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Gray git

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  1. Off Friday might stop Fri night to go sat if I feel I ain't had a big anough show fix but will have to face the wrath of the wife if I do :eek:
  2. Sell a few, mostly children's chairs as presents but this 1 was a commission for a hat maker hence the high back leg to 'hang a hat'. According to someone more lurned than myself the 1 arm thing is from victoriana times when lady's wore large bushels so would not fit in if a chair had 2 arms.... I just like it because it's quirky
  3. On with the benches tomorrow so should be fun, bit of milling, lots of sanding and shaping then a mission to deliver them!
  4. Me too, as with hodge I'm folicaly challenge so required a hat to keep me noggin walm over winter.
  5. Thought you was at show Friday, rather have larch than spruce any day!
  6. One of mine from a while back.
  7. Nice, keep fingers away from shiny sharp spinny bit as touching it smarts like hell!!
  8. Have you used something reflective for the eyes dan or is it just colour that makes em look lit up? Looks well happy with that!
  9. Good relaxation a bit of weapons throwing! Got a target set up for the big axe but walking back for it each throw can get tedious but those little tomahawks look good with 3 each time, another thing on the Christmas list!
  10. Too true felix!! Last time anything go's out without an opperata, won't guarantee against breakage but at least I know who to question and bill if it's misuse as apposed to misshap.
  11. I made the hole's, like a little trap door so I could climb up the middle and poke my head up and do the top in 2 stages, getting down was harder as everything was trying to grab hold of any bit of clothing. If only they had let me cut down a scabby little plumb tree I could have got cherrypicker in and really done a neat job of the beech, yews were all ladders and long reach as didn't want dints in them from leaning ladders against them like last contracts did. Just found out over a ton of yew clippings which have gon to friendship estates for cancer treatment drugs:thumbup:
  12. Lent my rg13 to a friend of a friend who apparently was very good with machines and just needed a small grinder too get into 1 small stump. When he dropped it off all was fine according to him and did an excellent job, as it was late and I was in the middle of childrens bedtime I just stuck it in the garage. Next day found teeth worn completely away(never manages this before) and a cracked bairing casing, dismantle it to find other bairing totally fubar and a big grove worn in the shaft, pully bent, 2shredded belts and a big chew mark in the top guard where the teeth had been hitting it. £300 quid later and I have a working grinder again but strangely the lad never answers any of my calls to cough up for it. Not happy!!
  13. It's actually my fs 90r strimmer with the head swapped over to a hedge cutter off a dead Combi system. The dog is a legend and belong too the head gardener at the property, loves being around people working but hates noise so solution found ;-)
  14. Story chair and 30 mushrooms seats delivered to my daughters school for part of there outdoor classroom project. Got a few benches still too do but not sure about design as they want solid chunky and rustic but still be able to reposition them by hand, almost impossible speck me think so going to draw up a few ideas and go see the head.
  15. That depends on how many staff were on site, did they turn up with £100k worth of gear which ment they could do in that time what would have taken another company 2days, pre work starting were tpo reports and applications needed which take knowledge and time. Insurance... Wages are only a part of the daily running costs of a tree firm which is something iv found young lads out of collage or still at college coming to me for work placement seem to struggle to grasp this concept that just because I'm paying them,x and charging y that I'm earning myself a mint and living the shampain lifestyle, I wish! Saying all that over 2k is quite a lot.
  16. 3 days for 2 of us of solid hedge cutting, no tidy up just cut and move on, 2 days on big yew stacks that were planted in 1902 then this monster beech. Iv actually climbed up the middle with the long reach to be able to do the 12' wide top. 12ltrs of aspen used and no bad head's which is about the only bit that don't hurt tonight!
  17. Good luck too them, that's some amount of work and time to free the logs in that lot!
  18. What you also have to remember is, and this works both ways between employees and employers that generally local firms know each other and word spreads about bad staff being unreliable so getting work is harder but also about bad employers so getting workers is harder. It's back to the team thing and a trust thing and remember **** does happen to us all at some point.
  19. That is a big stick, hope you don't have to ring it up!?
  20. These are from workware, most handy ladders iv ever owned. How many others could set up like this?
  21. Sorry if I've missed a post in this thred but how will this affect a nill rated tractor, will I still need to apply to have nothing sent too me and pay nothing to have the valtra logged on the daterbase yearly :what: Or will the system be clever anough too do it automatically till told otherwise. And when selling a tractor do I get a £0.00 refund transfered to my account
  22. That's a mad price for blades which I didn't want to hear as mine just cracked in half today :-( Prob just as well getting a whole new head as knowing my luck if I replace them the gears will go in s few jobs time.
  23. Tried that, my Mrs is of the thinking that if I do it badly the 1st time I'm made to do it again till it's right so now I get a man in to do the stuff that'll take me a lot longer..
  24. Yes so ideal for call outs and when we need big trailer on site the rb can take that so still only running two vehicles too site.
  25. Done the same and got new toy to help with the workload, need to uprate the rear serspension as she handles like a boat but the boom is rock stedy with hardly any movement as you work. Get a few decent locker boxes found for a bit of gear and jobs a goodun

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