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Retired Climber

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  1. Retired Climber
    Haha, nowt wrong with being a gardener who can climb. 😀
  2. 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'.
  3. 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).
  4. 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.
  5. Retired Climber
    Why did you use an old blade?
  6. 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.
  7. Retired Climber
    Haha, sorry, I worded that badly having quoted you didn't I. Op, where in the forest are you?
  8. Retired Climber
    I was thinking a couple of grand when I saw the pics. Where in the New Forest are you?
  9. Retired Climber
    I can't see how you can lose a noticeable amount to evaporation if the lid's on. I've certainly never noticed a loss.
  10. Retired Climber
    A link to a crappy book on Amazon that's got a terribly written description; well played young man.
  11. Retired Climber
    Look at his English. He can hardly put a sentence together; how on earth would he write a book? Not to mention the fact that he used the term 'right a book'. He's pulling your leg, everything about his posts screams troll. It's troll bread and butter stuff. Pretend very unconvincingly to be something you're not, and then make it easy for members to think they are scoring points against you when in fact you've given them a very easy 'target'. Nobody is that stupid. He's got to be acting dumb.
  12. Retired Climber
    I agree completely; however, your profit is very unlikely to be higher than your turnover so you don't want to keep it too low. I'd also add cash is king (or cashflow at least). No point making a good profit on paper but always having to scrape around to find the money to pay bills.
  13. Retired Climber
    A one man band doesn't need to turn over 150 grand to make a decent living. Start employing staff and buying machines though and you'll soon leave that milestone far behind.
  14. Retired Climber
    Do you mean flat rate? That's only for very, very small businesses. I think you have to turn over less than 150 grand a year to use that.
  15. Retired Climber
    Excuse my ignorance, but to be vat registered turning over 85k you will need to be working over 4 days a week at that rate? My day rate for the work I do when I'm not doing the odd bit of climbing is many times the day rate we are talking about here.
  16. Retired Climber
    Looks like London Plane to me.
  17. Retired Climber
    He's playing with you. It's easy to pull the story to pieces because it's unbelievable on purpose. It's just a game.
  18. Retired Climber
    We've got 13 or those in our garden, possibly more.
  19. Retired Climber
    The fact he then cuts them both the wrong size is the icing on the cake.
  20. Retired Climber
    That has got to be a joke. "I've found this crappy product made by Stihl, I can't work out how it fits so had to bodge it, isn't it great?"
  21. Retired Climber
    Thats right Rich, you'll always hear how much people are earning a day, but they never tell you of the days they only earnt £40 or worse. Try and find those rates 5 days a week and its not easy to find, certainly not round here. Some Large arb company's are only paying climbers between £90 and £120 a day. It's the same with all trades. Ask a plumber what he earns and he'll tell you how much he made on his most profitable day ever, neglecting to mention the day before when he sat at home waiting for the phone to ring.
  22. Retired Climber
    I wonder if wrist size and thigh size are correlated. I seem to be just about able to get my hands around my leg just above the knee and can just about get a hand around my wrist. A coincidence?
  23. Retired Climber
    I think that the whole 'wrist thickness' thing may have suffered a bit from a 'Chinese whispers' effect over the years. I wasn't taught that you could anchor on something the size of your wrist; I was taught that you never use anything smaller than your wrist. Seemingly similar pieces of advice, but actually very different. I was told the wrist was used as a handy (sorry) reference as wrist circumference is actually quite accurately linked to body size, and as such, weight. You won't usually find a 9 stone whippet of a man with a massive great wrist, and equally you don't usually find an 18 stone guy with a wrist like a drinking straw.
  24. Retired Climber
    You crack me up. I think good old fashioned trolls add a lot to a forum. I know a lot of the members don't get it and take what you write at face value but as I said, you crack me up. Keep doing what you are doing.
  25. Retired Climber
    Exactly what I was thinking. You'd be up to your axles in mud here.

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