Peter
-
Posts
9,849 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Classifieds
Tip Site Directory
Blogs
Articles
News
Arborist Reviews
Arbtalk Knot Guide
Gallery
Store
Freelancers directory
Everything posted by Peter
-
Thank you. I think we may have invented mental perpetual motion
-
-
I used to have a fabia sdi estate, brilliant car, 60mpg, cruise at 80 all day. Sold it to my dad, he gets 70mpg and cruises at 60 all day......
-
Ooh er! Boot cut trousers eh, were they hipsters too? Bet they're designer ripped by now...
-
If you're referring to the grease gun and the KY, I dont want to know any more details thanks. Did wonder what Ed was doing with those long gloves though...
-
I hope you felled the pear tree and cooked the partridge!
-
Ahh, thats the antidote to Jenzitis, a nasty complaint suffered by biomass producers. Symptoms include carjacks embedded in lorry windscreens, severe frustration, and sudden rage attacks. The only cure is a big yellow conehead, taken daily, until all symptoms disappear!
-
You cant have been blocking down much with that 14" bar! Besides, you're top roped off that hedge behind you! And is that a ladder I see? You didnt really do that tree at all did you? Your subbie came down to eat your butties, and you swung over to it from your hedge hopping!
-
Looks like a tracked chipper would have been useful in there. Did you get stuck at all?!
-
I dont think it will become an ACOP in its present form, but if they produce a guide to good rigging practice, as mentioned, that probably will.
-
Are you looking for employer's liability or just public liability? If you have anyone working with you, even if its just a mate for cash, you should have EL. The combined insurances will probably cost around £800. Bryant Kesek and the NFU would be my recommendation, as Trust have a minimum premium of £1200. Your other option would be to team up with a local company who have insurance, and a truck and chipper.
-
I'v been offered work for that day, and I cant really turn anything down at the mo. Selling my house is an expensive business! So I might make it up there later on depending when I get finished, or I might not. I'll be sorry to miss it mind!
-
Love the rigging, but what are you doing with that toy chainsaw? What you want there is a nice 044!
-
Dont know what your doing to get so few results, but here's 379 results for knot http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/search.php?searchid=779533
-
You're right there Andy, I always demand to be supplied with tubes of smarties (with all the blue ones taken out), and an endless supply of fresh latte. BTW, I'm sending you an invoice for two days last week, I didnt actually show up or do any work for you, but I need the money to fund my lavish hairdo, so i'm sure you'll understand and pay promtly!
-
240 bhp? It will almost be like a proper truck!
-
Ouch! The joys of mog ownership.
-
Dogs fine. He didnt get much walking on todays job, the tree death toll was pretty high!
-
Bob, would you let him use any of those nasty loud ported chainsaws?
-
Terms and conditions - pay rates in particular
Peter replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Business Management
We are all agog to learn what is so shocking/scandalous/embarrassing that you dont want to post it on an open forum! -
Climbing line for really short trees?
-
If he did what you asked pay, pay him for the work. If you werent totally satisfied use someone else next time. Contract climbers are going to face lots of competition in the near future as employees get laid off, so there is no need to put up with that kind of thing. Subbies who have been doing the job a while know that high standards are necessary to stay in work. Anyone who doesnt consistently perform well will find themselves out of work.
-
Thats why i didnt do it to spec! I would have been there all day snipping twigs. I'm not even sure its physically possible to reach all the branches at the necessary diameter. At least I could have left the silky on the ground and just taken up a pair of secateurs!
-
The ivy has been severed, they didnt want to pay for a full strip, but we may be back to do that at a later date.
-
I reckon the chip would have filled a medium sized wheelbarrow. The TO knocked the 20% on the app to 50cm. I re-interpreted that as reduce the crown by 50cm (ish) by dropcrotching longer cut sections back into the canopy. The tree was part of a bigger job, so the client wont be too bothered about the price
