Tree surgeon who quoted to take down a massive Sycamore tree with 7 main ‘trunks’. A full days job for at least 2.

£300. Hand ripped right off (and they’re not even taking the wood away to sell!)

Hand ripped right off

Should have worn proper PPE

He tee’s it up ……

Did it actually take him a day though? We got a guy in to remove a massive tree too it sounded quite reasonable I thought for the work I envisaged… turns out they were packed up after an hour and job was done!

Very impressive

Not done yet. But those with more experience/knowledge than me in such things (and know the tree) reckon it should be at least double that amount

Petrol, £1.10 a litre give or take.

Sucked out of the ground, shipped half way around the world, refined and messed about with, gets 60p a litre duty slapped on it, shipped around the country gets 20% of the final cost slapped on as VAT, sold via it’s own large scale retail centre out of fancy pumps – still costs 2 and a half times less per litre than Starbucks charge for bottled water.

Tree surgeon who quoted to take down a massive Sycamore tree with 7 main ‘trunks’. A full days job for at least 2.

£300. Hand ripped right off (and they’re not even taking the wood away to sell!)

Where, who, near York?

Neighbour and me had quotes into 4 figures by local tree surgeon types.

West Midlands, sorry

We got a guy in to remove a massive tree too it sounded quite reasonable I thought for the work I envisaged… turns out they were packed up after an hour and job was done!

Mate is a tree surgeon he says you are paying me for my skill, my equipment, the insurance cover and the risk.
His fixed costs are a few k per month.

He also says with very cheap quotes to ask to see their insurance as its cheap as if you dont go above a certain height and to check insurance.

Sucked out of the ground, shipped half way around the world, refined and messed about with, gets 60p a litre duty slapped on it, shipped around the country gets 20% of the final cost slapped on as VAT, sold via it’s own large scale retail centre out of fancy pumps – still costs 2 and a half times less per litre than Starbucks charge for bottled water. not much more than supermarkets charge for milk with no duty or VAT – which they buy direction from the producer (having cut out the distributor), at less than the cost of production from farmers who are subsidised to produce it

It’s for work for the National Trust, everything will be in order

*Awaits the usual food snobs to turn up saying that its not made of organic beef, from cattle grazed in Soil Association approved pastures, knitted from yoghurt, at exactly 1000 ft above sea level, and is therefore the work of Satan*

The
SIL.

Chips.

bikebouy – Member
The
SIL

Well, somebody else is paying the overheads, innit
We all think the same about

your
Mrs.

😉

The aldi 1000 lumen bike light I recently bought. Dunno how bright it actually is but it’s great for commuting. Looks nice is well made with a small battery and UK plug. Comes with bar and helmet mount a 3 year warranty and cost the grand sum of 19.99 delivered

Bananas

Clothes (unless your a chinese child) and another vote for petrol/derv should be double the price really.

Anything you can buy on ebay for <99p BIN including shipping from HK / China.

Chips.

Not been to McD’s / KFC / BK recently then?

I bought a pint and a bowl of chips from the Old Dungeon Ghyll in the Langdales a couple of weeks back; the beer was nice enough but the chips were reheated frozen chips and both together cost me £6.10.

I guess it’s all relative

£150 a day is more than I’m on

Third world labour. Someone can land a boat load of fish here, freeze it and ship it to the far east. There they process it, box it and send it back here and the supermarkets sell it to us for next to nothing.

Vango tents.

Given the technology, ink jet ink.

matt_outandabout – Member
Vango tents

Seconded

Piping hot food in a good greasy spoon, it’s like the world takes a break to let you eat. When it brings on the urge for a proper satisfying stool, and this can be laid in crisp clean porcelain; heaven has a rival.

jools182 – Member
I guess it’s all relative

£150 a day is more than I’m on
do you bring your own chainsaw?

Easter eggs.

Bananas are a good shout, always shocked how cheap a bunch is.
*lights fire* Train travel. I travel 100 miles every day on my pass, it’s costs £160 per month. That’s a bargain.
ALDI food. I can feed me and the wife 3 meals per day for a week for £65 easily. In fact, I could get that down if needed too. And we’re not talking crap either, good, healthy meals.

Sitting in the sun.

Not sunbathing mind … just sitting there bring warmed nicely….. Priceless

CPUs specifically, and modern smartphones. Incredible the technology in them.

I mean in an old iPhone 5S say, there’s a billion transistors in the SOC alone. A billion things. In such a tiny space! And humans made that. incredible.

A 36h hot forged Shimano Deore hub with quick release that could take you around the world is £14 from a shop including VAT after shipped and import duty from the far east.

Vango tents.

They’re good, but cheap? Mine cost me £600.

Shimano M520

Cheap, light and strong.

A week’s shopping in Lidl. Always amazes me .. “£35.42 please” What? It was £68 in Sainsburys last week!

+1 for Deore hubs. They may be slightly heavy and unfashionably hewn, but they will last practically forever and cost less than a four three post work pints in London.

Supermarket inner tubes. They’re the same as fancier branded ones you get in bike shops with valve gubbins and whatnot, but they rarely cost more than a couple of nuggets.

I bought a pint and a bowl of chips from the Old Dungeon Ghyll in the Langdales a couple of weeks back; the beer was nice enough but the chips were reheated frozen chips and both together cost me £6.10.

Yep, food is pretty mediocre (at best) at the ODG. Wasdale Head Inn is much better…..