Lee Winger
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what no comments
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and i'd say it would cut down on time wasted, visiting customers who can't make there mind up if to really have the tree taken down or not , but they'll get a price anyway, wasting your precious time
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Laws like this would help weed out the cowboy element of the UK arb industry, this is the kind of thing the AA should be pushing for imo.. It would/should also stop colleges churning out arb workers like a conveyer system.. http://www.wyongsc.nsw.gov.au/development/dcps/dcp_14/dcp_14_02.html And imo it would make our proffesion look a tad more proffesional to the general public, rather than looking down on us as if we are only one step above a gardener, and how dare we charge such a amount for merely cutting down a tree.
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Good post Richard, networking imo is the only way forward
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You have a point Andy, I guess we are already networking..
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Fare wage for climbers?
Lee Winger replied to Jack-Arb aka Tiago Sinclair-Julio.'s topic in General chat
your title should say ''fare wage for all'' but I agree with what your saying , being a company owner I can tell you first hand, the money in this job simply isn't there. -
All i'm saying is networking just like construction firms do has got to be a good thing, and who wants to discuss contracts on an open forum , I don't, the private forum could be open to all arbtalk members? just out of view to guests
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Yes but strange things do happen , I mean who would have thought we'd both work with BigA... HAHAHA
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Not saying your wrong at all, but are you sure the clients you speak of didn't simply want certs/tickets relating to the work you do, did they really insist on nptc or where they just the certs the guys had. See i've worked all over the country for over 15 years and for all types of clients bluechip the lot, not once has anyone insisted we have nptc,..
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Think of mulch as a bowl of chicken broth given to an ill man,your not forcing the ill man to eat a 5 course rich meal. Better to do somthing rather than nothing
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Totaly wrong road imo, the tree needs all its stored energy fighting off the honey fungus, the last thing it needs is a reduction, if I were that concerened about faliure i'd fell it.
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thats the idea....
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Telhol if the soil is compacted the little feeder roots will never rejuvinate, bit of a catch 22, but carefully and sparcely is the key word here
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Notice the word carefully grasshopper, one hole per every 2-3 square feet will help the tree big time ie get some oraganic matter in the root zone and let the worms do the rest don't go taking to much notice of some of the wallys using an air-pick, I saw Bartletts in action at Capel one year, they called it decompaction, they decompacted the tree allright i'm suprised the tree didn't fall over lol..
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Tell you what Monkeyed i'll verticly mulch that tree on a Saturday for the cost of my deisel and the hire of a compressor , if its not too far from home, where is the tree? I fancy a little research! be handy for a few pics as well. PM me if your interested
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Very true Tony, I was thinking the same whilst writing the post, but didn't write it. Telhol could be right though, drought, ie back to soil compaction. I would bring in the soil-pick and verticly mulch the root zone very carefully. If the tree warrented the expenditure
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taking it further you could even send a new groundie off to another firm for a day or two to get better experience, ie a road shut down job Networking is endless
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yes.............................
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haha compared to a transit , telhol they can carry around 4-5 to on average they can carry more but thats all you'd get in a mog chipbox if your lucky, and pull 20ton,someday i'll buy a new or very late one, if the laws don't change
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it would only be as complex as you wanted to make it, splitting a job 50-50 between two firms using similer kit and the same amount of staff or loosing the job completely because your so idependant and not big enough to carry out the job, hiring a climber for x-amount, hiring out my tractor with grab with operator for a few days,passing on a job miles from home to a more local trusted contractor rather than let a client down, hiring in a team of planters from this site, bulk buying and saving a nice few quid on chain oil or something similer,using a consultant from here rather than any bod,and on and on
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Heres something to think about, how many times have you see groups/companys of construction workers working together on projects, i've seen it plenty of times.. I haven't see many tree firms pool resources
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until nptc send ME something in the post i'm not going to worry about it
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People with no quals imo have no place in this biz other than dragging brush,we keep a folder of photo copied certs, insurance, generic risk assesments in the truck at all times... As for training providers lower your fees!
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I'm not going to spill the beans about a big job i have just won and need say a guy with mog and crane or a couple of contract climbers for a week on an open forum.Thats why I suggested a private forum,you never know who the guests are who veiw this forum I would reccomend those who want to network put your name forward to enter the private forum, those don't want to network don't bother, i'm not proposing anything sneaky or underhand,ulitmatly its down to Steve
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nptc tickets are one thing no training/certs are another
