benedmonds
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I am not sure I have ever said I would charge out a freelance climber for £90 a day? There is however no reason why you might expect to pay an average £90 a man for team of three; the climber could be on £130, the rescue climber on £85 and the groundie on £55.. I rarely use freelancers at the moment. As I have also mentioned in other posts many "freelance" guys would be classed as employed by the powers that be. I therefore employ guys full time with holiday pay, training etc... I admit this alters the way a company operates because my employees all expect to be paid at the end of each month and therefore they need to be bringing in the work. This can lead to devaluing the business as when work is short you will "buy" work, or price jobs very keenly when work is short. You need to, to cover wages. This is not a long term sustainable option but necessary to a certain extent and hopefully being able to do a higher volume of work when the diary is busy makes up for the lean months...
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Whatever the market can support. I pay freelance climbers £100-£130 a day. 8.00 till 4.30..
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Not if they charge £250 a day...
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220 days includes holiday. Equipment and training £1000 per year, everyone pays tax. A freelance tree climber is never going to earn the same as a barrister, judge or dentist. You are overvaluing the industry, it's not rocket science... It takes little training and little equipment..
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That is a ridiculous figure.. £250 a day 220 work days a year would be £55K a year. A decent climber has training that can be obtained over several weeks, a few years experience and a couple of grand of equipment..
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Well we picked up our new to us hiab.. I have yet to see it working but already on the look out for a grab any recommendations...? quite a few new ones with a rotator on ebay.
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Would a PTO chipper realistically fit on a landy?
benedmonds replied to GTS's topic in Large equipment
It can cart more in the trailer then it could in the back.. One of the downsides would be that both chipper and truck are out of action if one is broken... You could have a demountable chipper.. Our TW 250 needs some work on the trailer.. I thought about mounting it on an old tracked dumper to turn it into a tracked chipper, but this could work.. -
Saw this on ebay thought some may be interested... Convert an disco or range rover into a pickup.. Black TD5 | LONGRANGER 4×4 Land rover TD5 Discovery 2 Pickup truck complete fiberglass kit project | eBay
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This is one of the additional costs that you have to take into account with PAYE staff and why wages have to be so much lower then self-employed day rates. Unfortunately some employees don't realise this.. The other issue is that many employers don't realise that their "subbies" should actually be classed as employees and could be liable to pay sick. I can imagine the scenario of an employer happily paying a higher rate to some one thinking they are a subby. They injure themselves and take their employer to a tribunal to be awarded sick pay, holiday pay, redundancy pay and the employer would also have to pay NI contributions etc.. Take care as an employer as this could easily cripple a small business IMO..
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Would a PTO chipper realistically fit on a landy?
benedmonds replied to GTS's topic in Large equipment
Everything is a compromise.. It would be better on some jobs worse on others.. -
Would a PTO chipper realistically fit on a landy?
benedmonds replied to GTS's topic in Large equipment
I've been thinking of doing it for years... -
Would a PTO chipper realistically fit on a landy?
benedmonds replied to GTS's topic in Large equipment
If you could spin the chipper and chip into a trailer it would be a pretty versatile bit of kit. Many off road jobs you leave the chip so space not an issue in those cases. If you towed a 3.5 ton tipping trailer you could actually legally carry much more then a standard LR110 TW150 combo.. the main issue as I see it is the hopper height. I have never noticed that you can feed that chipper from the side... that might work. Has anyone used it? -
Except that as discussed in many threads regular employment will normally mean that those " subbies " are in fact employees. employers thinking they are fine could be liable to pay sick pay and if taken to an employment tribunal could be stuck with a big bill.
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I'd be interested, do you recall if it was sharp before you got the file stuck in it?
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I am not sure... 420 I think.
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I hope your right as I have just "won" one..
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I am sure dean at bandit will have something.. He lent us a couple for a week and are so far happy with the 2450 xp. It is only 44hp but otherwise fulfils your criteria. http://banditchippers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2450-flyer.pdf
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any one have any experience with them? if it is piped for grab would it be delicate enough to grab brash? Feed chipper? i know it is not a forestry crane and would mostly be used for lifting logs etc.. but moving brash to chipper would be useful. Mounted on a tractor
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Not sure what is unladen was but we took ours (crewcab) to the weigh bridge full of chip and came in at 6650kgs.. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/arb-trucks/29792-iveco-6-5-a-3.html
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I don't see a crown reduction being viable.. I am not a fan of cable bracing except to catch suspect limbs if they were to fail. In this case the whole tree would fail and be hung up over the house, hanging on the cable... Not sure I would want to sort out that mess!
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Don't know why it was small?
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Asked to look a beech today and my first thought was that half was dead... On closer inspection turns out it is two trees one coming into leaf later.. What would others recommend. The two trees have not grafted well above ground and failure of the non leafed tree would be pretty catastrophic..
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It's nothing to do with the percentages.... http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/business-management/84816-subcontracting-same-company.html
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I wouldn't normally post such a boring video... Not really for other arbs any way. It helps when explaining to clients what a grinder does. Our dilemma if you can call it that is that the HB20 is so good there was no point getting a slightly bigger machine.. But the BIG grinders are expensive.. Dean at global brought us two machines to try, left them with us for a week and only took one home.. Works great as fits nicely on trailer with HB20!
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We had a couple of grand paid into our bank account a few months ago. Couldn't work out who it was from.. after some detective work i figured out it was from a firm i had done a small survey for. I have to admit to being tempted not to mention it! Turns out they had used another contractor called canopy.. Take care when paying with bacs...
