Tom D
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if the tree was inspected then the liability probably falls on the professional indemnity cover of the inspector, if it wasn't inspected then the owner is liable..... you just need to find out who the owner is. Your insurer may well be able to follow this up for you, many home and motor policies have legal cover, you might as well get your moneys worth out of them.
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I made the decision last month to stop doing small orders. It has paid off big time. This morning I delivered 5cube to a guy who used to buy one bulk bag every 3 weeks or so, I have found that when you tell people that the minimum order is 3 cube (£160) or 5 cube (£240) they just order more, in fact I have been surprised how many have gone for the 5 cube load... Let someone else do all the half baggers.
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Mike hill.
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My best man had a job with the council for a while, he was a good employee, turned up early and worked hard all day, he'd leave when his work was finished. after a couple of weeks one of the old hands took him to one side and said" this is the council son, we dinnae work too hard here" he was expected to slow down as he was showing everyone else up. the other stories he tells about that place are truly shocking.
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Really? So if the PS has been such a fantastic and cushy number all these years, so easy to get in to, so little to do, such fantastic pay, brilliant benefits etc. why aren't you in it? Alec because some people don't want to work for the state, or anyone else for that matter.... I spoke to a guy the other day who had left the council tree team because it was so boring, a spec of rain and they sat in the van all day... short days and a load of colleagues who tried to do as little as possible. He was much happier working in the private sector.
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All the professions cost money to get in to, not just teaching....
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They ate through all 4 belts on my stump grinder a couple of years back and have had a go at the wiring on my wires car..
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You don't pay a percentage of the years that you work, you pay a percentage of your salary, i.e.. £30K salary, annual contribution of £900, so forgetting about interest and inflation you have paid in £40500 over your working life, you then live for another 20 years on say90% of final salary which is £27000 a year. That 27k over 20 years of retirement adds up to £540000!! so having paid in less than 50K you withdraw over half a million!! And who makes up the shortfall???? Me.
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agg221, I am basing my comments on knowing a lot of people having been in the business for a while, I know that for example that council gardeners, get paid more than the guys who do the exact same job, (strimming weeding etc) for private facilities management companies, I also know that council tree surgeons are better paid than many in the private sector, I am not talking about self employed guys here but paye employees. There will be exceptions that break the rule of course but in general being employed by the state is as good or better than the equivalent private sector job. I should add, I have never bought the daily mail in my life. the only "paper" I read is private eye.
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At the moment a council worker contributes around 3% of salary to their pension, so for 45 years they contribute just 3% and then if they live to be 85 they get 20 years at full pay in retirement!!! That is an amazing deal, I would bite the arm of any pension broker who offered me a deal like that. Even the new arrangement is several times more generous than anything available to the likes of me. I am paying over 10% of my salary into mine and won't see anything like the return that civil servants get. I wouldn't shoot the strikers, I'd just stop the state sponsored pension scheme and let them get a private pension like everyone else.
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unless they work for the state in which case they will be minted...
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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.
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winching on a bank, the choker man's job is pretty tough. Ivy isn't good though, only thing worse is dead ivy.
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How much did it go for if you don't mine me asking?
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Nice work Josh, nice to see a bit of out of the box thinking.
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well??? Personally I'd give him a knighthood..... But don't let my bigoted views influence your own...
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Congratulations mate, they don't half grow fast, mine is giving me backchat now after only 20 months. enjoy!
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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.
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I could do 500 bags,£45 each + delivery, 80%hardwood mix, stuff is partially seasoned, been sitting 18m - 2 years.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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I normally use a tape sling, can't remember why I didn't that day..
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good view that Tom, This was mine.. Tdtrees's Channel - YouTube
