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  1. Ty Korrigan
    And that mix he is using, it sticks like sh#t to a blanket! Ty
  2. Ty Korrigan
    I can get a throwline into a busy canopy alright, it's getting it to drop down again which is the hard part... I generally go for ladders on Lombardy if they are proper thick with horrible wee branches. I often find my climbing line gets caught in the tight forks too. Horrible things really and when you get to fell the stem you find they are rotten to the thickness of a toilet roll:thumbdown: Ty
  3. Ty Korrigan
    Hello Chap, Normally you should be covered on your EEC health card. Here: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/forms/ca8454.pdf As an aside, carry proof that you are resident in the U.K and any paperwork to prove that you are on a short contract like letters including your quote or invitation to work, printed emails and your return ferry ticket. This in case of any accident or random road side inspection by the Gendarmes. If they think you are working 'on the black' then you may find yourself walking back to Britain after a short stay in a cell. Here, you are guilty until proved innocent. Regards Ty
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    Right, Local dealer where we bought the Quadchip from was in true French fashion USELESS. Never seen this type of hose before and was not interested either in helping us. To remove the hose entirely would mean taking off a pulley and that is not something I am willing to entertain. I am wondering if another option is to remove to external grease nipple and simply reconnect it on the interior of the chipper body as a stop gap. Does this sound a plan? G.M are closed today or I'd have an answer from Mac. Regards Ty
  5. Ty Korrigan
    One Saturday I arrived at a Brit owned second home to quote. I was early and so had a look around whilst my wife who hails from the Moroccan Sahara and who had come along for the ride, walked down to the village to buy a bun. The client and his family turned up 'late' and got out and I shook their hands. As we where chatting about their plans for the property the old man turned to me and went off on one spouting this unwelcome diatribe. "We bought here to get away from bloody immigrants but now I've just seen a bloody 'moozlum' when I went to buy me bread. Makes me bloody sick, you just can't get away from them bloody ragheads." I just felt nothing but cold anger but finished the quote and bade them goodbye. I won the quote, did the job well and billed them promptly. They may not be my kind of people but it is their money I'm after not a fight. Ty
  6. Ty Korrigan
    Many thanks for that, a weight off my mind:thumbup1: Regards Ty
  7. Ty Korrigan
    Do you know if the hose is a bog standard part or special order stuff? cheers
  8. Ty Korrigan
    Hello, On our Quadchip, there is a multiple grease point and one of the hoses has split. I think it goes to one of the main rotor bearings. Is it a ball ache to replace OR is it within the realm of the amateur mechanic...? I need to get it sorted sooner rather than later. Regards
  9. Ty Korrigan
    Shame your banned, I'd like to have had a discussion with you on staff welfare and motivation. We pay for a full 3-4 course restaurant meal most days for our staff. If not, a huge baguette and a sticky bun. We also have a modest slush fund for bonus payments, presents and nights out. Ty
  10. Ty Korrigan
    When a dealer tells you a bare faced lie and calls your integrity into question and yet you love the product, just what are you to do...? Ty
  11. Ty Korrigan
    We sell ours as mulch, it is very much a growing fashion here to mulch with wood chip. I deliver a tipper load for 90euros locally. I recently sold 16m3 of Lawson chip for 200euros instead of paying to tip it...K'ching! Ty
  12. Ty Korrigan

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    Ty Korrigan replied to naturarbo's topic in General chat

    We use a bin full of alcohol to rinse ropes during and after jobs and even T shirts for resin. Ty
  13. Ty Korrigan
    My second job is the same as my main one except it's for cash... Ty
  14. Ty Korrigan
    We turned up to quote for a garden renovation this summer and found a nearly new petrol mower in the middle of the overgrown lawn. The property owner didn't know it was there! It belonged to the guy who had originally been taken on to cut the grass, in fact you could see he had got a couple of metres into the garden before either the mower or himself gave up and he must have walked away and forgotten about it...bizzare! The owner told us to take it to the tip. So we took it to our mechanic and 80euros later have a 500euro mower...K'ching! Ty
  15. Ty Korrigan
    Seems a bit extreme to bin it 'tout de suite'. Why not continue using it on jobs until you detect a change in the character of the rope structure. It may harden or suddenly stretch but it is unlikely that it will just turn into goo or dust overnight and even more so that it will just snap without warning. Ty
  16. Ty Korrigan
    Interestingly enough... BBC radio 2 this evening was talking about bio diesel and it's effect on 'certain' car models where it blocks the filter. The AA/RAC have 600 a month each to deal with. It's NOT a single dodgy batch of fuel they confirm but a growing trend. Ty
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    Saturday = Cash day... Ty
  18. Ty Korrigan
    In the free ad's on the Brit forums you often see people offering their tree's to be felled for free or a share of the wood. What they often get is very little wood, a whole mess of branches and stumps. The land ends up looking like the '87 storm has passed all over again. Ty
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    Slightly different subject. Tomorrow, we are dismantling 6 pines. The chips, we'll take home to avoid the tip fees but the wood... Well, I'm charging 600euros to 'remove' the wood. So I've put out a free ad on the web inviting people to come and help themselves to the free 'firewood' for which I have charged to remove. I would be surprised if any wood remains in my experience here. I do this regularly, even with the chips but they are harder to sell. 99% of clients keep hardwood whilst the resinous stuff we get to shift. Ty
  20. Ty Korrigan
    Interested in the drive to the head which appears to be mechanical, a drive shaft...? I like the design of the others too but 35hp is my ideal. Ty
  21. Ty Korrigan
    No-one then? I'll scrub this model off my Xmas list then shall I? Ty
  22. Ty Korrigan
    Same here, thin bar used by clients to support hedging. I picked it all out I thought but I didn't see the stuff laid down behind the hedge. I heard it go through from the other side of the garden. Looked just like thin laurel too. Ty
  23. Ty Korrigan
    Hello, Any owners/users out there? Looking for opinions and price new and used. Regards Ty
  24. Ty Korrigan
    Oh, I didn't realise that Quadchip's were useless:confused1: TBH I don't have a great deal of experience with a wide variety of machines but I am a Greenmech loyalist:thumbup1: Really, what access can you not get on a Quadchip? All the panels come off and the 2 tanks swing out plus it takes up F'all room in the shed. The blades are in and out on 20min if I put my mind to it. The CS100 we started out with effectively bought the Quadchip with the money it earned in 3 years:001_rolleyes: I'm happy! Ty
  25. Ty Korrigan
    McAlister all the way! My 200t has cost me far too much in tuning and carb issues... Ty

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