Rupe

yep, met too. Shows 3 pages when there is only 2?

mine stays pretty much the sam eeach year, if that's waht you mean. To get a significiant increase I would have to run as three man crew more often, thats all. We do too many 2 man half day jobs which I would rather turn down but I can't.

Yes, your right. I'm starting to see improvements even though actual turnover wa sdown last year. Another point though is that % is irrelevan too. Would you prefer 10% of 300k or 30% of 80k ? Even though the first option is higher, I bet that would be a far more stressful existance. 50% of 60k sounds like a far nicer existance than 10% of 300!!!!

And in answer to the original question, my recent tax declaration suggests that I have approx 40% profit.

I think I pay myself peanuts, but I have a nice house and gadgets and a car and can do whatever I want everyday. I'm far better off than people who are actually on minimum incomes.

I thouhgt we are talking percentage profits. It all depends on your overheads. 300 a day with free use of cottage garages and yard on daddy's farm is more profitable than 400 a day renting everything and paying a mortgage, and if yo drive an expensive hp truck or a cheapo all paid for one. Its all variable, the amount you earn per day/year is irelavant. "Turnover is vanity profit is sanity"

I keep seeing this thread and thinking it says "Rupe! Stupid or Ignorant?" Is there a poll? I vote both!

Mine was 70m and I ordered a new 60m by mistake! The company I was workign for paid for it but kept the other two bits of rope in approx. 40 and 20 m lengths. WOuld have been handy for smaller stuff. 70m is only ever really necessary if rigging from a different tree a way away.

my last one got cut in half just before christmas! I did a couple of days for another company and came away with a brand new rope!

Sawdust will be a pain!! Beech always seems to produce little woodchip cos of all the gaps betweent branches but this one was as dense as beech hedge!! The guy that lives there had it crown lifted in 1952 and not a thing since! He actually crown lifted it himself with a wire saw on a wire! Top old geyser!

I had to go and look at the orginal footage to see. Nearly!. Ther eare two pegs that I left by mistake and it heads towards them and would have got stuck. My groundie is too good though, and he held it and let it swing back away form them before lowering. The lowering point is away from the stem so it wanted to swing back away from those pegs. Then after that is the one for the goofs video, then I had a word with myself and made a bit more effort!! Not had much hang up this time, but whne it does the GRCS really comes into action. Of course preventign hang up in the first place is better.

Sometimes the but wants to poke you in the guts! Its a Yale double esterlon 13mm rope form HB's. Will switch to 16mm for the larger bits, hopefully tommorow.

Trying to keep it genuine! A few others didn't make the edit!! I should do a video of goofs and schollboy errors at the end of the year!

A bit more video from the other day. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6FgGV5dGOg]YouTube - Beech rigging more work 3.wmv[/ame]

No saw will maintain the same power if you increase the bar size by a significant amount. Its simple, bigger bar = less power. Thats the same for everysaw, and of course the opposite is true as well. Having said that, it should run a 30inch but will struggle on hardwoods. A semi chisel chain would help.

Definatly charges for paypal. I don't really think that is the way forward for us but it is an option. Transfering money via internet banking is free though isn't it?? If its not then I'm sure its cheaper than cheques.

Oh and its free! Card machines are not the solution for tradesmen etc. I don't think. Just get your customers paying by internet transfer. If you start now, you'll find them all doing it by 2018. And even now you pay to put cheques into a business account but you don't with internet trannsfers.

If you think how things have moved in the last 10 years in terms of internet banking, paypal and mobile phone technology, another 8 years is a long time in technology. I agree that the cheque will simplr remove itself form use as we get more used to other methods. We don't necessarily need card mahcines or anything else, so customers apy me by internet bancking already, and I pay nearly all my accounts via internet. I can only remember a couple of clients last year that didn't use e mail, so in 8 years even the slower ones will be on internet banking.

So far we have been ok with groundie flicking it back. I'd clip another line to it if necessary.

He didn't even drop them into a truck! That would have moade mroe sense than on the floor! I have this, its ideal for arb waste as you can get big rings under it easy.

His fuel and oil at least! Thats just tight, its tax deductable and can't amount to much!

Cool. If you are searchign on the net then use Arboriculture instead of tree surgeon, thats the definition which has been allowed as agricultural in the previous cases I refer to.

Thats what I mean though, you don't need to save on holiday pay! Its not an additional cost. All it is is wages spread out over a year so the employee gets paid every week. You could give an employee a contract and give them 12 weeks holiday if they want it, won't cost a penny, it just mean they get a lot less every week. In the example I gave above if the self employed guy is on 70 a day and has 12 weeks holiday that 52-12= 40 weeks worked which is 14K a year, so you put him on paye with 12 weeks holiday and you pay him 14K over 52 weeks which is £269 a week with 12 weeks off. Only problem with that is the employer only has 40 weeks a year to make a profit out him, and the guy is on not much a week but you get my meaning? Holiday pay is not a thing to worry about, base pay on annual salaries and don't worry about day rates. Some fulltime climbers say they are on x day and it doesn't sound much but if they are getting that while on holiday then it means they are effectively getting more for each day of work.

I paid 700 for the steel sides for mine, that include all the cutting and folding to create the joins and all the reinforcers etc. and some design costs too. I still had to bolt it all together and make the roof and foamex sides which all cost a bit extra, maybe 800-850 all together.

Fair point, different industries etc. 100% is a bit steep though! Might work in some sectors but not forestry etc.