Useful tips and tricks

[oakum]

Use your blower as a bellows when getting a fire going. or if it's died down a bit.

[jmac]

Buy yourself a 12 or 20 ton bottle jack from machine mart and weld a 10mm thick steel plate on top, then you have yourself a hydraulic tree jack for fifty quid!

You will never use your high lift wedges again.

[tree-fancier123]

Buy yourself a 12 or 20 ton bottle jack from machine mart and weld a 10mm thick steel plate on top, then you have yourself a hydraulic tree jack for fifty quid!

You will never use your high lift wedges again.

 

thanks - that's excellent money saving engineering

Know how to make a mini skid steer for £500?

[Dan Curtis]

Buy yourself a 12 or 20 ton bottle jack from machine mart and weld a 10mm thick steel plate on top, then you have yourself a hydraulic tree jack for fifty quid!

You will never use your high lift wedges again.

 

Leave the plate detachable, saves your jack getting thrown if the plate gets stuck in the tree.

 

You'll still need wedges, blow a jack seal half way over and you'll be in trouble

[tree-fancier123]

Leave the plate detachable, saves your jack getting thrown if the plate gets stuck in the tree.

 

You'll still need wedges, blow a jack seal half way over and you'll be in trouble

 

good tip - no need to weld the plate on.

If I got a tree like your one near the fence I think I'd be happy paying the extra for a 50 tonne bottle jack, a new one on ebay at the mo for £40. Can't imagine the stress if it started leaking oil before the tree tipped.

[Dan Curtis]

good tip - no need to weld the plate on.

If I got a tree like your one near the fence I think I'd be happy paying the extra for a 50 tonne bottle jack, a new one on ebay at the mo for £40. Can't imagine the stress if it started leaking oil before the tree tipped.

 

I chose that picture for the plate being stuck in the tree. Funnily enough, the seal blew in my usual 12.5t Jack the day before, so we ended up using a little one for that tree. I think it's only about a 3t but it did the job.

 

My usual jack impresses me every time with what it will push over

[George Nicholls]

Not a trick,but a tip well worth knowing,when pricing the job up,(and this applies to mrs Miggins or Balfour Beatty) never tell them exactly how long the job will take,even when asked.

You may have the fastest climber in the uk on the job that day,or a team of groundies who've really got their skates on,and everythings goes perfect.

When you finish at 12 instead of 5 or manage to do it in a day and not 2,then its only human nature for the client to think he's paying twice as much as he should,because youve done it in half the time.

If you dont tell him in the first place,then thats all avoided.

Hi

I do agree with this, but what excuses have you said when your asked in advanced to how long will the job take by the client

[Richard 1234]

Hi

I do agree with this, but what excuses have you said when your asked in advanced to how long will the job take by the client

 

 

Just say it will be done in "a day" or 2 days whichever fits the job

[Hodge]

Just say it will be done in "a day" or 2 days whichever fits the job

 

 

Err, that's totally contradicting the point of the original post isn't it?

[Mountain man]

Err, that's totally contradicting the point of the original post isn't it?

 

Ha ha.

it is a tricky one though, you can't just say "it'll take as long as it takes"