Dean Lofthouse

Now everything has settled down and broke in it isn't half as bad as it was when new Stu. It still doesn't like deadwood though and the feed rollers constantly jam and you have to forward and backward the rollers to free them. Other than adding a spout extension I have no further moans about it, good solid well built machine compared to some. I'd buy another

Haha, mine was worse Liam, no silky cuts on the maple reductions mate

Speedlining one at a time Tim ??

Washing line tastic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mutilating twelve already mutilated field maple 50% reduction specified because of many moaning people

Mine just goes "ring ring" "ring ring"

What weight is the truck Simon

I'm just taking random photos of the dogs at the moment to get used to and experiment with the different "creative" zones on the camera, but I want to get into landscape and nature much like your photos

I'm just learning Sam, but I can still see you have a good eye

I had an issue with exhaust bolts coming loose, I just fitted a new gasket between muffler and head and it cured it. Only other issue was handle bolts coming loose

No "ish" es

I'm guessing you have done a bit of photography before

3.6 with driver

Haha, I got one of them in my workshop

Yes still got it but with no finance, so it can sit in the barn for as long as it likes now and use it as and when I like

It might be the same bloke doing both mate, stop one you stop both

The 30 is no good, it has not got the articulated boom.

Its also criminal damage and a conservation area

If I remember Rob, the payments were £600 per month and I charged £350 per day with operator. So in effect two hires a month paid for the machine and I got free use of it. The only way you get £350 a hire is to have a unique machine, the rqg18 is a good machine with good capabilities. In effect the hirer gets an operator that can do the job for them, all they needed to do was supply ground staff. You would need to be able to hire to other tree surgeons which is now much easier with such as Arbtalk. I reckon if I had the gahooners to go for a Teupen at £65K and pushed it I could get hires off local and not so local tree surgeons through networking such as this One thing I used to get which I didn't persue was gutter cleaning on factories at £400 per day. Factories normally have a clause on their insurances that require them to have their gutters cleaned once per year. The rqg18 did pay for itself but there was always that worry about having enough work in for it. In fact other tree surgeons hired it in and used it more than I did. But there are lots of uses for it which makes jobs much easier like ringing down large stems from a basket rather than off spikes, outer crown reductions, large wide conifer reductions, dead tree removals etc etc

I dont refuse to go I just tell them I'm not cheap. An asian gentlemen came over and asked us the other day if we were cheaper than "all the rest" I just told him no, we were quite expensive really

I want one of those Teupen Leo 23gt's but they are around the same price as the Mog, you would have to have some bookings to make one of them pay

Oh no.....it's the hand on hip gay pose

Its not their Sycamore though Mike nor their river I have emailed the fishing club to tell them the error of their ways, blood sports are under fire, this sort of thing doesn't help anyone

I just think its no different from sealed envelope bidding Simon, where you dont get a chance to explain yourself and you can usually tell they are not interested in anything else but price. On the same token, I am not purely money orientated, I also like to get some job satisfaction as well as pay my overheads

In the last week I have turned away two people who have phoned for a quote and expressed they are after the cheapest quote. Not because I dont want to be wasting my time, but because it goes against my own ethics. I dont know about everyone else but I never ever go with the cheapest quote A. Are they using cheap materials to get the quote down B. Do they have the right qualification or professionalism. c. If the job doesn't go right, will they cut corners or rush to make it pay One of the reasons I told them I wouldn't quote is that they wouldn't be there either to hear what they will be getting for their money If it's just a tree they want taking down for the cheapest price with no regard for how it's done, how clean the site will be left or how their flower beds will lokk after nor what happens to the waste then I'm not interested to be honest If I get three builders in to quote I want to hear what they have to say, I want to see how they present themselves and hear how they will carry out the job with what materials. I personally win a lot of jobs on how I carry out and explain the quote not on price. How many of you just go out and price a job to win it ??