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    dont think so. ill take photos next time i find the little blighter

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kathryn View Post
    working weekends ! i must stop procrastinating, get off this chair and go do these lawns. dont want to
    I know all about procrastinating all I had to do this weekend is a nature strip for a business around the corner that takes 5 mins 2.00 pm sunday arvo still not done lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by cadase View Post
    It's pretty rare that i hand weed, i always bump the cost up a fair bit to discourage them, but there's always that one person ..... In the end it's not so bad, as long as your making a good profit.
    I've got a customer who books me in for when her friends come over for lunch, she likes to have the hired help there, a gardener tending her garden, the dog groomer washing her mutts. Vanity = $$
    Are you sure she was after the lord of the manor thing? My wife suggested you wear a muscle shirt and charge more..


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    Quote Originally Posted by TomSizer View Post
    Are you sure she was after the lord of the manor thing? My wife suggested you wear a muscle shirt and charge more..
    I will put my hand up and say that when my friends and I are together, if there is a tradie working nearby that is easy on the eye, we are very appreciative.

    Oh come on like you don't all love summer too....I know Timmy does...first lot of warm weather and he comes home saying "I love summer". Lots of shorts skirts out today dear? "You betcha!"
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    it's shocking seeing all those guys putting roofs on new houses on hot days not even wearing a singlet. poor things. they might get sun burn. i should volunteer to rub sunscreen on them!

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    Quote Originally Posted by TomSizer View Post
    Are you sure she was after the lord of the manor thing? My wife suggested you wear a muscle shirt and charge more..


    Tom
    Reckon she's pushing 75
    It's just a "look what i can afford" thing
    I'll leave the muscle shirts for the pool guy

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zweedo View Post
    Putting my boots out in the sun to air, and then forgetting to bring them in when it rains.
    Quote Originally Posted by PaulG View Post
    ^ I've been guilty of that one before.

    If you have a little fan heater sit them in front with the openings toward the heater so the hot air gets inside the boots. They dry out pretty quick.
    Might have found a cheap answer to wet and sweaty boots.

    http://www.sherrilltree.com/Professi...D-Simple-Dryer

    Postage and an Aussie plug adapter and we're set.

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    Was having a great day last friday all customers were out so no hold ups just in out and move on, then got to the last job it's right on the water pool out the back seemed like a good way to end the day. Heading out the back and get a whiff of sunscreen in the air, thinking it would be the lady that lives there who isn't to hard on the eyes still thinking great end to a good day. Then get around the coner and it's not the lady that lives there it's her mother who would be in her seventies, topless by the pool!! it was a sight not even the mirror should see let alone me! It was very hard to get the vision out of my head and ruined my perfect day. She was a very nice lady and we did both have a laugh about it afterwards.

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    lol.....she probably looked better than her daughter in her younger days
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    I dis no man that byes his tools from K-mart some like second best and thats cool some got a taste of having the best of the best and will save till they get that you gotta remeber I was working for than man before i decided to mow and had bought the best before I stared the bussiness and added as i went on....Bought a swwet chainsaw before I had chainsaw work he thinks a head....

    But like grennie did he got a second hand shindaiwa and only had to fix the carby he done well there good find....
    But if you aint ''STIHL'' you aint real....

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    Man i love doin gardning etc but I have 1 bussiness idea I wanna do will need in vesters and the second bring the Cali feel to the cost eazy start up like 90 large look in to that a bit more but will always be doin gardning....





    Quote Originally Posted by 63impala View Post
    I dis no man that byes his tools from K-mart some like second best and thats cool some got a taste of having the best of the best and will save till they get that you gotta remeber I was working for than man before i decided to mow and had bought the best before I stared the bussiness and added as i went on....Bought a swwet chainsaw before I had chainsaw work he thinks a head....

    But like grennie did he got a second hand shindaiwa and only had to fix the carby he done well there good find....
    But if you aint ''STIHL'' you aint real....

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    Im grumpy because I have the flu the week before xmas! Feel like Ive been hit by a mower! I'll be lucky to get anything done this week!

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    Im grumpy because I have the flu the week before xmas! Feel like Ive been hit by a mower! I'll be lucky to get anything done this week!
    Mick I have had it for 6 weeks no **** Im on my 5th course of antibiotics . I have never been so stuffed the only thing that has saved me this week is the weather it's been just right cool cloudy days did 15 lawns today and I'm struggeling. Now they are saying it could be viral pnumonia christmas is going to be good feeling like this

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    Jeez Mate...get your arse home and don't work like that. If your crook take the time off to get better. Sounds bad.
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    Thanks Bluey got about 20 more before saturday should get em done but yeah Im crook. And thanks for the positive comments regarding me downsizing the cull has begun.looking foward to a week off ,will have to do my biggest job next wednesday though cause my offsider let me down again. Last time though after this week Im a single operator except on big clean ups.

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