John Shutler

i’ve got various bits and pieces on finance, none of them are secured against my house and if i can’t pay for them the finance company will take them off me and pay me the difference in value when they sell them. i tend not to stress out about it to much to be honest, i need the equipment for the work i want to carry out so i also need the finance

I used to get a lot of anxiety about running out of work, until i stopped and thought about how ridiculous that statement is. A business that’s been running over a decade does not just run out of work. 

5 hours ago, topchippyles said:

Spamming crappy vids again 

just remind me what it is you add to the forum? 

5 minutes ago, Ty Korrigan said:

Pornhub couch casting...

   

it it? 

7 minutes ago, Mike Hill said:

Pictures of the office girl please.

i’m with skyhuck on this one. there’s 3 of us but i also run two tractors, two diggers, a mog and a 16 inch chipper. we either go out as a 3 man team or on smaller days the guys go out as a two man team and i go subbing with one of the machines or do my consultancy work. we work onsite 4 days a week and keep fridays for a bit of stump grinding or jobs around the yard etc. we’ve got 80ks worth of work ahead of us

on the other hand my mate runs a company in the same area as me, 3 teams, a manager and two office girls. does he make much more money than me? probably not, but he’s certainly a lot more stressed 

i’ve been arb arrived for the last 8-9 years and would say it’s been worth it. it’s opened doors to some work that i wouldn’t have got otherwise

3 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

Nope, that isn't how it works. My van will do a ton, doesn't mean I can do it legally.

🙄 How what works?

I wasn’t debating the legality of a tractor doing 55k I was highlighting an issue relating to road users being unable to perceive speed properly and having a preconceived idea that all tractors are slow

As far as you know I could also be operating the tractors as Hgv’s, complying with all the relevant legislation etc but you’d much rather try to start an argument than consider that possibility 

17 minutes ago, difflock said:

Erm, your Honour, is that actually legal?

doesn’t matter wether it’s legal or not, the problem still exists 

19 minutes ago, Gray git said:

53 minutes ago, aspenarb said:

I always run the case drain back separately, being able to reverse the flail when its choked up is too valuable a feature to lose.
 
Bob

Very good points, going to have a good crawl around and look to see if it has a place ready to install a line but failing that a t off and change to free flow return might have to do for now

if be surprised if there wasn’t an extra port on the tank 

5 hours ago, MattyF said:

This is one of the reasons though I hate driving tractors on the roads is that it seem dick heads pulling out in front of you is the normal, tractors just seem to be a magnet for it... and over taking in stupid places or worse not overtaking when it’s it’s perfectly safe and not keeping the traffic moving so some retard 4 cars back decides he’s going to break a land speed record to get past almost having a head on... any way hope your not injured Jonny.

what people don’t realise is how quick tractors can actually go. both mine will do 55k and people pull out or try to cross into a junction in front of you they don’t realise your going nearly as quick as they are 

when i fitted the case drain pipe onto my jcb there was a spare port on the hydraulic tank that we added it to

kniw me i’d probably forget to change the valve over if it was t’d into an existing line 

I went through all this 6 or 7 years ago when I had a boxer skid steer. I ended up going for a non powered rotator in the end. Perfect for dragging brush behind the machine as you can concentrate on where you are going not what the brash is doing as it follows you. Easy enough to knock the grab round on a log to line it up when you wanted to pick something up and absolutely perfect for feeding a chipper as you'd track backwards towards the chipper, turn 90 degrees then drive it in forwards. I ended up getting a BMG style one fabricated and it was great

1 minute ago, Scottish Cleaning Service said:

Well you can always leave, everyone is entitled to their opinion. You are doing your tree service company no good acting like a child. If you don't like reading things then just ignore it. 😉

my concern is that you give false information to somebody who doesn’t know any better and the possible repercussions that may follow. Instead of offering advice on tree stability and the intricacies of trees in relation to construction (a subject that you clearly have a lack of knowledge on) maybe you should save your input until someone wants to know how to clean something, “write a book” or be a fireman

theres been many like you before and i’m pretty sure you won’t be the last. Enjoy it while it lasts 

1 hour ago, Scottish Cleaning Service said:

If the house was built in the 90s then they would have scraped the area for the founds. The height of the tree is the area of the roots around the trunk or as far out as the branches. Only blessing is that in a gale force wind the side without the house is the weakest. In the end it needs to be removed as soon as possible.

you do talk some absolute rubbish

I remember when this forum was populated by actual tree workers

apologies to all, I shouldn't feed the troll...

Hi

are you looking to sell as a job lot or would you let 6 go?

1 hour ago, SamanthaSunny said:

How so John ? You don’t know me and I doubt you have met many women like me, I have never had an easy life so I’m used to being shattered or bitterly cold and soaked through and I can handle highly stressful situations because I have looked after myself since I was seven years old. Are you a tree surgeon ?

yes i’m a tree surgeon, ive run my own business contracting for the last 13 years  and worked as a subcontract climber and for company’s for 7 years before that so i’m well versed on the industry 

your right, i know nothing of you, what you’ve been through or tolerated in your life. But i do know the tree industry

 sex and all the differences between men and women aside, coming into this industry over the age of 30 is hard. if you were a professional footballer, 35 is getting toward the end of your professional career and believe me being a tree surgeon especially a climber is a damn site harder than being a professional footballer with all the support, physical and monetary that comes with that profession 

essentially you’d join the industry as a apprentice, regardless of wether you’ve completed a 4 week multi ticket course or not.  you will cost money for whoever you work for initially and your pay will reflect that. it’ll take 3 years minimum to get upto a commercial speed but more likely 5, at which point you may well be over 40

if you’ve never had a particularly physical job or maintained a good level of fitness outside of your day job then dragging brash, moving timber or climbing round trees all day will be physically demanding. now add the endless rain we seem to get over winter  and something that looks great fun when your sat at a desk looking out the window suddenly isn’t quite how you imagined it would be 

I could go on and on

best of luck 

25 minutes ago, SamanthaSunny said:

I would choose a bad day as a tree surgeon any day rather than spend another day in my current role Khriss 🙂

still wearing those rose tinted glasses...

you might be in for a bit of a shock 

11 minutes ago, topchippyles said:

Get a grip man the guy is a sole trader working out of a van not a multi national with millions of pounds of machinery. 

🤣 multi national with millions of pounds worth of machinery? my reputation obviously precedes me

55 minutes ago, topchippyles said:

What you charge is your business and nothing to do with anyone else.Nothing wrong with £180 for 4 hrs work and your doing the correct thing by buying new equipment but only buy what your going to use not what you think you may use.

i’d be bust if i charged £180 for 4 hrs work 

26 minutes ago, monkeybusiness said:

This is Hardox too. I’ve got a ripper for cleaning as much as possible, just need some stumps to get stuck into now! Had a world of them whilst waiting for this and now nothing...

Where did you get it from?

3 minutes ago, Scottish Cleaning Service said:

Never knew such a thing existed. One would need to own a forest to make it pay. I wonder what it costs? not much change from £100k I imagine.

100k? my tractor and chipper setup is £120k and that’s a reasonably modest setup in comparison 

21 minutes ago, Khriss said:

For the romance, clean living and fat wage packet you fool. K

oh yeah, i forgot about all those perks ?

8 hours ago, Pathfinder said:

 

Would you suggest going straight for the degree after the Level 3 and then pushing into more of a management role and specialising in something other than the climbing and surgery aspect?  I'm not inflexible and while I do see myself pursuing something along those lines eventually, I was hoping to do a bit of the practical side for a few years prior to embarking down the degree route and into something more advanced within the industry.

 

In the next two years I have to undertake between 300 and 630 hours of work placement / professional development.  I was rather hoping by the end of that I would have some idea of whether pursuing the climber end of things would be for me.  Or maybe working towards a career as a ground worker could be a better choice.  Similarly would a career in Forestry be a better choice than pursuing Arb.  I'm open to all possibilities.  But until I have some experience I won't know what will work for me.

 

All being well my course ends in a couple of years and I will be doing something in the industry after that.  As long as what I do is challenging I will thrive.

why do you want to get into the tree industry?

15 minutes ago, Gray git said:

Is that the one advertised on eBay at moment?

Hope your Mrs is coping with everything and so are you as it's not just the patient who it affects.
My wife is due her last treatment of radiotherapy on Friday following surgery and chimo, it's felt like a long journey since Diogenes in march.

my misses had chemo, op and radio therapy two years ago, think it was 10 months start to finish. don’t think to much about it these days aprtf from when the yearly checkup comes through the door 

8 hours ago, renewablejohn said:

Thats what I thought but reality seems different.

well the reality for me was that it retained high residual value as the dealer gave me 4k less than i bought the machine for after 2 years chipping