Mike Hill

It depends. I worked my guts out for years in order to afford a house deposit,bought mine in 2015 on a single income. My parents raised me and I got a Casio G-shock watch and a bank check for $300 when I left home at 16. I have done some of the hardest jobs there are,pulled off some smart moves as well as plenty of stupid ones looking back. I would say I am slightly ahead of the average 45 year old but it's mainly due the the fact I am awesome. Also modest. Anyhoo ,property in Denmark is really expensive you also have to live there in order to buy it in general. Despite the rent being controlled it seems like half of København lives in Malmö and commutes in. If you live out in the sticks like in Ylland or Jutland where there are no jobs,your up against work from homes or houses bought as holiday premises. The only way the prices are going to come down is to increase supply.

Mine did creak a bit from the ball underneath.

That is one way to put it.

Not in the article I read. It was a Glock. So honestly shooting into kin headlights as car hurtles towards you and you calmly squease off a single shot? That to me is movie drills. I might be completely wrong and maybe they do that now but why? " OK chaps if you are in fear of your life always just fire one shot,got that lads,then pause to examine the effect and continue as needed"

Honestly this whole thing is fishy. Either the copper broke all his training drills and only fired a single shot.. The weapon jammed on the second round. Or it's an ND When you shoot through autoglass is really weird because your eye is pulled to the edge of the spiderweb effect. Side windows shatter unless they are mostly all the way up. So Mr Plod with a Glock and it's shit sights pulled off an SAS level kill while a car was hurtling towards him,a black target in a black car. I think he had been advised to own that shot.

There was a real paradox there. Sometimes the deer would end up inside the fence wounded from getting over it. So they had to be put down. They had removed and then replaced the top stand with barbed wire. It seemed the deer were more likely to be caught up in taught strands of normal wire than be hung up on barbed wire. Theory was the deer could see the barbed wire and were more likely to clear it. Bears didn't give a fig, best way to keep them out was to urinate on the fence line. Hippy chick's will gladly pee for Smokey.

Years ago I worked in North Western BC,the bosses wife ran an organic farm that always had Deer jumping the fence and raiding the veggies. The workers on the farm were generally hippy types and the idea was floated to raise enough crops outside the fence to keep the deer happy. Unfortunately what would have happened was that the deer population would have exploded and the workers would have spent more time raising crops outside the fence than taking care of the crops inside. Seems that the UK politicians could do with working on a farm for a while before they take on an immigration portfolio.

Yes that's it. You can take off the little box with the screw through it and check for voltage with the wires removed. Earth it and run 12v to it from battery and you should hear it click open. No click and the coil is not pulling the plunger open. I have replaced only one solenoid coil in 17 years . There will be another box that holds the circuit board that runs the stress control. There is a way to bypass the reset buttons by bridge wiring on the circuit board or really the contact strip.

Check the solenoid with a multimeter, make sure its working. You should have 12v there when it's running and nowt when it's stopped. If you have 12v there after the reset,and it's not turning the rollers the problem is right there. Then check for continuity in your green reset switch wires. After that I don't know. But is there a separate electric box outside the main speed switch unit?

I came to Norway from Alaska where a small chipper was 12". I had seen first hand how fast you could get through jobs with the right big kit. I bought a 7.5 tonner with a hiab and a mog straight off the bat. Then I bought a 10" tow behind and ran that for 6 years alongside a tracked machine.Almost soley operating in the domestic market. I used to hire in a Heizo when required but didn't realise he was also my biggest competitor in the local market. I only got the jobs he had priced too high but he still got a slice of the pie when I hired him in. Following a conversation with Tom D regarding a Valtra/ chipper combo where I said " I could do 30% of my work 50% faster" he advised on that reason alone he would get one. He also said " you will get work for it" something I never understood at the time. How that worked for me ,was looking at say a section fell and pricing in the tractor instead of a third day. I could get up it and smash it all down into an idiot pile,jump in the tractor ,chip it and load the wood out either into my trailer or into a skip which removed the need for expensive crane trucks. Plus buying that tractor saves me at least £50k per annum in wages and unbelievably has increased in value 25% in the 7 years I have owned it. If I had to put a gross value on the jobs that tractor had gained me I would put it at around £40k per annum. Not bad since the tractor chipper and crane cost £43k and all that got written off in 5 years.

No The sheer volume of brush a 12" can process is the key to it's productivity.Not it's ability to consume 12" logs Less snedding Less run time Fewer breakdowns because it's not build to weight restrictions.

I wonder how much of that 24 ton load is water? Beautiful looking logs!

A pair of pretty scrubby examples tbh. Have them out and go plant four saplings in the local woodland.

HGV licence would be a good start. But 7.5 tonner with trailer would also be attractive to an employer. CS30-31 means you can operate a chainsaw . Even with all the courses and tickets in the world your not worth much more than minimum wage when on the tools because the courses don't teach you what to do on the job.

Made a forrrrrrrtuuuuuunnnee felling Beetle kill Spruce in Alaska 20 years ago. Silver lining and all that boys!

Next to no one from NZ will be on here mate. Join the NZ Arborist FB page. Call every company in every town over say 50,000 people before you get to it and just ask. It's a small industry in a small country down there. Good luck.

Look into visa requirements for Canada,they are always looking for Arborists in Vancouver. America is a bit harder to get into work wise,not impossible if your potential employer is motivated.

Honestly the Nogs would happily give away any profits to the latest refugee cause after paying their spouses generous consultancy fees. Politicians are the same the world over.

It's Norway They are just better at everything naturally.

All the glaciers I have seen here are pretty far from the coast. My bet is that they will tap in down stream from a hydro electric dam since the infrastructure is there from the dam building ? True some of the water would originate from a glacier/ snow melt but probably 99% would be rainwater. I spoke to a client a few years back who mentioned this,it's not a new idea.

Take it on the chin mate.

I had a passer-by claim his car was struck by something when he passed us while chipping While he was showing me all the " damage" he produced a stone from his pocket claiming that and many just like it had struck his shite-box. Jog on Pal

It really dosnt matter since you took out insurance on the hire right? Anyhow its so far in the past ,that without evidence/ eyewitness testimony you hired a mewp that came back with £12500 worth of damage. It really is that simple.

Sounds like a good idea. They already pipe oil & gas. Electricity comes over via cable. The Fjords arn't freshwater though....

The damage is on you if you can't prove it's the truck that did it.I expect the hire fee for the mewp included insurance? Farmer has nothing to do with this.