So today I go to visit the construction site where my new house is being built to check on the progress and what do I find? The one year old white oak tree at the front of the yard is broken off at ground level! Some lazy tard has run over it with a truck. That tree was beautiful and it was going to shade my new white house. I would have sat under it on sunny days and drank cans of mountain dew. It would have beautified the neighborhood and been a benefit to my white family. And now its all fucked because a lazy blue collar prick couldn't do his job right. You have a piss-easy job dickhead - drive a truck and don't fuck up other people's shit. And you couldn't even get that right. The only upside to Australian politicians taking a giant shit on the demographics of this country with their fucked-up high immigration policy, is that if they import enough refugees the wages of Australian tradesmen will fall to what those useless stooges are actually worth: three-fifths of fuck all.
Why are blue collar workers so lazy and spiteful Sup Forums? Why?
this isn't even bait broseph, come back with something better, cunt
hah my captch after that f're so damn rich, faggotailed was roble sale, so buy another oak if you
Chinks can't drive, that's what you get
you're complaining about a fucking tree, do you think you're some kind of royalty? grow the fuck up and quit bitching, I deal with people who complain about NON-ISSUES all day, youre just another crayfish underthe rock in the crik down yonder'.
I paid for the fucking tree! And I paid for the wages of the short attention-span faggot who was driving the truck that ran my tree over and broke it. I expect, no I fucking demand some base-level professionalism for my money. These lazy blue collar tards think they can deliver shit-tier work and get paid top dollar for it? Fuck them and their jet ski lifestyle.
>tfw too phyiscally frail for blue collar work
I wish i could piss about arriving late to assignments, taking a comfy lunch, working in my own time for a couple of hours then going home.
Running over trees is out of order though. Gotta keep some standards.
I think they did it deliberately. They could have taken some care and not knocked it over with their truck but nooo, got to break the tree down to get back at 'the man'. Just a spiteful petty act of economic revenge.
How much house do you get for your money? I'm building soon. Sure as fuck won't put any trees in yet.
Two story house, north-facing across from a park. Four bedrooms, two bathrooms. Lifetime of mortgage repayments.
find out how much a similar tree would cost to buy, transport, and plant there and charge them for it or deduct it from their payment. well first contact the company they work for and tell them what happened and raise hell if you have to.
>f they import enough refugees the wages of Australian tradesmen will fall to what those useless stooges are actually worth: three-fifths of fuck all.
Which means they will stop buying shit from whatever companies you invest in, and they'll not be able to pay taxes, so the government will look to you for more tax money.
Nice, how many square meters? I can't even do two story here without a bunch of money sunk into new safety requirements. I do have an acre of land in a very white town though.
karma is what you get bitch
Or OP can bitch and moan on an image board and cry about his broken tree instead.
>paying people to build you a house
>kek
put some vagisil on them hands and get to work boy
Little over two hundred twenty square meters. Its out in the burbs, but a small town like you got would be good too.
The funny thing is that by importing refugees their wages will eventually get better. In the US the influx of Mexican migrants have only hurt American workers at the absolute lowest rung. I work in construction and what I've witnessed is that the very cheap labor pool has increased profits in the industry to the point that construction companies are expanding and they are always hiring at competitive rates. There simply arent enough migrants to replace the amount of skilled tradesmen needed. I could tell my boss fuck you and get a job the next day probably making more money. Migrant workers only hurt us during a recession.
Sounds like you're a cunt and they know it.
They are going to fill your walls with all their trash and dirt before they leave. You'll have dust problems for the entire life of the house.
Don't piss off your tradies, dumbass.
Why are you planting foreign species of trees in australia? it deserves to get killed. Fuck you.
Yep, gonna be ripping them a new one next week.
Same size as my plan. They want 425k NZD in brick. I bet yours is cheaper. Supposedly the labour is ridiculous in Australia but the materials are not monoplised as much as kiwi land.
>The only upside to Australian politicians taking a giant shit on the demographics of this country with their fucked-up high immigration policy, is that if they import enough refugees the wages of Australian tradesmen will fall to what those useless stooges are actually worth: three-fifths of fuck all.
and you will get construction quality of the same degree.
Enjoy having pajeets shitting on your front lawn while they single bracket your load bearing beams.
>some bogan ran over me bloody tree so we're turning the nation brown, cunts.
piss off ya faggot
>paying for trees
How much of a soft cunt are you?
Uproot a year old tree from the bush and plant it in same spot.
this, OP is keen on fucking himself in his own arse.
it's like pissing off the garbage man. It doesn't matter if he is a cunt, you just dont do it.
Also I bet OP is one of those faggots that went to uni and gets paid less then tradies.
>lifetime of mortgage repayments
Hard to drive my R8 ute with your wife giving me gobbies with my tool belt on champa.
Australian tradesmen stopped buying years ago. They honestly don't give two shits about supporting Australian businesses - if its one cent cheaper, they will buy Chinese. If there is one thing I respect you burgers for its that there is a resurgence of support for American made. You got a long way to go but at least you've started. Us? We wont event think about it for the next twenty years.
Do your own building work then, faggot.
why were you dumb enough to plant trees before your house was built? Seriously I am a landscaper and it is the dumbest thing you can do. It's like the retards that turf their place before the building is finished or the driveway is put down. You are just a fucking retard mate.
He'll replant a bonsai tree for his chink wife
Sup Forums dickrides tradies. They think it's """red pilled""" to be a tradie. And in their view the more damage you do while performing such manly tasks the better. kek vult
the fact he planted a tree from a different climate and a different continent and expected it to grow shows how fucking stupid he is.
Unless he lives in SA the humidity is too high in australia for Oak trees. They will just get fungal infections and root rot.
One year old tree, and its an oak so its slow growing anyway. I'm guessing it was a few feet off the ground, if that. Learn from this mistake.
Hire a reputable company, and make you TELL the person doing the work what you want done and what you don't want broken. The guys doing the work are labourers they aren't horticulturalists, they aren't going to know an oak from any other unless it is clearly marked out. You need to clearly specify what state you want the yard in, they probably just came from a building site with conduit, concrete, shit everywhere.
Also it isn't a piss easy job, get off your soapbox. You got burnt by one group of tradies not the whole industry. From the way you're talking about it, you're probably a banker who's never worked a hard day in your life or produced any tangible product. Take off your ironed white shirt and stake out the damned tree next time, and tell the person who's name is on the quote this is tree is important. Because you're right, they don't give a shit.
The land developer put oak trees in. I bought the block with the tree already there, so I had the joy of paying for both the tree and the land.
>fungal infections and root rot
Yea like his zipper head Mrs
>They are going to fill your walls with all their trash and dirt before they leave.
See this is what I'm talking about. Low fucking standards from Australian tradesmen. How am I the cunt in this situation? I pay people to do a job; they fuck up my shit; and somehow I am the bad guy?
Becoming this hysterical and whiny over someone else's error, and obsessing over the colour of their collars, suggests that you are a superior, put-upon cunt. Perhaps the tradies have already been subjected to your "character", and it was not in fact an error.
It's because they can do the work and you can't or won't.
The building site is in Canberra. Its cold here so oak trees are ok. I'm guessing the tree was a year old because it was about six feet tall - and it was staked! Two of them - one on each side. They ran right over and broke the tree and the two stakes off at ground level. It was murder essentially.
I work in construction management in London, you can get two or three Romanian or Polish workers for the same price as you would one Australian knuckle head.. They are far better workers also, respect their job unlike arrogant Australian tradies. I can't wait for the day the idiots wages drop.
>murder essentially
Are you a vegetarian?
>assuming all oak tree species are identical
White oaks grow under very wide climate conditions. Here in the U.S. you can find them at the Canadian border and further North, and they are also native down to Florida.
They're one of the best oak trees. Very strong and long-lived.
Hey, OP: A couple things quick. One year lost on a a tree like a white oak is meaningless. You can start new ones from acorns and 20 years from now you'll never know the difference. Especially if you start them off in a large planting hole of enriched soil.
Also, you want about 5 or 6 of them growing "reasonably close." about 5 to 8 meters, or up to but less than 20 meters apart. They have sexes. You will want both male & female trees on your property ... then, when they mature, the females will drop acorns by the barrel load.
Your local wildlife will thank you, and you can reseed white oaks anywhere & everywhere anyone wants them.
Make friends with a Yank and have them smuggle you a box full of white oak acorns. Make sure he isn't retarded and knows enough to ship healthy ones without parasites or fungus. They can be wrapped up loosely in newspaper and put inside a plastic bag, then inside a box. The plastic bag should not be sealed too tightly so they can breath, but they shouldn't be in bare paper & box or they might dry out during shipping. Where I live there are trees that drop acorns in September and I collect about a dozen 5 gallon buckets to feed birds, chipmunks & squirrels throughout the winter.
If you plant 50, expect at least 5 (or more with good care) to live. They want soil with a lot of composted wood & leaves; they are an old growth/latter stage forest tree that does best in soil that other tress have conditioned for a century or two. Heavily composted wood chips mixed with a bit of manure from herbivores is excellent, and if you can put a new layer down around it every year before the winter starts they will love you for it.
In Australia we have an entire level of government with the sole job of stopping anyone building anything themselves. We call it local government, and the point of this extra layer of government is to ensure that uncompetitive tradesmen have a steady flow of work because no-one else is allowed to build anything themselves.
Full of shit op.
You can't get on site unless you have a safe pass and permission from contractor
And they don't let that happen often regardless if it's your house
I've seen plenty of healthy mature oak trees all over Canberra. That argument is dumb anyway, regardless of how the tree might have turned out later is beside the point, you valued it so it shouldn't have been damaged. Most labourers I've worked with don't really give a shit its true, but if they get strict orders from the boss don't fuck with X, they generally won't because they want to be paid and don't want the headache. 6ft tall it was definitely older than one year.
Next time stake the thing out with at least three, hi-vis tape. And tell the guy doing the quote do not fuck with this tree and get him to include that on the quote before you hand over money. Whether you have plasterers or painters in your house with expensive floorboards, earthmovers with valuable trees, whatever, learn now to tell people the standard you insist on and get it in writing.
So it was a street tree? Ask the council or the developer to replace it then dickhead
Same with my land. It came with a hedge planted.
This, if OP doesn't have it in writing that the tree is not to be fucked with then it is fair game. If it is a street tree then it isn't even to do with him, it is between the council/developer and the workers and council won't give a fuck they will just replace it.
>otto brokedick
>The building site is in Canberra.
>Canberra
This explains everything, folks. For those of you outside Oz, pretty much everyone in Canberra is either a politician or a public servant. This is why OP bears a startling resemblance to a cunt.
>from canberra
well that explains why you are such an insufferable faggot then.
So plant an acorn.
>about six feet tall
I'd estimate at least three years old, and maybe 5. Or even 7. A full 6 feet high is an established tree (for a white oak), especially if it's over 6 feet. You can get them to grow fast & high in a nursery under ideal care & conditions, that's why it might be as young as 3. In the wild, over 6 feet is a survivor where 200 others failed. Usually because deer love to eat them.
I'll give that a try. But I'm starting with the builder first because his guys ran it over.
Canberra is cold for Australia, and I've seen these things been 2ft off the ground after 10 years over here
This explains nothing. I'll say it again - I'm not the bad guy in this situation. I paid guys to do work for me, and they didn't take care or pay attention to their work. That doesn't make me an asshole, it makes them assholes.
Your prob a over priveledged freemason. Think that everything should go the way it's "supposed" to. This is real life, shit happens. Go refill your Xanax prescription and watch some more cuck porn.
That's why I'm upset. It was going to be a really great tree. I'm pretty sure it will die now - the trunk was broken down at ground level and snapped nearly more than halfway through. I tried pushing it back into position and bracing it, but I don't think it will work.
Some nurseries specialize in large trees. I'd quote up a similarly sized one and get the builders indemnity insurance to cover it.
I'm glad they grow fast. I don't want to be the guy on the street with the small tree, while everyone else has good-sized trees.
If its on a nature strip the whole thing is a lot more complicated. Things you grow there aren't legally on your property, energy companies can lop the tree as they see fit, if its near a hydrant point the council or the waterboard can have a go at it with little or no approval from the land owner. Even RFS can clear it in the case of an emergency like property protection or back-burning if it interferes with accessibility. I'm a member of RFS so I've seen this done before many, many times even though we try not to.
They don't grow fast. You could have 4 generations of enormous wattles in the same patch of land before you see this thing will get over 2m potentially.
Don't you fucking cunts build your own houses?
>one year
wow its fucking nothing
wow shit happens
wow life is not what i want it to be
wow
you are the petty asshole saying you will get back at them. Did you ever ask them to not hit the tree? it's a fucking construction site, tree was in the way, get another tree.
I bet you wouldnt even be calm or nice about it
"oh hey guys I was just wondering who broke the tree and if you will replace it, I didn't want it damaged so I hope we can sort this out"
no you are going to march in there and giver them a mouthful, call them names and abuse them for being tradies.
I hope they leave shit in your walls and opening for the possums to live and piss in you insufferable canberra faggot
This thread is fucking retarded and so are you OP.
If you don't want people to do things you don't want them to, either learn to hire better people or do it yourself.
Also
>planting trees before the house is built
No John, you are the dumbass.
>buy new tree
>send invoice to construction co.
>plant tree
>resume life
Stop being a little bitch
I am going to be nice about it. I'm not going to give them any reason to sabotage my house build.
Thats what you get for hiring nonunion wetbacks instead of white craftsman, you filthy kike chink.
Too bad you have no skills of your own and cant build your own house like a Whiteman.
Enjoy the spic landscaper sexually assaulting your 11 year old daughter on lunchbreak.
fuck off broken spambot faggot cunt