Rupe

Alaska. Yes a few months of fun back in the days before actual work! Some winter mountaineering and some spring/summer "hangin out" as they say up there.

Its got the same wheels, almost like early alloys!!

I wouldn't be surprised if its still going, but it depends on if its owner is still around. He was in his 50's or 60's twenty years ago when I took the picture. I can't remember how old he was exactly cos I was 19 so everyone over 40 looked ancient! He was an engineer and he built his house, his plane, the runway for the plane, etc etc. A very clever bloke! He "found" the truck about two days walk away from his house in the 70's. He walked back and forth, 2 days each way, carrying tools and homemade spare parts until he eventually drove it home 2 years later. (not 2 years full time walking back and forth, but in his spare time in the summer between building his house, plane etc) He had to cut trees down all the way back to his house to get the truck back. We were using it to bring cord wood from the woods to his woodshed. it pulled really well, it had three quite low gears so plenty of power but no speed. I did a days work for him for food and a shower (homemade solar heated shower of course) and he told the story of the truck. It a Ford model AA. The model A replaced the famous model T, and the AA was the truck version of the A. Produced from 1932-1942 Look at the similarity with this photo

I'm sure I've used one, on demo maybe, never owned one. There is only one top handle saw and it has a baby brother (192t) and the rest is for looking at!

Arbex--will just mean "arboriculture expensive"

Printers don't give a toss, they just print. Once you've approved the "proof" it gets printed. It looks ok though, thers nothing wrong, and poeple picking holes in your business cards is really anoying so i'll shut up!

Do you need the capital letter T in tree work if you have no other capitals? Oh, except the I in insurance looks capital aswell. Sometimes its Ok to Have Capitals on the most Important Words..... but you need to go one way or the other.

Here we go.

I suppose photo would be good. ..

I'm sure everyone is bored senseless with pictures of arb truck at the moment but I just found these photos whilst routing around in the attic for soem other photos (which I've still not found) Anyway could this be my first ever arb truck......... ..

Does it go over speed bumps ok?

Sure, some care when loading is needed. It depends on who you let loose with your vehicles. Mine still needs to have the outer skin fitted which will hide any minor dents from showign from the outside.

The stuff I'm using is Zyntec steel, a bit lighter than galvanised but won't necessarily last as long.

I used this lot Fat Flyers - Quality Business Cards 400gsm is the standard weight they use. You can e mail them a design and they post you the cards, simples!

I found some big sheets of 2mm aluminium for £40 quid which is going to be the roof. Its a lot thinner than I was hoping to get so if its no good I'll replace it in the future with something better, but for now cost is a problem so it will do. Because of this I've had to put some more cross members in to strengthen to roof. It may be that we won't be able to stand on the roof or very carefully if we do! We'll have to see! I've added weight here with these cross members but saved some with having such a lightweight roof. Hope to get the roof panels cut to size and on by friday.

Then the two rear panels that fill the gap between the main box and the rear pillars.

Not much progress as I have had to go and do some work for a change! We have been hedge trimming so only need car and trailer. Also I had to wait for the remainign panels to be fabricated and they could only really be measured up once the main panels were in. Today I managed to fit these extra panels. It is all only bolted together loosely at the moment just to get all the holes drilled etc then its all coming off and going back on more permanently. Having said that though, it will all be removable once done so any damaged panels can be replaced or altered. We will see how we get on with it and make any changes as required. This front panal sits just behind the tool box and connects the main chip box to the front panel of the original tip body. This has increased the strength massively and it also makes a walk through which might be handy for gettign ladders off the roof.

I wasn't thinking that kind of job, but you get the idea.

I think some one should see how far the reps would go to make a sale!

Oh yes, I know. 3500!!! Thats my budget for the entire project including the truck!

If you've got spare money then 400-600 in yellow pages wouldn't hurt at least people could use it to find your number, but if that is how you want to get your work then its no good and yell.com is a lot worserererer. Poeple who use yell.com have internet (obviously) so a web search would be better. But we all work locally so start with flyers and add yell if you have spare money but don't rely on it. IMO only and I am biased against yell!

Whats Plygloss?

I told them to bring her to court when they try and get the 800 quid out of me that I allegedly owed them, as I had a recording of her and the lies that she spouted about how much of a failure I would be without her help and about her vast experience and knwoledge in the feild of marketing/advertising (that was the real lie). They dropped the pursuit of the money. As we all know mis-selling is an offence so if you sign the paper it means nothing. If you get no decent work from it then you don't need to pay them, especially if they specifically told you that you would get calls and work. They usually say lots of call and lots of work.They reckon they get 30,000 hits for tree work in my area per month yet they can't tell me what percentage are for actual work and waht percentage of that comes to an actual job. That figure, divided by the number of contractors listed would be the correct figure of what you would get, but of course they don't tell you that bit.

Mine wasn't Irish and more of a troll than a pixie!

My window is available for you to throw your money out of! You'll be paying 2k so that people can call you and try and sell you stuff.