Big 'Ammer

So much for cs30, in one ear and out the other.....

How much? What sort of chain is it?

As soon as the wind dies down!

Mines got a 28" on it. I have also got a 16" bar too!

But it wasn't tree work though, was it Gibbon!!!

Thanks for the offer, but I don't want another one, just want to mend the one I've got to have as a standby large saw. ... and yeah, the vibes are bad! ... but the cutting performance is legendary!! The stud, when it was available, cost about 4 quid. I have rethreaded the old stud to 5/16" and put a 1/2" nut and washer on which works fine and is a usable solution. The problem is that when someone else, however well meaning, decides to take the saw to bits to clean it, and mixes up the nuts...

I am after the front bar mount stud for a Husqvarna 2100 CD/XP The part No. is 501 69 26-01 I got the back one, but the front one is apparantly out of stock and no longer made. Any dealers on here got one gathering dust in their workshops? Any one got a scrap saw? Could anyone direct me to a site in the USA or Canada that might help? Cheers peeps!

Couldn't agree more. Price cutting drives the whole industry down. Price your work properly for the time it will take, to cover the costs you incur, and to make a sensible profit. Accept that you are not going to win every job. Make money from those that you do win. Its utterly pointless doing a cheap job, just to break even, for a customer who is only there a couple of times a year, and has no further work for you. You'll either learn, or go bust.

Spill the beans then... What's the hybrid doing 15K?

Punctuation.

That's a very smart, and well thought out truck, I like it. I guess (from your website) that nearly all of your work is domestic. Only downside I can see to a black truck is that its not in a conspicuous colour for use on the highway - chapter 8, mobile temporary roadworks etc...

How's that shoulder coming on?

That's a good idea Bob, but why the ability to do dry stone walls on the tree team? Is that for those who score low on the accurate felling can gain some points back?

Be twice the price of everyone else?

Nice work, and properly priced. Stump bloke would have only had to take 5 minutes if you'd bent your back!

Good solution to the access there Jonny. What's that grinder weigh? Good machine, I had a go with one on the stumpgrinder course. And where's the guard off the Jensen?

Its fairly easy to do in your head. 17.5% is 10% + 5% + 2.5% Take 10% and half it and half it again. Add these 3 figures together. So for example, a quote of £500 plus vat is 10% of 500 = 50 half of 50 is 25 (5%) half of 25 is 12.5 (2.5%) So, 50 + 25 + 12.5 = 87.5 Therefore, £500 + 17.5% VAT is £87.50

Rotten / concrete filled / metal riddled, etc is definately crap wood.

What did you do with large bits of crap wood before you had a mog and grab?

The only ones I cut out and put in a special place are from FHM not FMJ! You'll be relieved to hear that it was left intact, and has been recycled with all the rest.

Good stuff there Rupe. Not related but, I was having an office clearout the other day and chucked a load of old magazines away. Thumbing through a few as i was sorting stuff out, and saw a picture of you testing out a 'Bee' harness in a copy of FMJ from 06 or 07 maybe.

Interesting vid, and nice work. However, I agree with Tim on the use of a rope and harness for this kind of work. Getting limbs to delibarately split with a partial cut and a winch off, no matter how well planned and executed, leaves too many variables for my liking. I would maybe climb and do it myself, but I would be hard pushed to be able to justify sending an employee climber up to do it.

You can have all mine at £1 / inch as well! In response to the OP, unless you are going to be doing a lot of these contracts, I'd hire. You can get alot done in a day with something like an 8018 Carlton.

Last year I went into a car dealership in my work gear, straight off a site, to look at a vehicle that I'd seen advertised. The salesman ignored me until I went to speak to him, and then he tried to steer me away from the vehicle I was looking at, and sell me a garish coloured 4x4, on the pretext that it would 'pull my caravan'. Needless to say, I tore a strip right off him, in no uncertain terms, as his boss was getting out of a car and walking across the forecourt, hearing my full tirade of abuse. I then proceeded to give the boss the 3rd degree about customer relations, courtesy, staff training, etc.... Then just for badness, as I turned on my heel to leave, I said 'you really don't know who I am, do you?' , (not that I'm anyone special at all ) and walked off. If I could have filmed the bollocking that that guy got off his boss! I watched from the car and saw a lot of arm-waving and finger-pointing and head-down shoe shuffling ... it was hilarious!!!

Some of those from Wassand?