Gray git
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Not a bad price for this stuff, might be interested in some 6 or 9mm stuff as ground protection sheets if these wet winters continue. sent while pretending to do something important on my mobile.
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Around the 4 - 4.5 ton lump of chestnut. sent while pretending to do something important on my mobile.
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I'd be up for that as well Clive sent while pretending to do something important on my mobile.
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Think we have made the biggest change to it but hopefully it means it can remain part of the landscape and promote some replanting. Thanks for the use of the valtra, made shifting the 10 - 15 ton of timber a lot easier, don't think the job would have been feasible if we'd had to carve it all up into manhandled bits and cart it off in trailers. Hope you have room for all that timber in your yard, shame most of it is too full of cracks, shake and decay to be milled but will make some nice smelling logs. sent while pretending to do something important on my mobile.
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Always like the look of ash trees that have outlived the hedge they were once part off, gives them an entish quality. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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Hope this makes sence the way I write it. It's better to over price a job and not get it than underprice a job where you actually loos money, be stressed, rush, take shortcuts to save time, make a mistake, get hurt or hurt someone ells, and end up not being able to work for longer. When you do mess up a price, and you will, we all do, just carry on like you haven't and hope a good job priced comes from someone seeing you. As outhers have said know what you need to charge then work out what you want to charge and the right price is normally in the middle. Best of luck with going it alone, it's hard work but worth it! Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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Your welcome Paul it's always nice to work with people who share the enthusiasm for the job. You certainly have a knack for getting good pictures Before the chestnut was stripped it had far too much wate back over the buildings to be felled even with the help of the mighty rb44. Quoting my kiwi friend "give a lazy man a hard job and he will find a easy way to do it!" mine is hydraulic power ;-) sent while pretending to do something important on my mobile.
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Stood on the top sent while pretending to do something important on my mobile.
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He's pushing the zzzzzzz's in the sun sent while pretending to do something important on my mobile.
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Had to be a quick crash down to make the most of the platform as was only available for 1 day over easter school holidays and job has to be finished before the little critters come back. sent while pretending to do something important on my mobile.
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That's the one, single needle reduction of ancient trees,aka johny quick styli... Excellent picture of that big lump in mid air! Hope you had your wheetabix (outer cereal brands available) this morning too tidy up the little mes I might have made...... Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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Cheaper by quite a bit, in my opinion chip better and smoother but chip quality is lower with lots more chunky bits amongst it. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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Had a cracking day today good job, good equipment and top quality staff just makes everything work ! Had silky on the ropes gently floating half ton lumps of chestnut ground-wards, matty chipping like a trooper and Paul from pwm platforms just putting me where I needed to be hardly without any communication needed, how it should be! It's a lovely disco that 1, I think it's a 8speed auto box in it so drags that 3.4 ton lump around effortlessly . Get some photos of the cadre 'reduction' up Paul or are you saving them for tomorrow? Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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Satternblades might be only be half the price but I've found that you probably only get half the life that genuine blades get as they are of a harder mettle so chip quite badly rather than becoming dull for easy re sharpening. Had two sets in my quadchip and now just stick to the genuine things and considering the price of them against the fact you affect ivy get 3 turns before replacing in my mind it's good value. The biggest saving I've made in blades is good groundsman education i.e. Stop raking up a gravel drive and using the chipper to load it onto the van, give conifer a bit of a shake before putting it in after a long drag so any nasty picked up on the way fall off etc. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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Got her pulling up too full speck then Jon,nice 1 . Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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24m tracked MEWP booked for Thursday, plenty of hands so mostly standing about holding lowering lines or a bit of quadchip feeding for you. Hopefully it'll be dryer than last time I was on this site and sunk the rb on the football pitch, oops! Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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I want my trolley!!!!!!!!! it should be here by now but it's not! Got so many jobs that it will hopefully make a lot less back braking shifting logs and brash about. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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You getting a platform on the new shiny mog like the blue beasty? Keep them pictures coming to make us all green with envy! Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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Now I'm late after spending about half an hour pissing myself at this genius , worrying thing is I've worked with people who are genuinely like this all the time Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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Any shops on here sell this type of visor set up?
Gray git replied to Gerbutt's topic in Climbers talk
Ear defenders are not up to chipper quality sound protection and always found that particular visor only comes half way down my face and provides very little protection. sent while pretending to do something important on my mobile. -
That's what I did if less than perfect conditions requiring mewps, traffic management, number of trees etc. Mrs git is an expert at writing get out clauses into things but making a point that these things could mean the price could go down as well as up per unit. As if sent while pretending to do something important on my mobile.
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Not when they have there own men to do the simple stuff and the things that go out to contractors are the head scratches or the ones that will cost a fortune should they go wrong so law of averages is slightly tilted against you working on that theory. Plus this is the council that can not see the problem with leaving a stone dead birch standing for nearly two years in the middle of a public park where people frequently pick nick or play. Anyway got a site meeting with the T O next week so will quiz him on the relevance of it all again. My gut feeling was it was a paper pushing project to help justify keeping there own staff on as being cost affective for small maintenance works. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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But how do you put a price on, remove tree more than 8m but less than 12m? Can it be felled/dismantled or require a mewp. Is it a single stem spruce that will only half fill the truck or an old oak with a 10m crown spread that will require a hyab to remove the 6 ton of timber. Roads, footpaths, traffic management. All this can turn a simple half day for two into a big task requiring thousands of pounds of hired in equipment more staff and several days from the same vague speck. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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I contacted the tree officer for some clarification on these questions but they were no help as they didn't understand the questions themselves as obviously a form copied of the net someplace so put in a bit of a disclaimer at the bottom of the form stating that the prices were a guide only and each job would need pricing on its own merit due to trees being so a diverse and location and safety issues being to varied to be covered under a single price. Must have been ok as got some to price next week for them that is logistically quite complicated. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
