Mike Hill
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Over here we have an internet site where people list a job they want doing and those contractors must pay to acess the site and the clients details. The customers who use the service are universally hunting the cheapest price.Should all the contractors still be to expensive they call reputable firms.If I get the feeling they are price shopping and beleive it or not I have had people answer the door,clipboard in hand and ask me " what company are you?" . I say since you have clearly advertised on "MIT anbud" I won't be the cheapest so won't waste any more of our time. Of course this leads to a 100% failure rate on these quotes but a 100% saving in time as I never got those jobs anyhow.
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When I started milling 21 years ago,we used to hammer in two lines of nails along two chalk lines and put a plank on top to push the mill along. thought I would just throw that out there
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Yes two. As well as an intensive care unit and a CT scanner.....
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Do you include accomadation and a vehicle? location plays a big part too.
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Milled up an Oak log that had been festering in the yard. A bit punky in places but not all bad.
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Get someone else to fell it.
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RAL 2003 is the orange
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Or ran out of Daddy's money. There seems to be alot of that on instagram
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Haha! The old "Special Jensen Bearings" I fell for that one 10 years ago. Why not pull the Rotor out and match the bearings then? They are common as fook bearings,the motor side are SNR and the infeed side SKF. If you pull them off you will likely bugger the bearing house so factor that in too. Did mine in January,remember to set your blade to anvil gap with a new never sharpened set of blades...
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Go and volunteer as an extra pair of hands on a tree crew for two weeks. That should teach you wether the job is for you or not.
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A Common Sense approach to Training?
Mike Hill replied to The avantgardener's topic in Training & education
Good idea. I had a bloke work for me,he had his "large tree felling ticket".Couldnt cut a straight gob,sharpen a saw or used wedges.When I asked how many large trees did you fell on your course? "Four" he replied. So I could had let him loose in old growth Sikta and if he got himself hurt or worse gotten off scott free. -
A Common Sense approach to Training?
Mike Hill replied to The avantgardener's topic in Training & education
How about no one gains a ticket before they demonstrate proficiency at production speed in a production situation. -
Still chest beating Andy... * clicks heals,doffs hat*
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"Triggered Andy" Job done : *strolls off whistling*
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Because you come on here beating your chest,telling half truths and lies. I have been in Norway 12 years,speak it fluently,know dozens of oil workers and have a family member that is a lawyer in NAV.
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You are telling lies You can't take cash for paternity leave You are telling yet more lies. Getting a Nog passport means giving up your other one. If speaking fluent Norsk was mandatory, half the oil workers would be gone. 400k is an average wage,many make more,many make less.
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Uk guys. Nogs dont have the will or base experiance. I tried for years. I have seen adverts in the paper offering 100k bounties for anyone to get them into the offshore sector. If you are not being taxed I Norway, it's no wonder they doubled your pay. You were half the cost of a local to begin with.?
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Or three times what a 19 year old English kid who is looking at for his first tree job. 5 second commute Bills paid Rent paid 6 weeks paid holiday 10,000kr travel bonus If you fired half the workshop rats in Stav,would your company pay the remaining guys twice as much?
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Margins are not too tight. I cannot attract decent staff to what amounts to a 440k nok package. It's not the money it's the quality or lack their of of staff.
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I think as always,the better staff are already occupied. I have struggled this year to find a helper,my turnover is about half of last years as a result.The audacity of some of the applicants is frankly staggering,I include a flat with bills included in the deal,one guy was willing to come over,maybe if I bought him a campervan for him to travel about in on his off days!
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I did quite a bit of "finger blasting" in my early teens. The results were never as spectacular as your film however.
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The realities of hand cutting
Mike Hill replied to webby1289's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I say go and do it! Buy a van and travel round various parts of the Country doing bits of work here and there on a self employed basis. The best fallers I have seen were in their 50s,slow but steady and every tree laid out perfectly or as perfectly as the terrain allowed. -
The realities of hand cutting
Mike Hill replied to webby1289's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Not many people possess enough grit to work on a bank like that. -
The realities of hand cutting
Mike Hill replied to webby1289's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Jesus wept. -
Background to the HSE decision on two rope working
Mike Hill replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Training & education
How much did you get paid for the demo?
