skyhuck

Fell it.

I guess you had to be there.

You should not be expected to wait for your money, you are working for the tree Co owner, not the client. If the tree Co owner can't finance the job he should not take it on. I always pay staff at the end of the week and in 15 years of trading I have never asked lads to wait for their money.

The 020t was worse for this, on the 200t they started fitting a sort of "staple" that goes over the throttle and choke linkage, to hold them in place, check you have not lost that. It is possible to slightly increase the the amount of hook on the end off the link rod, but be careful as its easy to snap the end off.

I think more room is taken up by logs "bridging" and creating a gap under themselves, longer logs create bigger bridges, so they take up more space than smaller ones for the same volume of timber.

All of the above require you to load their trucks, using a load all or similar (14ft minimum reach) There is IMO a real gap in the market for someone who can collect using a wagon with a clam shell grab!!!

I have never asked my Stihl dealer for a part and not had it supplied.

Beech can be maintained at your required size with regular pruning. Thats why they are great for hedges, I've cut some that are decades old and the trunks are only 4" thick.

Thats it. Customer was delighted!!!

Less than an hours work, IMO, I would cut off the brash, my man would drag that and chip it while I rang up the timber. I would love more than £100+VAT, but round here there are people who would do it for the fire wood or even half the fire wood. If I asked for £200 the customer would either laugh or have a heart attack.

Where are you??

I think you need to find a good local tree firm, who can carry out a nice reduction and then maintain it every 3 years or so.

Fixed it for you

It were buggered.

I think its a special place for the aborigines, where spirits are thought to be in the plants and things, so great care is taken not to damage anything ( we "the whites" have done enough damage over the years, so I applaud their efforts)

If it was local I'd be thinking £100+VAT.

Really really sad.

I once worked with a very dim groundie. I had swept all the sawdust and crap into a pile, he was shoveling it into a wheelbarrow, but the barrow was about 10ft away from the pile of crap and he was dropping bits all over where I had already swept. I was irritated by this and sarcastically said "Why don't you move the barrow a bit further away!!" ........................he did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was speechless!!!

People seem to be very aggressive in there approach to getting paid, I find this very strange. I try to make friends with my customers, make them see me as a person with a family to feed and bills to pay. If someone threatened me I would start to dislike them and would put them at the very bottom of my list of people to pay. When you threaten people they will see you as a nasty person, they will run the work you did for them back through in their minds and start finding fault with it and reasons NOT to pay you. I did a job for a firm from London, they manage an apartment block up here, we took out a Pop for them. They owed me £1K. After 6 weeks form sending the invoice I rang to inquire about payment. He said he'd transfer the money before the end of the week. It did not happen, I rang a couple of time the following week, but he was not there. I rang again a week later and caught him in, I was friendly and polite and just said I had a VAT bill to pay and could really do with the brass, he transfered it that afternoon.

The ones for fencing are alloy or wooden. The rubber ones are for flagging or curbing, up here we have stone flags that are 6" thick and can weigh over 100KG a small rubber mallet would be useless. I would imagine that "Maul" and "Mallet" come from the same root wood, they do sound similar.

To bed the slabs.

Are they radio control and over 7M reach?????????????

Thats handy!!! I hate it when the trees are running round when your trying to fell them

Its cambium saver with a pulley.