Rupe
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You should be paying freelancers more than you pay yourself, they are only there for the day at your convenience not contracted etc. You get the benefits of their work further down the line with repeat work and referals yet they get nothing. Of course you pay yourself little if its your business, thats what we all do but that does not mean you shouldn't pay a good climber more than you! Thats just tight! If you got climbers already and then hiring one in your making a lot more than 100 a day, even if you only "pay" yourself that much, the rest is still your money! I pay my self 100 a day, every day of the week if I'm working or not, but I know I can take extra money to pay for holidays, or whatever, thats my perogative. Responsibilty has little to do with it. I pay more for good climbers, I don't compare there responsibilites to mine, they are making me moeny and get paid accordingly.
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17 years. I'm 40 next year!!
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Kylie just shouted up from the dungeon and said that was huge whatever it was!
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Youngish looking branch, probably just growing quicker than it can strengthen itself, i.e. its too heavy!! Is it reachign out of the crown for light? Possible increased rate of growth due to the old stem removed (last photo). Just cut it off and look out for others while up there.
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IMO opinion Yes, and I have said so before. BUT if you need the work then take whats available! Especially if a climber is going in with riggign gear etc to do work for companies that can't do that kind of thing. I've worked before for tree companies that don't have nay climbers and it is wrong. Sometime you take the money and other times say no.
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My mums got one like that in her yard but the rails are wooden not that modern steel stuff.
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Do you need the work? Tell them to go get there own mog or leave jobs like that for those that have the right kit. You'll end up making someone else look good due to your investment and hard work, they'll rag the hell out of the mog compared to what you need it to do per day, ie they'll get it in for one day of a four day job and expect it to work flat out all day to catch up. My old boss used to do it and we ended up with no mog for the day and a blunt chipper the next day.
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Pulling trees over is a good use for old ropes. Don't need loler for that. If pulling with something big then pull on a double line. Drift lines for rigging too, or retrieval lines for rigging.
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Sure, we try and do everything right and look respectabel etc and it all works if you've been recomended, but IMO as soon as someone gets your number form YP they just want the cheapest. We see if I can improve things with just sign writting etc, my work is fine and that has got me this far, just a liitle extra push required but I'm still figuring out how to get it as well.
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I should say that maybe I was lucky. In the 10 years I was employed I got to know a lot of poeple and that has helped me when I started on my own. I'm not saying I stole customers, but the company I last worked for went bust so I contacted as many as I could and it paid off to start with then I picked up more form there. If I was startign from fresh now, or in a new area, I guess I would have to advertise.
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Zero zero zero. I have no advertising budget . I am going to make some effort this year, when the new truck is done it will get sign written much better than the old one and I have new business cards and letterheads that actualy match. Then hopefully I'll feel like I have an image worth promoting, along with the good work that I know I do. I know I've been complacent over the last few years and work has come my way. I'm now intrigued as to what I could achieve if I made more effort. I get work from council recomendation and word of mouth really thats it. All the money I spent on advertising was IMO wasted. It got me a few one off jobs that led no where and didn't pay for the adverts if you use the calculations above. I could have gone for a long walk and got more excercise for less cost.
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Sure, you never know what it might lead too, but remember I'm bitter and twisted when it comes to Yell!! The job you got was probably cos you were cheaper therefore you made less profit on it than you might have done on a recomended job, so you are payign advertising to make less money. I'll stop now.
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That'll be it then!! Thank you. Should have guessed it. Maybe if I was closer, excuses excuses. Cool, my book mentions the tips of leaves turning red early so that will be it. Thanks.
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Coigue beech- nothofagus dombeyi has vaguely similar sounding bark and leaves can become reddish. A pointer maybe? Erm, looked at that, the leaves are not big enough. I also looked at Lime leaf maple which looks liek a possibility but i can find no reference to the tips of the leaves going reddish.
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Sorry no photos! I looked at some work today and was asked about a tree in the neighbouring garden, i.e. what is it? I couldn't get too close and I had no camera with me, but if anyone can point me in the right direction I'll be able to look it up and I'll recognise it then. It had a trunk that looked like a plane tree with scaly bark in smaller scales than a plane but very similar. Leaves were like Beech but a bit bigger, lighter green and the tips of many of the leaves was a pink reddish colour? Is that enough info for someone to get me started? Thanks
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On this site I found this, looks just right. £218. Some on a ebay are cheaper. will get more quotes.
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My spelligns ok, but my typign is too hasty, lots of msitakes! Only a few pints. Saw Ingluriouse Basterds at cinema, very good. Tarantino is genius.
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Thanks for the responses. I've been at the cinema and pub but will look at the sites durign the week. CTS - yes I could get soem custom made ones doen but though I'd look for soem off the shelf ones first. I don't need anything as big as a gun cabinet, and security is not that important, its not for anything vital, just to use up the extra space on the chassis.
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Its not the book going bust, just the yell.com side of things I think. How does a couple of calls pay for itself? Surely form two jobs (if you get them) the advertising budget form thos jobs would be maybe 5% of total value? No business should spend more than 5% of revenue on one single advertising stream. Those jobs must be massive if they've paid for the advertisisng after you've taken off the other 95% for costs/profit etc.
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Anybody know where i can get some decent truck storage boxes from? The only ones I can find in the UK are around about 450mm high which is a bit too big. I'm looking for more like 300mm in variouse widths/depths. Any help appreciated.
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I nearly thought about getting married once! Phew that was close.
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If you got this guy in to help you to do a job that your dad arranged then his insurance is not going to be valid unless he quoted for it etc. You got him in and paid him day rate and did a job without insurance. Thats how I see it. Just cos someoen on site has insurance, it doesn't mean that will cover other poeples mistakes.
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Where is the accusation of selling nicked gear??? Asking the opinion of others is what this forum is for, no?
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"Williams".
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Yes, we keep it off as much as possible. This also keeps the maintenace costs further apart and the re sale value higher after a set number of years which further decreases those hourly costs of it running.
