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    I just say soap. If they ask what kind, and its a roof, I say roof soap.

    There biggest concern, most, is it gonna kill something. Damage something. void a warranty.

    Show confidence, Maintain control of the conversation. Ask for the job. Today! (the contract)

    None of the stuff hurts anything, we use, hurts anything, if managed properly.

    Here is a lil joke. When they have to know what I use. I ask them if they are my competition? Or thinking about it? lol!

    Sold those too!

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    There's a lot of truth in that! Geeze, thinking back when I first started out knowing almost nothing. Maybe we can share some of the mistakes we have made. I remember one of my first major ones... I was finishing a house when I noticed I was about 5 feet short of gun hose so I simply moved the machine because I had plenty of garden hose. Too bad I wasn't thinking when I moved the machine because I has the exhaust pointed right at the siding of the house about 5 feet away. When I came back to shut the machine off a huge section of the siding was melted. Good thing a close friend is in the siding business and, after he finished laughing his butt off, fixed it for a case of beer.

    Another friend of mine, Timmy, is an electrician who wired my house when I was building it. He told me a story about a man that worked for him once. He was getting ready to take the ladders off the van. When removing the bungi (sp?) cords holding the ladders to the rack one of the cords whipped around striking him in the eye and PULLED HIS EYE RIGHT OUT OF HIS HEAD! I think of these two thing (and others) everytime I'm moving a machine or taking a ladder off the trailer.

    We learn best through our mistakes.

    Hey Rick! The bungee cord story, reminds me about 5 years ago, I was taking off a ladder. The bungee cord came loose and cut my forehead open, LOL!! After the blood stopped spilling on the road, I cleaned the guys gutters and moved on. Glad I have both eyes!! Also I'm very carefull now with bungee cords!

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