Rupe
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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)
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It brings in the money if the clear up is quick. A 300 quid job is still a 300 quid job when there is loads of shrubs etc in the way, you can't seem to charge extra for clear up time, I like doing these ones in the pics but that about it.
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The white board is called foamex. I've used 5mm. LOts of suppliers on line, I bought it from the guy who will be doing the sign writing. He charged me £28+vat per sheet in 8x4 foot size. I don't know if its cheaper on line. Its a bit flexi though and quite soft. Not sure how well it will stand up, we see! In hindsight I should have bought more aluminium form the scrap yard at 20 a sheet but I had already got this foamex stuff. It the same as on my old truck and that stood up ok, it got quite scrated though and on the old truck there was no hollow space behind it. We'll see how it last. At least it is easily removable so I could feasable get new panels put in each year or two.
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Heres some more. There is two sections of yew like the first pic, one on each side of the front lawn, then there are a total of ten big box hedges with the domes on and 8 smaller ones. Clear up here is a pain! I've never cut the box hedges, in the last 6 years I always seem to have office stuff to that day! All I do is the tops of the yews. Thank god for ipods!
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Stevie, the no blower in the world is going to blow it to the neighbours, they are miles away! ALso if you blow too hard it just comes out the other side of the hedge. We collect all the trimmings from the sides on sheets and then rake up wahtever comes off the top, I rake over the top once after the first cut and then trim again and the little bits stay there or fall through. I don't mind about the tea. I only see the owner once or twice a year anyway, they live in the house in london most of the time or abroad. I saw her at the weekend though and we went to look at some future work in the garden and we went in the car as it was too far to walk!
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I actually like these hedges. I've stopped doing a lot of hedges as they want cheaper and cheaper prices, and if the clear up is a pain then cheap price is no good. The clear up on this one is easy peasy, except for the area you can see with small box hedges under the main hedge. The rest of it is just grass so you can put sheets along and then take the stuff away. All the clippings 2800kgs last year, go to make the drug for breast cancer. The picture shows the main part which takes two days (three men per day) then there are two more large yew sections and loads of box hedges. Then quarter of a mile of beech, some laurel and it goes on and on. Also lots of tree work each year at this place which is one of my favorite sites although we've not had a cup of tea offered in the 6 or 7 years I've worked there!!
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My annual punishment for something I did in a past life is trimming these Yew hedges. Did them last week while my truck was out of action and worked on the truck in the evenings.
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Thank guys. I forgot to mention that IW junction box costs 12 quid! Absolute bargain, easiest to use method for wiring up extra lights etc. Once you've got it set up there are plenty of spare contacts on each rail for wahtever you need.
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Then one side on so far. I've got plenty of aluminium left over from the roof to fill in the gap along the bottom edge, istead of the little alli strip that is there now. I need to go and do some work this week so the finishing off work will have to be done at weekends now.
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The the roof went on. 2mm alluminium. It actually just strong enough to walk on a the front half but not recomended! I'll be telling folk they can't ever walk on it!
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I've wired up the trailer socket electric. I was not keen on bodging it together so I bought a junction box from Ifor Williams, the one they use on the larger trailers. Its so easy to use, then you can get to it easily and addstuff in the future. I've put addiditional wiring in for some LED marker lights, extra pair of tail/stop/direction lights for the rear corners and flashing LEDs although I have not bought these lights yet. Then I've taped the wires away from the pillars so that I don't drill through them. Once the sides are on it won't matter if they come unstuck.
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self propelled chipper (Shreks wee chipper)
Rupe replied to Stephen Blair's topic in Large equipment
Dean posted a picture of a mower that he might add a tow hitch too that might work better. -
self propelled chipper (Shreks wee chipper)
Rupe replied to Stephen Blair's topic in Large equipment
I'm pretty sure the hopper is full of kit in that photo, the weight isn't too much, its just that it presses in the wrong place, i.e. not on the drive wheels of the grinder. If you sat on the hopper end it would lift the weight off the jokey wheel but not really add any to the grinder wheels. -
self propelled chipper (Shreks wee chipper)
Rupe replied to Stephen Blair's topic in Large equipment
It work but only on flat smooth lawns and paths etc. the exact same ones that are easy to push the chipp over by hand! It worked on the job in the picture cos it was a long way and we needed the stump grinder too, but otherwise not worth it. Th eweight of the chipper bears down on the jockey wheel of the stump grinder but not the drive wheels, so theres not enough traction for slopes or wet ground. There. I remembered what I had said yesterday. -
self propelled chipper (Shreks wee chipper)
Rupe replied to Stephen Blair's topic in Large equipment
I posted something here at the weekend but its been lost. Heres the photo that went with whatever I said, can't remember now but something about adding a tow hitch to a stump grinder!
