Rupe
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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.
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Is that per hour of it running, i.e. by what it says on the clock?
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Hi mate. I wanted too but I've got so wrapped up in getting my truck finished, we needed it for work this week and it wasn't ready by the end of friday so had to keep at it. Didn't know you and owen were even going! I would have made more of an effort, would have loved to see Owen win too! Also, you called have called in on your way home!
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New series started tonight! That guy that fabricates all the fuel tanks etc is a genious! But can anyone tell me what Mikey actually does?
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supportive or un-supportive? It is what it is! I make no excuses for LDV, I've been lucky so far but you get what you pay for, and I want a cheap truck cos I want to get paid for tree work and not haulage. Remember my entire budget for this project was £3500 including the truck. I'll tell if I've gone over later!!
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This is the only "before" pic I could find. Its from 2006. Whilst I was looking I found a pic of part of the rear garden. 80 mature beech trees. I spent one week a year for three years deadwooding these, then each year I spend a week on other trees, soon it will be time for the beech trees again!
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THat job uses 20 litres of fuel to complete. Not often I use that much fuel in a week. Another reason why hedges must be priced at or even above tree work rates if possible!
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Dean, Stihl all the way. 2x combi tools one with short pole trimmer attachment for the tops, and one with long pole trimmer attachment for top edges of the sides and any harder to reach areas and one 1m extension for the towers. Then two single sided trimmers, one of the very long ones and one short one. I've got the older style stihl ones which i like better than the new ones although they vibrate a bit more.
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Hi mate. Good luck!! I didn't think you did such stuff? WHat sort of hedge? I do a lot of work at a Castle near me with tons of yew hedges. The gardeners start them when the castle closes to visitors at the end of October and they aim to finish them by christmas but I've not known them to succeed yet!
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Yes, years ago the were a few labs researching a drug for breast cancer and they competed to get the clippings so the rates were better. Then one company came up with the drug and it went to testing for two years so no more clippings required. Now the drug is in production by one company only and they need some clippings but not too much and they don't pay as much. Thats my understanding anyway. My client never accepts any money for them anyway, or she sends it to a cancer charity.
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Stihl do cheaper saws that are not aimed at the pro market, they would be fine.
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Awesome for Owen! He was working for me two weeks ago and not sure if he was goign to go the comp or not at that point! His climbing was looking really good though and he's mastered the SRT set up an useage so he would have got good points for that. Spoke to him today and he's well pleased and got himself a place in the Europeans in Prague next year. Well done mate!! (he can go to the Euros cos he's half english, sorry Welsh, and has UK passport, just needs to change his accent)
