The February edition is blessed with our usual Enviroman, Garbage Guru and Nigel the Health & Safety expert features.
We also look at Skip Permit problems,- if you have not signed our petition on Skip permits you can do so here Skip Permit Petition
And we look at Insurance in the industry and predict the future of Insurance in the waste industry - if you would like to know more then please contact us.
Oh and this month's Skip Hunk is a real character too!
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Hubba Hubba! Once again dear readers we have an absolute corker of a Skip Hunk for you this month. Tuck in your napkins and get ready to dribble! I haven’t seen a face this well pulled since the heyday of Paul Gascoigne.
The Skip hunk for February is Shaun from H Wicks Skip Hire in Barrow-In-Furness and he’s all pumped up and ready to woo the nations ladies with his facial contortions and penchant for woolly hats.
Shaun – I put your photo into the popular face recognition website, www.myheritage.com and it reckons you’re a cross between the Steve Buscemi, Britney Spears, Kathy Bates and Alfred Hitchcock (seriously it does!). How does that make you feel? Britney Spears! Bit wide of the mark on that one I think.
So then Shaun, tell us a bit about yourself. Well, I’m a skip truck driver for H Wicks up in Barrow-In-Furness – and that’s about it. Is that good enough?
Not really – what do you do in your spare time? I like walking my dog, Rusty and breathing in the fresh country air – it makes a change from picking up smelly skips all day long.
What do you like about The Skip magazine? I like the funny stories – the writing in it’s great.
Do you have any messages for our female readers? Yeah – Garlic is the new Viagra!
Hmm, OK. Have you got any amusing or strange stories that you’d like to tell our readers? Don’t be silly, I live in Barrow – nothing happens here!
That’s a shame. Thanks for the photo anyway. Keep pulling those faces!
Would you like to be a Skip Hunk, let us know contact us
Barry’s Skip Hire in Bankhall, Liverpool have released a charity album with the proceeds going to the baby hospice, Zoe’s Place.
The CD’s title is, ‘Autumn Leaves’ and the band are going under the name, ‘Rhythm Rascals & Friends’.
Wind Beneath My Wings
To order a copy of the album (which sounds a bit like Gerry & The Pacemakers and costs £5 + P&P) call Barry on 0151 944 2828 and make a safe and secure credit card payment over the phone.
Talking exclusively to The Skip, Barry Flanagan (Skip Hire owner and the Rhythm Rascals lead singer), 60, told us the project came about due to his work with the West Derby Rotarians, “Zoe’s Place isn’t funded by the NHS and relies entirely on charitable donations. Last year we raised £1400 with a previous album and thought it was worth doing again – except this time the music is even better”.
At The Skip we urge all our readers to give Barry call and buy a copy. The album has 12 tracks on and is worth the £5 retail price alone for Barry’s rendition of the Bette Midler classic ‘Wind Beneath My Wings’.
As we all know Health & Safety regulations are coming more and more in to force each year. We came across this superb product to help safely fill a skip, much safer than wooden planks that can be wet or damaged or a mixture of the both.
If you buy one for your skip firm, you could hire them out as an extra add on service to your customers and keep them safe and let the Skip Ramp earn you money in the process!
The LOAD-EZE is designed with safety in mind:
- Hold-fast clamp that prevents movement in use
- Recessed wheel channel gives the operator full control of the wheelbarrow
- Rungless 'permanent grip' pitted walkway prevents slippage
- Patented wheel trap and pivot bar ensures safe and steady tipping
Construction
Galvanised Sheet Steel Construction
NONE Slip Walkway
2 Skip Attachments to prevent theft!
Fixed Wheel trap & pivot bar
No Maintenance (no moving parts)
Safe Working load of up to 300kg
Weight of unit 35kg
Dimensions of skip ramp: 3000, 535, 140 (LxWxH)
Buy one now for only £179 each
Carriage £8.00 per unit + VAT
This month’s Skip Chick is Laura from Recycling Management Services in Cheshire! Laura, originally hails from Chicago but has moved over here after hearing the streets were paved with gold (Americans eh! – Ed), possibly.
Hi Laura! Can you tell our readers and little bit about yourself and what you do? Well, I work as a Marketing Assistant for Recycling Management Services and I like to work hard and play hard. I also like horse-riding, deep pan pizzas and baseball – I’m still a Chicago girl at heart.
Chicago eh! I know a bloke called Paulie from Bronzeville on the South Side. Do you know him? Er, no – Chicago’s massive. Nearly 3 million people live there.
Oh right! It’s called the Windy City isn’t it? Paulie is really windy, he’s forever breaking wind. It’s not called the Windy City because the people who live there are flatulent. It’s just a windy city – the weather that is.
Ok. Have you got any strange or funny stories you’d like to tell our readers? In 1998 a rich friend of my mothers, who’s just over 60 and very vain decided she needed a face-lift. So, after talking to a number of the world’s top surgeons she met one young London doctor who assured her that he could make her look at least fifteen years younger using a new technique he’d discovered. The technique involved placing a small screw behind each ear so that she could tighten her face once a week in order to maintain a fresh young look. Well, the operation was success and my mum’s friend was really pleased until September last year when she noticed huge bags developing under her eyes. So she travelled over to the doctor’s surgery and demanded to know why the bags were developing under her eyes. The doctor replied, "Lady those aren't bags, they're your boobs, and if you don't stop turning those screws you're going to have a beard!
What do you like about The Skip magazine? It’s really funny and colourful. It’s not stuffy like lots of other trade magazines out there.
Before you go - Do you have anything you’d like to say to our readers? Knock on the sky and listen to the sound.
What could be better than a screen trommel built and manufactured by a skip hire company after 15 years of sorting through skip waste and being frustrated by the high costs of breakdowns and downtime caused by standard trommel designs?
BSA Recycling Ltd, Blackpool, decided to get into trommel manufacture because neccessity is the mother of all invention, and we have a video of their trommel here for anyone interested in getting a top quality trommel for their recycing facility at a good price from a solid British firm.
The Screen Trommel Manufacture Story:
The first item for scrutiny was the screen which had previously been found to wear at an alarming rate. BSA Recycling Ltd produced a punched hole screen with adequate spacings between holes, resulting in a strong, durable and long lasting unit.
The drive mechanism was the next area to receive attention. It has been redesigned with a single hydraulic motor drive, which has alleviated the need for chains, gears and cogs.
For those operators who have had to change a drive wheel will understand the benefits of the next area of modification! The BSA Recycling Ltd Trommel is fitted with a solid rubber drive wheel, rather than one of solid steel, thus reducing vibration. Should the wheel require attention, it can be removed without the need to remove the drum, thus saving hours of downtime.
The whole ethos of this radical redesign has been to concentrate on the longevity of the machine and to provide a cost effective, trouble free system.
BSA Ltd have also undertaken to provide the same level of attention to the feed/exit conveyors and also provide installation, commissioning and servicing of their equipment.
If you want to make an enquiry about the BSA Trommel, please send us an
giving us as much detail as you can (especially your contact detail!)
We constantly get asked the question, where can I buy Hi-Viz clothing for my staff? I need a good safety boot supplier?
If your one of the people that constantly need quality clothing to keep the workers safe and warm then you can't go wrong by taking a look at this company Safety Clothes click here
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Some people say "loan payday yahoo!" if they can get a cash advance before payday, we just say - look, it's better to try and make your money stretch until payday but we know that those subs requests come thick and fast about a week before payday from people saying "Please can I have an advance cash loan till payday?" to which the answer cannot alwasy be yes, so we found the fastest loan online payday here:
I’ve just got off the phone to a sales pitch from www.skiphiresearch.co.uk and what a load of shite it was.
Here’s their “deal” (if you haven’t heard from them already):
- SkipHireSearch will place your listing on their directory for between £150-£1500 per year
- This qualifies you for 1-3 keywords on Google Pay Per Click (a keyword will include “skip hire Manchester” for example – this means the page they have for skip hire in Manchester will show up on Google – if you’ve paid to be listed, you will be on that directory page. NOT that your webpage will show up, just a listings page for all companies listed under that keyword).
They were trying to pitch me a listing under “Skip Hire Stockport” for £150.
I know that I paid £130 in the past 12 months on Google for advertising under FOURTEEN keywords:
SKIP HIRE STOCKPORT
skip hire in stockport
skip hire stockport
skip hire stockport uk
stockport skip hire
"SKIP HIRE STOCKPORT"
"skip hire in stockport"
"skip hire stockport"
"stockport skip hire"
[SKIP HIRE STOCKPORT]
[skip hire in stockport]
[skip hire stockport]
[skip hire stockport uk]
[stockport skip hire]
That was for a total of 596 clicks from a total of 2,861 searches with a click-thru-rate of 20.83% at a cost per click of £0.22 giving a total expenditure of £130.72.
NOW – here's a thought for you:
Do SkipHireSearch give a rats arse about the skip hire industry and your business? No. They are part of www.infoserve.com – just another directory listings service exploiting people’s lack of knowledge to make a very fast buck.
I decided to do a little check on them to see how their Google Page Rank compared to www.theskip.net. This link takes you to the results of a comparison with the future Page Rank of our site and their future Page Rank:
“Page Rank” is Google’s way of determining the IMPORTANCE of a website. You will see that ours is currently 3/10 rising to 3.2/10. Not bad for a site that is only actually 4 months old. It will be 5 or 6 come the summer. Their page rank? A big fat zero (0/10) which means Google thinks the site has no importance whatsoever. This means that it’s chances of showing up in the natural listings ain’t gonna happen anytime soon.
Then I thought I’d check their traffic rank using www.alexa.com – this is the webmaster’s tool (owned by Amazon) for finding out how a website ranks compared to all the other websites in the world. It’s a great way for sniffing out the BS in a sales pitch.
To make it easy for you, here are what alexa says about the traffic coming to both sites:
You’ll see that their site is the 6,412,504th most popular site on the internet (bugger all traffic) whereas theskip.net’s traffic makes it the 8,605th most popular website in the UK. Not bad for a niche industry magazine!
(Alexa provide a REALLY handy toolbar for your browser which you can download and install for FREE so that the next time you get a call from skiphiresearch, Infoserve, Ufindus etc you can see exactly the information you need to make the right decision.
Download yours here: www.alexa/toolbar (just click on the “Install Toolbar” button and follow the instructions. Call us if you get stuck).
Want to see our natural traffic? Go to www.Google.co.uk and type in: the skip (number 1 out of 111,000,000 web pages! One hundred and eleven MILLION!), skip magazine (number 1 out of 4.3 million pages).
Anyway – here’s the deal: We are going to set up our own skip hire search database on The Skip website.
We are going to list all of the companies that want to be listed for a fee that’s relevant and practical to the size of the market they serve (i.e. the price for a click in London is four times that in stockport)
For those that don’t want pay a fee, we will offer a centralised number and take the orders via the Topskips network.
We will offer a website link, email link, map link and phone number link.
We will optimize the page for natural search rankings.
We will run Google PPC campaigns under all the relevant keywords for your area.
We will give your current website a FREE search engine optimization evaluation so that you can rank higher under your own steam.
We will cost each job dependent on what you need and to your particular market. Basically, we’ll look after you, tell you no lies, put you on a directory that really works and we won’t do any pushy sales on you. Plus, you get to be listed on the Number One Skip Hire Industry Resource in the UK and Ireland. This link alone will have a great effect on your natural search engine traffic.
(Need more proof we know what we're talking about? Type in skips into Google and see where Topskips.com is in the natural listings. Number One out of 6.6 million pages)
Interested? Let me know by emailing me
with your questions (ask anything – I might not have covered it all in this email).
We all know that the cost of 20 yard or 40 yard RORO containers are expensive and when they get stolen it's is a costly process to replace, well here is a solution to stop the theft of your hooklift containers
Hook locks fit over the lifting bar to stop people taking that expensive container.
Please play the video below for a demonstration of the Hook Lock
For more information on pricing & availability call us on 0844 560 7706 or
Please note due to the different styles of padlocks we do not supply them, how ever we have found a good supplier of locks that can supply keyed or combination type padlocks Click here for padlocks
If you require locks for chainlift type skips then we can also supply these type of locks, for more details please click Skip Locks for a demonstration
If you are looking for a skip hire insurance quote, simply send us an email
and we will send your requirements (not your details - you won't get hassled to death by sales people) to only the best skip hire liability insurance companies we know and then we'll come back to you with their quotes.
Tell us as much as you can - if you are stuck about what to send us, give us a call on 0844 560 7706 and we'll be happy to talk you through it.
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