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I am stuck with one guess left, can't even see a word with the choice of letters and the two I have correctly on the board. Will revisit later, hopefully it will become clear 🤞🏻

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Aye, you should change your location on your profile Aaron!

I'd say that with a little un-blocking practice, even newbie chipper operators quickly learn to listen to revs/hold/restrict larger diameter stems, to avoid stalling an engine... Though I've never encountered a chipper with a centrifugal clutch (reliability/ replacement considered?), I'd much rather have the efficiency of a tight-ish belt on my chippers? With 3 decades experience, I still might be wrong though!

You're right, it is a whole other topic (dry stone wallers also have a great deal to say on whether their grant funding rates are realistic), but whether the job can be accommodated on grant money alone is relevent when considering what to charge. You also have to factor in traveling time. It may be worth starting a thread on grant funding.. This season I've had 3000 metres to do on an estate that's 45 miles away. The estate won't pay a penny above grant funding. They basically want it done for nothing. I have no stakes or binders to buy in as Northumberland style doesn't use any, mostly because hazel coppice is very rare in the north east as traditionally they didn't use sheep hurdles and there are no thatched buildings so hazel coppicing isn't really a thing. You just peg down with whatever pegs and crooks you can salvage from the hedge. But it means you also have to weave in pretty tightly if it's not yielding many pegs, so it's hard work to make the meterage each day and I actually find it slower going than SoE style. Some hedgers up here don't weave in or do much cutting back. They just lay what's there and leave it as it is, pegged or sometimes tied with string. I don't like doing that because every hedge these days has been thrashed to death with tractor flails and if you don't take the worst of that damaged material off you get very poor regrowth and a poor shape as it grows. But I can understand why they do it with the money that's paid. Also, up here you've got no chance of charging any extra for heavy scrub clearance. All farm hedges here seem to have wire fences either side, sometimes with little room to stand, and often a heavy scrub belt of gorse, bramble and suckering blackthorn to cut out before you even find either the fence or the hedge. You have to price to earn a living, when you add in travel and fuel. If they won't wear it, it's not worth working for nothing or running at a loss. Another complication this year has been the atrocious wet weather. When you're traveling 40+ plus miles to work you have to make sure the weather when you get there will allow you to get a decent shift in. Basically what I'm trying to say is, price what you need to to earn a living, not what other people think you should be charging. It's a job at the end of the day, not a holy calling.

Woodchips welcome - any type, not fussy. Logs welcome - logs suitable for processing and seasoning for fire wood. Please call before arrival. Thanks

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Morning all, Trying to decide if I should use the digger in a tight spot next to the greenhouse. Or use hand tools and grunt. Taking a low wall down to make room for a base for the air source heat pumps we are changing to. Maybe reading my book is a better plan on a Sunday.

@wjotner and the county council you work for doesn't have access to a copy of BS5837? Or is this all extra-curricular

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Ay up lad, all t'bit grim ba sounds it

Rough night with man flu. She fetched the tea up just now and back downstairs texting daughter whe has had news that she is being made redundant and that a clerical error has meant she has been overpaid and they want it back. Despite the fact that she pointed this out and HR got a strop on saying she wasn't and that they knew what they were doing! Back up to hers later to watch rugby in front of fire! York, Sherman.

Oi oi then . Happy Sunday all . ( Another 3--1 win away for Pompey ) 🙂

Interesting board there Doug. I can see (knowing the answer) why it went the way it did.

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There is additional grant payment of £5.82for stakes and binders. It doesn't cover it but it helps. Plus should the grant be 100% or should the landowner actually have to pay something . Anyway that's a whole new topic

Good morning, just having breakfast then off to sit on a digger followed by housework! I might stay on the digger longer.........

Morning all. Up at work o'clock on a Sunday for no reason, not ideal. Didn't do much yesterday and plan to do as little again today, although I may push myself to have breakfast at the cafe because I'm worth it. Thoughts briefly turned towards holidays yesterday. Our friends have suggested a return to Normandy which would be lovely, but her friends in Germany have been hinting they want tree work done. I quite fancy Germany. Have a good one folks.

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