Van insurance

[dazmond]

Anybody who still climbs ladders to clean upper windows needs a check up from the neck up IMO esp if your over 40...

 

[dazmond]

Your insurance must be cheap as you only do 5 hours a week

Around 20-25 hours per week (including admin)

I earn over 3 times as much per year as i did on the ladders 14 years ago for a lot less hours...

 

[Bell Pallisey]

Anybody who still climbs ladders to clean upper windows needs a check up from the neck up IMO esp if your over 40...

you just couldnt hack it ,your years as a junkie made sure you lost your natural balance . im 35 but my dad is still on ladders at 65 . Same as noddy holders dad he was on ladders into his 70s

 

[Pjj]

you just couldnt hack it ,your years as a junkie made sure you lost your natural balance . im 35 but my dad is still on ladders at 65 . Same as noddy holders dad he was on ladders into his 70s

But why when a much easier and safer way is available?

 

[Dave B]

you just couldnt hack it ,your years as a junkie made sure you lost your natural balance . im 35 but my dad is still on ladders at 65 . Same as noddy holders dad he was on ladders into his 70s

I have a chequered past as well but at 49 can still use ladders all day
I just choose not to anymore as not worth the risk and also I earn more now
Your dad may still do it at 65 but one slip and he probably wouldn’t see 66
Over 25 years on ladders I think I’ve done my apprenticeship

 

[Bell Pallisey]

But why when a much easier and safer way is available?

i guess its a bit like saying why go walking in the hills when you can drive over the road and get there twice as fast much safer but you wont enjoy it as much. i still enjoy ladderwork and dont work at it like a dog and i wont go fell running

 

[Iron Giant]

i guess its a bit like saying why go walking in the hills when you can drive over the road and get there twice as fast much safer but you wont enjoy it as much. i still enjoy ladderwork and dont work at it like a dog and i wont go fell running

Walking, driving and fell running has got nowt to do with window cleaning all are safer than going up a ladder though!!


In my experience, the reason trad lads don't switch to wfp, is cold hard cash, spending £1,000's instead of £100's is a lot to swallow and they can't do it or aren't financially able to do it.

 

[dazmond]

you just couldnt hack it ,your years as a junkie made sure you lost your natural balance . im 35 but my dad is still on ladders at 65 . Same as noddy holders dad he was on ladders into his 70s

I've never been a junkie....in fact my neighbour died a few weeks ago at 47,same age as my other neighbour who also died of a heroin overdose a few years ago...

I was on ladders for 17 years until I was 38 and the last 14 WFP....

I'm 6ft 2in bodybuilder and I have got rid of any jobs that requires ladders....

I know a few guys who have fell off ladders recently and their not in a good way,guys that have been using them day in,day out for many years...

One guy was 3 weeks from retirement on the other forum and planning on emigrating to Canada...

Broken shoulder in 2 places
2 bleeds on the brain
Broken ribs

Others window cleaners I know have damaged vertebrae in their backs and are in constant pain,smashed pelvis,fractured skulls,broken heels and pins in their ankles

Mind how you go....

 

[Iron Giant]

I've never been a junkie...

Please assume that people of our generation who took drugs and partied were junkies or that they have a right to slate us because of lifestyle choices we made as young adults, boils my pish.

We came out the other side and have left the past behind like that distant memory, a lot people couldn't do what we have done and turn their lives around and be successful business owner's

 

[steve garwood]

Please assume that people of our generation who took drugs and partied were junkies or that they have a right to slate us because of lifestyle choices we made as young adults, boils my pish.

We came out the other side and have left the past behind like that distant memory, a lot people couldn't do what we have done and turn their lives around and be successful business owner's

I was called an alcoholic on here recently for drinking sessions at the weekend!

Pub beano this Saturday so whoever called me that, I shall be guzzling without a care in the world and won’t be getting addicted

 

[Iron Giant]

I was called an alcoholic on here recently for drinking sessions at the weekend!

Pub beano this Saturday so whoever called me that, I shall be guzzling without a care in the world and won’t be getting addicted

I'm sure we've both been called worse in the past by others, some people should take more interest in their own lives instead of others.

"Pub Beano" does this mean you all get dressed up as characters from the Beano comic and go on the lash

 

[Iron Giant]

Found a photo online of @Part Timer & @steve garwood all dressed up

 

[steve garwood]

Found a photo online of @Part Timer & @steve garwood all dressed up

Too much time on your hands!
You need a hobby. (Apart from sitting in water butts).

 

[Iron Giant]

Too much time on your hands!
You need a hobby. (Apart from sitting in water butts).

Are you still dreaming of me and you in a water barrel

 

[Bell Pallisey]

@Bell Pallisey I think you need to learn how to write a reply instead of it showing as though I have written something and you've quoted it,

Next you'll be telling us about your dad the millionaire and you and mother in the house next to the motel I mean hotel

was jus wondering dyou know anyone of THE DARLO BOOT BOYS?

 

[Iron Giant]

was jus wondering dyou know anyone of THE DARLO BOOT BOYS?

I don't live in Darlo, so no

 

[Bell Pallisey]

I don't live in Darlo, so no

i grew up in those parts,Bishop, can still sing Bladen races /on ilkley moor by tat etc

 

[Dave B]

Found a photo online of @Part Timer & @steve garwood all dressed up

I was thinking of the crankies

 

[Iron Giant]

i grew up in those parts,Bishop, can still sing Bladen races /on ilkley moor by tat etc

Bishop isn't Darlington though and Blaydon and Ilkley are in different counties.

 

[Bell Pallisey]

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Bishop isn't Darlington though and Blaydon and Ilkley are in different counties.

Bishop isn't Darlington though and Blaydon and Ilkley are in different counties.

was taught to sing the Bladen races at school, sung it at assembly many times . Tim Healey came and sang it at our sports day.

 

[Iron Giant]

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was taught to sing the Bladen races at school, sung it at assembly many times . Tim Healey came and sang it at our sports day.

Are you, swearing by Clarence the cross-eyed lions' nose bleed pills as you are writing this?