Tom D
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My Dad used to carry a lorry wheel & tyre for inflating tractor tyres, You can blow up 2-4 tractor tyres at 20-30psi of one lorry tyre at 100psi. Maybe a small commercial would be big enough to blow that up a couple of times.
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Does it blow up off a compressor or off the exhaust?
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Nice work Josh..
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Is this knot looking good for my Hitchclimber?
Tom D replied to Charlie Fells's topic in Climbers talk
if a new cord isn't biting, take one leg off the crab, twist it a few times and clip it back on, can make all the difference. -
I'm still getting around 70%, but its 70% of not enough. Seem to be getting about 2 calls a week at the moment.
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With a second kid due any day now I'm tempted Mike! Great opportunity for someone there!
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How many 50x80cm log nets would you stack on a pallet? I need to get some pallets and want to know how many to buy.
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Yes, and to uncover the broken drain, which we have done, I now have to replace the pipe and back fill..
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This was a big leylandii windblown in the january storm, it lifted a massive 12" drain as it went, it was a former lade for a waterwheel. No one was bothered until it flooded with all the rain we have had recently. We are finishing the drain repair tomorrow.
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I did a demonstration of my firewood kit at a renewables open day at this farm recently, we also got a tour round the biomass boiler and dryer, it was very interesting. I think this is the future of your wood chip pile, a unit like this can dry the chip down to an acceptable level, even wet leylandii, it is then burned heating the local community. Read the article, the figures that this guy has saved are pretty incredible. over £30k just on grain drying! http://www.ringleader.co.uk/files/newsletters/woodendbiomassstudy.pdf
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How much Arb "waste" can you process in a day?
Tom D replied to benedmonds's topic in Firewood forum
Are they youngsters? My Dad has a saying. " one lad is worth a lad. Two lads are worth half a lad" Quite true a lot of the time. -
How much Arb "waste" can you process in a day?
Tom D replied to benedmonds's topic in Firewood forum
I used to leave one guy doing logs when I was busy with other stuff. (arbtalk) He used to average 8-10 cube a day sawing the cord and splitting with a pto splitter. Now we are still doing crappy arb waste but with 2-3 guys and a 30 ton billet splitter and a processor, we can do 20-50 cube a day depending on what sort of stuff we are dealing with. -
Tell them you'll do it for £50 because you love felling big trees. That way you'll get the job and you can see how long it takes so next time you'll know how much to charge. With big trees forget about the brash, its the timber that takes time. Crane and a couple of 20yd skips and do it in a day, or 5 days cunning it all up and taking it away in a transit. I did one in the snow a while back, only had the landy and trailer, it was 10 loads of timber, and the client kept the cord wood.
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:001_rolleyes:Yes!
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A woman Hit my wires freelander today whilst parking. Luckily my mother in law was in the car and saw what happened, she got out to get the woman's details and she hit it again! This is the space she was trying to get in to..... says it all really.. BTW she was going to the opticians:lol:
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Where did you get them? I like the look of those..
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I use em for cherry, I'd take them off you if I was nearer...
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Nothing wrong with getting WTC etc, we do, I still pay more tax than we get back which is how it should be... I would bet that most tree surgeons with kids will be eligible. Its not exactly a high paid job.
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I doubt a 25hp kubota would lift that back actor...
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Cherry Tree and Bush appear mostly dead
Tom D replied to Jonty's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Its blossom wilt on the cherry, They all have it round here, I am blaming the weather. -
TO's a muppet. We are lucky round here, the TO's are knowledgable and reasonable.
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Burkina Faso!!!! where ever that is... All I can say is if all the men there look like me they have the luckiest ladies on earth.
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Dowy?
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We did a job this week, felling an elm and a poplar, not small trees, they were in a walled garden with roads on 2 sides, the temporary access was a very steep mound of type 1. We took the transit and chipper, the landy towing the wee tractor and the valtra and big trailer. We brought the brash out with the wee tractor, up and down the type 1, and used it to move the timber nearer the walls so that the crane could reach over and lift it out. The whole job was so easy, and would have taken us 2 days with the transit / landy /trailer combo and 3-4 days with just the transit/chipper. Timber shifters are sooo good. I'd sell a kidney before I sold the tractor. Having said that I am getting a little out of shape now that we don't work as hard.
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tendering for local authority work..third party.
Tom D replied to Czlowiek Drzewo's topic in Business Management
I loose a lot of work that I quote for, if I didn't I would know that I was too cheap. If you win every job you are undercharging. I also loose a lot of jobs where I am subcontracting and the main contractors margin has pushed the price too high. BUT I would not have been quoting for that job anyway so whats the problem?
