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Ty Korrigan

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  1. Cheers, I'll look at Milwaukee. Is this mustard? DeWALT DCG412M2 Angle Grinder 5035048390887 Ty
  2. Hello, Looking for recommendations for a grinder and spare batteries to tickle up the stumpy teeth in the field. Cheers. Ty
  3. Here: BBC News - Making maple syrup - the traditional way Ty Disgusting really:biggrin: Never mind all that halal meat you've been eating. Like the spice Saffron which is basically crocus sperm or eggs which are unborn embryos, now exposed the trade in tree blood! Ty
  4. Here is a common one for us. When we do a quote I always put in 'option' stump removal. Every so often a client doesn't take us up on it. (normally the ones who negotiate for every 'petite sous') They say "Oh I have a mate with a digger who can get it out for a beer"... Oh yeh, right! Later I get a call "How much to get rid of that stump?":laugh1: Their 'mate' has either left it in the front garden realising the local tip won't take stumps OR has had a go with his 1.5ton mini-digger on a 1m+ cedar and FAILED but ruined the garden around the stump. I'm not interested, partly out of spite and partly because I don't need the kind of work that causes headaches through another's false economy. Ty
  5. Electric conduits for the automatic gate opening system and perimeter electric fence for the guard dogs. No-one I repeat NO-ONE is ever knicking one of our saws:sneaky2: Ty
  6. Day 2. and 3. In the end 400tons of gravel went down as we had to scrape away a great deal of top soil which is very deep and rich in this field. We are sowing an annual wildflower meadow to make a real show for this summer as we have a great deal of passing traffic and that's a lot of potential clients. Le Jardinier Anglais is on the up and our new headquarters should reflect our quality to the world. Ty
  7. Hello, When a client asks me how much to chip a tree or hedge IF they cut it down I tell them the same price as if you had got me to do the whole job. Besides, I add, "just where are you going to put this hedge/tree in the mean time?" as I look around their tiny suburban garden. Far easier, safer and less stressful to chip material as it's cut. Otherwise it can be like playing 'pickup sticks' with your arse cheeks! Ty
  8. Difficult to charge out log splitting for more than bought logs. Grass mowing, not looked upon as a high value service but more specialist works such as recovery, winching or chipping could be charged out for more. Ty
  9. What I don't understand is, your from Suffolk right? So what's up with Norfolk? Ty:001_tt2:
  10. I try to charge out our new John Deere 1026 at 45euros inc vat per hour with a minimum forfeit of 90euros plus 'deplacement' (travel one way) However, I pay a shed load more in taxes over here. If your all day on the same site then you can always drop your fee. Some-times we drive 100km which requires the truck, trailer and tractor now that adds up to serious $$$ just to top a field or split a few logs! Ty
  11. Hello, I would say that is about right for local work. Ty
  12. So that is 43euros inc' vat which is about the minimum we send a micro tractor out at per hour... Ty
  13. Yup, you can cook a Quadchip sufficiently so that it cuts out automatically this way when chipping dry dusty conifer hedges... Ty
  14. Ca MARCHE! Despite the rain we have some 80tonnes of 0-31 stone laid over geotextile with the rest delivered tomorrow making it up to 200tonnes or more. Our new headquarters are road side and should be a very effective advert in itself once we have landscaped. Aside from our chips and wood I shall be planting a hornbeam hedge and several styles of garden to show potential clients as one day when I am too decrepit to climb I shall potter about with herbaceous perennials and garden design. Ty
  15. Oh, there are Brits out here who charge that and even less... They'll soon give up, once the machine does! Ty
  16. The Dooso is 150k euro plus vat and he changes it every 3000hrs. It's pissing down here today and the tyres are slipping in the clay but the work advances.
  17. Twin tyres, 500euros a pop! £30 an hour for a 13tonner is good. Trouble we have is that the self employed and small companies are taxed to high heaven here. I pay 90% of an employees wages again in 'national insurance' and 33% on profits. BLERK! Ty
  18. A colleague is installing a hard standing at our new premises over the next 2 days. The 360 is a 15ton so should make light work of the job. With the electric and water going in that's over 10k splashed out so no directors dividend this year...or the next either! Put things into perspective, this 360 goes out at 90euros plus vat per hour and the ensemble for 135euros plus vat. Damn productive this father and son outfit, it's the second time we have used them with great results. Ty
  19. We are going to re-visit shortly to see and perhaps low stake them. They may not require it and put out sufficient roots fast enough to never need staking...I hope. Ty
  20. Hello, Le Jardinier Anglais planted 8 Betula humilis to replace the 12 Lombardy poplars we felled with Pie Eater Pete of this parish whilst he was on a busmans holiday here. I had ground out the roots but in order to plant we needed a mini-digger to break through the remaining roots. These trees are one hell of a price as they where container grown in 60litre pots but the client is an appreciative Jersey trust fund manager and so we splashed out on the biggest and best specimens we could source. Ty https://www.facebook.com/pages/SARL-Le-Jardinier-Anglais-Soins-des-Arbres/584850744869016
  21. Thank you for the responses lads but what we need is a consensus of opinion here. Any other ideas? Cheers Ty
  22. Tosser tax! OMG, that's really hurting my sides, I'm giggling like a girlie... Tosser tax! Oh there I go again! I'm going to put that on one of my quotes, I've just got to do it. Plus Vat at 20% Plus Tosser tax at whatever % depending on how many "Just can you's" the client try's it on with. Mind you, I'm not sure we should be using this word outside of the members section! Ty
  23. Clients images, he insists they are pines and got shirty when I suggested they where perhaps not. He also thinks they are VERY old indeed... Whatever... I'm not sure I can be bothered even quoting for such a character if that is how he talks to me BEFORE a job! Anyway, any ideas on species and age out there? Cheers Ty
  24. They're not stumps yet Pete! Ho Ho Ho! Ty

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