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Thanks, they are going to have a shutdown.

Is there a safe working distance from mobile masts? Links if possible. I have a spinney to reduce/topp. Tried google, but lots of info from people wearing tinfoil hats living next to them....

What with the recent storm I had come up with a number of clients trying to claim on their insurance, what are the most difficult demands the insurance companies make. I have had. "I have a dangerous tree hanging over my house, can you come now? but I need 3 written quotes before you do any work" "The insurance will only pay to clear up the stuff on the ground. " Not the rest of the now dangerous tree" and I had some one cancel a quote this morning because: "The tree had fallen into the neighbours, and the insurance says the neighbour has to pay for the clean up.."

I did a little research, the line was supposed to be electrified last year, this involved closing several bridges for several months. The electrification was however cancelled..... It is however possibly on again sometime in the next 5 years. So my advice was to wait and hope that the line gets closed and do the works then Basically just kicked the can down the road...

It must make things easier for those putting out work to tender just to ask for arb approved especially if you don't have experienced staff to assess the tender. If a company has already been vetted then it is a much simpler process. They shouldn't need to do all the checks to ensure compliance as the as have done them.

I have filled in a number of tenders that require you to be ARB approved (even won at least one..) and I do get people mentioning it. I would never put down other local companies to a potential client but when clients say they are getting multiple quotes I always recommend they use an ARB approved company as I know they are going to be jumping through the same hoops as me so their day rate is more likely to be comparable...

I once went to look at a tree and the lady was complaining about the price. Her husband wasn't able to go due to poor health.. Turns out he had fallen out of the tree and injured himself.

If you are spending a lot on a truck (New or used) might be worth registering for vat. Worth looking into flat rate scheme.

This is ofted discussed. Imo Your shiny new truck will stay shiny and new for about 5 mins. Get a decent truck yes but nearly new..

I think that would be top end.. I put it on a couple of Facebook sites and had a lot if interest but few people willing to come up with a number.. We have a Vermeer bc1000xl to replace it.

Looking to sell our Timberwolf 250DH turbos, 10 inch 96hp, I can't remember the years but a few years old now.. One works fine, is in daily use and has 1482 hrs on the clock The other has 1933 hrs on the clock, engine was fine when we parked it up but but not been run for a few years. We have been using for parts, the chassis has some cracks and is missing the tow hitch a couple of tyres, a hydraulic motor, the spout and various other bits and pieces.. I have seen used ones advertised hugely varying prices in the last year, no idea if they sold at that price.. What do folk think they might be worth.

Being ARB approved is expensive and very stressful on assessment day and it doesn't garantee you win tenders.. The main reason we do it is that it ensures we are working to best practice although there are quite a few tenders that do require you being arb approved.

Pretty scary driving around when fully extended.. wobble around alot.. I would use more but transport cost often kills it.. I rekon one of these on a lowloader behind the tractor would work well.

I have not used anyone for tendering but I have looked into it a few times. I can't get my head around spending thousands on a gamble, when you can just get underpriced and I don't see how these experts are going to help on that score.. My latest unsuccessful bid came back today, after days of my time wasted. Winning bid £23,500. Mine £46,595.. At least I hadn't also wasted thousands on a consultant.. If you do try someone would be interested in the out come. You will need deep pockets. We used Paul Elcoat before we became ARB approved to bring us up to spec and he can help if he isn't already doing it for someone else.. [email protected] Carol Huslter at TEDs friend did the "getting tender ready" for the Arb association [email protected] Simon Cox has also been recommended to me but never actually got past a brief email conversation and his hourly rate.. [email protected]

£5000 buys a lot of gas. And nothing is free.. Your time, fuel, saws, log splitters, etc... If it is logs you are planning to burn and If you weren't burning them you could be selling them, so while you might not be paying for the logs each bag you burn is still lost income. The only way burning "waste wood" economically makes sense in my opinion is if you have a big biomass burner where the wood needs little processing.

When I was a student I worked as a street sweeper. Some of the guys on the teams used to chuck their lunch waste out the trucks.. So not sure making kids litter pick would help. Some people are just wnkwrs

Is it really worth doing? I love a log burner, but they are an expensive way to heat a room...

I have the TP link jobbies and it was working fine, but keeps not working, which is annoying... Spud yours sounds complicated... We are fibre to the box but copper to the house..

Not tree related but there is too much information on the whole internet, I don't know what to believe and I could do with unbiased simple advice.. Is it worth buying an after market wifi router? My wifi has been unreliable.. I have boosters but it has been crashing on some devices while being ok on others..? Will it be simple to install? Can I get one that I can set up restrictions, so I can boot the kids off when they are supposed to be revising or sleeping..

One of my lads uses samsung earbuds, they fit nice and have an ambient mode that is supposed to let you hear speech.

No animals.... While we could just get a contractor in, we requested funds thinking we might get a couple of hundred "to go towards a mower" the show committee who donated the cash were very generous and the money was donated so we could "buy" a mower, so feel our hands our bit tied... I had to accept the cheque and give a thank you speech, which was pretty embarrassing as all the other donations they had given out where for this or that worthy cause saving or making lives better. I got one of the biggest cheques to cut grass round our trees... A scythe mower and some folk with rakes might be best option..

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I help maintain a community orchard, it covers about 1.5 acres, we have just been donate a chunk of cash from our village show and have got about £1,300 to buy a mower. We did do it one year with a 53cm walk behind but it is a pretty big space and we want a wild flower meadow.. We have been getting a local farmer to mow for us, but this means it is dependant on their timings, this has limited our ability to cut at suitable times for the wild flowers and the grass it not collected... What do folk think would be most suitable. My avant is too small to run a flail but could probably tow a powered one and we might be able to borrow the cricket clubs tractor (they use a tow behind gang mower) and that is currently the way I am thinking.. We would have to rake up the cuttings? I know hand scythes would be cheapest but we are all volunteers and time limited.. and have been given cash for mower... Are the sickle bar/scythe mowers any good?

Does anyone know what the safe working distances are from one of these?

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