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WD40 is ok but its a short term solution. Graphite works for longer. Rub some pencil lead on sand paper and make your own!!!!!!!

Bona fide sub contracting would be when the climber does the job with his own groundspersons. Therefore he needs public liability and employers liability. He woudl see the job first and quote you for the job and once you agree the price that is the "sub contract". The initial contract being between you and the client. In the event of the job going wrong the client would sue you and you would sue the sub contractor. If the climber comes in and work with your employees of any kind then he cannot be responsible for the overall safety of the job, you are, simples. Another example. You are charging 500 quid to take atree down and clear it all up. You get in a climber to do the climbign work and he gets paid 100 quid. How can someoen who is getting 20% of the money be 100% responsibel for the job?? Its not possible,feasable or moraly correct to expect him to be insured for your job. Not a dig at you mate, just my normal rantings...........

Its not like gettign a climber in for a day at all!! The climber will be on the insurance of whoever is doing the job period! The climber is not "using" anyones insurance. The ones that come with insurance are not worth paying extra for cos the insurance is not valid on someone elses job. Not including full bona fide subcontracting though. With tht eexample above with the council though, it sounds liek they are puttign on a course and employing an instrcutor. They should do a full risk assessment and provide insurance. If the instrcutor is insurign it then he would take all the money and pay the council for the site and any admin costs and take the rest. Its the one who stands to make the profit if all goes well that also has to cover insurance. IMO only of course, councils are peculiar things!!!

BTW that video was shot with a digi camera in video mode not my POS old headcam which would have looked worserer.

Heres the link for the free software to flip video. Its free so ignore the annoyign ads on the page. I've used it it works well. You could moutn the camera any way you wanted and flip it later. Heres an example [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQxRMY7R6bQ]YouTube - Poplar trees rigging 4[/ame] And rotated [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEZ6GOEOXX4]YouTube - Poplar trees rigging 4 rotated[/ame]

There is some free software that will do it, I'll find it later. You would need to edit out any exposure adjustment delays anyway to make it look good.

Free heels, free minds, dudes!!

You can re orientate video later, its quite easy.

My hilarious response has been removed by me before it causes offence where it was not supposed too!!!!!!

Thats definatly made my mind up that I don't need to tidy my office!!!!!! Its got like a fish eye distortion to it, but thats ok, it definatly is wide angle and the quality is way betterer than my act3k POS. (Which is still for sale)

Try and find nissan specs on their web site. MAy only give current weights though.

To be fair, that ain't going to look good if the "high anchor" was removed!!!

I know what you mean, it stresses me a bit. But these clients will all have started off having quotes off me but now just let me get on with it. Obviously its a trust thing either way. Recently I allowed two days for a job which took three. I invoiced for three and cheque arrived today, no worries. The main client has had 4-5 different companies over the last 20 years (he's in charge of, but doesn't own, 20,000 odd trees) In all that time each company he has used has casued him grief at some point. I started there by quoting and he feels he's gettign better value than before and (so far) I'v enot caused him any grief. I quote when there is projects to be done so that they can cost it all out, but no one else quotes. Then for remedial works, and safety stuff, I just get on with it and send the invoice. I think that feeling that you are describing is common but peculiar to tree workers. I'm sure the plumber doesn't worry when he writes out the bill for the dripping tap? We should all learn to value ouselves a bit higher.

No I don't think so. If I were better at business I might advertise more, get all the smaller jobs, have employees to rush round doing it and make more money but that does not appeal to me. Tree work is my vocation, not a business project.

Also, can you show a picture of it in your hand, it looks huge? I'm sure you've not heard that before!!!!!

What accessory did you get?? You don't need software really. Its on or off, as long as you can retrieve the files. Windows movie maker is all you need for editing. Can you give it a quick go? I'm keen to see the width of view its got.

I know I am very lucky. I many regular clients who don't need a quote!!

Did you get the discount ??

ANd if the tree falls on your car then that's car insurance not home insurance, or at least thats what one will say and vice versa.

Sure, I'm only giving my experience. A friend of mine has a big ad (same area as me) and gets loads of calls and that is a large part of his business. Maybe he is better at dealign with the kind of people that i don't get on with??? Also if you are gettign a large amount of the work form the YP then you can maybe do it cheaper so you get a high % of your quotes accepted and that means more jobs to fit together to make up a good day rate. It might be that I'm just too lazy to look at 10 jobs to get 3 of them and then do all 3 in a day to make any money.

I found that advertising, especially YP, reaches the type of clients that don't own any significant trees and/or don't have any appreciation for trees and/or don't have any money!!!

As long as there is something in the saw it won't matter! Its only chain oil!! If your not bothered about fuel mixes then definatly don't worry about oil.

Cheaper and harder to destroy..

I can push mine in up the ramps but its only 750kgs.

Sure. Guess new businesses have to start somewhere. Problem is that YP is full of new businesses that charge too little in order to get work. So you pay a fee in order to get work by being the cheapest. Give it a go for a while though and eventually recomendations will take over.