What do you do when your mate is doing it tough?

[AB]

Yeah mate if he had a wood supply that would be great for winter!

Problem is that local government's have closed off all these areas. Now the forests are like bushfire death traps. I better not head down that path...LMAO

That would be a great idea though mate to keep busy!!!

[Maxhead]

Yeah mate if he had a wood supply that would be great for winter!

Problem is that local government's have closed off all these areas. Now the forests are like bushfire death traps. I better not head down that path...LMAO

That would be a great idea though mate to keep busy!!!

Yeah out here you have to go out west to get it and need a licence. a mate of mine rakes it in doing aouut 4 tonne a day. He's doing it cheap at $200 a tonne

[Silver]

spiders don't bother me too much but I don't like cuddling an armful of just cut firewood at the rello's farms when they go gathering same to keep us soft Northerners warm. Too much wildlife under the bark and in the nooks and crannies.

Uncle and cousins just seem to ignore them, and are ignored in return, so far as I know, no-one has been bitten.......... yet :-)

[MQ MAD]

Personal story here........

It's harder to receive than give.

True story for many of us. Think about it.

Many many years ago, my wife, our 4 young kids and me, went through a really hard time. One day, our church pastor arrived on our doorstep with a food parcel.

I should have been glad and thankful, but I was devastated. I felt so low that I could have crawled under a pregnant ant. Words fail me on how I initially felt.

I never told anybody we were going through a hard time - but my pastor knew!

From that experience I learnt that it is a good thing to receive, and that I didn't have to keep giving and giving and giving.

It was a very humbling experience indeed and I'll never forget it. Something happened inside me that broke my pride - in a healthy way.

I don't have any issues now with receiving or accepting.


Take care out there.

Rossco

Have to totally agree with ya rosco
Its deffinately an ol skool up bringing thing
Young generation (and not all here) expect things on a silver platter
Ill help anyone out however i can, even give em my last $,but dont return the favour or remember those who helped when your down,ive memory of an elephant , never forget

AB,
Drop the wood of,do the right thing,bugger what he says
Its when ol mate gets on his feet, and forgets who you are, thats when you walk away

[Sir Roofy]

ab have a look at this firewood.asn.au this might help to get him started

[Bloodyaussie]

How long has he been gardening for??

You know thats what I do but I have been doing it for years and have large contracts so can weather the slow times better than most gardeners.

Jims actually charge like a wounded bull. It is mostly the guys that have come out of nowhere and are not properly insured that do jobs for next to nothing.

He needs to try hard and get some factory garden work as these places pay well, I dropped off 3 factories this year as I want to slow down.

If he can hold out for a couple of more months the work will increase.....????

I went through 5 guys last year and they were all so stupid it was not funny, if at least one had worked out I would have grown the bussiness even more but after the last guy who sprayed $500 worth of plants with roundup I said enough is enough and it is just me.

Hope it works out for him and will keep him in mind when spring comes round.

[Woof]

AB invite him and his family around for a BBQ and a few beers and then take him for a walk, just the 2 of you and just speak to him as the friend he is, I am sure that he will come around mate.

[Biscuits]

As a person who had a bad run myself, and have always been very proud, I found it extremely difficult to ask for help. A few of my mates would get me do the work that they didnt want to do... Paint the walls of the shed, split their fire wood, rotate the wheels on their cars etc, etc, all the while playing dumb and saying that they couldn't do it coz they were too useless. Gave me a bit of self esteem to help out a mate who "could't" do it. It always ended in a few beers & a BBQ, or a load of wood for myself, or a couple of bucks to pay for the bus back home... they always dropped me back and there was a green note in the envelope. Maybe get your mate to help you out with the splitting the wood, and as a thank you, feed him a few beers, BBQ, and treat him to a trailer of the firewood that he has just split and stacked WITH YOU

I had one wealthy mate that was about as blunt as the back end of the axe, He would come over at least once a month, with a couple of cases of beer, a ctn of smokes, and enough meat to last me the month if I was being careful with my dinners. He would tell me that If he decided to come over for a BBQ, he dint want to cook or have to get the beer out of the fridge as that was "my job as he paid for all the grub!" we would have a few coldies and a couple of smokes, and then he would pat me on the back and say all is going to pan out, and we would go to his place for dinner. This went on for nearly 12 months. and if it wasnt for my mates forcing me to accept their help I dunno if I would have been able to make it through.

[Chris79]

That is a tuff question, in all honesty I dont know how I could help a mate in that position. Im not even sure I would know they were having trouble, not something I have ever realy talked about with my mates.
Could maybe try and get them to open up on what the issue was with the business over a few beers, maybe time to pack it up and do something different for a while?

But in your possition I would definetly invite myself over for a visit and just happen to have a trailer load of wood I needed to rid of attached to the car

[megatexture]

he could expand his buisness to include exterior house cleaning, windows, driveways the outlay would be jack all all you would need is a high presure cleaner. there must be something that needs doing in winter that he can branch out into or just get another part time job.