Gray git
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Why do I need council permission to cut this pine (blue cedre) down its not like its something old like a birch. Or yesterdays will it be cheeper if you just cut it all up into bits for my fire and stack it around the back insted of taking it away? Best 1 I have had from another tree man was when looking at my quadchip he comented on how timberwolf's are so much better as you dont have to step over the drawbar to feed it and have the chip flying over you head while feeding it..... It was still in transport position, didnt look like he was joking.
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Gustharts, send the dollar back home to the happy northerner's
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Prob with a range is they look overloaded before they are so you are begging to get pulled where I overloaded my 130 and it just looks normal. That 6x6 is my dream vehicle, always wanted one just wish it was about 6g less. Worked wih a lad who had 1 that was plated as 5.5 ton but agg registered somehows
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Go alloy, climbed for years on old bashalins but could not stand them after a knee opp so some1 lent me a set of geckos to try, had some ordered before I got down out the tree, love them! I agree with you about who you work for, the boss is ment to be the most pro bloke on site not the one acting like a 1st week trainee. You have to enjoy working with who you do as you spend more time with them than your own family. Soon you will get where you want to be Good luck with gaining grandad status hope it go's easy.
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Think I would have ' dropped' that saw from a grate high a while back. At least with the system you ascend on it's quick and not as hard on the arms as body thrusting old school style! Nice little vid.
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Cheeky sods use it as a good point to the service as it means the client won't have to take a day off to help them..?... I prefer the client not to be in, seem to get on quicker as dont have to waste time going over and over what we are doing or answering all the mad things mentioned in the funny things customers say thred
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Two bloke taking home 100 each as they have zero expenses as all the kit is provided to the for there mon-fri job and sat is just the iceing on the wage!
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Very nice, wish mine was a tipper such a time saving over shovelling chip. Did you sell the blue hi cap?
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We do that anyway but wanted to know how this affects the way you price works. As I dont have full time staff at the moment I have to make maximise use of them when I have them.
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Hard round here as a few two man teams with van and chipper working for 200 a day as the van chipper saws, fuel, everything ain't there's but can only get to you on a weekend as doing there PAYE work the rest of the time. Just lost a big chestnut dismantle to them, I think, as the client though I was taking the p when I said my rate for two of us with chipper etc for a day to do the tree and if time alowed a few shrubs. Boils me up sometimes when im trying to get going and make enough to grow the business and replace kit.
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With the nights drawing in and mornings getting later do you start to change how you price work so insted of thinking I get that done in a day with a good start and poss staying a little later you have to add onto the price to send an extra man or go back the next day. Do you allowed for this in price by charging a little more, exept this is what its like in winter and just get on with it or get a bunch of head torches and clean up in the dark? I will soon be starting a little before my groundsman to get landy loaded and chipper hitched up so when he arrives we can role asap and get to site almost for 1st light. Just wanted to know how outhers managed with limited daylight. John.
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Can I put the motherinlaw through your chipper? No but if you frees her overnight I will tomorrow. Normaly shuts them up if you do it without any pause and a plain face.
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Avoid the ranger as my experiences have showen the gear box to be made of rejected special brew tins! I would have to put my vote for the l200 as you dont have landrover in your list, but check out the latest towing limits of all models as this could make a difference as to how useful each are to you.
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Must preview my posts before sending sorry, blame the touch screen phone!
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My new set up 5m poison hivy with what I think is armour plus in a pinto with two dmm ovals, forgot to get me a thimble and some 8mm but next time im at gustha rts ill be adding it on but for now plenty long enough to be used as 2nd line, excess is daisy chained and hooked onto the leg loop of my harness to lower the clutter.
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Woman dies after being hit by falling branch in kew gardens
Gray git replied to RobArb's topic in General chat
I have had two calls off the back of this sad story, 1st worried about nothing at all and the 2nd a few dead branches that do need doing both private homes yet our local council still have not delta with a very dead birch on public open ground that never came into leaf this year which they have been made aware of. I whole hearty hope that there is no finger pointing at the staff of kew at it is found to be just as outhers have said ' wrong places, wrong time' as it would be so sad if all these special places had to fence off large areas on safety grounds or close in the slightest of wind. -
That looks like a strate out the box photo of a shiny new toy... I guess that is the 1 most would have if the funds allowed but in the mean times we live in im happy with a fixt bollard but owts better than smoking gloves or rapping around the stem.
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I have the rc3002, best bit of rigging kit I own worth every penny for ease of use for not that experienced groundsman. I agree it is a big lump but if the tree ain't big enough to mount it on I do have a small porta rap but its a pain and often dont need to lower a tree of that size. I did looks at the 2001 at the apf and like outhers have said would do for most jobs you would work in uk conditions.
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A new age in chainsaw milling dawns with the Granberg Flip and Rip
Gray git replied to Rob D's topic in Panther Mill UK
Mill a few lumps like that and its payed for! Will it run twin power heads or is the one ok as you have more control over the cutting speed? Shame you could not have had 1 at the apf for us all to leave grubby finger prints on. -
A new age in chainsaw milling dawns with the Granberg Flip and Rip
Gray git replied to Rob D's topic in Panther Mill UK
I want one glad I haven't had the money to get a m7 yet as will be saving for this insted. Looks like it should handle bigger logs with less lifting. -
So will that meen that I dont have to replace the hitch on my quadchip for an expensive locking type I could just chains in to them jake rings on them rear crossmember of the landrover with them same big chains I use to secure it overnight?
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Poison ivy hi v Just had HB splice 4m length for me at the APF 10mm armor plus tied into my nice shiny new pinto and dmm ultra o. First few outings this week show promis as both a side lanyard and as a 2nd short rope similar to the ce lanyard.
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add a paddle and my little lad could go floating about in that. did you make the stand for this or has it a flat base?
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add a paddle and my little lad could go floating about in that. did you make the stand for this or has it a flat base?
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Some of the least pushy yet imformative chipper salesmen around at the APF IMA, I like the look of the new arborist range but am not disapointed with my choice of a new quadchip. Peatb was happy to stand and chat and answer a few questions i still had and share some more of his many many bad jokes Sometime in the not to far future iI would love to have a look at the factory as its only about 15 min away from the outlaws place and would give me an excuse to escape for a bit, and see hom a sucsesful british manufacturing company works of course..... Thanks again Greenmech.
