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That's a bit harsh. We often comment on here with far less information.. Even if we were aware of the soil MPI and depth of the foundations we couldn't be 100% sure there would be no risk of heave. The soil is described as peaty so not clayey (although I think there are a few peaty soils that shrink), it is looks to be a modern house, the tree is not massive and looks to have been planted after the house was built.. With the caveat "if your not on a shrinkable clay," I think we can be pretty certain there is a low risk of heave after the removal of the tree... But even if there is, there is nothing sensible you can do to stop it happening if you remove the tree but fix any damage. So crack on.

Sounds like my life.... Tell me there is a small possibility where you get to a position where the business basically runs itself and I can just do the bits that I enjoy......

Is it really..? I don't see that.. IMO Most firms have to pay low wages because the market won't support higher rates. I believe this is due to many tree firms undervaluing the industry and being willing to work for low rates.. I admit to being guilty of this myself.. Last year I lost a big client (approx 25-30% of my work) and consequently needed to find a lot more private work.. When you have 10 guys expecting a salary you need to have work or let people go.. Letting people go is not a simple thing to do or something I ever want to do.. As an employer you care about your staff, you invest in them, they trust you and it is difficult and expensive to replace good ones.... IME the more staff you have the more stressful it becomes ... Maybe there is a size where you don't know the guys enough to give a toss about them and have contracts and a bank balance that means you never have to worry about having enough in the bank to pay the wage bill at the end of the month...

50:50 would be a very bad deal for you... We had this alot a while back with someone wanting to borrow a truck and then a chipper most weekends. In the end we went down the hire route. We will hire the kit to the guys at a market rate, ie equivalent to if they went to a hire shop.. Rarely happens now days..

I think you should stop and put back what you have removed asap. Any damage has been done you are only making it worse..

Has anyone used them for arb work.. I need a 3.5 ton tipper, cheap, tidy, ready to go and preferably yellow to be a back up truck/lighter duties.. It would not be a main truck as we are moving to 7.5 toners for the majority of our works. I have seen a few 2011 cage tippers that look to fit the bill around the £7K mark.. Anyone experiences, good or bad..

We split the wood into billets and cut them with a circular saw.. still slow... 1 employee will split and bag 5 or 6 bulk bags in a day..

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Cancelled, as in it's not happening, you will be able to go about your business as normal without 15,000 lycra clad cyclists closing your roads.. They are planning to do it next year so you should have plenty of time to plan for it this time.

You'll be pleased to hear velo south has been cancelled.... due to the weather... not the moaning locals...

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There are loads of companies that will give you a landline number you can divert to a landline. I have 3 local numbers with the area codes we work in they all direct to the mobile. The Pocket landline from EE costs me nothing due to an error when orange moved to EE. The other 2 are with Tamar and cost £15-£25 a month. https://www.tamartelecommunications.co.uk/

I'll wave as I ride past you miserable sod.. The ambulance to pick me up when I fall off again will be allowed on the closed roads.. Or the tax payer will pay for a helicopter..

I just "won" a 7.5 ton 2014 canter eco-hybrid, low mileage, 1 ton tail lift, off ebay for £16K including VAT...... Only to be told that they can't afford to sell it for that..... Really disappointed would have made a great arb truck. The Canters look like a great choice as arb trucks.. The 6.5 ton 4x4 looks pretty useful. I tried to buy one of them a year or so ago and lost that too..

I am sure there is plenty of work in the SE, if you are happy doing 5837 and mortgage surveys. I would call around architects and get friendly with all your local arbs firms.. Trouble might be having guaranteed work as surveys are always needed tommorow and remember to charge a decent rate.

Where are you based.. I am happy to pay employees in wood...

Sylvagen have just taken a few hundred tons from us. They took logs and chip, we obviously got a lower rate then if it had been chip, but It was less effort then chipping it on site. Yet to see the totals of be paid for it.. https://www.facebook.com/SylvagenLTD/

Council run tree gangs working on non council trees to make the council money should have a huge competitive advantage. Their advertising powers are going to dwarf all but the biggest tree firms and access to TO's would take the will they won't they out of applying for TPO works. Their potential access to a huge range of kit from the council fleet, access to other staff and teams, the ability to tag works onto other contracts and always having there own works as a back up also a massive advantage. Not to mention the back office support.. They also have a huge disadvantage, they are being run by council employees and are therefore restrained in many other ways..... Instinct tells me that the bureaucracy and lack of drive is going to make them less efficient then a commercial outfit so they will have to charge a decent rate. If that is the case then it's not so bad..

Eggs, you are often on here telling us how poor rates the rates of pay are employees and subbies get and they all need £xxx... Correct me if I am wrong but I don't believe you work full time in the tree industry.. It is low paid... I run 3 teams, I do most of the quoting and therefore probably do as many quotes as anyone.. I don't try to be the cheapest and we have kit and guys to make us pretty efficient.. I lose many of my jobs as: "we had a cheaper quote." The point is I have a pretty good idea what the domestic market will pay and in the East Midlands. Many firms work for £450-£550 for 3 guys truck and chipper. You cannot afford to pay the sort of rates you are talking about when you have to get lots of work.. A gardener doing an odd job who needs a top climber for the day might be able to afford top rates and maybe in different areas rates are higher, but in the East Midlands I can't.. If you can then let us all know how... £150 day rate equates to £33,000 a year.. £200 day rate is £44,000. The average UK salary is just over £27,000 look at the jobs on the list.. A vet only earns £38,000 and they were straight A students who spent 5 years at uni.. https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/worklife/careers/a33179/average-job-salaries-uk/ Like it or not arboriculture is an easy industry to get into, some do it as hobby at weekends.. others get into it as a lifestyle choice.. a fair few set up after doing something else with capital behind them, many are just poor business people... Maybe I am doing it wrong, I make a living but I would not advise anyone to get into it for the cash.

Appeal it.. Some of the pins inspectors are not anti reductions...

Not if they are sisters

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It is worth whatever someone is willing to pay and some people will pay, but not many. I would be happy with £50 if they came and took it away.. If you said £5 for a car load you could do OK. We have just "sold" several 100 tons of arb arisings and think we got £4 or £5 a ton.