Tom D
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After a recent accident I was very unimpressed with my local landrover dealer, they won't be seeing mine again. Those rear disc braked landys do eat pads though, especially if you're towing.
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why? you got an LDV?
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TBH I think it was lucky that the YP jobs were big ones, my average job is probably £750 three of them makes it seem even worse. The way I see it if you want to spend a set amount on advertising each year, there are other ways which give far more bang for your buck. I do find that internet generated leads are often from people getting more than one quote, I convert virtually 100% of the referrals into jobs so these are the best.
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This thread has just inspired me to check my quotes for the last 10 months, out of about 150 jobs 3 came from yellow pages, and about 20 from leaflets, the rest were split about 50/50 between the internet and referals from other clients, I also count prople who stop us while we are working as referals. The three yellow pages jobs made a total of £3150, thanks to two of the jobs being £1k plus, even so at a 20% profit margin thats £630, that doesn't buy much in the YP, I spent around £400 so I "made" about £200 form YP. I spent about £500 on my website and it will easily have brought in £30K over 10 months. It pays to do the maths.
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Here's a couple of pics of her in bloom, pretty impressive. the fruit is fairly small and sour MD its a crab type apple. Although I made some crab apple vodka this year from some wild trees down the road, its not bad.
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Nice buy Stevie, handy toy, I bet you wish you had it a few weeks ago. I wish mine was as high up as that, it'll be a good machine in the woods.
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Baby is doing well, I'll let you know work wise, I have won a small contract which we'll hope to do in a couple of weeks time, maybe 3 or 4 days work, I'll let you know.
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Some good responses on here, I dont mind too much if they ask politely, in fact I have won a few jobs from people who came over for a moan, but its the ones who come over on the attack and speak to you like you're an idiot that really wind me up. I told one particularly nasty old trout that "all the trees were coming down" "What do you mean all of them?" she said I just said "all of them" and gestured up the street which is tree lined. She stormed off practically foaming at the mouth, I was only crown lifting a beech which had she asked nicely I'd have happily told her.
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My stuff is all in the 20-25% range and I always light with a firelighter, no kindling, no paper. I just light a firelighter or use embers from the other fire and fill it up with logs, works 95% of the time, the 5% when it fails is when the logs get "hung up" and dont drop down. I reckon with decent wood on a stove you don't need kindling.
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I love mine, but TBH buying a harness is like buying clothes, what suits one person may not suit another. The TF is a light harness with relatively narrow leg loops and so is perhaps not the best for the larger climber, however for a tree whippet like me its great.
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My new site is already back on page 1 and bizarrely the old url (which redirects to the new one) is still top. Its important to have relevant information on your site in english, not just a big list; tree surgeon, pruning, dismantling, etc. I have a few lines at the bottom of each page but it needs to make sense. The google spiders/bots can distinguish between this and a big list spamming key words. Make sure your meta information is relevant. And most importantly submit your site to google. HERE Add your URL to Google My site TD Tree & Land Services | Tree Surgeons Edinburgh | Arboricultural Contracting and Consultancy
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The Mighty Oak V's The Beautiful beech
Tom D replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
There is some debate, but Beech is still considered a native in most books. I do love the new foliage on a beech, when it first comes out it looks like it would be great in a salad. I'm sure its rank however. -
Thats a crackinig oak Tommy, was that Arkleston I saw Rod? I quoted for that one:001_smile: Nice pics BTW, you've got some good kit.
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I had seen this before and assumed it to be genuine, clearly its not. To be fair, it is possible to do yourself a serious injury if your leg loops are too loose. I know someone who "circumsised" himself after falling a short distance, his rope pulled tight and the end of the "old chap" was in a leg loop. Thats got to sting a bit.
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Could you work later this week? My wife is due to give birth any day now so things are a bit up in the air, however I do have some jobs that we need to get through. Give us a ring:001_smile:
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Although its better to turn the set that will be under the most weight, which on my tractor would be the front set (when reversing up a hill) or using the loader. In the days before telehandlers you used to see a lot of tractors with front loaders and with the back tyres on backwards for reversing out of muck heaps. TBH I like the 400% forwards at the mo as I want maximum grip when digging the bucket into the logpile, however when towing off road the tractor is noticably worse going backwards so if I get a timber trailer I will turn the front tyres.
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The video, POV is bust so just a few mobile phone snippets. The first fell is from fridays job. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3I2lIw-GqQ]YouTube - winching, the brunt.wmv[/ame]
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I normally use a 3m comet wirecore, its soft and really nice, I do have a 7m one in hivee, but tbh unless the tree is huge I find it a pain. Its very rare I feel the need for a second anchor further away than 1.5m. Try a longer one... but I'll bet you don't like it.
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Its 4.2 ton mate, you can always double it up if necessary:001_smile:
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Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
Tom D replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
Pleurotus cornucopiae I think:001_smile:
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To be fair it took a few goes to get it back out of the river, you can see how churned up the bank is in the last pic, one of the problems of having a really short wheelbase, although its a lot steeper than it looks in the picture. Still it saved us loads of work.
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Got the waders out today, cut and chucking ash trees over a river and pan tile roof. There will be a short vid once it uploads.
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I actually prefer a mixture, that way if I am cooking i can pick out the softwoods which have a longer flame and get the hotplate going on the rayburn, if I am roasting I pick out a few hardwoods which build up agood bed of embers and really get the oven hot, I can get the oven on my rayburn pushing 350C which makes amazing authentic pizzas. We were burning pure beech for a while recently and I have to say it is very good, boiled the water in the system a couple of times.
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You and everyone else, Last I heard sitka thinnings were £24 a ton roadside!
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Congratulations, Hope all's well. My first was due on tuesday.... still waiting, for my wifes sake I hope she's not as big as yours!
