Mike Hill
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Seems steep. I could do that job in under 8 hours with a couple of numpties ,two 30 yard skips and a 80 tonn hiab. For £15k you could probably get those trees underslung from a Chinook and buttoned off into the English Channel
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One job I was about £25k in the red from hire expenses, I told the crane hire and transport place who the customer was beforehand so they could see they were solid and that their bill would likely be over due before they would be paid. They were fine with it. If I had to pay that £25k out before the saws were started the job never would have gotten done. From a hand held drill to a 200ton crane or 500 tonn crane on a ferry I have never been asked for a deposit.
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I disagree It sounds to be like you get knocked back quite a bit,hence this thread
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You don't need to be good at detection, just good enough at the job to be able to drop people at your discretion.
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I charge for quotes outside of my desired work radius,this would be refunded upon billing for the job if done. No one has yet taken me up on the offer,so if works quite well for me. For some commercial clients I state that the minimum charge for working say 30 miles away will be £500,plus the job cost on top.These firms have huge budgets and lets face it,if you want to get ahead its not done in this game working for Mrs Miggins. If I had my doubts about wether or not someone was going to pay or cancel,I simply wouldnt waste my time communicating with them.
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In my experience someone who wants something in advance for services yet to be rendered ,has an unrealistic opinion of their own abilities. I have never taken a deposit for machine hire,honestly if a contract climber wanted money up front that would be a red flag larger than the one on the top of the Chinese Embassy.
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No entirely sure,I think the black bit is 8cm . 10mm between each ring? The vital zone on that deer target is 30cm across.
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Yes 100m First time out with that Rifle and just some random old reloads
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That's not me shooting BTW, there was a film of them shooting feral goats with an Oerlikon but it got taken down or disappeared. Tonight I tried my new old barrel on my Krag Jørgensen from 1897. Shoots really good .
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The trigger bar on an open bolt gun would have been quite a bit shorter than a closed bolt gun because it releases the bolt into battery and not simply the striker. It's been years since I have opened one up and then it was trying to get it to fire attached to an air compressor.The seals in the actuator were buggered and we filled it with O ring grease to get it to seal. Sometimes I really miss New Zealand. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VMljA1wm0FY&pp=ygUYT2VybGlrb24gZ3VuIG5ldyB6ZWFsYW5k
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I'd say it would have just been the aircraft guns.
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Yup they are 1919s. I can't tell for sure what's going on in the back where the spade grips/ solenoid/ air actuator should be. A buggered shroud or barrel is a hallmark of a crash but those shrouds do look like water jackets and some were water cooled but obviously not on aircraft. I will send the pictures to a guy who will know for sure. He is in another timezone so might be 12 hours or so Round in the chamber without a primer strike is weird for a open bolt gun but who knows?
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If they are aircraft guns,one will feed from the right,the other from the left. 1919s and M2s eject vertically. You don't wear out barrels fast in a slipstream,plus they fire from an open bolt,plenty of cooling at 250 mph I am very familiar with 1919s and M2s.Some more pictures would have been cool.
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That round will be phucked. What makes you believe they are Brownings? It's weird that the barrel protrudes from the trunnion in the picture showing the headstamp.The bolt with the feed pawls I am not familiar with, the receiver is missing but the shrouds make it sound like it was wing mounted. I agree that Spits and Hurricanes had Brownings in shrouds.
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I know it's a pretty gapping repair since the studs fell out. However I have planned alot of work on the chipper,alas the Norwegian Jensen dealer doesn't give a toss about replying to emails it seems.
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Lower feed roller bearing came off. Welded it back on.
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Here is the rubb. He dosn't feel that you are doing an acceptable job and you dont have the details to prove otherwise.As written you have not finnished the job,he is under no obligation to pay you. How much are you standing to loose and how much more work do you have on the books? For what its worth,on jobs with multiple phases I stipulate progress payments,the next phase is not started untill the last phase is paid for. This is for jobs in the tens of thousands of pounds though,they are not every day fare for me. -
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I am a Jenson fan. Good solid reliable chippers made from real steel with over sized wear parts.
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Scots pine is durable if its heart wood.
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When I dug up my lawn I discovered an ancient road beneath. I asphalted the whole thing rapidly before the authorities discovered it,its heating to see inscets warming themselves up on the tarmac,its like a sunbed for creepy crawlies.
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Thing is,people could actually do something about the migrant problem but they can't be arsed. If half a million people protested parliament whilst half a million picketed the beaches then the message would get through. That's just one out of 67 people with the front to do something. Democracy works both ways,the power still lies with the people if they want to use it.
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With so many Brits dreaming of immigrating,why would you bother staying? I lived in the UK for five years,none of my Kiwi/ Aussie/ Saffie mates are still there now and alot of their mates left. The UK is buggered for the most part. You won't get rid of the endemic problems you already have,especially since the government delights in importing more.
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I am surprised no one caught a ricochet in that incident.Good that the nonce is dead.
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Those bombs were fused at the tail because the nose ,well actually the whole casing was drop forged in order to be armour piercing projectile. Christ only knows how deep into the mud that thing was. There is actually the arse section of a " Tall Boy" in a clients garden over here,you can see where the nuts have been forced into the plate when it went off,the bombers couldn't fly back to the UK with that bomb on board so they had to drop them in order to make it home. The crater is about 2km from her place,the plate might have landed there or someone might have found it. The Richard Montgomery had some of her cargo offloaded after she ran aground,maybe they don't know how much or what was taken off though? The former luftwaffe airfield on Herdla still has the demo charges buried in the runway because its a bird sanctuary now. Strange but true.
