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BARNSLEY BOB

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  1. no surprises there then... common sense and doing the right thing ??? not many votes in that.. my area is, has ,been labour labour,,so their comfort zone is fairly large....
  2. What prices are they asking for the quad model ????
  3. whats your local mainland port..or whats your local haulier price to sheffield s.yorks...
  4. Ebay ,,they are going for £799,,pick up from newcastle,,fresh from china,,so a secondhand type is at most half,,in"it,,
  5. what the.............please give me your suppliers number ..i"ll have 5000 gallons asap...
  6. some photos would be nice ,please,,,,costs,,returns,,methodology,, and ian...what part of the world are you in,fillout your avitar cheers bob...
  7. so.........nobodys got one then, or seen one or used one or botherd to post a reply...... cheers ..bob.............
  8. As seen on ebay, has anybody out there got one,used one, what are they like, worth £1000 or not..???
  9. come on ,,£195 and £245 for heavy in rotherham,,
  10. dont you think it will be a little unbalanced,full of chip and only a little kit in the cabinet,,?????
  11. nice mewp, a little close to the tree it does have 8.6m outreach and 20m high how much ??
  12. direction cuts,snapcuts,rope assisted,bowlines,saw attached to platform,not your belt,starting out side basket,how to recover when its all gone wrong,,,,what else is there.......... good luck.
  13. well theres peacon up at huddersfield at £380/day for a spider,what about mileage peacon ?? nationwide are cheap but sting you on the mobilization. how much demand is out there for a 19m boom on a tractor,30 mile radius of barnsley.??
  14. makes sense to me. 1.chap hired a little crapy mewp from a firm with crappy backup 2.got charged a crappy rate 3.anybody know of better machines to buy and or hire. 4.is this any clearer, easier to understand / comprehend.???
  15. finished three day groundie for a local chap.wanted me for my ticket as well as his climbing. he got a 15m basket from those geezers at eazzee hire,£480 for three days!! this morning 10.00am while he was manouvering, it stopped. 3.00pm finally told us that the fuses,of witch there was a packet of where the instruction book and lola cert was supposed to be,,are in the big control box behind green plastic covers/holders,, any how, two medium oaks,16.5m and sphincter exercise later. went up on first day but not my job or my trees,,so spincter relativly intact,, done couple of larger jobs using genie 45 and jlg 45 at full stretch ,,bit of sway but feels ok after a while. basket,, basket case more like.... but we were on the edge of a wood,houses,poor traction,soft ground, might have caused a few problems for genie,even with 4wd.. face have a 20m boom on a dumper chassis, chappie said he rang, hire, one man band,,tree surgery,,,,,up north,,,,,,,dial tone,,,,,,,,,,, still looking for something better,what else is out there ???? was a 19m on a 12t 360 carridge on ebay last wk,bit old and heavy,but sound idea??
  16. should have read the HSE web site,and done a lantra or ipaf mewp course. 60% of mewp accidents are caused by collisions with other veh traffic...
  17. woa,,hold on ,,me too !!!!!
  18. woa,,,woa,,,get cs 34,,if you aint even got a ticket,but wear ppe,whats the use eh,,,,wind blow are a nightmare,but satisfying,,,,see u in b&q for a new chain and oil............dont panic iam islamic........
  19. shurely the next step is....whats it worth for me to turn up with my splitter....by the hour.by the tonne.by the cube.....how big"s a cube , depends whos paying,
  20. try farm contracting,ploughing a field at 55p/l for red, at 1990 prices,,,

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