Gray git
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Could use this as a form of torture for those who don't pay or if I ever catch someone braking in I'll strap them to a chair and put this on repeat, they'll never reafend!
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Liking that a lot, ain't got the use for it but if I did ;-) Also for sale this mog as a related item under the mb.
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That sir is a question you will never get a strate answer to on here for several reasons. Way to many variables. Professional secrecy of what our costings are incase our biggest competition is watching.
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Cost + profit = price Cost = wages for help, fuel, Insurance% per day, ppe, overheads etc. Profit. = your wage/cut, reinvestment money. Price can vary so much across the country and to each individuals business models your asking the impossible to answer correctly question.
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No but is it worth it with the growth rate of established ivy? I think the best balanced solution as said previously is to sever the ivy at the crown brake so giving a balanced ecological benefit but not interfering with the upper crown.
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Easy it takes this long, like 4th rail bridge, it grows as quickly as you thin it!
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I'd say 80% of the highways call outs I attended this year were ivy covered trees, it increases the.sale affect within the trees crown by such a high amount any defect within the tree that normally wouldn't be too much of a problem can't cope anymore I'm sure at 1 point a queen of England ruled that ivy was not allowed to grow up roadside oaks and landowners were responsible for keeping it under control, or something like that?
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Same, then I look the opposite direction and that sight carm's me right down and I need to wash my eyes with bleach..... :'(
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Before I was self employed I was a team leader/forman for a company - £10.50 hr doing just under 30k a year, you do the maths of how many hrs we were expected to do! Often I'd be 1st in to prep last out as also drove the forwarder so slowest vehicle in the fleet. An 8hr day was just not doable on most jobs else it'd be pushed into 2 with the travel involved. I also had a phone all ppe and climbing kit allowance which was a fair 1 but could top it up if we wanted anything really fancy. To me if what the op was offering localy I'd have been tempted to jump ship rather than take the risk of setting up on my own having a mortgage and family. Would I go back to being paye, not unless I had to. Good luck in finding your man beech.
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Just oil, I own landrovers need I say more. Had to open windows during lunch, just tooooooo hot for that much food!
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Perfectly put rich
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Nicely overloaded landy in the middle of that ;-)
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We did it, two hyper children now especially since eldest (6) worked out her cousin in oz is actually in Christmas day now. Such a clear night for it!
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Could do but kinda defeats the point of speed in this tool as girth hitching it on could pull very tight and lock itself on taking the groundsman too much time to undo so might as well tie knots.
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Call out to a windblown tree near Sutton bank thismorning, call in on some good regular customers with a few thankyou bottles of wine on the way back, quick bit of last min shopping then back home grab cherrypicker and into richmond to help fix the light's on the town Christmas tree after someone tried to climb the tree and got tangled. Also picked up plenty of bits and bobs to give myself plenty of important fixing fettling projects to do when people I don't want to talk to visit over the next two weeks that I'm ment to be having off.
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Not bad really 100 per hour for nearly 150k of truck!
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Good quality image from it and nice without the fisheye like the gopro, take it you put the remote onto a watch strap for wrist mount Nice bit of rigging, looks wet and slippy up there!
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Crane was £400 and would have cost a lot more than that in wages and time alone to spend the time rigging it down then having to disk down the last bit of stem /protect the stone flags around the house, carry everything out to where valtra could reach it or lots of trips with landy and trailers not to mention the extra time on site getting agro from a neighbour about the tree being removed (whole other story) We don't do logs so the timber was sold and the bigger the bits the more we make as less time and fuel used in cutting it up for them
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Cheers guy's, going to try and put together a video showing a bit of experimental stuff trying to get the slings to come off as of yet i haven't managed to. A while back we crushed the barrel gate on a big dan crab which ment it couldn't be opened which slowed the job down till it was replaced with this that wouldn't have happened as no moving parts.
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Most polite and efficient way to chase late payment.
Gray git replied to mowandgo's topic in Business Management
Yes had a rubber ball cheque before but quickly got that sorted with a less than polite/subtle phonecall to his wife. -
Most polite and efficient way to chase late payment.
Gray git replied to mowandgo's topic in Business Management
True but anything is better than nothing sometimes. Got a big shock yesterday when the council/highway settled there invoices early when I was half expecting them to use Christmas as an excuse to pay end of Jan instead. Happy days!! Now just a few k of others to chase! -
Most polite and efficient way to chase late payment.
Gray git replied to mowandgo's topic in Business Management
Like it, or call round with the bottle and claim it's a thankyou for being a good client and ow if you happen to want to give me a cheque while I'm hear to save it getting lost in the Christmas post....... Bonus! -
Yes fen, front is standard hight but got rear springs which are slightly stiffer to stop it dipping into corners, lifting a long landys rear end isn't normally to much of an issue due to the length of the prop, start messing with the front and it'll cost you as likely need new props etc. I'd have said scrags kit should be fine for you and take around an hour to fit both.
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I've got 2"lift on rear of my 130 and only alters the prop angle v slightly as not a true 2"lift as only the shocks that are bigger, means it sits level when loaded. Cherrypicker was recommended to have +2" shocks for when it lifts itself up. I've used the britpart orange shocks on both that are fome and oil filled and designed for top heavy overlanding. Careful with shocks that have remote external oil reserves as these are easily removed by stray branch's if you regularly drive in woodlands.
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Yes you will Check out this item I found on eBay: http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=181599336115&globalID=EBAY-GB&alt=web
