Rupe
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You don't "see" profits, you live off them instead. If you could see profit at the end of the year that would be called savings.
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The higher the turnover the more kit you buy, when turnover goes down you buy more personal comforts instead and they are taxable!! Thats how it seems anyway.
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Oh, ok! So you can lower the deck?? How low will it go? It may not need to get quit to ground level, if you have 1 foot rings and it will go to one foot (a fraction less than a foot) from ground level then you can slide each ring along one on the floor and under the splitter. Easier than sliding them along the ground anyway. MAybe it is better than I thought then. How much power??
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Too high aswell. You need the splitter at ground level (or an option for that) so that you can get 4 foot rings under it.
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Ha ha. He's a new one! First job lowering for me on his own. One misunderstanding but then got it sorted.
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This is little saturday job we did. The tree is right tight in a corner of a big back garden, there is a drop zone under slightly less than quarter of the crown, with one limb above the DZ that would do for the lowering point but it was much lower than we would idealy have wanted. Either sides of the DZ there are Hawthorn trees which are plenty tough enough so many of the higher limbs crashed into the Hawthorns on the way down, one even bounced right up and landed perfectly in DZ.(5.20) Behind the Hawthorns there are various sheds and houses all belonging to the nieghbours so nothing could go down that way. Only filmed up to the end of the rigging bit, chunked it down by hand after that. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aEj8q9dhrU]YouTube - Ivy covered Ash rigging.wmv[/ame]
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Only you know how much work you get form YP. Most on here will say quit if you can! My theory is that if a customer gets a quote from YP then they will probably get 3-4 quotes. Sometimes one person will stand out as "better" than the others, but I reckon 99% of the time its cheapest price wins. So if 4 poeple quote maybe one screws up a little and gets the job. That means that 99% of jobs done via YP are under priced, so have minimal profits, yet it costs a lot of money to advertise. It doesn't add up. Paying extra to earn less is not good business sense. The only companies I know that make it work have to screw the employees into the ground to get the turnover of work fast enough to make profit.
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They are here to make profit not provide a public service Thats one bit that I agree with. Thats why I don't think we should be fallign over ourselves to give them our money, if they are not going to pay out unless someone is seriously injured, I'd rather get sued by the person directly than have insurance companies chasing me for not having ticked the right box on a form. Does anyone have examples of claims made for property damage that were paid up ok? It seems to me that most excesses are so high that the likelyhood of anyone claiming is quite low. You'd have to wreck a house for it to be worth claiming, and the types of companies that have insurance are not likely to wreck a whole house! Of course things get broken here and there but that is nearly always paid for out of pocket, well in my experience anyway.
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You won't be covered yourself but the third party should be? Or am I wrong again? You would still get prosecuted though, so its not all fine and dandy to have insurance and no mot.
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Oh sorry that was the method statement in 32 letters. Risk assessment ...... Gravity sucks and Chainsaws are sharp
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Don't you mean 32 letters!! Get spikes out of bag, cut down tree, tidy. John, can you send it all to the client as a PDF and let them print it all out?? Mine runs to 70 odd pages, I don't print that out for anybody!!
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In fact it should be healthy OR safe. Can't expect anyone to manage both at once. Can I interest you in a method statement??
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It is our policy to be healthy and safe.
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The rot can still get in, thats why its not used anymore. Dependign on the species and location you could consider leavign a stub and letting it get on with it itself.
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I don't think any of the above gives you a definitive answer, but you know loler is the right thing to do. Ultimatly the important thing is to not have any accidents in the first place, and Loler, PPE and tickets etc are generally accepted as good ways to achieve that.
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I think they would have to pay out. Weather or not you then got prosecuted/fined by the HSE for non compliance would probably depend on the damage that was done (the reason for the claim) This insurance is for third parties remember, PL is for the client/public and EL is of course for you employees, so injuring somebody would be covered by the policy but you will be in a world of trouble if found to be at fault through non compliance. A bit like crashing an insured car that has no mot. Whoever you crash into will be covered by your policy, and then you get prosecuted by the law.
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Hi, I could do with a hand on saturday 27th March. Chainsawing/stacking and lowering only, easy job in Stroud?
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An LDV?? Maybe not!!
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But in that method you get the benefit of the anchor rope going over many branches, which is the scenario you wouldn't get with a cambium saver. That is one method I was thinking of, there is another in the rigging book which I cant quite remember but you can choker the pulley round the anchor from the ground and retrieve it.
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There are various ways of setting a pulley and rigging line in a different tree without climbing it.
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No, its staged, not a fake, we think. Did you ever see the pictures of a car falling in a bay, then the recovery truck falls in, and then a larger crane truck falls in etc etc. That was true at first then faked digitally but no intention to fake at the time. This, I'm fairly sure, is staged for a film or tv advert maybe.
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I think I got you meant, just picking!!
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If you have a good workign relationship then it should be fine, if not then he could use it as a way to get you out. The fact that its different areas is a good thing. Insurance must be way down on your list of things to consider now!!
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Well done dean, you beat me to it. Except that in this case the ball is obviously a much lesser mass than the car.
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Faked or staged Andy? I still think staged, not photo shopped. I think the van did roll over, but not cos of the ball.
