Your first job

[gary112]

9 minutes ago, SimpleSimon said:

Thanks, I'm always interested so do message if you need an extra pair of hands for anything. Especially if you need a hand with any hedgelaying, I'm doing a one day intro course this month to get the basics but it would be great to get some practice in afterwards!

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[AHPP]

13 Douglas Firs from 12" to 30" DBH, along a main road and with a power line as thick as a boner running through all of them. Done mostly solo, a bit of help from a five foot girl and my 65-year-old dad and a day with a one-armed man with a winch on a 110 to put the biggest one down the side of a house. I undercut the nearest quote by £2500 and still made made money after buying outright almost all of what I needed to do the job. Once I'd done it, I knew there was no tree job I couldn't do.

Uninsured and for cash btw.

I love telling this story.

[Mick Dempsey]

If I’m honest, just a series of small reductions/fells garnered from a postcard ad in the local newsagents.

[josharb87]

It was either flush cutting a eucalyptus or topping a line of ash ?

hand me down willans t22 and a tow strop (before I done any Arb course!) 

[Silverhooker]

Sawing up a old fence posts that been replaced by the local water board. Sold the lot for fire wood to the next door neighbour, who had a stove cos we didn't, had to barrow it up the path at the side of the house. Cash !