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Arborist

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  1. You soon know when youve screwed yourself or got it right. If there was an easy way, maybe everone would be self employed or run a business. Normaly about 30mins in to the job you know you have under quoted.!!!
  2. Polaris and canam are the same company arnt they?
  3. It is a shame taking these trees down but if you don't do it someone else will get paid for the work!!
  4. I had a go on a canam 850 i think it was, ant legal on the motorway. Jesus it was fast, put the throttle right down quick and the front end comes up. I think there expensive, southern trailers sell them.
  5. How the hell did you get that done in 3 hours??
  6. Skyhuck, what I wrote wasan't a go at you for having a loan at all it was i reply to not having any ambition!! You have a nice set up, I'm looking to expand but steadily.
  7. I've got plenty of ambition!!!! I've gone from a s111 land rover that I had to mash up brash in the back and I still have and I bought a brand new transit tipper, 6in chipper and kitted myself out with a range of saws and equipment. And I haven't borrowed a penny!! :wave:
  8. Ive done the odd call out the latest Ive finished is 3.30am both times I charged far to less. Just wondering these things, how do you price for the work, whole job of just time spent per hour say? What sort of contract do you make with the client verbal / written before you start and singed? When pricing for this do you include not being able to not work the next day if you are all bo$£oxed? How do you stand on H+S with the working hours where you could have worked all day then the whole crew called out in the evening and work most of the night.
  9. Just been to see a farmer about tipping chip, logs and any brash and he wants £40 a load and to rent a peice of land £1000 a month.
  10. What machine do you want them for?
  11. Did all the wood stay on site?
  12. I think once the HSE and who ever else looked at the case, i was told that the welds had failed due to vibration fatigue but what you say marc is very true you just dont know whats been done with the machine.
  13. Where I hire from they used to hire out the Octopussy mewps, one day I was enquiring about buying one and they showed me one out the back where some guy was doing some guttering on his house and the welds on the extending boom broke and the basket dropped but was held by the hydraulic hoses. The guy wasn't hurt luckily but I wouldnt touch a cheep Italian mewp with a barge pole.
  14. Is that a Teupen mewp?
  15. And something to get to work on! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDWqJe1dCgY
  16. Soak the maul shaft or the wedge shaft?
  17. I'm lucky I live near Merrist Wood, end of last year I was trimming a hedge and the hedge cutter started smoking. (saying this I do look after it) Quick trip to the machinery dept, bit of grease , problem sorted and back to work.
  18. Or a fencing maul.
  19. There doesn't seem to be much of a root system under the road if any.
  20. Shouldnt 3.5t if your towing need a tacho? Ive seen plenty of transits with tachos in!
  21. Buzz, What do you term as dross?
  22. Don't think you can do much apart from cleaning them out every time you change the blades.
  23. Thanks I know the place.
  24. I remember you telling me now! Who do you think is likely to pull Traffic cops with voser no1 I guess, traffic police on Mway which I trie to keep off, What about the local plod?

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