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There are a couple of ex-solders on here, maybe they might chip in with any advice using your background that might make you more employable - perhaps give general hints and tips about transitioning from soldiering to tree work.

Duh. Perhaps we should need ID for arbtalk. You need it for all the other websites.

I think that's the thing, no one setup is ideal for every job. I have a 12 foot trailer and mini chipper, I can take chipper and either muck truck or mini loader in a bit less than half the space. Perfect for 1-2 man jobs, can do reductions or take down small-medium tree and fit everything on, or run off and tip chip before taking logs home. Take the chipper to the tree saves a lot of dragging if there's any distance involved. Bigger trees with 3 or 4 people, having only one muck truck starts to be the bottleneck, but at that point I'm getting mates in - they bring a tipper and chipper and we now have a 12 foot trailer as well as the tipper, which can shift 2.5 tons of wood per load legally. But - I'm mostly around the villages nearby. Landrover and trailer is a bit of a nightmare when heading in to the city. Then you want a nice Nissan with 2p turning circle. One more thing - trailer is the ideal setup if you live anywhere near a vosa weighbridge, transit has almost no legal payload.

Hanged.

I was wondering exactly the same thing Mick….

I burn a reasonable amount of euc that I grow and coppice myself. I leave it lying sometimes for 3 months or more after felling and don't find it hard to split with an axe. Though I don't tend to let it get much bigger than 25cm dia or so before I coppice it. I also find it seasons quickly in a polytunnel, once split. The bark is thick & quite watertight, though.

That's because there was no deal before. Starmer had to swallow the Brexit pride and talk to the French, should be hung for that I reckon.

There’s something that doesn’t add up with you. That post is the post of someone who doesn’t really know much about or has even used a chipper. My bet is you’re a certain banned member on about his 5th attempt to pass.

Lifted from the insufferable morning people thread. What are the business pros and cons?

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Good morning Arbtalkers 😊

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Thank you. Really appreciate the advice

A bit of hedge trimming. Used the Makita UH006.

Seems still and bright here! Goal, Deny.

Morning all, MEWP job today. Overly heavy side prune on an old horse chestnut. I have advised against this a couple of times but customer is adamant. I have put in writing that it won’t make the tree safer, possibly the opposite long term. It is not visible to anyone else, so I may as well get paid rather than someone else. Have a good day all.

Loni Anderson. Remember WKRP in Cincinati?

Morning, well Floris has brought me in a few weeks work which is needed tbh after a quiet bird nesting 2 months.

Morning Rob . 🙂

Morning Everyone.

Morning all . Cool start again currently 10c going up to low 20c . Going out with an old work mate this Saturday for a pint and a curry . Tuesday evening to Fratten Park with my son for a Pompy cup match against Oxford . Then Wednesday on the train up to London with my daughter for an over night stop as she has an audition .

Good Morning Nice one Doug. Off to Pompey. Dad has a hospital appt. Be happy beavers.

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Some pictures of the underside of the Peruzzo.