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Gray git

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  1. Gray git
    Little bit different today, reclaim the public footpath from nature, simple cut back overhanging thorns then run along with digger and scrap back 2ft of soil covering the tarmac and grade back the verge, felt strange using a digger with a bucket and not a grab on it.
  2. Gray git
    Balfor 1 we have is very good
  3. Gray git
    Try these guys https://www.brianrobinson.co.uk/ I'm quite lucky to have a main dealer who I feel is still sensible on price very close to me. Hope you get sorted without hurting the bank account too much.
  4. Gray git
    Had a few pairs of altbergh boots with army style high ankle support which suits me having a damaged left ankle and knee from injury and surgery so the support stops me falling over as much, very light, waterproof and outlasts the scarper synthetic boots I wear a lot less. Latest pair were made for me but advantage is the factory is 10min from my yard [emoji106]
  5. Gray git
    When do you want to start.
  6. Gray git
    Hi dilly ho silky flanders
  7. Gray git
    Try looking up bray brother's I think I've spotted the trucks around that area when I've been visiting outlaws or a do believe 5shires on here is in that area although not seen him for a while. Best of luck getting sorted.
  8. Gray git
    Firstly sorry Katie for posting another training centres detailed but I don't feel too bad as it's quite a distance apart. https://www.arbfortraining.com/
  9. Gray git
    Might be worth speaking to arbfor training near layburn if your wanting some training up here.
  10. Gray git
    Any stubby working for me is expected to bring his ppe in good clean condition, food and water for day and a good attitude and that's it, my job my gear. Climber is different as I'd expect them to use own climbing gear but toppers and rigging is again my stuff
  11. Gray git
    That's either clever career progression or professional suicide! 🤔
  12. Gray git
    Ha ha hadn't seen that tag with the app Didn't charge, felled the correct tree and bought them a lovely new tree to go in a better place, still do work for them every year 8 years on but am never allowed to forget that 1st job.
  13. Gray git
    Complimented a female client we were working for and ended up marrying her.... Felled a big maple in the front garden of a house that turned out to have two entrances and we were actually in the back garden. Trusted a gobby new lad to actually know what he was on about while rigging a tree over a clutter garden, when I instructed him to rap the rigging line that I'd tied to a large limb over the greenhouse and as I watched the limb cut said greenhouse in two reality struck that he'd wrapped my 11mm climbing line around the bollard not the 16mm lowering rope.
  14. Gray git
    Might be worth adding where you are currently and if you want p a y e or stubby work.
  15. Gray git
    Cheap biological washing powder pored on and dampen with boiling water and work the paste into the stone with a brush then wash of with boiling water or better a steam cleaner. Best I've found yet anyway.
  16. Gray git
    I was thinking similar the other day, as much for yard work as site duties but I agree with what your saying, size could be a problem unless something like a 1cx on some jobs. Anyone had a timber grab fitted to a back actor to see how well it works on a bit bigger model like a 3cx
  17. Gray git
    That's true but then that's another whole issue about how the public perceive this industry against a plumber and how the rates the public is willing to pay for each trades work against the cost of doing it. Also the industry itself undervaluing itself with undercutting and some firms both big, small and unqualified working for cost. Admittantly some companies are like the picture above with the boss taking all the cream and not putting back into the business and its staff
  18. Gray git
    Ever heard of cpd, unfortunately having the tickets is only half of it keeping them up to date and further units is the reality and the way I see it its only going to get worse with refreshing tickets especially if your in the local authority or commercial contracting sector.
  19. Gray git
    Thing you got to remember is that's about 4.5k a year different, on top of that what training do you need to work in a supermarket stacking shelves.... Definitely not a few grands wert every year and over £500 a year in ppe clothing and probably the same in climbing kit. So the difference in employing a arborist to a shelf stacker would be around 7.5 thousand decide that by 232 working days is £32 a day which makes a £6 hr difference to the employer Back of a beermat calculation I know and normally don't get involved in these wage conversions but just thought it worth throwing this into the mix.
  20. Gray git
    That's how we carried it in the forst till it started to bite into the hopper mettle
  21. Gray git
    Quite simple really. Made a checker plate cover for the aframe and used existing holes to bolt it on then secured to bolts through that which the trolly wedges up against and welded some scrap together to make the green T piece which clamps the trolly down with wing nuts to tighten it down.
  22. Gray git
    Client made a little time-lapse of today's reduction, wish I could climb that fast all the time.
  23. Gray git
    Mounted ours on drawbar of the chipper so it rides for free and there when needed, gets used so much more now.
  24. Gray git
    Running a bandit 90xp now as needed a bigger machine and winch setup, still got it for sale http://masonwoodchippers.com/listing/forst-st8-woodchipper-m536/ I've sent you a pm
  25. Gray git
    When I was running the st8 the local biomass company were more than happy to take our chip and blend it in with the heizohack chip.

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