Dean Lofthouse
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Everything posted by Dean Lofthouse
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I think the little orange beacon sets it off nicely.
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As Lee says, salt works well but I used Glyphosate waterred down 50/50 and put in a little hand sprayer
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Spot on Ty I've just priced a take down for a friend at £700 covering my costs, a spare chain and a qualified second climber. He immediately said your too dear !! I said, no problem, turned and walked away, saying I'll see you later He was very bemused, I had worked it out exact, and couldn't budge so there was no point me asking what he had been quoted, simples Let someone else do it for peanuts and end up with knackered kit they cant afford to replace, not me I'm afraid
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which saw, the 660 or the 170
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It's not just your feet girls look at david, the span of your hands also equates to something big boy, need to catch me up a little though
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Thats something I would have a lifetime wish of doing but dont mind admitting I would have absolutely crapped myself
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I'm going to be moving it within the next six months so I'll take a photo of it being moved, that should do the trick I have no idea to be TBH I just didn't go to too much trouble in case they told me to take it down -
9" to 12" for me.. 9" is the span from the end of your little finger to the end of your thumb strtched out, so good as a guage when your cutting into sizes
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Its 10ft at the back and 14ft at the front to the tin work. Tom, I didn't do planning for mine, I never enquired, but I was of the understanding that a timber structure is not a permanent structure so didn't require planning, it's when you start adding steelwork planning comes in ??
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Mrs S-S-C can buy her logs elsewhere in that case
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I'll measure tomorrow and let you know, I know I can tip the back up inside and get the front forks on the tractor (midi tractor)full height
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I might have to get back to you on that one
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Thanks lads One big thing I did learn when putting up the barn is to ask what the maximum length of purlins / flooring joists are supplied as standard. I wanted some (for arguments sake) 10" x 3" for supporting the roof spanning between telegraph poles. They supply them as standard at 20' I needed 21' so had to have some specailly milled. Those "specailly" milled timbers cost me more than all the other materials put together. If I'd only sunk the poles in 1ft closer together Other side timber is 4x3" and this store is 30ft x 22ft
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You may need a long stand Nick
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Spot on
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Just wait till yours are 15 and 18, thats when your problems really kick off mate, it's a nightmare for me at the moment
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Who's that aimed at me :laugh1:
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Can we have a new rule that we can't talk kiddies programs or do goo goo goo gah gah gah stuff, this is an hairy arsed tree forum guys, you'd do well to remember that
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I use a block as a last resort, IMO it's far too slow. Chog onto flower bed, matress, tyres, brash matt anything I can. Chogged down onto a pristine bowling green lawn with a huge brash mat, after we tidied up there wasn't even a slight mark
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It about THIS big mate
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I overdid it yesterday, did a two day take down in one day, went to bed at 8:40 with two brufen bombs and rolled out of bed this morning at 5;30am very sore
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At the end of the day the customer should get other quotes, the problem is where we get to the elderly who are vunerable and can easily get confused. Its the vunerable that need protection Thick people can't be helped so if your thick enough to accept such a high quote then really there's no help
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I've started telling people I only do loads now, it's too much hassle doing bags
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It is an Acacia
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The three trees in question more or less could have been cut at the bottom and carried out on the shoulder in one peice, I'd have done it for £200 no problem, three £200 jobs in the day and your on a winner with an early finish. I'd have even ragged em over with a mini winch and got the roots out too for the same price. You do charge a lot you lot
