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DR. P. Proteus
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Same here!
Wasn't by the highly attractive big boobed horse chick was it?
Blakesmaster
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Been busy as **** this week. Couple of storm jobs, stretching the legs on the gehl, getting work done. ****ing chipper jack.
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No, it was by a smart assed little old Asian dude who used my eyeball for a fulcrum.
Removed ten medium-large dead pines in 90 F with 95% humidity. We looked like coal miners until the skies opened up as we were loading the skid steer. Rain saved me from another twelve hr day so I took my youngest to get ice cream. It turned out to be a beautiful day
Something like 10 or 11 years of cleaning up jobs like this, and my tractor is finally in ICU. Not a bad run.. just a couple leaks and some tweaking with the linkage on the pedals. Kinds scary looking though. No big deal really. I think I'll run it for a few more payment free years after this, then maybe do something different, or get a new one.
Griff93
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I wish. That's a nice 40 ton Terex. It's a rental crane. Maybe I'll be able to afford one at some point. I'm going to keep pushing that direction.
I may be selling my little BC625a today. Got a guy coming to look at it. I'm glad I had it but I won't miss struggling with feeding to large brush into that thing. It's past time for it to leave.
mckeetree
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Had a lady call Friday for a quote on a removal. Big half dead cottonwood. I told her $3,100 but it would be a month before we can get to it and she informs me that won't work because it is in the contract for that tree to be removed before her closing of the sale of that house on Monday, June 22. I told her if she went with us I could make it happen one way or another but I'll have to change our schedule and in order for me to be willing to do that I need a signed contract with a nonrefundable $500 deposit. Well, I got that but here she text Sunday morning wanting her deposit back saying she found somebody "cheaper and faster." I am so sick of customers like that.
Keep the money! After all it is non refundable...
Relaxing on my one day off, I really need it after driving a Tundra around all week and pushing migrant workers all day,,
Jeff
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I have to say, I'm liking this year so far. Did a little driving around in my Tacoma this am, picked up two jobs, first was a new customer,, $575, second was an older customer (about ten years), $6600 in takedowns (10 beech trees). Nice Sunday morning. Wish there was some better help out there, but **** it, whip on.. I mean whisper..
ropensaddle
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No habla
gorman
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Tell her that's what the deposit was for. You moved stuff around and made calls. The deposit is gone. She ****ed herself in the wallet.
mckeetree
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I told her if she was going with somebody else we are not refunding her deposit. She said she would let me know by Monday morning. I told her that was a bunch of nonsense...she signed a contract to have us do the work and that should have been it...you either want us to do the job or not. She said she guessed not then. I told her she cost herself the deposit, and really, she cost us more than the deposit. I should have got the whole thing up front to have messed up our schedule like I did.
ropensaddle
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Stinks when get jacked around. I have shown up to see my work was done and was told that the company did so without approval. I told them they should not pay for unapproved service and I would feel like they were storytelling me if I had not had it occur with 3 separate customers. It seems a service was bidding then doing work before being contracted, been a while now ;so maybe someone finally turned them in.
gorman
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This reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where jerry makes a hotel reservation and they don't save him a room. The point of a deposit is to assure the work will get done by the contractor.
Keep her deposit. Send a crew (1 guy and a pickup and saw) to start the job on the contracted day. If unable to do the job, put a lien on her house for breach of contract and **** up her house closing.
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