Rupe
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The person whos name is on the quote. Beit Mr ABC or XYZ trees Ltd.
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I should give myself an extra point then! Using a top handle one handed is an extra skill!
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I promise I don't mean to keep contradicting you..........but..........in the above you say "So it probably is not a skilled trade" I think as trades go it is skilled, and we should take pride in the skills we have. Its just that trades in general are considered semi-skilled in the big scheme of things. I'm a highly skilled tree surgoen, if I was cleverer I migh thave been a highly skilled architect or engineer and that might class me as "skilled". But I dropped out after A'levels and did what I wanted to do. Simples, and I'm happy (and skint) and don't much care what others think.
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Three posts confirming that its a team effort. More evidence that you can't "sub contract" out the climbing aspect to a seperate insurance policy. Sorry, I'll shut up now.
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The "law" is to pay income tax, how you calculate it depends on how legal you are trying to be, or not be! You can only pay it on your profit if you keep your books up to date and do tax returns. Either way its called income tax!
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Probably the only legal requirement is to pay tax on your income!
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I think its a lot more than a select few I would go as far as saying its probably the most common! Everyone knows a bloke who can cut a tree down, and if they don't they find one in YP.
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And what does a small red-indian live in?
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Yes you are right. We have done some leave on site work recently and the groundies have had it easy. But generally I think its harder, I ground occasionally and its hard work.
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What if its a small one?
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Probably. Its up to the client to ask for insurance docs. YP ads are not declarations of truth are they? You only need to talk to a YP sales rep to know that. I'm not condoning it of course! But if it got to court then there must have been an accident, so he would be made to pay damages, but not prosecuted for a misleading YP ad.
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Thats a good one. Yes, thats what I was getting at, there are plenty of them around. I spoke to one once that had an ad in YP that said "fully insured". I asked him about this and he said that his vehicle is fully insured! No crime there.
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Down here the wee tree is different thing!!
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Theres the tree thats being felled and the ones that aren't. What there names are is not impotant, I don't want to make it personal!
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Groundies work much harder than climbers, the climber shouldn't be busting a gut, he's only sitting in a harness cutting some wood, thats why everyone wants to progress to being a climber isn't it? It has a higher skill level (not all climbers are more skillful than all groundies) but ultimatly its easier.
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Thats the one that I upped to a 3 to get a nice round 6 points! I know my trees, but only the main ones in latin and F.all about funghi. Trees are knackered or not knackered, and if they might be knackered I get a consultant!
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In 18 years I have never been spot checked! And if your not employing anyone you can get away with a lot more. The question was "for a tree surgeon to trade". A chainsaw and a pole saw and call yourself a tree surgoen, off you go. Nothing illegal about that. I know lots of "tree surgoens" that don't own any climbing kit.
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Thanks mate! Made me cry a bit there!! I'm not pulling any strings for you though!!! BTW, I gave myself a 2 for ident! Big tree, little tree, conifer and bush! Done me ok!
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Legally, nothing! A chainsaw maybe? Just get on with it. If you employ poeple things change, but the police won't be knocking on your door, and the HSE won't bother until you hurt someone. There are some acts of law that affect this work, insurance is definatly not one of them. You don't have to have insurance to do tree work.
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Well, 5.666666666666 on first go, then added a point in one section to tidy it up!
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I got 6 !
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I was at the Welsh comp that year. I got second in the A. rescue but very average overall.
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Oh, ok, its AV out!
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My older camera (above) has got an extra socket, looks like a tiny jack socket. Would that be for a remote? Its not for an extra flash, its not USB or charging. It could be for a mic for video, but I don't know?
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I've also got a cheap 7MP compact kodak for parties etc. but the colour saturation is very poor for outdoors scenery shots. I just checked it, no time lapse feature. How does the remote work?
