Mesterh

You don't need to split the body to access the piston, just remove the cylinder.

If you dont mind me asking where did you buy the exhaust from and how much did it cost?

I have a cunning plan to evade that situation.

So who tuned it and what did they do exactly? It should rev higher and stronger. Well as far as I know anyway.

A hs85 with 40" blade is an excellent hedge cutter. It's cheap as in it needs next to bugger all maintenance and just keeps on running. Can't buy any new as they changed the model so don't bother, I would buy a used one.

You know what i think those are the ones!!!! Cheers for that.

Ill have to try and sort it tomorrow for you, sorry. Tbh what I do is use an impact wrench, havent fooked anything yet in 15 years and it sure saves a lot of messing about.

If thats what you love doing and you family do too then excellent. The more I see of life the less I want to spend it working. I dont particularly hate my job(well not all the time), although I do hate working as mentioned :laugh1:but I dont love it so there's no way I'm wasting my life on it. This week started badly but did get better, but did too much running about for my liking trying to fit jobs in to get them out of the way while I concentrated on the more important work, if that makes sense:confused1: Anyway we only have one life with no second chances so lets make sure we enjoy it while we can.

Ridiculous! Noo. That's something I would aspire to. Think about it, he's employing 8-12 men which is a good start especially as jobs are short ATM, the lads aren't being slaved out and working silly hours with hardly any break and he probably isn't running around like a blue arsed fly. He isn't trying to screw the last penny out of his customers. It's probably a better working environment for everyone. plus if he's happy with what he earns then excellent! Sounds fairly good to me tbh. I decided long ago that I'm not going to run myself in to the ground with work, to me it's no good spending your life working all the hours and trying to get others to do the same. As someone said each to their own and if it's what they love doing then brilliant, working hard is one thing and we all know if you are doing a good job then there is alot of hard work that goes into tree work but the days of me doing 16 hours are well and truly gone. besides I still wouldn't make that kind of money anyway.

Ok then what I want is...the toughness of the welders gloves, the quality of the gold leaf winter gloves but more importantly the cost of the protek's:thumbup: Surely that's not too much to ask for is it? Thanks for the info will have a check of them. I've bought loads of different types over the years and only one style suited, dunno where I got them from though:001_rolleyes: they were leather with a thinnish fleece lining and elasticated cuffs, oh and a nice snug fit.

You want to use it so its facing upwards. If you try to push it in too far it won't sit right. One of those tasks that is easier to show than explain! I'll try and star a diagram for you later.

One of those terminals would be quite. Hate having to dash to the bank through the week or early on a saturday:thumbdown: No bounced or 'delayed' in the post cheques either! Thing is though, it would last about 10 minutes before it got lost or stamped on. Soon we are going to be able to pay for items using a smartphone that has a chip in. Will be a great way to take payment from customers.

Since gloves seem to be the hot topic atm:001_smile: any recomendations for a decent ground glove that has some wear resistance ie doesn't rip the coating off after a days rigging and also some resistance to thorns etc. They don't need to be the most dexterious type just as long they don't come in one size fits all and also don't need to be super grippy.

I was just going to say that. I dont see the need for a mesh screen at all!

Cheers.

You need to write a book on it! No seriously though you do. I would hazard at a guess and be safe with a little wager that no one else on here can walk away with 3K profit each week from just a 3 man gang. You need to publish that little book of tricks!

Wow! To run a tree business with such small overheads is impressive! I am definitely going wrong somewhere.

So thats what Buzzsaw gets up to in his retirement! [ATTACH]68317[/ATTACH] For those who dont know he was in the running man.

I suppose it makes good business sense to follow up calls but there are 2 problems with that. 1. To me it is just hassling people, if the shoe was on the other foot I would be saying "If I wanted you to do the job I would have called you" 2. Its more work and Im just too lazy for that. Although I think I will try it on the next decent sized job I price just to see what happens.

Would I be way off the mark if I thought that sounded like a £1/2 million squid job!

Sounds good. Got a part number?

Has anyone tried those mesh goggles/glasses you can get? The mesh looks alot finer.

I assumed you didnt and hope you dont think otherwise. Its just a pet hate of mine, some see it as "just business" etc.

Cant see anything wrong in what you did. I would hope for the other guys sake that the customer hadnt given him the go ahead then called you by mistake, still not your problem though. I had a couple of jobs were when Ive got there and its already been done after agreeing my price and time to carry out the work.(only happened twice though IIRC on smallish jobs) 100% the customers fault, I couldnt even think about blaming the other contractor, unless, he started getting into the customer, finding out my price then undercutting,etc etc which IMO is very,very low.

Tbh the filters on all my Stihl saws allow fine dust through. Ive seen the ads on how good the huskies are when you try to smother them in sawdust but are they just as bad with fine dust like the stihls?