Unqualified chainsaw users

[Stubby]

2 minutes ago, Paddy1000111 said:

I give up. Never came here to upset anyone... 

I'm not upset ☺️

[Doobop]

Your £1000s in training doesn’t necessarily mean you’re any good at it though....
 
Plenty of two week wonders around touting for work. 
 
There will always be idiots, he could just have easily been ‘having a go’ with a digger and hit the gas main. 

Too bloody true Doobin! It’s too easy for people to do there tickets in a intense training program. Certificates are east to obtain. It is experience that is needed. I still believe you should do a minimum of 12 months with another company before you go at anything alone. In this game, no two days are ever the same so experience is more important than ever!!

[Countryboy]

I have been using chainsaws for many years, now aged 75, but have never had training. I own a woodland and still use chainsaws occasionally. However I know my limits and always call in trained operatives when it is too much for me. I wear ppe and always insure I have a good look at the job before I start work( this applies to any job that I do). I am very lucky that I am very fit and healthy and really enjoy working in the wood which I do most days

[Brill]

3 hours ago, Paddy1000111 said:

Oh yea, that's what mean about rules in different locations. It's a big difference between felling a tree in your garden that can't harm anything than felling a tree on a boundary which could land in your neighbors living room whilst he's watching TV... 

your post about the old guy and young guy rings fairly true don’t think I could’ve worded it so well it’s just the attitude I thought was funny then the thing coming down and causing damage and just being a right old mess is annoying as I’ve had to go and spend out on courses etc and insurance and some blkle

in a transit van and a stihl 170 rocks up cash in hand and the old guy thinks he’s got a deal til it’s a massive balls up lol 

went to look at a conifer job bloke said he knows a guy who’ll do it for 50 I said good for you let me know if you want the fence repairing when he brakes it I know a good fencer 

[Brill]

1 hour ago, Countryboy said:

I have been using chainsaws for many years, now aged 75, but have never had training. I own a woodland and still use chainsaws occasionally. However I know my limits and always call in trained operatives when it is too much for me. I wear ppe and always insure I have a good look at the job before I start work( this applies to any job that I do). I am very lucky that I am very fit and healthy and really enjoy working in the wood which I do most days

See you sensible though and have this strange thing called common sense where many people these days seem to lack it

[Mick Dempsey]

An awful lot of silly generalizations about people’s ages and abilities.

[Mark Bolam]

3 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I positively enjoy the sight of expensive cock-ups from have a go heroes.

 

Helps people focus their minds when they see my quotes.

 

 

As Red Adair said ‘If you think it’s expensive hiring a professional you should see the cost of hiring an amateur’.

[Paddy1000111]

22 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

An awful lot of silly generalizations about people’s ages and abilities.

I didn't mean to offend anyone and what I said was about a type of person at an age not that everyone at that age is that type. At the end of the day, experience comes with age and you don't get complacent without experience... 

[Stubby]

7 minutes ago, Paddy1000111 said:

I didn't mean to offend anyone and what I said was about a type of person at an age not that everyone at that age is that type. At the end of the day, experience comes with age and you don't get complacent without experience... 

?☺️?☺️?☺️ Just stop . ?

[Khriss]

Its ok. Its ok to have a go. Its ok to do stuff n get a result. Its ok to do anything you like. Until it goes wrong. Until yr stood in court. Then its not OK. 

 

K

 

( youtube teaches us thiz)