Brits talkin about Brit stuff

[ROLLACOSTA]

ok boys from the UK put your faces to your names heres me on my day off

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

no seriously here i am

 

[jamie]

pictures

anyone want to see some pics of me on my days off go look for jamie here in the gallery sections.

cheers

jamie

 

[blue]

was pic 2 before or after tou been climbin?

 

[highpoint-utd]

how busy are ya????

hows the work rate for those lads who are running there own firms , for some reason me and the brother in-law have suddenly gone ballistic with work ??????? seasonal trend ????all of december booked up with tree work and the whole of november working on a one driveway ( yorkstone drive mega £s) loads of little jobs and tidy ups .????ed strange it was quiet 3 weeks ago ??

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

Re: pictures

Originally posted by jamie
anyone want to see some pics of me on my days off go look for jamie here in the gallery sections.

cheers

jamie

jeez jamie downloading your image made my puter all freeze up and then crash

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

Re: how busy are ya????

Originally posted by highpoint-utd
hows the work rate for those lads who are running there own firms , for some reason me and the brother in-law have suddenly gone ballistic with work ??????? seasonal trend ????all of december booked up with tree work and the whole of november working on a one driveway ( yorkstone drive mega £s) loads of little jobs and tidy ups .????ed strange it was quiet 3 weeks ago ??

been crazy flatout for nearly 3 weeks now ,were boked up for all december &even takeing bookings for conifer hedges for may..funny things punters never came work emm out had 3 quotes ring in this evening ...got 11 to see over the weekend so far

 

[highpoint-utd]

lmfao just got 6 leylandiis to take out ,of one of my big customers at his home ,great thing this interweb doobry, sod the post man send me work by e-mail
oh and by the way lads our thread is 3rd popular after butchs 2 good uns check the viewin figures, more viewers than an episode of craparation street

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

land of hope and glory!!!

rule britania britania rules the waves britain shall never ever ever be enslaved!!!

god save our gracious queen !!!!!

 

[highpoint-utd]

gentlemen
"THE QUEEN"

 

[teressa green]

wonder if she wants her bush trimming ,full bush i should imagine,

 

[Acer]

Originally posted by ROLLACOSTA
i base my priceing on who im working for authoritys and developers i charge the max, the rest domestic stuff etc varies considerably...but 380 - 450 is the going rate i reckon around here

Back to pricing..are these for 3 men, truck and chipper?

If I can, I'm charging about £250 for 2 saw operators plus £100 for each extra saw operator, plus £100 for a machine, either chipper, tractor/chipper or tractor/winch. I don't climb any more, because of the times 5 hike in insurance last year. This would be for local authorities etc. woodland management type stuff. I struggle to get that on work like planting and hedgelaying. You need a good team of 3-4 for planting to make money, and it's hard to get decent people. The going rate for hedgelaying is a bit low, as one bloke nearby prices really low, mops up the work and then flops it all over as quickly as he can. But I still do it, cos it's my favourite work . In my experience, forget gardens in Nottingham. You can charge the going rate on recommendations, but most first time customers want the cheapest job, and the pikeys, cowboys, people starting up and other assorted lowballers mop up most of what is a poor market.

Just out of interest, what profit do you company owners make as a % of turnover? Anyone doing better than 25 % ?

Agree on the stolen gear, rolla. I've been looking for a chipper recently, and been offered a knocked off one. I'd have saved about 5k, but didn't fancy lining the pockets of scum like that. It's a shame more people don't look at it that way.

 

[Tom D. Wilson]

in answer to your question rollercoaster, we dismantelled it. (i say we; the boss dismantelled it, i cleaned up while he sat in truck having a fag.)

 

[Tom D. Wilson]

nought better than berrying your head in an old ladys bush all day.

 

[Tom D. Wilson]

sorry bout me spellink.
ha i don't work i'm a god ???? scrounging student now, slacker than a harlets muff on a sunday morning.
i even get a free bacon sandwich every morning!

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

acer...i dont realy know my daily profit but to tell the truth it aint good..too many like you said in this game ...to make money you got to do nothing but small jobs ,have no kit ,no insurance,have a dosser work for you and pay about 30 quid tops cash in hand as and when needed,buy all your saws down the pub knocked off or at a push buy the cheapest **** saw from B&Q..have no qualifacations,either dump your transit load of brush in a layby or have a bloke on the fiddle down the dump...joe public only ever wants the cheapest price and as we all know theres only one way you can give it..ie run a business like the above....anyway didn't you read or hear on the radio last month the govermant recons a black economy is good as it creates entrapeuners.. funny i thought it produced a bunch of tossers

 

[blue]

rolla,
you sound like it's all doom and gloom surly thing's aren't that bad for you?
at this rate it sound's like your goint to self-emplode on us

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

blue things arnt that bad for me personaly but for the whole industry it's very bleak..no disrespect but for you boys who are employed to be honest you dont know the half of what goes on behind the scenes just to get a days work...when you boys finnish on a frieday night you forget about work till monday ..question highpoint do you forget about work for a whole 2 days??..i sure dont

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

blue things arnt that bad for me personaly but for the whole industry it's very bleak..no disrespect but for you boys who are employed to be honest you dont know the half of what goes on behind the scenes just to get a days work...when you boys finnish on a friday night you forget about work till monday ..question highpoint do you forget about work for a whole 2 days??..i sure dont

 

[jamie]

bleak

rolla, as number 2 nowadays i am becoming aware of how bleak it is. as 2 guys are now away in mulchers all the time i hear all the stories....its either me or he talks to the dog all day......

jamie