Are you charging by the hour or per tyre?
Because if it is by the hour, you’re doing it way too quick. If per tyre, maybe consider changing your fee schedule? Most lawyers charge in six minute increments 
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Some jobs you just can’t take slowly and methodically. Some hills you just better sprint up.
What does the bead machine do exactly? Looks like a powerful bit of kit!
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True, there are aspects to jobs that need to be done hastily. But there is also:
Rush, rush rush. First bit done.
Boil the kettle and have a cuppa.
Rush, rush rush. Second bit done
Boil the kettle and have a cuppa.
Finish job.
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The beads tend to stick to the rims after being inflated for a while, at least the bycicle one’s do. It takes quite a bit of force to kind of peel them away.
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That’s why I think he’s paid per job, not hourly 
I have the adagium “be as lazy as you can get away with” both for myself and for my crew. I want them to conserve their resources, be careful of their energy and bodies and be as efficient as possible in expending them. This can seem strange when they see me go all-out on something and explode into a raging mass of muscle, hair and sweat. But it’s like you said, rush, boil the kettle.
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Its air over hydraulic, you have to get the bead moving a bit with the sledgehammer, enough to wedge the jaws of the breaker in the wheel. Easier said than done. Then it grabs the wheel rim and forces the bead away with (i think) about 10 tons of force.
The bloody thing isn’t perfect though. If you don’t get it just right it shoots out and smashes into your chest. Which doesnt tickle.
Depends on my mood. I definitely don’t charge enough for the big agri jobs as i try to pass them off to better equipped guys by saying i can’t get to it for a couple of days (i can’t be bothered is the truth) but they ring around and use me anyway. I’ve put prices up by 75% and still get the work. I really should ring around and pretend to be a customer and see what they are charging.
I hate these jobs. I could have done 10 cars or 2 lorries in the time it took to do this awful thing. I’m as strong as an ox but I’m just too bloody small to make it easier
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I don’t know if you have seen this before:
But I had a boss that based all his decisions on whether to give someone the job, or not, on a variation of it.
He believed and I agree that a smart, lazy person is the best person to figure out how to get the job done with the least effort and as quickly as possible.
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lol
Too long a story to do it proper justice but that is my Dad. He was self employed but wanted to retire. He charged a day rate and would only negotiate a 12 month contract with a big engineering company that he did most of his work for.
Over the course of 3 or 4 years, I think he got up to something like $2,500.00 per day before they said that was as high as they could go… He said OK then and finally retired 
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Being clever and lazy as F would put me at highest leadership, but i havent touched the 'erb in ages man 
I have to agree that hardworking and stupid is a dangerous and tiring combination.
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I only ever seem to get routine jobs… But at least I’m not fat. 
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Does that require a call to our resident tyre expert
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Be some callout fee id guess
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And response time
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Still be quicker than kwik fit
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Without a doubt 
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I got one of those for my motorcycle, just has it’s own battery. Lovely thing!
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As you know, factory tyre changing kit is a bit naff. I bought one of these ages ago.
Best investment I ever made. Plus it has a rattle gun so you can actually undo the wheel nuts if the monkey at the tyre shop has over-tightened them. NB. I only get tyres changed at a shop that actually uses a torque wrench.
Nearly all new vehicles over here come without a spare tyre now.
It drives me ■■■■■■■ mad. So much money/time wasted and people sat on the side of the road for hours.
Just yesterday, woman sat on side of a40 for 4 hours waiting for a wrecker.
She didnt know mobile tyre guys exist. They recovered her to her house, THEN CALLED ME! assholes
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There is a tyre place just along from my station, under the arches and you wouldn’t believe ( actually you probably would) how many cars we see driving past to get there with one or more tyres completely flat, sometimes shredded and once on a bare rim with the wheel arch liner hanging down. Where it had been battered by flying rubber
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