skyhuck

Reading this threads, it incredible how different peoples experiences are. I have very few problems getting paid, in fact I get people ring me asking for an invoice so they can pay me, as I tend to be a bit slow at sending them out. I can think of very few, if any circumstances where I would want payment up front. I would never pay a trades man up front for work he was doing for me and if I felt some one was not going to pay me I would just not work for them. I find in life that people tend to live up to your expectations, I trust my customers and treat them accordingly, there has to be trust other wise you could not do business, if I asked for money up front why should they then trust me to then do the work?? As for getting 50% up front, I don't understand that either, if you think they may not pay why do the work?? what if they don't pay the other 50%. I just trust people and they tend to live up to that trust, I think if you start treating people as though they are crooks they may just prove you right.

And me please!!!

Was it that bad!!!!!!!!

If you are the owner and user of the equipment, it just needs to have the safety features fitted when it was new. If it was going to be used by an employee you may need to improve the safety features. The only exception to this is chippers, the new H&S features brought in in 2000 were retrospective, meaning all chippers had to be altered to meet the new standards.

Its OK on the top of the branch Dean, as it can't be seen from the floor.

If you follow this up with the other vids, you discover the black guy was 58!!, still a lot younger than the guy with the beard. Did you notice the young lass nick's the old boys bag.

Asking experienced tree worker to retrain on basic courses that are designed for novices is an insulting disgrace!!!!! We need some properly recognized advanced refresher courses, if we are going to be expected to take refresher training.

Thats a Sach Dolmar 166, I think.

I was once working with a particularly stupid lad, I had brushed all the saw dust into a pile, he was shoveling it up and carrying it on the shovel about 10 feet to the wheel barrow, dropping bits all over the area I had cleaned. I sarcastically said " why don't you move the barrow a bit further away??................so he did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was flabbergasted!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WTF????????? I don't come on here to keep my thoughts to my self, what would be the point?? It would be very quiet in here if people did that If you did not want it discussed, it was a bit stupid starting a thread.

As soon as you post something on a forum you make it every ones business. Unless you have something to hide, whats the problem??????

WTF!! How???????????????????????

Round file is best. Best to use a guide until you have developed a good technique, IMO.

I would not want that even if it was free.

Are you just doing the aerial rescue course??

True, but with a decent sized gob there would have been no need for a dogstooth. Why over complicate things that can be so simple?? In 17 years, I've never had a barbers chair and almost never use a dogstooth.

:congrats:

It was almost as if they were trying to copy Vicky Pollard

I love "crispy" duck!!!!

:lol:

I'm sure the owners went quakers!!!

Oh! another! Cutting and chucking a sycamore, piece of cord wood 4"thick 3' long, with a slight curve. It landed on a slight hump and then proceeded to do a huge cartwheel and punched a small hole in a leaded church window. I bet I could have thrown then lump of wood another 1000 times and I could not have got it to flip the way it did.

Small Ash branch, caught by the wind flew 50yards and made a small hole in an asbestos shed roof. Down stairs single glazed window. Felled a dead Sycamore, dead wood flew over a nearby fence making a hole in a plastic patio table. First time I had a hiab , a strop snapped dropping large log braking a concrete flag. Backing up mog, groundie watching, he shouted woe 2inches to late, knocked over wall. A fence panel and 2 green house windows (not on the same job) Felling a tree under some phone line, it was a modern round black wire (very strong), so decided it would just flick the wire and be OK, but it was fastened to the barge boards and as the tree flicked the line it pulled the barge boards of the house. Luckily the wire did not break and my dad (who's a joiner) soon stuck it back.