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skyhuck

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  1. Every one is different, I would never even consider a CS100, it would drive me nuts.
  2. I've done 100's of stumps with a 13hp machine, possibly 1000's. IMO, it no big deal, its hard work, but most tree work is, sure bigger machines are great when there is good access, but when there isn't you make do.
  3. WTF???? Presumably this is yours
  4. Definitely, don't encourage the muppets
  5. skyhuck

    Emigrating

    Well I love good old blighty!! As Oscar said "To be born an English man is to hold the winning ticket in the lottery of life" I live about a mile from where I was born. Been married 26 years, 4 great children. We live near both sets of parents, they were a great help baby siting and we are beginning to return the favour as they all get older. My mother fell down the stair last year breaking her neck, leaving her a quadriplegic, we visit her every week, just to help make her life bearable. I would hate to be the other end of the country, never mind another country. I like living in an area I know very well, seeing familiar faces every day. Each to their own and all that
  6. I'm pretty sure it's a U1750, I saw it once up at ACP.
  7. I give a price for the finished job, be very clear about what that will be and manage the clients expectations, I.E. "We will remove the tree to near ground level, removing all arising, leaving the site clean and tidy. There will some marks on the lawn, but not major damage, there will be no damage to walls, fences, etc" If upon completion they question the price I ask which part of the job has not been completed.
  8. Yes thats right they made him into a greedy, immoral scumbag
  9. If only this were true............as we would never bend a bar in the first place:001_rolleyes:
  10. Most mog's are registered as Agricultural "machines" rather than tractors. You are correct regarding the two tractor speeds. Before I bought my first mog (about 17 years ago) I rang the police and asked to speak to a traffic officer with good knowledge of Mway traffic law. A Sargent Forrest (yes I thought it was very fitting too ) rang me back. I asked him if an agg registered mog could go on the motorway, he looked in his books and told me that in order to go on the Mway the vehicle had to be over 50cc, be capable of doing more than 25mph on the flat under its own steam and be road worthy, i.e. comply with all the legal requirements for a road vehicles. I have done tens of thousands of miles on the Mway in I'm mogs and have been pulled while on the Mway twice, on one of those occasions I was prosecuted for being over weight, nothing was said about me being on the Mway in a mog.
  11. Do you have a reference for the legislation that states this?
  12. WOW!! I'm shocked!! Why you selling, I thought you loved her??
  13. So true, some councils really do try and extract the urine. A customer told me yesterday that her council and put "conditions" on the "approval" of her notice, she was told she had to plant a Walnut, I told he if they had not TPO'd the tree they had no such power, utter clowns!!!
  14. My understanding has aways been that 7500kg and anything thats towing is 10mph under the limit on all road over 30mph limit and more, plus not allowed in the third or more lane on the Mway.
  15. Unfortunately they have a great engine but the rest of the saw is utter garbage, mine separated in half and set on fire (50ft up a tree) they really are a disgrace IMHO. 201 all the way IMO.

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