Gray git
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If it's your choice to work the weekend or you have asked for extra work on a weekend to bump up your pay a bit - normal hrly rate If say I've asked you to work a weekend as we are stowed out and need to get some jobs off the list - 1.5 hrly rate or a bonus incentive. If the client insist that the work is done on a weekend so as not to disrupt there own business operations and are getting charged accordingly - minimum 1.5 but I'd aim to pay 2 X normal rate or normal rate and a day in lue depending on what the job was. Everyone needs a rest after a hard week as tired staff are unproductive and potentially unsafe.
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PAYE or self employed freelance? Freelance - Really depends on if your just in for the big ugly stuff or a more frequent part of the team to help when busy doing regular work as this will be lower but you won't be hunting to fill days as much
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Not unless you go for a modern valtra or such like but 100 hp won't want to be pulling much more that 10 - 12 ton behind it, you won't want to go to big either if you going into driveway or villages as a HGV style trailer just won't fit. If you were second handling after a smaller machine and running 100s of tons back to your yard or into a mill then yes the bigger the better but I'm guessing your wanting to shift single trees to save ringing them up and hand loading on site. Something like I posted the link for would work really well as you'd be able to carry odd shaped and length stuff because your not replying on them sitting on the ribs of a conventional timber trailer, can lift bags of tidy up crap on, take small plant to site so very versatile. Unless your hauling 20 od miles having to go back for a second load isn't going to ruin your social life compared to the savings in time being able to lift and shift with a machine over doing it yourself by hand
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Herbst Log Trailer - Lloyd Ltd WWW.LLOYD.LTD.UK Could be a really useful trailer for you as can carry all sorts with having a solid floor What gdh says is true but operating from outside the cab Will require the crane to be Lola checked as your not protected by a rops/fops cab, easy enough to mount the controls on a frame that lifts up and down on the link arms so you can shut the window for travel and nealing on the seat to opparate the crane when it's pissing it down is a lot nicer than standing on the drawbar getting wet and a lot safer!
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That's going to smart for quite a while!
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Could be interesting for the boys using bigger 360 to load wagons with woodchip
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Always the potential problem with high canopy anchor placed from the ground. Hope that's the lads ok and can make a full recovery.
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The brain misses it... The body not so much!
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Wish we could have gotten her in for today's reduction as would have saved lots of set ups with the landy
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Floating out some whole trees and some decent sized sections from behind a old blacksmith shop, saved a horrible drag and ringing up the timber to get it out. So nice being able to just drop stuff right at the chipper
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Can't help with the bearing but looking forward to seeing a video of it once it's working again
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Anyone thinking of selling a loader. Avant or similar
Gray git replied to Stihl123's topic in General chat
Masons chippers have a multi one for sale at moment but not sure he'd be interested in the digger. -
Thankyou. I think I nodded in agreement the whole time I read that, so very true. We are managing just about to keep all the plates spinning and a lot of clients have been very understanding but at times things just can't be put off, my good friend Mike off low impact forestry has dropped his stuff a few times to help fill a gap when I've suddenly found myself unavailable.
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Nope, that's the really worrying thing I started at 16 22 years ago, you do the maths... Knee replacement here I come, steel pins holding my shoulder in place a back that can make putting socks on a interesting experience some days till I stretch it out
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Enhance and prolong! I know as have plenty of work related injuries and long term damage from years of slogging my arse of manually doing everything which is having a affect on my life everyday now.
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No but they can discuss it over the phone but I don't think a public forum is the place to advertise to all your competitors either just like you wouldn't post up a picture of a tree you just quoted thismorning telling everyone you put £800 on it for Ben's tree services round the corner to go I know that tree I'll do it for £750 [emoji1596]
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Thankyou, wise reply.
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Not just with you unfortunately! But round here we have plenty doing a 8week course becoming fully qualified and knowing everything they need to too successfully set up on there own with a massive grant for gear, employ a appreciate and take on anything that comes there way... Then shit themselves when they take on something well out there experience level and either walk away from a half done job or really get a shock when we say how much to turn up with a ton of gear to finish it for them.
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Above average for area but like I say I'm not going to say on a national forum because.. well see previous posts about I'm worth £600 a day and you provide lunch and afternoon beers. I'm not paying someone on the books what a decent lad can earn freelance climbing international hero style but nor do I need that man 5 days a week 52 weeks of the year with no expenses except getting to work and his lunch and no stress filling his week or getting nothing if a jobs canceled due to shit wether, that's my stress. All I'm after is enough experience to be safe and not need watching every minute or need telling that after putting 1 branch in the chipper there's normally another to follow and have enough pride in the job not to be another **************** it that's near enough who's going to notice. If someone is serious we will talk money Face to face but I need to know they are worth it.
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£3.20 for a Guinness in local here £2.95 in spoons if you want to risk it. But just to remind everyone I'm talking PAYE not self employed which you lot are on about
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At that money why the hell am I still in this country ! But then again what's the cost of living in Oslo compared to rural north Yorkshire. Average pint costs.... Apartment or small house rent.... It's all relative as is a very defanit north south division here. We worked for a woman who just sold a 3 bedroom townhouse in London that she'd inherited for 1.8 million and moved up here a bought a 5 bed farm house and stables with nearly 30 acres of grazing for horse's with plenty of change to live off for the next 10 years or more.
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Don't need someone to run sites as either I do that myself or my existing team leader will do that and if you think after 2 years in the industry 80% of lads would have the experience to fully understand and complete most of the work we do without supervision you'd be very wrong
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Problem with this is most lads starting out especially career change hero's think they are worth a lot more than they are so when I did this once it becomes a nightmare telling someone who has only cs30-31 from last month that they ain't worth that money but I'd start you out on less but that not to say if your good you won't be on more than advertised in a years time. Also I've found as soon as you talk money someone who's paying £800 a month rent for a single room in central London shout's up he wouldn't get out of bed for what we earn upt North and live fairly on and it just descends into a undervalued staff debate.
