare minimum level to use a saw for work, but many see gaining the tickets as being 'qualified'.
  22. Retired Climber
    I'm not saying it's a good idea, just that it's a very cheap and easy business to set up (compared to most).
  23. Retired Climber
    I know it seems expensive when you are setting up, but in reality there is so much competition because the barriers to entry are so low. It's a very cheap and easy industry to get into on a small scale. If you don't mind buying on finance you could be towing a brand new chipper with a brand new truck full of brand new saws for less than a grand a month.
  24. Retired Climber
    Why did you use an old blade?
  25. Retired Climber
    No TO is going to argue that because it has a TPO on it next door is going to have to put up with the destroyed fence and new horizontal Oak in their garden. It would have been deemed to be of some value whilst it was standing and worthy of protection; it's not worthy now.

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