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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 10:56 pm
by loudog
I do exactly what is on my quote, don't charge no more or less than I have stated.
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 7:47 am
by lutonlagerlout
do you want to be the cheapest or the best?
I hope you come out of this smelling of roses but i fear the worst
especially with 300mm out
good luck lou,let us know how you get on
LLL 
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:28 pm
by loudog
Well Luton, I went to see him today, with my print out of this post. He would not even look at it, He wanted me to knock £500 off and when I wouldn't he said he would get someone else. I was packing up my kit, as I had been there working for a while now, he came round and said "I hope there is no hard feelings " I said "I was relieved and good luck finding someone" he said " I am going to do it myself now as I know some people who are out of work who will dig it out for £30 a day. I replied "what by hand" he saiud "yes" .......I came away and thought, this guy has no idear what he is on about. So if you are about Luton to dig out 164sqm ..300mm deep by hand, it is a worry off my mind, and intend to make a special trip out my way in a few weeks to see how they are getting on with it. Going for a pint now.
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 5:05 pm
by Carberry
loudog wrote:Well Luton, I went to see him today, with my print out of this post. He would not even look at it, He wanted me to knock £500 off and when I wouldn't he said he would get someone else. I was packing up my kit, as I had been there working for a while now, he came round and said "I hope there is no hard feelings " I said "I was relieved and good luck finding someone" he said " I am going to do it myself now as I know some people who are out of work who will dig it out for £30 a day. I replied "what by hand" he saiud "yes" .......I came away and thought, this guy has no idear what he is on about. So if you are about Luton to dig out 164sqm ..300mm deep by hand, it is a worry off my mind, and intend to make a special trip out my way in a few weeks to see how they are getting on with it. Going for a pint now.
You dodged a bullet there Loudog, the guy sounds like a complete bell end. I'm sure Paddy Murphy and co will do a fantastic job for £6,000.
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 5:39 pm
by loudog
Yeah I feel I have, I paved all his paths around the back and when he asked me about the drive, well the rest is history. I am looking forward to seeing his drive in about a months time, more than 4 weeks holiday in Barbados.
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 5:42 pm
by exoticpete
people like that me sick hope he get a complete lash up job ....
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 6:16 pm
by DNgroundworks
Hey Loudog, be sure to take your camera when you go for a look at the finished job, i want to see the quality of workmanship for £30.00 per day, youd get me and my brother and all our kit bar any heavy plant for 1 hour for £30.00.
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 7:26 pm
by lutonlagerlout
i cant really write what I think of him here as families may read this ,but you are better off away from him lou
nobody works for £30 a day, even out of work people
lets hope no-one informs on him up to HMRC for tax evasion and exploitation
LLL
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:44 pm
by lutonlagerlout
found this letter on yahoo
made me think of your prospective client lou
quote
" Dayton, Ohio,
August 7, 1865
To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee
Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I suppose they never heard about your going to Colonel Martin's to kill the Union soldier that was left by his company in their stable. Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living. It would do me good to go back to the dear old home again, and see Miss Mary and Miss Martha and Allen, Esther, Green, and Lee. Give my love to them all, and tell them I hope we will meet in the better world, if not in this. I would have gone back to see you all when I was working in the Nashville Hospital, but one of the neighbors told me that Henry intended to shoot me if he ever got a chance.
I want to know particularly what the good chance is you propose to give me. I am doing tolerably well here. I get twenty-five dollars a month, with victuals and clothing; have a comfortable home for Mandy,—the folks call her Mrs. Anderson,—and the children—Milly, Jane, and Grundy—go to school and are learning well. The teacher says Grundy has a head for a preacher. They go to Sunday school, and Mandy and me attend church regularly. We are kindly treated. Sometimes we overhear others saying, "Them colored people were slaves" down in Tennessee. The children feel hurt when they hear such remarks; but I tell them it was no disgrace in Tennessee to belong to Colonel Anderson. Many darkeys would have been proud, as I used to be, to call you master. Now if you will write and say what wages you will give me, I will be better able to decide whether it would be to my advantage to move back again.
As to my freedom, which you say I can have, there is nothing to be gained on that score, as I got my free papers in 1864 from the Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of Nashville. Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without some proof that you were disposed to treat us justly and kindly; and we have concluded to test your sincerity by asking you to send us our wages for the time we served you. This will make us forget and forgive old scores, and rely on your justice and friendship in the future. I served you faithfully for thirty-two years, and Mandy twenty years. At twenty-five dollars a month for me, and two dollars a week for Mandy, our earnings would amount to eleven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Add to this the interest for the time our wages have been kept back, and deduct what you paid for our clothing, and three doctor's visits to me, and pulling a tooth for Mandy, and the balance will show what we are in justice entitled to. Please send the money by Adams's Express, in care of V. Winters, Esq., Dayton, Ohio. If you fail to pay us for faithful labors in the past, we can have little faith in your promises in the future. We trust the good Maker has opened your eyes to the wrongs which you and your fathers have done to me and my fathers, in making us toil for you for generations without recompense. Here I draw my wages every Saturday night; but in Tennessee there was never any pay-day for the negroes any more than for the horses and cows. Surely there will be a day of reckoning for those who defraud the laborer of his hire.
In answering this letter, please state if there would be any safety for my Milly and Jane, who are now grown up, and both good-looking girls. You know how it was with poor Matilda and Catherine. I would rather stay here and starve—and die, if it come to that—than have my girls brought to shame by the violence and wickedness of their young masters. You will also please state if there has been any schools opened for the colored children in your neighborhood. The great desire of my life now is to give my children an education, and have them form virtuous habits.
Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.
From your old servant,
Jourdon Anderson.
it may be 150 years ago but he is bang on the money
LLL
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:53 pm
by rab1
nice find :O
