The 'Today's Job' thread

Furniss

Furniss

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Monkeybusiness said:
Basically I’ve been ranting (to my wife/the lads/anyone who will listen) that we are going to stop doing private jobs as they aren’t worth the hassle! A day here and there for a 2 man team is a total load of bollocks - I only do it to keep my original customers (and their friends etc) happy. Way way way more hassle than it’s worth. A breakdown on a £10k plus job is an inconvenience, on a sub-£1k ‘fitter-inner’ it can become a massive ballache!
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I understand 💯 - and have my own version of this which for us is some crap like we did this week..... hand digging to replace broken sewer pipe that had no access for machine and getting involved in a proper ballache 🤦
Known plumber for years and used to be very happy to be recommended for bits and bobs (usually awkward) so feel an obligation to keep helping out 🤷‍♂️
 
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Monkeybusiness

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Furniss said:
I understand 💯 - and have my own version of this which for us is some crap like we did this week..... hand digging to replace broken sewer pipe that had no access for machine and getting involved in a proper ballache 🤦
Known plumber for years and used to be very happy to be recommended for bits and bobs (usually awkward) so feel an obligation to keep helping out 🤷‍♂️
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Beer in tonight’s hotel along with a moan on here definitely helps the situation!
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AHPP

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Monkeybusiness said:
The lads ‘heard a funny noise’ apparently!
The job it happened on has been a total disaster - 30m of lapsed hedgerow with a few bigger trees to fell/chip/log up. 2 man easy day, priced cheap as a bit of a favour to an old customer. They are desperate for it to be gone as are applying for planning on a listed building and have stated there are no trees on site (none of my business!)…
Sent a team one afternoon last week thinking they’d get it boxed off easily - their chipper stopped feeding so they only got half done (it turned out that particular machine’s rubber-damped crank pulley has started to break up and subsequently slip - the stress control reads the speed from the alternator output so the machine thought it wasn’t revving high enough therefore switched off the hydraulics).
Another team went yesterday and their chipper broke down with an apparent fuel issue before the job was finished. I spent a couple of frustrating hours talking them through fixes over the phone (including ‘put more diesel in it’) but no luck - the job still wasn’t finished last night and a chipper was abandoned on the customer’s property.
I was going home last night anyway so decided to sort it this morning as would be local (I was certain it would be an easy fix and the lads would be able to finish the job with the broken down chipper). I ended up replacing the online and spin-on fuel filters, chucking another 25l of diesel in it, sucking/blowing/drinking from fuel hoses etc etc and still couldn’t get the bugger running!
I sent the lads to grab this job’s 3rd chipper (which is the one that ate its blade!) while I pinched a lift pump and diesel stop solenoid off yet another machine to test on the broken down one, and whilst I was robbing parts I had the call about the blade….
I might have said some naughty words at that point (I definitely questioned my life choices!).
(It turns out the chipper with the fuel problem I struggled with this morning simply had a kinked diesel return hose ffs!!!!!!)
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Blokes...

Had another climber with me on a job over the weekend. A rare luxury for me, having a man. Booked him because he said he used the exact cherry picker I had hired near enough every week so knew the tricks. He knew a bit but for several of the usual sensor bollocks episodes that strand you fifty feet in the air, he just looked at me. Then came the mobile phone breaks. Then the breaks sitting in the car.

Blokes...
 
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DaveDCB

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Todays job…. I finished this off(just needs coating), new coffee table for home(after I had to cut the old one up to release my child from it 😂) , made from a windblown Ash from one of my fields, been doing the odd hour on it when I had an early finish.
5year wedding anniversary in afew months so that’s all sorted in advance for once!
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Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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Monkeybusiness said:
The lads ‘heard a funny noise’ apparently!
The job it happened on has been a total disaster - 30m of lapsed hedgerow with a few bigger trees to fell/chip/log up. 2 man easy day, priced cheap as a bit of a favour to an old customer. They are desperate for it to be gone as are applying for planning on a listed building and have stated there are no trees on site (none of my business!)…
Sent a team one afternoon last week thinking they’d get it boxed off easily - their chipper stopped feeding so they only got half done (it turned out that particular machine’s rubber-damped crank pulley has started to break up and subsequently slip - the stress control reads the speed from the alternator output so the machine thought it wasn’t revving high enough therefore switched off the hydraulics).
Another team went yesterday and their chipper broke down with an apparent fuel issue before the job was finished. I spent a couple of frustrating hours talking them through fixes over the phone (including ‘put more diesel in it’) but no luck - the job still wasn’t finished last night and a chipper was abandoned on the customer’s property.
I was going home last night anyway so decided to sort it this morning as would be local (I was certain it would be an easy fix and the lads would be able to finish the job with the broken down chipper). I ended up replacing the online and spin-on fuel filters, chucking another 25l of diesel in it, sucking/blowing/drinking from fuel hoses etc etc and still couldn’t get the bugger running!
I sent the lads to grab this job’s 3rd chipper (which is the one that ate its blade!) while I pinched a lift pump and diesel stop solenoid off yet another machine to test on the broken down one, and whilst I was robbing parts I had the call about the blade….
I might have said some naughty words at that point (I definitely questioned my life choices!).
(It turns out the chipper with the fuel problem I struggled with this morning simply had a kinked diesel return hose ffs!!!!!!)
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Forst have 1k off this month 💥🤭
 
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