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Checked my cheque stubs. Put groundie through 30 and 31. including assesment was £575 - last month. I'd suggest looking at colliges a little further away if your local one is that much. The groundie needed all his own gear though. Hire stuff would have added a further £200 ish to the cost.
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I'd say anything with hydrolic feed and a proper chute. Problem seems to be that if you go below 5" they all have ground chutes. If you get a small one you will struggle on jobs where the wood is a waste of axe strength. Laylandii , willow , poplars etc. On those i throw anything that will fit through the chipper and mix the rest up with log pile. Other good wood trees like fruit you need the hopper width to actually manage to get anything in. Even on my 5 inch I struggle my arse off getting tangled fruit twigs into the hopper. Anything smaller than 5" would be difficult. Thats my opinion
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I have done a few fairly severe reductions. Never coppiced one though. If you can reduce them by leaving some good healthy growth then they dont turn into bog brushes. If you just chop them then you should go back later to remove some of the new growth. I have seen one that was severly hacked two years ago in a neighbours garden that I was working on. It was left with almost no growth and has stayed that way. It needs removing now. I think to be honest it depends on the variety of gum tree and the light conditiions it's in.
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In my previous company we had a demolitions company take us for just under £45K.. To be honest we tried all sorts as we knew he was reopening under a different name. There is a company based in London called Direct Collections. They are BiG and legal. Only ever work on accounts over about £5K and they are generally sucessfull if there are any assets left. If anyone needs their contact details PM me. There is a pretty big upfront fee and then they get 10 to 20% of all money collected. They are genuine though. We sent them onto 4 accounts and got paid full in one and part of another. Two we got no money but we managed to get the Transport police to prosicute one of them. He ended up with no fine but 200 hours community service.
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I only wish I was busy enough to turn the work away. I dont mind them when they are big and accesable like this job, but all to often they seem to have been flat topped about 20 times and are about 20 feet across the top. Customers always seem to want a neat hedge from them. I have turned 1 job down but did offer to remove and replant. Their expectations were nowhere near possible.
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Well I undersold the job by 5 man days but at least we all ended with a sence of humour. Thoroughly enjoyed the last day. Hedge was over 100 mtr long in all. At least I now know to aim 2 men 20 mtr a day (ish.) I know these are not interesting for most of you but I generally enjoyed the job. Previously cut well by someone but they left one side stumps 5 feet higher than the other side. I didn't correct it but told customer I would next time. Roof surfing was groundies idea so I strapped him on well and let him enjoy himself
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Another free prize draw; winner gives £50 to charity.
Mr. Bish replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
I'd love that knife. Please add me -
It claims that 99% of vehicles can safely run on this. http://www.drivewithwaterfuel.com/?hop=muscleblog Makes me wonder why there is no government funding into this research...... Thats because they truly care more for the money than the enviroment. I guess if they take out fule duty, they will need to find it somewhere else but personally I'd prefer it that way.
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I have a mate that is constantly experementing with fuel. He is running a P reg L200 on 100% veggi oil but is trying to find a way to make it smell less and cheaper still. His latest plan (Having failed to convert heating oil coz I wouldn't let him pump mine out) is water assisted power. He has baught a hydrogen power cell on E-Bay that extracts the hydrogen from water and stuffs it into the engine somehow to lighten the quantity of chip fat he uses :-) I saw it in his garage on test and it looks pretty dangerous if yoou ask me. Hope he is sucessfull tho. The only negatyive he has found from using 100% chip fat (Summer only) is that the car stinks and it can be a beast to start when cold. In the winter he treats it to some real deisel but I dont know the mix he uses. Just found a link. It probably couldnt power the big engines we use but it's interesting. http://www.run-a-car-on-water.com/
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The cheapskate is probably getting someone in to fell it but doesn't want to pay them to take the wood away.
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All sold. the link goes nowhere anymore :-(
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If you mean the 125 then £8,650 inc. VAT
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Baught my first one about a month ago. Painfull on the wallet but it makes life considerably more reliable than hireing one for any job over a trailer. Timberwolf 125 - It has the same size feed hole as the 150 but a less powerfull petrol engine instead of derv. Costs about £4K less new . You can get a new one for the same price as a decent secondhand 150. Good secondhand 125's seem pretty few and far between tho.
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I have a big SILKY SUGOI. A bit unweildy in tight conifers but the ivy cutting lip at the end makes a great hook for reaching the cut brash instead of leaning right out over the edge of the cypress hedges. To be honest I probably use it as a hook at least as much as I use it for sawing. Been using it solidly for about 8 months and it's still pretty sharp. The only down side is that the sheath fills up with sawdust and junk fast. The hole for lettsing the bits fall out the bottom is too small. What this causes is the blade to not sit down far enough. Then when you grab it you have to be very carefull not to grab the teeth. Used up several stitches and plasters because of this. I am thinking about cutting the tip off the sheath to help with this problem. Apart from that the saw itself is awsome.
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I'm impressed with your work :-) Also impressed with the tree owners to get the job done instead of removing it just because it doesn't look the way they would expect it to look.
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That picture is great. I would love it in the garden. Shame it went and I can't believe you made so much saw dust!
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Railway sleeper?
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I would like to get a quote right occasionally. So if there was a workshop that stopped me looking at a big hedge.... then thinking I would have it sorted out in 2 days when it actually takes a week... Well that would be usefull. Also identification biased stuff may be usefull. ie. Trees, insects, pests, fungus, infections etc.
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I hold a stick out at arms length. Walk backwards. If I walk into something then I goto the pub.
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I need sum new boots whats everyone eles wearing??
Mr. Bish replied to Tree cutter Stu's topic in General chat
stein... I love them, they are loke big soft slippers. I baught them from jonesy too, he recommended them and I am very happy. I have some Le chamois <---- for non chain work and they are even better. -
Thats exactly why B & Q need to stop selling the toys that they loosly call chainsaws :-)
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I think that you have it spot on there crispy. Down side is that the quote left this afternoon. It would have been nice to include the pamphlit along with the quote. I am pretty sure you are right about these holes. My site is only about 50 miles (Straight line) from Milton Keynes. Having looked at the picture of that nasty wasp.... I dont want to mess with her! It seems that there is no evidence that the moth causes detremental damage to the trees tho. Am I missing something?
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Wowwww. I just looke up the goat moth - I saw one last week I think, inside a rotting hazel. I don't think it's those as the trees are not rotting. Being Pops if they were rotting at the base I would definately suggest removal. Cant find anything really on the stag horn beetle.
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Interesting. The bore holes are upto 10mm diamiter. That seems rather large for woodlice to be honest. How would you suggest I investigate further? what am I looking for? and if it is beetle infestation, is there a cure? The only investigating I have done so far is pulling some loose bark off and it was crawling with woodlice.
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I have a big job to quote. Poplars, lots of them and some are upwind of residential area. My problem is.... I don't know what negative effects woodlice can have on established poplars. I don't want to cause the land owner undue concern, however if they are likely to make the base rotton I will need to address the problem. approx 150 trees in all and my guess is that 100 are effected by woodlice at the base. There are on average only 10 to 20 bore holes per effected tree. The only info I can get from the web seems to be that they only eat bark. What do you guys know about them or what advise can you give me?
