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stevek173
Hah real nice Senco.

Sales will be sales brother. You have to take it on a much deeper level than I do but I take it many more times a day than do you I call it a draw.

The good ones keep make it work though.
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I'm not a great salesman. once your name gets out that you do good work and do what you say then you've got 80% of the other crews beat already.
but their ARE customers that you dont want to/need to deal with. the PITA factor is just to much to deal with when theres other customers with a realistic view. then you got the ones that just wanna nit pick everything so they can justify in their mind not paying what is owed. I only did that job just for a favor for the builder, he told me beforehand what I was getting into.

usually can spot the ones I dont want to deal with on the first meeting. then either tell them we wouldnt be a good match on this project or give a highly inflated price and hope they dont call back...
if they do then your making enough to put up with the shit:yeahsure:
 
Pavy
When you buy a 2x6 or a 2x8 that is advertised as 8' long it's not always 8' long. It can be up to one inch longer which screws up my alignment when you have to install 10 in a row and each one is different length. This is bullshit!
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they're longer so you can square up the ends if need...
but a tape measure will cure that problem, not alot of work to pull out the tape and measure the length you need:happyface:
 
I hear that Senco. We had this couple a couple months back....tiny loan, we made squat on it, paid all expenses (appraisal, inspections etc.) upfront for them and they were just so hostile. My poor closing agent sat down over 3 hours with them (average closing is 30 minutes) and called me in a truly depressed state. We saved them out of so much trouble too, they just need ot be mad at the world.

Some people just need misery.
 
I would like to congratulate Cami on an outstanding first week!

Great performance for someone who has been in the industry. She hasn't, so she crushed!

Keep in mind Cami this industry gets crazy around the end of the month when everyone is looking to close, and you hung in there like a champ.

Great job keep it up :)

...and then RUINED when she just tried to get philosophical about how opposites attract....and quoted Paula Abdul.
 
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Mudcat
Here is my question for you:

Do you have hardwood floors where you live and if so, how often do you take a running start and have a good slide?

The answer for me: every day.
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Floors date back to 1910 in this place. I open new holes in my socks every week - trying to slide would end up with some loss of blood.

I use icy sidewalks as an outlet for my sliding urges. Worn-down Dr Martens boots are awesome in the winter.
 
I see.

I never give it much thought except at times like now but I'd have to say the overall state of my socks is excellent. I buy like 20 pairs at a time and jam pack one of the cubby-holes in my dresser. As soon as I see a hole in a sock of any size at all, it gets discarded. As soon as the cubby-hole gets down to even half full - which is still a lot of socks - I buy another bunch of new socks.

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if someone was watching me through secret cameras in my apartment. Okay it would be boring as hell in general, but it would probably get pretty amusing watching this idiotic almost-50 guy sliding around the joint.
 
Mudcat
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if someone was watching me through secret cameras in my apartment. Okay it would be boring as hell in general, but it would probably get pretty amusing watching this idiotic almost-50 guy sliding around the joint.
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Don't sell yourself short pal.

I'm sure the people monitoring the secret camera would be more than amused watching you shove your hand up your lovers hoo haw in search of the used magnum condom you jammed up inside her.

Might even be a highlight!
 
Mudcat
I see.

I never give it much thought except at times like now but I'd have to say the overall state of my socks is excellent. I buy like 20 pairs at a time and jam pack one of the cubby-holes in my dresser. As soon as I see a hole in a sock of any size at all, it gets discarded. As soon as the cubby-hole gets down to even half full - which is still a lot of socks - I buy another bunch of new socks.

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if someone was watching me through secret cameras in my apartment. Okay it would be boring as hell in general, but it would probably get pretty amusing watching this idiotic almost-50 guy sliding around the joint.
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To hell with secret cameras. Muddy video that shit for our amusement.
 
Matty
Why? I'm not following.

I just remember buying some premium birdseye maple expecting to be able to build four 1" thick Stratocaster-style necks out of one 2"x8"x2' piece. No way Jos.
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... because PT is heavy as hell when still soaked with the chemicals

you have to buy 4/4 boards if you want the full width
or buy/find some lumber pulled from old house and barns.
I got a shitload of heart pine that is over 100yrs old from a torn down barn for free. it sells for anywhere $2 a board ft here to $6 a BF in Florida. probally more up north.



Lumber's nominal dimensions are given in terms of green (not dried), rough (unfinished) dimensions. The finished size is smaller, as a result of drying (which shrinks the wood), and planing to smooth the wood. However, the difference between "nominal" and "finished" lumber size can vary. So various standards have specified the difference between nominal size, and finished size, of lumber.

Early standards called for green rough lumber to be of full nominal dimension when dry, but the requirements have diminished over time. For example, in 1910, a typical finished 1-inch- (25 mm) board was 13⁄16 in (21 mm). In 1928, that was reduced by 4%, and yet again by 4% in 1956. In 1961, at a meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Committee on Grade Simplification and Standardization agreed to what is now the current U.S. standard: in part, the dressed size of a 1 inch (nominal) board was fixed at 3⁄4 inch; while the dressed size of 2 inch (nominal) lumber was reduced from 1 5⁄8 inch to the now standard 1 1⁄2 inch.[

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_lumber#Dimensional_lumber
 
Kind of like The Truman Show.



The appeal of the show would be helped immensely if I vocalized all my thoughts like a blithering nitwit so let's say I do that.

In today's episode, Mudcat gets out of the shower and puts on his underpants. Suddenly he bends over and takes a close look at his crotch.



"Inside out. You have put your underwear on inside out, bozo. Now you're going to have to take them off and switch them around and put them back on. Sigh. What a hassle. And really, who cares? Under what circumstances is anyone going to see that your undies are inside out? And even if they did, what difference would it make to the price of tea in Saskatchewan?"

"I still don't understand why underwear is plural. Why is it, "they?" It's just one thing there. Why am I calling it a pair? Who the fuck knows? Stupid."

"Am I really going to go through with this switching of the underwear? It all seems so ambitious."

Mudcat looks in the mirror with a long-suffering expression. "Whatever," he says.

He puts his plaid cozy pants on over the inverted drawers and puts on his socks and takes a running slide out into the hallway.


Tune in next week for another episode of The Mudman Show.
 
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