Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: D.Salkeld_Ltd on February 09, 2008, 03:14:35 pm
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Hi Mate,
Love the way you keep winding us BPers up ;D ;D
Where are you based? I'm in Lincs 15 miles south of Grimsby
I'd love to see if Van mount or Backpack is better on Houses??
How about a challenge:
My Backpack setup - your van mount. A street of houses simular.
Set of. See who is easier?
David
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id join in on that, me and you dave lol vs him and someone else with a van mount ;)
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No contest really!! but I'd love to take you up on the challenge, they would have to be cleaned to my standard though!!! I'm in sunny Hampshire 8)
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no contest...that sounds like a challenge
after reading most of your posts anyway, i know you dont know what your talking about :P
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Hi Mate,
Love the way you keep winding us BPers up ;D ;D
Where are you based? I'm in Lincs 15 miles south of Grimsby
I'd love to see if Van mount or Backpack is better on Houses??
How about a challenge:
My Backpack setup - your van mount. A street of houses simular.
Set of. See who is easier?
David
I`d love that challenge on most of my work,do you know how many windows you can clean in the time it takes you to refill your backpack,your trying to compare a vanmount with backpack down a row of terrace houses and even then the vanmount would win on the fronts.
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Hi Mate,
Love the way you keep winding us BPers up ;D ;D
Where are you based? I'm in Lincs 15 miles south of Grimsby
I'd love to see if Van mount or Backpack is better on Houses??
How about a challenge:
My Backpack setup - your van mount. A street of houses simular.
Set of. See who is easier?
David
you could then go for a beer and then see who is the harder ;)
now we are talking ;)
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They should hold the competition at Windex for all to judge.
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well they can come and clean some of my work between them if they wish and i'll even referee for nowt ;D
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OK where is the venue I'm well up for it!! ;D who's gonna sponsor me coz I'm a dead cert to win!!!! ;D ;D ;D
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Looks like the Backpackers have bottled it!!! ;D
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Well groundhog. I am in hampshire and a backpacker. I am not going to do your work though. Needs different types and then we would see.
Example. For a large commercial I too would use the truckmount but for 90% of my domestic I use the backpack.
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i have van mount, backpack and omni trolley. i think everyone of the above mentioned can do a certain job quicker than the next....horses for courses friends!!!
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salket looks like that kid off the munsters....nice hairline pal ;D
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Well groundhog. I am in hampshire and a backpacker. I am not going to do your work though.
I'm not doing your work either, I should have guessed that you were a Scummer!!! ;D
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well at least your not a SCUMMER then Groundhog
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Oh dear a SKATE!!. Now that really explains everything. The snide remarks, the low level of brain activity and the fact that you are so obviously an ameoba!
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I'm not trying to be clever and think that ME and MY Backpack can wash you Vanmounts away ;D
Although, on varied domestics, I think I could ???
I just wanted to compare the 2 systems....................................
In fact why not add in a trolley system? :D
At a trade show would be good. It may give us and newcomers an idea of the pros and cons of each system.
Bear in mind I have my Backpack set up on a rack so I can fill up and put it on quick and easy. A turn round time from window to window of, on average 3 minutes.
Thats 1 minute to get back to trailer.
15 secs to drop of backpack.
30 secs to fill
15 secs to put backpack on
and 1 minute to return to job.
Note, this is average. The travel times may vary but I have sorted my round so as to reduce to a minimum.
David
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Dave I would love to take you on ( maybe love is the wrong word) 3 min is a long time. Less than 1 min is what I aim for in practice for a refil. How about me and you have a backpack competittion between ourselves to make the others blush.
But I may be a weakling, I only carry and use 10 litres so maybe not up to your standards. ;)
I carry mine round in a suitcase so anyone up to it at Windex or a suitable street ?
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Oh dear a SKATE!!. Now that really explains everything. The snide remarks, the low level of brain activity and the fact that you are so obviously an ameoba!
Ha ha! ;D I know you don't mean it really Tony!! I won't hold it against you that you are a Scummer! I have to be careful what I say as my sister has recently moved to Scum, and I may have to visit her sometime! ;)
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First of all ground hog i would like to make a comment about back pack V’s van mount,
I have both but my preferred method is my van mount, the reason for this being is unlike TonyG i do not have the physic to carry a load on my back, (Tony does he’s a big lad) i only use it on jobs that have access issues. I’m not getting into a war about which system is better as each individual will prefer his/her own personal method and at the end of the day they both do the job they are designed for.
PS
Tony is not a scummer as you have stated, on the contrary, he’s a really nice guy.
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Hi Jay, glad to hear that you use a van mount, good choice!! ;D
When I said Tony was a scummer it was not meant with malice, I'm sure you are aware that people from Southampton are refered to as scummers by a certain rival football clubs fans, just as Southampton fans refer to Pompey supporters as skates, it was intended as a bit of friendly banter on my part, although Tony seems to have taken it a stage further, but I'm thick skinned and won't take offence.
By the way have you still got those jobs that I passed onto you a couple of years ago? I think they were in Witley if I remember rightly. :)
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hi groundhog, i'm aware of the debate between soton & pompey but not beeing a footie fan i don;t get involved,
an interesting point here, it's said the the word SCUMMER derives from the old days (30's-40's?) or maybe even earlier when there was a dockers stike, the story goes on to say that the pompey dockers would not come out on strike to support thier fellow dockers in soton and were known and aptly named as the scummers.
it is also said that over the years pompey folk couldn't handle the tag of scummers so reversed it by labelling the soton lot with the same name, soton people being like they are just renamed pompey as skates (due to the royal navy) and pompey girls were known as SKATE-BAIT
perhaps a little bit of research on this matter might be enlightning?
by the way as for whitley, not to my recolection as i don't do any there?
mind you if you have any in my direction i will always take them on
cheers m8
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Hi Jay, sorry I meant Durley not Witley, I gave you 3 or 4 jobs, Durley Mews I think it was called, I just wondered if you still did them?
As for the origins of the scummer/skate thing, I think that you have got that the wrong way around, the Soton Dockers were working when the Pompey Dockers were striking not the other way round! ;)
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Hi Jay, sorry I meant Durley not Witley, I gave you 3 or 4 jobs, Durley Mews I think it was called, I just wondered if you still did them?
As for the origins of the scummer/skate thing, I think that you have got that the wrong way around, the Soton Dockers were working when the Pompey Dockers were striking not the other way round! ;)
hi m8,
durley mews, ofcourse, nice job that i do them all now.
thanx for that
now then as for the strikers
if you live in pomey then soton crossed the picket line
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if you live in soton then pompey crossed the picket line
personally i don't give a monkies as it was well before my time (just)
i don't suppose we will ever know the true origin ;)
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Found this on pompey web.......
Origins of the term "Scummer"
An interesting story came the posse's way a few weeks back about the true origin of the term scummer or scum. Apparently, just before the first world war, a dispute broke out between a local fishing company and it's employees. We don't know the name of the company, but we do know that it had two branches, one in Portsmouth and the other in S***hampton. The dispute, over wages, escalated and eventually the union called a strike, which was solid among both the Portsmouth company union men and the S***hampton company union men. Nothing was resolved, and after some weeks the S***hampton company men broke the strike and went back to work, thus ensuring the collapse of the dispute without any gain for the employee's of either company. Not suprisingly, the Portsmouth company were incensed at the actions of thier fellow workers, and apparently one wag noticed that the first letters of the S***hampton Company Union Men spelt SCUM. Hence the name Scum or Scummer as a term of abuse for anyone from S***hampton was first coined. Taken form the hard copy of the April/May 1996 issue of Frattonise
and there you have it!
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You are obviosly not from Southampton then?
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Found this on pompey web.......
Origins of the term "Scummer"
An interesting story came the posse's way a few weeks back about the true origin of the term scummer or scum. Apparently, just before the first world war, a dispute broke out between a local fishing company and it's employees. We don't know the name of the company, but we do know that it had two branches, one in Portsmouth and the other in S***hampton. The dispute, over wages, escalated and eventually the union called a strike, which was solid among both the Portsmouth company union men and the S***hampton company union men. Nothing was resolved, and after some weeks the S***hampton company men broke the strike and went back to work, thus ensuring the collapse of the dispute without any gain for the employee's of either company. Not suprisingly, the Portsmouth company were incensed at the actions of thier fellow workers, and apparently one wag noticed that the first letters of the S***hampton Company Union Men spelt SCUM. Hence the name Scum or Scummer as a term of abuse for anyone from S***hampton was first coined. Taken form the hard copy of the April/May 1996 issue of Frattonise
and there you have it!
as i sais it may need some research and it looks like you have done just that.
i would also like to point out that allthough i live in soton i cannot be named as a scummer because i come from guernsey, channel islands (sometimes know as donkeys) :D
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Live Quite close to Jay.... (Born and bred)
Donkeys love it. Wanted to do the inpression heheh.
Regards Paul
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hi m8,
durley mews, ofcourse, nice job that i do them all now.
thanx for that
Glad to here your still doing Durley Mews Jay, they seemed like nice people, it was just too far for me to travel!
As for the whole scummer/skate thing, its ok when used as a bit of banter, but some people take it far too seriously and it can all get a bit nasty! So from now on I will refrain from using the term :-X
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Live Quite close to Jay.... (Born and bred)
Donkeys love it. Wanted to do the inpression heheh.
Regards Paul
paul are you in sholing
"hee haw" ;D
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groundhog I take no offense at the term scummer. never have done and never will do. It is mainly a football thing and neither are my team so it is not an issue for me.
What I did take offense at was your inability to appreciate other peoples working mwethods and that we are all different. We dont want to be like you so I would rather that you just accepted that other people like working diffeerent ways. period!
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sure am partner hehe have to do it.. hee haw ;D ;D ;D ;D
Regards
Paul
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What I did take offense at was your inability to appreciate other peoples working mwethods and that we are all different. We dont want to be like you so I would rather that you just accepted that other people like working diffeerent ways. period!
Hey Tony no offence intended at all, and I appreciate that we all work differentley. What I was trying to do was give people the benefit of my experience, and as I have used a backpack, a trolley and a van mount, I am merely giving my opinion as to which is the best method, which in my opinion is easily the van mount! I find it difficult to comprehend how anyone can believe that a backpack is the best way of working! but hey each to his own I suppose ;)
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sure am partner hehe have to do it.. hee haw ;D ;D ;D ;D
Regards
Paul
;D
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hi all backpackers .could u tell me what is the highest u can reach with a backpack . i think its a shuflo . ps it is genuine ques , can it reach about 25 to 30 ft . thanks all
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a mate of mine uses a 24 foot pole withis backpack .
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I have used my backpack with a superlite at 50ft. No problem at all.
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thanks dave n tony . what would b a decent 35ft pole 2 use with backpack .medium price range