Mike Hill

2 hours ago, Steven P said:

 

Jees!! How on earth do you think we got Covid in the first place? Like the plague of 1665, it came over the Chanel on boats. Do keep up.

Imagine if covid was Muslim and was transfered via grants to Mosques!

WE ARE DOOMED.

Didn't reg come up with something like this?

I read that there will be 600,000 legal migrants into the UK this year.

Which is funny since the UK colonized half the globe and now the globe in colonizing the UK.

Add to that the 5000000 unemployed,its all going a bit pear shaped in Blighty it seems.

Can anyone remember the tree officer for Bromley in London who honestly looked like Swiss Toni? Hair all done up,shiney suit and leather soled shoes.

I remember him dashing into a Garden where we about to fell a tree screaming  "if you fell that I'll fine you". One of my groundies said  "Felling Trees is much like making love to a beautiful woman" the home owner just creased up.

Pulling out weeds and fertilising lawns is much like...

7 hours ago, Trailoftears said:

So most people on the street could apply herbicide accurately and safely,grow vegetables commercially and efficientally-and organically too plus maintain lawn/improve turf areas as well,design and plant out landscape schemes on a large scale etc?You must meet a lot of skilled people on the streets you walk thru tbh 🤔

Are you not confusing Agriculture and Horticulture?

You sound like you need a break,Tesco's might be interested in your skills? You could hover around the fruit and veg telling everyone how hard they are to grow.

6 minutes ago, JDon said:

Aye they don't do it justice.

 

Not the worst we have worked on though. Let's see some of those Norweigan sites. Be good to see. 

 

And tbh any slope is steep when you're carrying 30kg or more of gear. 😂

I don't have many photos if felling jobs here. The steep ones are when you have to leave high stumps to stop the logs free falling sideways.

18 minutes ago, JDon said:

Aye. Fulkes system I think for it. Not too clued up on anything like that. Learning as I go

 

 

Is this not steep enough for you @Mike Hill 😭😭😭😭

Maybe the photo dosnt do it justice? I don't know,it's hard to not sound like an arse but I wouldn't call it steep from the pictures.

My opinion of your sites doesn't matter anyhow,because I am not there.

Would the forestry blocks in your pictures be considered steep?

I do not understand the allure of those asthmatic air cooled shit boxes. They are the only wagons I will never help out if I see one broken down. My Father used to call them " Hitlers revenge on the world".

Bergen Norway.

The exchange rate is £62.94 pH because the kroner is low right now. Early last year it would have been about £85 sn hour gross.

If your keen and experienced send me your number and I will pass it on.

Mick covered it.

If you stopped 100 folk in the street,95 of them could do your job.Its common sense and low risk.

That's why the pay is low.

On the other end of the scale crew on a Red crab boat in the Arctic Ocean make about £5000 a week over a two month season. Common sense job but very high risk.

The latter option is available to you after just a one week course and a medical certificate. Time for a change mate?

7 minutes ago, Ledburyjosh said:

My 460 is set up for arb work, so has a full wrap handle which is staying on. This makes it wank for getting low felling cuts though ...

Put a longer bar on it.

There is a job going for a faller in a heli-logging crew over here at the moment. If anyone has the minerals and is looking to relocate. Good money but steeper than a witches face

6 hours ago, Jamie Jones said:

If you don't mind me asking and it might help you..
1, Now the UK is not in the EU would it not be easier recruiting locally?
2, For a UK person to move over and work in Germany, what would they have to do on the official paperwork side to legally be able to work for you?
3, € 3200 = £ 2734 - What would that work out at after all of the local taxation?

4, Would anyone wanting the job have to speak German? or does your team all speak English?
5, Out of interest why would a UK climber be of interest of a local?

Are you interested in the job?

Because motivated ,interest persons would be able to find the answers to your questions quite quickly. Besides,if the applicant was required to speak German,why would the advertisement be written in English?

16 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

I have a lot of experiance with Logosol, a Swedish Company that ships Logosol parts from Sweden. I have received any part I have requested within days shipped to Scotland from Sweden. This is the crux of the discussion, the availability of parts in Sweden and from my empirical POV its has been extremely easy to obtain Logosol parts from Sweden. 

 

Have you ordered either Logosol or Woodmizer parts from Sweden? No, you're just being your usual twatish self, White Knighting for another member on here who I believe I directed my initial comment to. Why you feel the need to defend someone on a subject you apparently have next to zero experience in is anyone's guess, my guess is because you're an argumentative twat.

Is your arse smarting? Because I have literally spanked it.

You should stick to the topics you are familiar with Andy.

18 minutes ago, doobin said:

Really? Why on earth not?

 There just aren't any shops . I tried last Christmas I ended up going right out in the sticks,there was a Husky pro shop that was geared towards electric stuff in one of the major shopping centers . 

So you have no experience of living in Sweden and have never lived there or visited Malmo.

Relying instead on what you read via sources that align with your view of the world.

Try buying a Husqvarna chainsaw in Stockholm,the capital city in the very country they are made in. You can't because nobody sells them. 

27 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

You find you can get Norwood parts easier in Sweden than Logosol that are actually Swedish? I find that very hard to believe. 

How long did you live in Sweden for Andy,did you do alot of milling when you were there?

I know Josh must have lived there for well over a decade,speaks the language has a son with a Swede in his second house,built a big shed with the timber produced from his own mill.Mills for other people too.

Where abouts did you live in Sweden,what was your favourite part of the country?

Bloke doesn't have a machine though does he?

The more you move stuff the less profit you make,blokey is there to cut rings and he can only use the gear onsite.

On 05/08/2023 at 12:03, JDon said:

This is the average size of timber I'm ringing up. 

Last photo is about a 10th of what he has in the yard now, and is getting more

Can you not just ring up on that stack?Then push the rounds off with the telehandler?

3 hours ago, Hank said:

Different industry here (timber frame carpentry) but one thing that has really stood out to me this year is the amount of ghosting going on from prospective clients. I've had plenty of people asking for quotes and drawings and such, which I usually just absorb into the final cost of the project, except this year all but one of those enquiries has ghosted me. Infuriating. 
 

Are tree companies experiencing anything similar? It's so rude!

This sort of thing has definitely been more prevalent this year. Especially on the bigger jobs.

2 hours ago, Joe Newton said:

Don't be such a gollywog

Speak for yourself you absolute minstrel. 

8 hours ago, john87 said:

That is because you are white..

 

Can you tell my skin colour from text?

Amazing.

18 hours ago, Johnsond said:

Laws and immigration policies are in this case 2 separate points. I’ll repeat that if the police, Hmrc and other agencies did the job they are supposed to do then things might be a bit better. We have all seen what happens when the police can not tackle issues for fear of the racism card being played in the likes of Rotherham and Blackpool etc etc. As an aside my eldest daughter whom was born in Finland and has a Finnish passport but lived here all her life was returning from SA only a week ago with some of her veterinary students and was grilled about her settled status, she’s white with a strong Northumbrian accent so not exactly a prime suspect. 

But if she has lived in the UK all her life ,why not get a UK passport?

Bloody foreigners all want it their own way.