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My business partner has a pellet fed boiler and buys in pellets even though he has access to hundreds of tons of arb arisings.. He is pretty happy with it and I think the rhi make it well worth while.. It is a pain if something goes wrong.. You do need to have a wood burner for the atmosphere and great as a backup when your other system breaks down.. If I were self biulding and had space would go for a well insulated house with gshp and a woodburner for atmosphere and back up. My wife is always opening windows for fresh air and kids don't know how to shut doors so a passive house is never going to work..

According to google: Generally speaking, trespass to land is not a criminal offence unless some special statutory provision makes it so. Any damage done by a trespasser whiletrespassing may amount to the offence of criminal damage. ... Civil trespass is actionable in the court

That is the worst advice yet.. Assuming there was a quote and they did the job to spec pay up. If your disappointed in the number of logs most tree firms would dump you a load to leave a happy customer..

No I really couldn't.. The updaft meant I could not get down. It was really turbulent air. Staying in the lift was relatively safe but I had to leave the lift band to land and landing in turbulent air was scary.. plus I was on a hill in west Wales on my own and know one new where I was. Pretty foolish really.

Hang gliding in wales and being unable to get out of the sky.. Being rolled over and over in big waves in mexico..

It will do 0-60 in 3 seconds..

I class setting off an avalanche in New Zealand as one of my three near death experiences.. It is indelibly marked in my brain. I stepped into the top of a snow filled gulley only to see the whole lot slide off down the mountain..

Yes it is. Dave Coupe

How is he doing? Wish him well from me.

Need to see video of it working...

I have 4 guys doing one with Dart training in the East Midlands - Shardlow.. On the 13th December

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There are already electric busses, it can't be a stretch to tippers. https://www.smmt.co.uk/2018/06/uk-gets-europes-biggest-electric-bus-fleet/ I would have thought a tree surgery truck would be one of the most suitable to be battery powered. We generally don't do many miles, so range isn't so important as long as it can pull a load. Canter already do a 7.5 ton hybrid. Back to the original post the best vehicle for domestic tree surgery on a budget is a 3.5 ton tipper. Everything has compromises but the basic 2 or 3 man team with tipper/towed chipper combo is the the cheapest most efficient way to do tree works. There are better ways that cost more or cheaper ways that are less efficient but in my experience 3.5 tonner is best value. You do need to be able to drive it though..

Shows what a con kiln dried logs can be... Just leave them to dry for a year or 2..

Have you seen the other video at the same job site.. They have a bloody great MEWP onsite... Annoyingly this company have just taken over a contract for a housing corporation who we work for and if what I am told is correct they charge 3-4 times what I would... But the housing corporation have to use their approved landscape contractors for tree works..?

It's not that unfeasible, some councils use a mini competition for a block of works but you need to be one of their approved contractors.. Still has issues as I have discussed on here previously. Talking to more experienced bid writers some actually underprice the jobs that they think won't come up often like the large take-downs, so when the tender is being examined their overall rates look lower.. I am not sure I am up to the scheming required.. I am happy doing a good job for a fair price.. Why does it have to be so complicated....

The table was how many trees can a team of 3 do in a day. So each cell is the number of trees a team can do.. In reality on the ground it would probably be 2 teams but then the number of trees they would do would double... It is the way I try to work it out: 1 team could do x number of x size trees in a day.. I can then assign my day rates.. I just thought more guesstimates would result in a figure less likely to be wildly out..

Small 0-30cm DBH Med 30-60cm dbh Large 60cm +dbh Crown lift to 6m 20 15 10 Crown clean 12 6 4 Crown thin 10 5 3 Crown reduction 5 2.5 1 Fell to GL 5 2 0.75 Basal & Epicormic removal 60 40 20 Anyone willing to try... Assume you are doing TM..

That is what you get with tenders... No point complaining if you want in...

I think that would be a stretch. No £ figures are mentioned.. Just trying to get a range of people's views on how many trees a day a team of 3 can do.. Maybe didn't make that clear in op.. was called for dinner..

I hate pricing for tenders and historically have not done well: I figure using numerous people estimating we could get an average which is better than an individual guesstimate.. So estimate from the following the average be done in a day. This could then be used by individual companies to work out their rate. No point discussing the spec or complaining that it is impossible due to variation.. That is what you get... Small 0-30cm DBH Med 0-60cm dbh Large 60cm +dbh Crown lift to 6m Crown clean Crown thin Crown reduction Fell to GL Basal & Epicormic removal

Talking to VOSA is not going to necessarily help, as depending on who you talk to you will get a different answer... As to carrying waste.. we have not had the waste discussion on here for ages..

A guy local to me uses this old DAF apparently Ag registered. No O licence, tacho and can drive on a normal drivers licence apparently? Not sure if that is legal but if what bob says is true then it could be.. My quick research looks like if its a 4x4 you might be OK..

I don't think there are grey areas.. You can't use a personal use exemption if you are running a business so will need O licence and therefore regular checks But there are tacho and driver cpc exemptions if (like most tree surgeons) you are less than 100km from base and: used to carry materials, equipment or machinery for the driver’s use in the course of his work and when driving the vehicle is not the driver’s main activity