Tom D

Sorry but that is rubbish, in like for like situations council workers are almost always paid more than their private sector equivalent, private sector hospital cleaners are paid less than council employed cleaners as are bin men, gardeners, tree surgeons and any other trade. Its is in the white collar jobs where the council pay falls behind the private sector. Plus they get shorter working weeks, longer holidays, and even under the proposed scheme a far better pension than most private sector workers could dream of.

winching on a bank, the choker man's job is pretty tough. Ivy isn't good though, only thing worse is dead ivy.

How much did it go for if you don't mine me asking?

Nice work Josh, nice to see a bit of out of the box thinking.

well??? Personally I'd give him a knighthood..... But don't let my bigoted views influence your own...

Congratulations mate, they don't half grow fast, mine is giving me backchat now after only 20 months. enjoy!

It varies from area to area, many of the modern PFI schools will have a facilities management company who will organise all their work from central heating repairs to winter gritting, some schools will use whoever they want, the head will decide. these are rare these days, most will be under the LA's control and so that is where you should start.

I could do 500 bags,£45 each + delivery, 80%hardwood mix, stuff is partially seasoned, been sitting 18m - 2 years.

I saw the other land thread and noticed a few people complaining about the heaters.... landy heaters can blow hot air but may need adjusting to do so.. When I bought my old land rover the guy told me the heater didn't work, but as I had stripped it right down to re-furb it I had the heater off any way. I put it all back together and it did work but was only luke warm.... Which it appears most land rover heaters are right??? Well try this: open the bonnet and have someone operate the hot / cold lever in the cab while you watch the levers move on top of the heater unit. Make a note of the max cold and max hot positions on the heater unit, then with the cab lever at max hot check the lever on the unit, there will most likely be some extra travel, this is where the hot air is!, re-adjust the linkage so that max hot in the cab gives max hot on the heater, this is a bit fiddly but worth the effort. you now should be getting proper hot air.

Get one, but remember to get the best you can and either read some of the landy mags and lok at the buyers guides or take a seasoned land nut with you when you look at it. I bought a brand new one (08) and it has now done 75K trouble free miles, it tows a heavy trailer every day and goes off road too. great truck.

Its shocking how expensive insurance is for youngsters these days, I believe that going on your parents insurance is illegal too, I don't know what to suggest.... maybe an advanced driving course or fitting a speed limiter?

I normally use a tape sling, can't remember why I didn't that day..

good view that Tom, This was mine.. Tdtrees's Channel - YouTube

If you are powering a crane and towing with a landy don't waste money on a power pack, you will be able to build it onto the pto of the landy.

Yes, would you like one?

I had to dig this pic out for a magazine artichoke and couldn't remember if I'd ever posted it on here. It was made from a single piece of oak, carefully felled to preserve the branches which form the legs....

Always go for wool over synthetic fibres, in this job they will stink after a day and after a week you can't go anywhere in public. Tbh I wear cotton next to my skin T shirts etc, and change them daily, I have some technical layers but they need washing so often that you'd need 5 of them and they aren't cheap. cotton shirt with a wool layer over is the way to go IMO.

I have worked for nothing, only on a couple of trial days with my first tree job, from then on I was on a whopping £8k a year!

I'll just keep on putting in red like everyone else....

Then its up to you to make something happen, you make your own luck in life. no one else will do it for you:001_smile:

I'm currently wearing this: Arktis Swat Shirt - Country Covers It has been reliable so far, the outer material is pretty tough despite feeling a little thin, not torn it yet, the wool liner doesn't build up smells like a synthetic / technical fleece. Its windproof and you can undo zips under each arm (zips downwards) allowing the breeze in when you get too hot while climbing. Well pleased with it. you get what you pay for IME.

As an employer why would you want to pay over the odds, paying staff too much makes you more expensive to the customer, which means you win fewer jobs, leading to cost cutting and staff redundancies. Welcome to the real world! There's a thread on here with a guy offering his services for free just to get experience.... thats my kind of employee. No one does an arb degree to get rich, you do law or accountancy for that.

with all the thefts that get reported on here I wondered what the statistics were for different areas, so I looked up my local police website and checked out my district.... not much happens round here so the figures are 135 recorded crimes this year, 65 of which have been solved. Of those 65 were thefts 35 of which were solved. Glasgow north was shows over 1600 thefts by comparison. so whats it like round your way?

I have iMovies on my macpro it is great, far better than windows moviemaker. you probably already have it, of could get it from the app store.

height or bulk? Highest I've been is 180 foot. that was a fir, I'd love to do a hardwood that big.