arbogrunt
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ha ha, the title made me laugh...I can see where this thread is going!
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yes mate, the second, I can get a bit poetic after a few glasses of wine!
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LA's that refuse works antagonise people... everyone has to live with trees and refusing reasonable requests makes people resent they're arboreal guests! If the work is carried out by professionals, it shouldn't be a problem...what gets my goat is when they let any old Tom, Dick and Harry have a hack and then don't prosecute for appalling pruning....too many college boys and clipboards I'm afraid.....
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...and take a couple of dozen carved mushrooms and flog em for £20 a pop!
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Glyphosate-what you need to know
arbogrunt replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
'what you need to know'...is your going to have to go back and re-treat the stump 4 times...I'm on SBK and diesel...bring back Amcide! -
I think I got large mate
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pfanner's as modelled by the '...and Sons'!
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I got a couple of Pfanner ones from FR Jones, as they were on special offer. I've had my logo on the breast and company name printed on the back and they look good and are great to wear on a hot day. I wish I'd got a few more now...
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I've seen lots of Chalara in S.E. Essex...it seems to be spreading everywhere very vigorously...both in young and mature trees. As I understand it, it is spread in the leaf of the tree and it is ok to move timber/cord from site without spreading it (as lot as no leaf matter is present). Can anyone verify this?. Also, if burning is not a option, chipping and leaving the chips on site is surely the same as leaving brash piles?.
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lots of people desperately trying to get a job out there...or hanging on to a job that just doesn't pay the bills and looking for something else. We have 4 million people into the UK to settle in the last 10 years...and guess what...there's a shortage of jobs. To compound this, there is a 'benefits culture' of people who are happy to sit back and let other people work for them. In the effort to stop these people abusing the welfare system...we are stopping genuine people from receiving the help they need....what a sorry old mess!
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'Harald Winston Windsor' If he ever becomes King, I wonder what sort of country the UK will be?. I for one, hope he will see Britain as a great country, viewed by the rest of the world as a free, tolerant, self-standing Nation. Working with but independent of Europe and the USA, with the Royal Family still in place. British tradition at its best
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I've used one for years, great for work positioning, secondary anchor. the rope is 10mm Beal Antipodes...but a length of it and cut off to your required length...I had stop knots in each end and it got through my LOLER ok. Why pay £30 for 3m of static line?
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poor little thing...your beasting it mate!
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new web site , how to get to the top ?
arbogrunt replied to bythamboy's topic in Business Management
after a good bit of advice on here, I set up a google + account..its free and comes up above my website and Yell listing -
ha ha
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on the contrary...the 150T is a lovely little saw...but it's a pruning saw...it has no where near the power of a 200T or a 201T and was never intended as a replacement for these saws. I love mine, but when I pick up the 201 again it feels like a concrete block!
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...like a blind german, homosexual in a bratwurst factory....
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I think a lot of the problems we have pricing are self-inflicted. Undercutting in my area has got so extreme that many firms work uninsured and used unqualified staff who claim benefits as the norm. There will always be discerning customers who want quality work carried out by bona fide arborist companies, but 75% of them want a cheap price, no questions asked. Local authorities are just as bad, I know one which has contractors who don't even have their CS39 tickets!. All this just lowers standards and prices reflect that. All trades get undercut in a recession, but treework is very much open to it. Be thankful that we don't have to compete with some of our Eastern European guests like the building and agricultural sectors do!
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I don't think my haemorrhoids could take it Al!
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I opened up an HSBC business banking account this year and took out a business loan. The bank account is the worst I've ever had. Its almost impossible to get anything sorted out on the phone and my business bank manager gave me some really duff advice and has cancelled appointments several times. To top the list of complaints they've told me I can't have an overdraft!...I have since moved all my standing orders over to my current account, which is also HSBC which serves as an excellent business-use account. Utterly useless.
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my thoughts exactly Skyhuck...been doing trees for 20 years next year...now I think I need to diversify to survive...most of the nice little 'in and out' jobs are being done by jack of all trades around here...its hard to make up a days money if its not a full day job. Wracking my brain trying to think of what else I can do...
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'a miss is as good as a mile' 'if a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well' 'you couldn't hit a cows arse with a banjo' (when shooting ) 'If your brains were made of cotton wool, there wouldn't be enough to make a tampax for a budgie' 'fighting for peace is like f###### for virginity'...UN take note
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after a couple of poor turnover summers, I'm thinking of doing other work during the summer. We have started cutting and bagging firewood and doing some carvings (simple mushrooms and stuff), but what do other people do during the summer months?. Over the last 20 years its got harder and harder to specialize in just treework over the first 6 months of the year...what else do you guys do to keep things paid for during lean times?
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go for it mate!...just remember to limit yourself to jobs of your ability/logistical capability. Also, are you going to get insured?. I started 19 years ago, working for a firm mon to fri...then doing my own jobs on saturdays..and I haven't looked forward since!
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got a prob with mine...band keeps coming off and fouling on the chain rivets...so far I've change the whole side bit my bit...still doing it Grrrr!
