Gray git
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Easy if your there telling someone what to do using your equipment you need it, if you just hand em a jobsheet only and say let me know when your done and invoice me then you don't as long as they have their own insurance to cover them.
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Lucky, we have tree officers dealing only with north Yorkshire schools.and only 3 authorised companies covering it. Private schools are different and i work for a few quit regularly.
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School are often a waste of time as they are governed by the local education lot who only use pre authorised contractors and have very little say as to who works on there grounds. Parish councils are often better bet but run by retired board businessmen so cleaky.
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Problem is I tend to smash a load of tree down then go down and run around helping tidy up so still getting a work out. Just making people aware of who you are and what you can do is the thing, networking!
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Get involved with a local group like the round table, volunteered myself and cherrypicker last weekend to help put up Christmas lights with them which is fundraiser through local businesses and although I got payed in coffee and a pie by the end of the day I'd got over a grands worth of work lined up for the machine on local jobs.
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Will mention this to hydraulic bloke when I see him next week as he is finding out about putting in a radio remote servo valve for the winch.so might get it all done at same time, in for a penny and all that! I know what you mean about blade sizes, just so used to the big splitters iv had for years but as this is ment for occasional use might do. Any other light machines recommend that'd give a comfortable work hight and decent size table?
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Probably needed the draw bar adjusting to lower the nose and lift the hopper looking at how the drop down bit is sat, it didn't touch the ground when I used 1 on the rb44.
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Treemotion at the moment but itching to try the new petzle or the astrian 3.2 properly, had a little sit in gustharts last week but can never tell till you hav cs pants on and 40ft off the ground. Still got a butterfly which sometimes gets an outing for minimalistic pruning jobs with silky only. Nowt wrong with a weaver, had 1 years ago but got nicked out of works van and never tried another.
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Looking good paul, surely you'd prefer a green machine behind the van everyday. How'd you find the 150 compared to the wolf. You can tel why the yanks call them saddles not harness when you look at the construction of that thing trooper has!! So was client suitably impressed?
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Climb safe bud, and we want the full story later
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Took me a few moments to get high anough to spot the pink Floyd connection ;-)
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Did wounder about them but the blade always looks too small to me, like it's always going to get stuck rather than spit.
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No bait box is completely standard unmodified but the contents can be a bit strange at times, including hot food flask of soop or porridge. Just trying to make things easy and efficient, swinging an ax at the end of a day sharp looses it's emusmen.
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Nearly always have the throwpod on my harness for just that!
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A while back plumbed her into this old technorton splitter to see what sort of flow the pump put out and it was faster than the little valtra but need to bypass the blow out valve somehow as it cut in on real knotty stuff that the valtra would split easy but on strate grained stuff was fine.
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Getting more and more customers asking for some of the logs splitting and leaving on site so been thinking of getting a small splitter and making a mounting bracket to mount it on the winch bumper of the rb and run it off the winch hydraulic circuit to save borrowing a tractor and splitter or taking a 2nd/3rd vehicle with the awkwardly heavy thor splitter on it. Anyone got any recommendations or ideas? Not expecting it too be a high production machine but of decent quality and fit safety stuff as staff will be using it.
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At least you have a decent chipper mog combo and ain't fighting it into a timberwolf 125 ;-)
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Tell me about it! Just doing anything extra that I can't do on my own at weekend is a struggle at the moment.
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Even worth getting everything out the yard to somewhere with some background, been thinking howand where to do the same thing with my gear for a Web page header.
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Na felix you respond with not a problem I'll get on with that as soon as I'm done with the rest and ow do you want it itemising separate on the invoice or just adding on to the rest
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Is that a firm handshake emphasising that you'll crush there knuckles if they don't pay ;-) Hope you get sorted ty as this sort of thing really annoys me, had similar and offered them similar that I'd return all the crap from the job + interest (basically as much as I could fit in trailer) so they could dispose of it themselves. They payed....
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You calling me a retard! Half a second a log twisting and reaction on controls and a finger that resembled a squished tomato! That said it was the most productive splitter iv ever used!
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Hear boy, fetch ;-) You know how much of a coffee addict I am but sometimes it is nice to take the time and sit an saver the flavour and watch the world pass by, did it today myself but in basket of cherrypicker while sparky was re wiring the crimbo lights socket in town, 25min of nice brew and people watching, lovely.
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Decorating the town Christmas tree and 1 of the parks for the last two days, my charitable act for this month. Amazing how popular you become when you own a cherrypicker!
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That 900 is lovely, that'd fit into my fleet just perfectly, big anough to be useful but small anough to get in places
