arbogrunt
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Minotaur hit the nail on the head rates wise..remember, work out how many hours you work a year, work out ALL your over heads, divide it by the number of hours you work a day, then add what you want to earn each day. At £80/day after tax, insurance, diesel, PPE, tools etc, you be better off being on the cards at KFC mate!
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I had the same prob with mine Huck, the blades in the chipper had to be spot on ALL the time. Your chute has to be perfectly smooth, any fault will cause blockages. I had a nice steel one in the end after struggling with ali ones for a few months. Nice to have a front mount tho, leaves room for a trailer and everyone just gets out of your way
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I had one on a front mount on my mog years ago. It was x5 gear up and fitted snugly between the bumper and the rad. I had a Schliessing 105ZX (chopped about a bit to take 7-8"). The PTO shaft had a sprocket welded on the end which drove the chipper sprocket with a double chain. The only issue I had was that I had to chain-lube the chain frequently, which I did. I only went through 2 in 4 years . The chipper was mounted directly onto the bumper and had the hydraulic tank removed (it was plumbed into the Mog hydraulics). Its was a nice set up, wish I had it now!
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if you've got 30, 31 and 38 (pre-requisites) and you've had 8 years experience, just download the schedule and go for the assessment mate. You may need one days training (bad habits and all that!) but that should be more than enough for someone who's been doing the biz for that long:thumbup1:
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deffo focus on the job. I've never had a fear of heights, it was conditioned out of my mind in my youth!
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'don't let someone build a business on your abilities.'...very true...as a freelancer myself, I find myself doing jobs and wishing I had'nt done jobs for this very reason. I've just about had enough of freelancing now, I'm going back to getting my own company up and running again. Partly because, people don't want to pay the going rate and partly because of a feeling of getting 'done over' for some people I work for. I've found myself working for people who know very, very little about what they are paying me to do and its getting difficult to stomach!
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Gibbons just given the best advice i've seen for a freelance climber..especially the bit about busy firms and people that don't know what they're doing!. Think carefully about who you work for and remember your day starts from when you leave home till when you get back...if your spending 2 hours a day driving to someones yard before you even start, you need to take time/fuel into account.
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I saw this building for the first time last weekend. It is very, very impressive!...we couldn't see the top of it because the cloudbase was so low...it looks like something out of a sci-fi movie...I want to go up it
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I don't know what these spikes are like, but years ago, I bought a pair of cheapo spikes for £75. The didn't fit and the pain I endured in them was unimaginable. I only wore them as a last resort and often shouted at the ground crew to hurry up on rigging jobs because they were killing me!. I then got myself a pair of Bashlin's, which I have worn for about 15 years and have only last week changed the pads on. They are light, comfortable and most importantly. they FIT!
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yup, thats what I said!
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wot!, husky Vs Stihl again!...I've had a 660 and a 395XP...both great saws. The 395 deffo has the edge on performance. I've found all 660's I've used struggle to oil a big bar.
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new for old or don't bother!.....also plenty of firms working around here with height restriction...this is landscapers insurance!. You deffo get what you pay for...
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just give it to me, I'm a good bloke!
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Got a call first thing this morning, a local firm wanted a climber for some storm damage. I had to tell them after the skinfull of ale I drank at Twickers yesterday, I was going nowhere!. I never do call outs.
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agreed, tough times for all of us. Some prices round here that make you eyes water and constantly having to justify my prices...I'm getting less than 50% of stuff I price up...competition is generally; unqualified, using doleys on the ground, no PPE and on landscapers insurance. Freelancing is no better....lots of young lads working 12 hour days for £30 a day less. Fight thru chaps...it can't last forever!
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I think a lot depends on who you work for and how you climb. If you work for a company that does everything the hard way (we all know em!) and you use un-ergonomic climbing style and don't rig...the odds are you be worn out by your mid thirties. I'm 48, been climbing for 18 years and still got plenty of climb left in me......but the rain wipes me out, in bed by nine every night this week!
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it should say 'pay peanuts...get monkeys'....there are plenty of people doing that around here...standard of treework is dropping year by year
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fill yer boots Geoff!
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£120 a day?...London?...please don't ask me to work for any of you boys up the smoke!
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right hand drive?...ugh, thats just Mog wrongness!
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Had a lad who used to climb for me who'd had the same experience. He'd spiked up a dodgy ash to knock off a limb prior to felling and it went over with him halfway up it (why they did just mewp it is anyones guess!). Took the corner off a roof and wrote off a pick up on the drive. He walked away with skinned thighs and bruises...very lucky. Sadly, the experience stayed with him and he started having nightmares...a year later, he got out of treework. He's now doing very well as a chippy in NZ.
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funnily enough, I've been using bio-chain oil for year. This week, I went back to mineral oil. I paid £45 for 25L of bog-standard Oregon instead of £102 for bio.
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got some truly horrific quotes for my Disco commercial after some mods (winch and bumper, 2 inch lift, rocksliders etc), so went for Adrian Flux...cheapest for me by a long chalk.
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I've never been able to footlock, I use a pantin or I grab a hand loop of rope and put my foot in it for short runs. Its one of those things your good at or your not!
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How safe are your feet? Chainsaw boot test
arbogrunt replied to Mick the Tree's topic in General chat
kevlar flip flops it is then!
