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I think you could piss £25k, I’d say nearer £30k.

Now watch as this thread goes in a different direction. Yeah, he could buy the tickets. Or he could buy a second hand GRCS, a new 500i with three bars and nine chains, two helmets with comms and some poles with a hook. For an extra £350, he can get a train ticket to Newcastle, a taxi to my house via Oddbins and I'll show him how to use it all. Bosh. Useful groundsman to have around. Do one day a fortnight for six firms. 150 days a year at £150/day. £22,500. Probably better than £25,000 PAYE even after running costs and you have Mondays and Fridays for the lord. You still have to pay to drive to a PAYE job. He'll need NPTC 207 (CS45) of course, like everybody who runs the ropes on the ground has.

They obviously haven’t read the memo then Dan.

I’ve been asked but a customer if he can pay me for a job via PayPal as he’s collecting air miles. I’ve told him I don’t have a PayPal account and now he’s wanting to cancel the job because I’m old school, pay my business bank account by BAC’s. Has anyone else come a cross this as I don’t even have a PayPal account. It’s not a small amount of money and exactly not a large amount! £1400.

Ballistol Universal Oil And not poisonous for cleaning really dirty carabiners I’ve been using a Oral irrigator. i don’t have a air compressor.

I think the idea of using an impact driver as a way of managing the reaction torque is novel. To me it does have the whiff of snake oil about it, if you could suddenly increase cutting tool performance and life by a factor of two then people like Dormer and Sandvik would be all over it. After all cutting tools have been thought about a lot, by a lot of people. I suspect they are twice as good as cheap tat, and more equivalent to the decent ones that few people buy.

If you look through arbjobs some of the firms offer an estimate, eg team leader at Beechwood 30-39k. It's going to depend on area too, can't find it now but I think there was a an from Edinburgh botanical gardens for around 20k. I'd have thought 25k is achievable in Oxfordshire though.

‘Impact rated’ is nothing like the same as ‘an impact driver is faster than the sustained torque offered by a decent drill’

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That's intriguing, not much use but intriguing.

I am not sure I understand. it is carried on a trailer. it is on tracks so it drives itself up the ramp. in the photo its is just facing the brash and I am blowing it into the back of my truck.

Good idea for a thread, Alex. I'm going back to your title/original point -mainly because I don't/won't have a website myself. Spending a few minutes with a new potential customer, to explain what works we do and our background, etc seems valuable to them, to glean an understanding of us, and seems to build their trust. I always do this before discussing their potential work/problem. It helps set the initiative -and helps them understand there are two parties in their contract considerations . On more complex/open enquiries, I think sacrificing half an hour or so to gently quiz a customer on their objectives, seems a mutually beneficial exercise, often for both parties. Getting them to list/produce a simple specification of what they actually need, is helpful all round. I should have mentioned at the start, that our Conservation work includes treework.. so maybe a little different from others here.

so were still looking, we do have a few to look at , albeit on the cheaper side .. im kinda put off from the Forst now , tho they did seem to be a bit cheaper, but reliability is a must, I guess all things go wrong tho , does the Forst have the same engine as the TW ?

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Mate just sent me a pic of his willow we repollarded back to bare bones on June 11th.

Thanks both- the ag sector is pretty tight money wise, less than £25k isn't abnormal, and that's what I'm on now. I've no ambition to be making silly money, but as others have said, I'm looking for that sweet spot between satisfying work and a decent wage.

Good Morning All.

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Good morning Arbtalkers 😊 Another sunny day ahead 😎

Morning all, Blue sky here. Back to hedge trimming today. Yawn yawn. Bread and butter domestic.

£25k is basically minimum wage. So I wouldn’t class that as really decent money. All depends on your financial circumstances so everyone is different. I came from a £40k a year salary when I switched. Which I thought was decent money. But that had a ceiling. Was impossible to earn more than that. This industry doesn’t have a ceiling. But it does have a cellar. If you’re self employed and can’t find work then you could earn **************** all. the point is there are easier ways to make money. As I think someone stated earlier you could earn £25k stacking shelves. So don’t get into this industry thinking you’re going to be making £100k a year. If you want them lofty sums go be a bricklayer…apparently…

Dame Stella Rimington. James Whale.

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I run a setup not dissimilar to the one shown.Here the chip stays onsite 90% of the time,the versatility of a tracked machine with a drawbar and winch is unrivaled .