its worrying when you have a farm with ash in its name!just to change the subject I got a letter at the weekend from the council with maps telling me I have trees on the roadside they think have ash dieback and I must cut them down immediately if i have not done so in twenty days they will get contractors in and send me the bill there are about ten full-grown trees and numerous small ones along the road through the woods firstly when they were in full leaf they looked quite healthy secondly the letter was dated 30 November I received it on Friday fifth so it actually gives me two weeks to comply I am livid that they are so high handed there not having been any discussion about it just an ultimatum do they thin we have nothing better to do they can't be that dangerous as they have all come through the recent storms undamaged the thought of having to pay a tree surgeon makes my blood run cold a neighbor got one in to cut down a medium-sized tree and it cost her three grand!
what grinds your gears
- Thread starter roscoe erf
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icanshootwell
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- Location
- Ross-on-wye
Dark mornings, dark afternoons.
Grants. Are they really that tempting when you get down to the nitty gritty, manufacturers with there over inflated high prices, take the mobile sheep race, the entry level 5k one is not eligible, you have to have the 9k pro to qualify, i just cant be arsed with it.
TB tests every 6 months when i have been clear for 4 years and i have a closed herd.
Plus why have trailers got so f#cking expensive? and don,t say steels gone up.
Grants. Are they really that tempting when you get down to the nitty gritty, manufacturers with there over inflated high prices, take the mobile sheep race, the entry level 5k one is not eligible, you have to have the 9k pro to qualify, i just cant be arsed with it.
TB tests every 6 months when i have been clear for 4 years and i have a closed herd.
Plus why have trailers got so f#cking expensive? and don,t say steels gone up.
- Location
- Hereford
- Location
- Hereford
TB testing ...our vets are snowed under with it . Wanted to pre-test a few bulls to move onto a different holding to make room in the sheds .....end of Jan for a test . They say it's cos of the six month rule .
Courier
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- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
When I built my current house my electrician suggested that I open a trade account for the supplies he needed for the project - I paid for the goods and he fitted them, worked well and saved me a significant sum compared to the £50 per socket method often used by a QS for electrical work.
However that was the electrician - the plumber was a tw* t
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icanshootwell
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- Location
- Ross-on-wye
Slippery Slope
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People who say ‘crimbo’.
The ‘feed the world’ song.
People who ring up the radio station and say something along the lines of ‘can we have an awful song please because we’re SO busy’ - you’re not busy, busy people don’t have time to phone the radio station for a chat!
The ‘feed the world’ song.
People who ring up the radio station and say something along the lines of ‘can we have an awful song please because we’re SO busy’ - you’re not busy, busy people don’t have time to phone the radio station for a chat!
We had this. Get an independent tree specialist who is NOT a tree surgeon to assess them; he will tell you which if any need to come down and give you a piece of paper for the council to put in their file. Then just get him back every two years to check them. It's just the council passing responsibility and they don't have the sense or manners to go about it politely.just to change the subject I got a letter at the weekend from the council with maps telling me I have trees on the roadside they think have ash dieback and I must cut them down immediately if i have not done so in twenty days they will get contractors in and send me the bill there are about ten full-grown trees and numerous small ones along the road through the woods firstly when they were in full leaf they looked quite healthy secondly the letter was dated 30 November I received it on Friday fifth so it actually gives me two weeks to comply I am livid that they are so high handed there not having been any discussion about it just an ultimatum do they thin we have nothing better to do they can't be that dangerous as they have all come through the recent storms undamaged the thought of having to pay a tree surgeon makes my blood run cold a neighbor got one in to cut down a medium-sized tree and it cost her three grand!
Don't ask someone who would be involved in felling them or you will find that strangely every single one must come down immediately.
Bumkin ,our tree surgeon ,man is 700 a day for 3 of them , and they very good and quck , james climbs like a bloody squirelljust to change the subject I got a letter at the weekend from the council with maps telling me I have trees on the roadside they think have ash dieback and I must cut them down immediately if i have not done so in twenty days they will get contractors in and send me the bill there are about ten full-grown trees and numerous small ones along the road through the woods firstly when they were in full leaf they looked quite healthy secondly the letter was dated 30 November I received it on Friday fifth so it actually gives me two weeks to comply I am livid that they are so high handed there not having been any discussion about it just an ultimatum do they thin we have nothing better to do they can't be that dangerous as they have all come through the recent storms undamaged the thought of having to pay a tree surgeon makes my blood run cold a neighbor got one in to cut down a medium-sized tree and it cost her three grand!
we have some roadside stuff to take down , had one council notification ,but we had already taken it down , but have about 20 ,maybe 8 inch across them what are leaning ,doing it after christmas ,as have to have traffic management ,
the most grind your gears was a short bit of hedge ,full of berries ,that we where leaving till last day of hedge cutting ,to help birds , dopey council wanted it cut back as near to bus shelter and path ,that no one uses
I had a guy in at the start of the year to cut down an Ash and a few other bits and bobs, 2 of them with a hired cherry picker was £580 for the day I think.just to change the subject I got a letter at the weekend from the council with maps telling me I have trees on the roadside they think have ash dieback and I must cut them down immediately if i have not done so in twenty days they will get contractors in and send me the bill there are about ten full-grown trees and numerous small ones along the road through the woods firstly when they were in full leaf they looked quite healthy secondly the letter was dated 30 November I received it on Friday fifth so it actually gives me two weeks to comply I am livid that they are so high handed there not having been any discussion about it just an ultimatum do they thin we have nothing better to do they can't be that dangerous as they have all come through the recent storms undamaged the thought of having to pay a tree surgeon makes my blood run cold a neighbor got one in to cut down a medium-sized tree and it cost her three grand!
- Location
- East yorks
Travis perkins, every time I make my once yearly visit in a quick rush for something I go, it cannot be as bad as I remember it is and I leave empty handed and drive six miles past to the good builders merchant
Massey4517
Member
The fact I cant even go to the cinema now without vegan advertisement's.
ashmore
Member
- Location
- Near Colchester
I know that I am lucky to get payment for solar power and electricity poles from various power people.
Why do they have to send cheques and reckon that they can't do bacs?
Why do they have to send cheques and reckon that they can't do bacs?
- Location
- DD9.
Like the inland revenue, can deduct tax from wages weekly before they even touch the bank
Due a refund? Cheque
All the branches more or less shut round here now, try and scan cheques on the phone is almost always a problem.
they must have millions unclaimed cos cashing a £12.73 cheque is more trouble than it’s worth.
smcapstick
Member
- Location
- Kirkby Lonsdale
People that can’t do phone calls.
I’m not 13, nor is the potential customer. Don’t text/WhatsApp/Messenger me. Just ring, like an adult.
I’m not 13, nor is the potential customer. Don’t text/WhatsApp/Messenger me. Just ring, like an adult.
Cab-over Pete
Member
- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
I was like that for years, but find myself giving in to what seems to be the norm.
A customer called the other day, in the conversation he mentioned he was in the office watching rain beat on the windows.
After a while he asked me to text my email address. I said I could tell him now if he grabs a pen. No, he said he would sooner I text it.
A customer called the other day, in the conversation he mentioned he was in the office watching rain beat on the windows.
After a while he asked me to text my email address. I said I could tell him now if he grabs a pen. No, he said he would sooner I text it.
fieldfarmer
Member
Things like address's I like to be sent on in a text as I don't hear very well and its easy to to have to say pardon five or six times and I end up feeling a bit dim. Same for post codes for the satnav.
- Location
- South wales
Probably so he could add it to your contact details on his phone without having to type it in
smcapstick
Member
- Location
- Kirkby Lonsdale
I’m no Luddite. Texting details is where it’s at, especially the Welshies (we all know why! No hate mail, please).
I still think a transaction should be be spoken rather than blipped over some XBox controller, that’s all.
Customers vet dealers, and rightly so. Due diligence. I also want to hear the customer, though. Sometimes, the best deal you do is the one you don’t do.
If somebody is text/email only, they are generally trouble in my experience.