Mr Ed
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as seen on ebay! consider why they are selling it with only 89 hours on the clock? on the other hand, if it goes for under £5000, it'll be a good buy.
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For those posts the hammerite will be fine. I would'nt recommend painting your alloy boards though. Use some neat Road traffic film remover to bring them up good as new.
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rethinking this one, The business in question is utilities, there will always be powerline cutting. Even in recesion, this kind of work still needs doing, so not a bad business.
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The best thats easy to apply would be Jotun Marine paint. I have a supplier on my doorstep. But if you undercoat properly, even dulux gloss will be fine. I painted a chip truck with dulux garden gate green, and it looked great. Stay away from 2pack unless you know exactly what your doing. What colour do you want?
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What he said!
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Hammerite is for hobbyists. Waste of time for proffesional use. The key is your undercoat. Use a high zinc content industrial undercoat, use about 30% thinners, and give it 3 coats. it'll dry in about 1/2 hour. get this right, and you can even use dulux as a top coat. Hammerite dries brittle, so will always wear and peel. use a 4" foam roller to apply, and you'll get a decent finish
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Maybe you should have taken an axe to that knot?
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I dont care. I'm on a lifetime lease on my farm. I've made money on property, but I wished I'd kept it. I agree steve, the big crash is looming....
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Will, sorry if we seemed harsh. from what I've gathered, £59 a day in cornwall is'nt bad as for a yard, find a farmer to rent you an old barn if you can, try and keep it informal, offer him as much firewood as you can. Try and buy equipment outright, as finance payments are fine when your busy, but crap when your not. dont buy a heap of junk chipper or van though, as repairing stuff after a hard days climbing is also crap. Are you working on utilitys? if so, there are always employers looking to sub out line clearance - I ended up with 3 teams of subbies with their own equipment on rail and line clearance work. and did I say stay away from partnerships?
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Liam McKeown at Treevolution used to do very good chainsaw mechanics training. He did a course for me about 18 years ago, and he had all of us strip the saw to the crankcase. Not sure if he still does that though.
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Open fires - guaranteed to heat the sky and freeze your back Seriously, buy a wood burner, or even make one out of an old calor gas bottle, and vent it up the chimney...
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They may not get anywhere, but in the short term they take business away from me, which I resent. after all, if I've spent years of advertising, and building up a client base, why should they get it for nothing? I had one guy, came to me totally green. Taught him how to climbe, etc etc. 6 months later, he decides to go on his own, as I'm obviously making too much profit. 1st thing he does, call into all of my clients he knows of, offering his services - CHEAP. Well, one of the jobs he got was a large pine dismantle, so he phone s up the crane company, and gets a 20 tonne truck mount as its the cheapest. first pick of the day, he chains up the top of a tight forked pine on one side, and makes his cuts. the top came up, split on two, and dropped straight onto the front cab of the crane, doing about £10k worth of damage. turns out at this point he has no insurance either....
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Again, avoid partnerships like the plauge. I've rarely seen it work effectively, but I've seen many disasterous ones. A few questions - do you have any work of your own? if not, where will you get clients? do you plan on advertising for clients? do you have any equipment? if not, how will you get it? Your boss may not have picked up a saw for 10 years, but he obviously has a client base and pays you for your services - for wich he deserves a touch of respect. Not being down on you, but as an employer who's seen a few lads do this, I would'nt recommend it.
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http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/facebook-distracting-workers-from-underpaid%2c-soul%11destroying-tedium%2c-says-cbi-20070911395/
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Steve, its a 7.5 tonner Butch, I can only wish for the kind of booms you guys can get. or pay $70000 for a spiderlift
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Well, I ended up not buying that one, as the transfer box was on its way out. So I saw another pop up on truck trader- I was the first to see it, and told the guy I'd take it sight unseen - as he was only asking £1800!!!! I took the train down to Truro in cornwall to pick it up, and was delighted to see it. 80k from new, ex power co, 4x4, air lockers, 6 tonne winch, 42ft platform... Bargain! By the time I'd got down there, he'd had about 50 calls, and twigged that he had grossly underpriced it. he was a gent though and stuck to his deal.
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I've had £15 a cube for good elm. If it was closer I'd buy the lot. I'd do the job in exchange for the timber on those...
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If it aint broke, dont fix it.
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Reading something recently, I noticed that 'chainsaw trousers with all round protection is recommended for arborists' Does this mean that its not a requirement? And can someone remind me what type a, type c is again?
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Its not the crunch, I'm addicted to savoury. We go through stacks of ryvita and strong cheese in our house.
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Good nutrition advice Tim. I think I might try that regime. I dont eat much sweet stuff or hardly any fizzy pop, but I'm a sucker for crisps...
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Ive remounted and fitted loads of cranes. Cut and shortened lorry chassis and extended artics into rigids. I'd be surprised if a platform base gave us any difficulty. on a 7.5 tonner, I reckon I could still get a 8 - 10 cube chip box + a platform mounted behind the cab. We'll see...
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Yeah Pete, Phaser turbo, 110hp. 4x4 with air operated diffs too AND its the 7.5 tonner with air brakes. One of the reasons I'd consider running a chip box / platform combo is that any vehicle fitted with a platform is exempt from MOT/Test and tacho, and can legally run on red deisel.
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Sorry mate, I'm just quoting what was said. If you think your better than most climbers out there, fair enough. Unless you were dittoing something else, in which case you have my apologies.
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what do you think?
