Ty Korrigan

Hedge and wall laying...a forgotten art... Ty

Running windows own firewall/antivirus and report no issues although 30K has been debited from my savings account credited to Skyhucks current account (Bst'rd!) If molten pus and porn start flowing from my keyboard I'll let you know. Now Skyhuck...lend us a quid will you...? Ty

Hello, I am lucky in that 2 of us take turns to climb even squabble over who is going up! Each acts as groundsman and the working relationship is symbiotic if thats a correct phrase. Our regular groundy 'Auld Rab' is old but experienced and brings a certain maturity to a young business, this is worth paying for. The key to a motivated 'employee' is 'ownership' or incentive. Incentives give employees the edge, make them hungry, low wage with better bonuses and bolt ons such as smarter PPE, midday meals, vouchers for..'stuff' (tax deductable of course) As a partner and therefore 'boss' I am quite happy to take a lower wage for an easier life. Paying more for better staff lowers my burden. Staff even able to go and quote from time to time and why not eh? Shows trust and gives that ownership to an employee and motivation beyond simple renumeration. YOU won that job and so here is a few extra quid in your hand. Develops people and your business won't lose long term by farming out responsibility to its lower orders...hhh! Maybe I'm talking 'Charabia' (bad arabic) but this is how we work and its working just fine. Regards Ty

It could be 'The Craggy Island Chipper' You pay 50p and get to laugh at it for 10min A bit like 'Point at the Looney' only more inaminate... Ty

In my short miserable career I've used Vermeer as an employee, Bandit hired in, Timberwolf on demo, Saelin both as an employee and on demo but the only machine I really felt offered the very things our business needed was the Greenmech Quadchip. It ticks all the boxes, low weight, turntable, compactness, ease of maintenance like changing blades and greasing as well as excellent customer service from the manufacturer and our local dealer who also borrows it from time to time for demos. As an aside I have found that Bandit U.K (Global) are great guys to deal with but their nearest machine weighs 500kg more which I felt would have added too much to the fuel bill long term as we cover a large area. Ty

Not in my limited experience with a CS100. It made excellent chips, small and square. Only willow and birch twigs passed through like straw... Ty

Normandy, You can always give us a call if you get a large chipping job in the meantime. CS100 all the way if your starting up, we did some really big trees just with that. Lots of cross cutting and a hell of a lot of firewood though. Just buy a small trailer and little winch to load it then you can use the trailer for other jobs rather than a costly dedicated trailer. Beware if you buy a used road tow chipper over 500kg in the U.K and bring it to France that it will certainly be near impossible to register over here. All those who have brought one over please feel free to comment on this if they have successfully registered it. Ty

A silver sixpence for your trouble young man and a pickled egg for the road God bless you. We pay our groundies (self employed) 120-150euros per day gross. That is £70+ nett. For some-one who does not need to think to much, just drag branches, pull on a rake and also gets fed a 3 course restuarant meal with wine and given a free t'shirt its 20euros above the minimum wage here and STILL people moan about the pay rate. Except Auld Rab who is 63 going on 28 and is worth every centime! Ty

Ah yes... No fun at the end of a day at the controls of a push me pull me grinder when you only weigh 63kg yourself:001_rolleyes: Ty

Ah, we have the same issue EVERY year. Our turning circle is just too small and every week I put the tippers wheels over the edge of the hardstanding and you know what that means... We say we will wait until it dries out before doing any works but then we never get around to it. I must waste an hour every week trying to get our Iveco out of the mire. So I've done a deal with a guy to fell and grind out an oak at his place:thumbup1: and he will come with his 2.2ton digger and scrape away the fetid swamp before we visit the quarry. Just get it done I say! Ty

I had all that when I bought cheap cooking oil for my trial. Ty

We are interested also. I used bio chain oil before and it was excellent, my experiment with cooking oil was a failure though. I want to go over to Aspen and Veg oil and make a point of advertising this to clients. If I can locally source Bio diesel for the chipper then again I'll go for that and make it known to clients. Ty

Over Xmas we dismanlted this rotten oak so hired a 16m on a Cabstar which is the tallest we can drive/hire as its 3.5t. Over that the machines require a heavy goods licence over here. At 16m this machine was just a bit short for comfort. It was also...not very good. The bitch took an age to level as it was so tired and I'm not sure it would pass muster in the U.K. I was considering asking Skyhuck to climb this unclimbable tree as he boldy goes where lesser mortals such as I dare not. But I fear he would have thought I was merely extracting the urine and so I thought better of it. Would have been nice to have met him and learned a few things though... Ty

Does he also wear a hat with corks around it, large shorts circa 1950 and long socks up to his knees perhaps? Ty:001_rolleyes:

and then the stress of fending off our traveling friends from isolated lock ups... Come on Pig face, you gone soft living in rural France? Ty

Just been to see about a plot of land for building. New building reg says you can't have all solid fuel heating nor electric but must go all gas or a mix of gas, eco, solid. Aw...nuts, guess I'll have to ignore it like the French do! My all electric appartment 52m2 uses £475 of electric per year. Its built to a high eco standard. Ty

These little beggers cost £5 a throw (about) There are a mere 8 of them on an Bandit HB20. I once did 18 hours on one set of teeth which in retrospect was a false economy. Now, I find unless I have been grinding granite cobbles or kerb stones, I find around 9 hours is about max for 3 turns or the teeth. Any thoughts any-one? Ty

And did these well off legal types make good their neighbours damages regardless of the insurances stand? Imagine a poor widow recieving a cord of firewood across her lawn but unable to pay any-one to process it due to having to buy 8 grandkids presents plus the lack of the appropriate NPTC cert... Ty:laugh1:

So, I noticed a strange orange brown fungi (I assume) that looks like a spreading scab on a branch. Host was apple and sorry, no I don't have a decent image yet. But can any-one point me in the right direction to I.D it? Regards Ty

Did ya stuff a 'nana up the tailpipe like Eddy Murphy...? Ty

I hope this guy bought an enormous container of them that ties up his financial future forever then gets ragged over by the HSE, Watchdog, Rogue traders and several angry customers... Or am I just being too nasty...? Ty

What issue? I have no issues? What I did observe is that more dangerous than a salt water crocodile is a drunk white Australian male and that Aboriginals are a lost and futile race living of a diet of state handouts and V.B tinnies. Like I said, no issues, just observations from a traveler. Ty

I've seen these trees in the flesh. In 2009 I cycled across Australia and spent 90days under canvas. I visited the birth place of Albert at Hermansburg up in the MacDonnall ranges. Albert is also a national icon appearing on banknotes. There are white Australians who still detest Aboriginal culture although the Aboriginal culture of Alice Springs is visible to the tourist in the form of the sprawling drunk and unemployed. It is easy to see just why some-one would do this, there is enough hate simmering under the surface against the Aboriginals. What struck me about Australians in the Northern Territory though was sheer number of hard drinking racist rednecks. Just having small talk with people in a bar would invariably invite derogatory comments from some-one about Poms or Abo's or queers even! I was cycling at one point with a Chinese guy. I had walked into a roadhouse 100kms from everywhere, hot and sweaty, a fat bearded bike type serving behing the bar bellowed "#uck off, you've brought flies in with you and we don't serve queers and take your boyfriend with you, damn Chinks" A reference to our lycra shorts perhaps...? Expelled from the road house we cycled a few days together to Alice. Anyway, what is clear to me is that Julia Gillard really has her work cut out battling Red Necks in her own Parliament, fellow MP's with outdated chauvanistic values and haters of Aboriginal culture. In short, there is enough hate out there to burn a few iconic gums, it could even be Aboriginals angry that Albert is not of their tribe... Ty

Would you not be ashamed to promote such a poor product...? Ty

I get through alot of teeth with my HB20 Sidewinder, at least one if those zeros is thanks to me....hhhh! Ty