Dean Lofthouse
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Everything posted by Dean Lofthouse
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It takes you so long ??
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It doesn't actually say in it Dave, I went to a camping shop near me and I liked the look of them. When I went up your end I called into a skiing shop in Kendal I think it was and they didn't have any whiterock in. I've been in several shops yet and found nothing to compare. They have a website but I can't find the same style of coat on it
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If you don't attend the day and do get a visit, you'll get a warning. If you do attend the day, you will still get a visit only this time they will say you have done the awareness day and you should know better and will get fined Tell them to go away in short jerky movements
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Your probably right Peter, what you may be able to do is dig a pit to start it off deep ??
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I'm of the opinion that for the majority of trees, pruning is best done when fully active then the wound compartments quicker
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I see what your saying Andy but as steve has pointed out, I stick the odd twenty or thirty quid on each job to make up. There are of course the odd big catastrophies such as an engine blowing etc. But the longer you do the calculation the better it will be. I've put two engines in my landy this year, I only accounted for one .
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Nothing will happen this time anyway, the show has been planned and budgeted on those figures.
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I have sat down and worked out costs as I do with everything. It's how a good business should be run. When you do your books at the end of the year is an ideal time. Basic stuuf, work out all your costs and divide by how many days you work, less income tax gives you what you earn per day. If you do it over two or three years, it gives you a more accurate figure and you can base your day rate on that. Lowering profit margins is out of the question if you have done the above, if you are over charging customers then yes, but your day rate should acurately reflect your overheads
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Got em watertight and slates back to just above, David, got to slate up to the ridge yet to finish but rain last couple of days has been horrendous
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"police emergency" upside down though and back to front
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just a weird thing that happened this year. In the wood I own is 300 mature trees, when we held the Climbing get together early this year, we climbed two large sycamores, using cambium savers ect. When the trees started to leaf it became obvious these two were well ahead of the rest and appeared greener and healthier. They came into full leaf much ealier than the rest and if you went uphill and view them they were much greener Just goes to show, trees love us
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Bear in mind we had just jumped out of our Mks and into TMs and it was 20 years ago when wagons could only be driven by real men, we still had Aec Matadors
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The complainant should have been fined for wasting time and making false allegations, that'd sort em out
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These were ours and they flew, they had a different engine to the 6x6. http://stroicar.com/eng/equip.php?ID=327 Didn't the 6x6 have a rediculously big engine with very little BHP
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Yes, I think attendance figure would be very much higher if it were free, it costs enough to get there with fuel and accomodation as it is.
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I'm buying another white rock, they are cracking jackets, very warm and totally waterproof, it's still going strong and still looks like new when washed
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I always tell my customers it's not the pruning you worry about, it's the amount you take off. You can prune a tree at any time of year if it is light pruning. Heavy pruning needs to be timed
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We used to think the TM was a flying machine, very fast and very powerful. So much so they kept getting written off by young squaddies. We had just taken delivery of them to replace the MK's though
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Looks like a bedford TM is it?
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I don,t think the mewp was big enough, could have done with one twice that size.
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We used to use a Ground anchor when I did heavy recovery which was basically a long metal plate with a load of holes in it which you drove spikes through. Found this which looks the dogs, you can fasten a tirfor to it and as you take up tension it buries itself to form the anchor http://www.oztion.com.au/buy/auction.aspx?itemid=2950590&d=&sort=0&pg=1&cat=145&view=List&f1=&f2=&type2=&type3=&type4=&type5=&s=&pcode=&dis=0&freepost=
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I'll camp if other do. What am I on about, I can walk home, it's only a few hundred yards I'll stay up late and get drunk round the camp fire then.
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They'd just go at it with a meat cleaver or hand axe and there'd be fingers and thumbs flying all over the place. Chap might not have got on with his wife and deliberately went whoops, sorry love
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Jeez Tony, no need to involve NATO mate, we're not that bothered
