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Ty Korrigan

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    Chinese Bandit...the only thing is shares is the colour!...hhhh! Ty
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    Don't you work for French? No, I guess not my friend, I've seen your site...hhhh! I find there are 2 classes of Brits. Ones before the crisis and ones after. French are not tied to exchange rates and are either earning OR on eyewatering pensions. I recently rode with a truck driver, retired at 55 on 2400euros per month! Before crisis Brits won't/can't pay AND every other builder, handyman and half starved ex-pat is scrambling up a ladder for jobs like these as stupidly low rates. Post crisis Brits are richer, mostly working and less affected mentally by the fall of the pound and the loss of a third of their pensions IF retired. I know this because I keep detailed records on my clients and notes about their circumstances to help me build a picture of my business and aid advertising. Ty
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    I do tend to operate on a 'forfait minimum' which means...my get out of bed price (I'm going native!) I class this topping out as a 'long morning' so 5 hours for 2 plus hire of picker...475euros Brit price, 750euros French. I know who I would prefer to work for... Ty
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    This is a common job for us here in France. I'd allow 15-20min per stem inc. chipping. Includes freeing the line with a bit of silky work. Take a first aid kit up into the basket with you! If you want to remove the lot, I'll hedge my bets here... I think approx 16 per day for a 3 man team arisings removed, wood stacked on site I'd use the cherry picker to totally free the line first before knocking out the tops from the picker with 2 guys and one on the ground. Stumps look like a short day with a pedestrian grinder. Regards Ty
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    I already know just how long it takes to produce a cord of wood (3m3) from logs delivered, cross cut, split, stacked, loaded onto trailer then delivered for...free. The guys I know do it more for a hobby and pocket money. It's like those fellas back in Morocco who fish from the rocks all day then sell their catch. It's well below a living wage BUT...they get to fish ALL DAY! For some guys, it's just doing something different but with a wee reward at the end of it. Like when I rode for an amateur cycle racing team. I covered my costs but never made a living from it. Of course, I'm talking about real small scale wood production on a hobby scale. Ty
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    Facetious= not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark. 2. amusing; humorous. 3. lacking serious intent; concerned with something nonessential, amusing, or frivolous: a facetious person. Er...yup that's me! Don't let it upset you so. It wasn't an attack on cancer victims more to do with 'What on earth has a chipper got to do with Cancer awareness" So please forgive me. Regards Ty
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    I see it as this... Paul has time on his hands. He is retired not to retire but to experience another life. Like the other guys I know, they don't count the hours and costs but only the returns. It's clearly not a business but it is a life and life is for living. I know where Paul is coming from and also Normandy's experience is familiar to me. It's a paying hobby or rather a hobby with returns...eh? Ty
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    Paul, can't you just sit back and enjoy your retirement...? No, I thought not! You know, in the woods here you can cut your own thinnings (marked with paint so no mistaken) or process the crowns of felled trees for between 18-25 the stere. Firewood is a purely cash type business here. Register as a cotisant sociale with the M.S.A or Auto Entreprenure and just declare enough to keep under the radar. Sell your firewood through the ex-pat word of mouth route and enjoy the whole experience. You will be richer for it if not monetarily...hhh! All the best Ty
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    If you go down to your local small agricultural dealership, the sort that services professionals and particulars, you will find often large circular saw benches for logs for sale. Normally they are electric. Here, bought in trunks delivered to us are cut into 50cm by chainsaw then we use a 16t pressure road tow splitter. The saw bench is used for the much smaller thinnings. But that's just what we do... Ty
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    Yes, your right and I apologise. I posted late at night after a sneaky ale. Ty
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    It's not sold because there is a small 25mm scratch under the front left hand foglight....hhhh! Ty Cheers Steve
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    Although...I blow my 2 rads out several times a week during the summer months when chipping dusty old coni. On the Quad the oil cooler is in front of the main rad. Ty
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    Steve, May I trouble you for the payload? Regards Ty
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    I'm not military but I want to ask if the British army gore-tex overtrousers are any good or do they melt slowly when in contact with water...? Just ordered a pair, probally in time for summer...hhh! Regards Ty
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    Strange but true...our Quadchip costs less to run than the CS100. Uses almost the same amount of fuel per hour but uses red to far less cost than petrol. Also, it achieves probally 4 times the productivity for the same running cost. Aside from the greater investment this Quadchip is cheaper to run and earns more money. Not only that, but is is far more productive and less tiring although you have to race to keep up with the machine! The blades, well, I take my time but I think under 30min to turn, more like 20min if you where cracking on and thats to turn the 2! I watched a friend trying to change his 125TW blades and thought to myself...NEVER on a miserable, dark, cold day would I want to wrestle with that little beast. Regards
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    Cancer awareness chipper...? What do they do with it, chip tumours...? Ty
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    And here is your thinning... Google Image Result for http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nWFvs2MmnOk/TKfjArO6LII/AAAAAAAAAFQ/NAn8Hsal-xs/s1600/AIDS-AFRICA-MAP-2007-Number.jpg It's a map of Africa plotting aids percentages. Up to 28% in places yet still the population keeps growing.
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    I like you...you a bit...odd. Ty
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    That is just an industry standard, go to the back of the queue now! Ty
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    Are you on the right forum or do you lead a double life...hhh! Ty
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    I've just sold my CS100 for a mere £640 than I paid for it after 230hours use. Since we bought the Quad chip it really became redundant but it was the CS100 that BOUGHT the Quadchip with its sterling efforts. However, I couldn't face going back to feeding a gravity feed again... It was...tiring to say the least. Ty
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    And if you are really sick...use a marble! O.K, I read this with innerest as it has reminded me to stretch. Ty
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    Hello Chap, I had this in 2011 during the Paris-Brest-Paris 1225km cycle race during the final 300km. I NEVER want to experience such pain again. I finished the event in 62hrs but couldn't walk properly afterwards for a week. Mine was caused by the right pedal cleat being not perfectly aligned. Yours, is likely to be the same. OBVIOUSLY I'm no doctor but my diagnosis is... Your gaffs are putting your knee out of alignment causing your tendon to rub on the bone. Cure...don't climb with gaffs. I changed my pedals to ones with more 'float' so my leg is less fixed to the pedal. I would suggest changing gaffs to others with more support BUT...now I'm well out of my depth. I really feel for you but its like tendonitus, rest seems to be the best cure and changing working practices. Regards Ty
  24. Ty Korrigan
    I meant to say 'Burning anything BUT hardwood'...Sorry. There is a new powerstation going up South of Rennes which will be burning biomass. This could be good news for us and resolve our tipping issues. Ty
  25. Ty Korrigan
    Roll the Thunderbirds theme... HHH!

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