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We also had to remove major deadwood from the oak, so we had to climb it anyway. I nipped up the oak and knocked the deadwood out and set up the rigging for the Syc. Then went further out from my final rig point and put a redirect in and then dropped down into the sycamore. In this picture, I have highlighted the tree for those who couldnt find it! Then the yellow line is my climb line, redirected out on the left of the oak and down into the sycamore. And the pink line is the rigging line. Its final rig point is below my climbing line on the same limb, but the top rigging point is on a different up right stem. So, both the climb line and rig line are just re directed on the outer limb.

Tuesdays job this week, on the only dry day of the week so far! A twin stemmed sycamore over a spa/cinema building in a posh hotel. When I first looked at it, I planned to use the adjacent oak as an anchor point for rigging, but you never really know if these things will work until you try! The oak (turkey) is about 30m, and only about 8m away from the base of the sycamore, between the two of them is a large shed, which is not in the best of condition but we didnt want to break it. The the Syc leans away and over the buliding. Its not that easy to see, except its the most in leaf with bright green leaves!

Oh yes, excercise, not experiment. I think he will get some excercise sorting it out himself!

He responded to my question/statement that i sent on ebay. He was very polite and just said that it was done "as an experiment". Fair dos then really, I hope he learned something from it.

Ha ha, dont get me started!!

I thought we do normally agree.

Didnt do you any harm in the long run though did it?

I think that is what I was trying to say andy. I wasnt meaning that by "law" you will get sacked and there is nothing you can do about it, I meant forget the law, you risk getting sacked and there is not a great deal you can do about it. By all means get quotes for insurance, but you dont need it if your just doing some jobs for a mate at weekends, but trying to do everything by the book, (insurance, and tax wise) will actually cause you more problems than they solve, unless, as I said, you have a very stupid employer. I know of one bloke who turned up to work in a sign written van, and was sacked on the spot, and still thinks that was unfair!!!!! If an employee gets offered private work at weekends then the correct thing to do is to price it up for the employing company to do, and arrange with the boss for a percentage. Not try and get the work done at weekends yourself. Of course I know that that rarely happens.

Ok, I accept that the term "gross misconduct" might not have been correct. But maybe I shouldnt have said anything about law, as I am not really interested in the complications of law. The facts are though, that unless you have a very understanding (stupid) boss, you will be treading on very thin ice if you officially go self employed to work for someone else at weekends. Even if not in tree work, if you work all weekend and are not on good form for monday then you risk losing your job. Even if you play sports all weekend and come in tired/injured on a regular basis, you can find your self replaced by someone less "risky". Employment is a rare enough thing that you shouldn't mess with it. And I dont know any tree companies with an HR department, its all fairly old school. YOu can get sacked for no reason, weather thats legal or not, you find out if its legal if you take it up in court afterwards, but for many its too late by then. I personally would take it as gross misconduct, even if that isnt the correct term. The OP should either discuss with his boss, or if that is not a comfortable thing to do then I would suggest keeping very quiet about it. But taking a wage with holiday pay etc. while planning to set up on your own is extremely insulting to the person paying the wage, and its naive to think that its all going to be ok. So lets all forget about law, I dont like all that legal speak, its pointless, my bad for mentioning it. As said before, I know of quite a few examples of people finding themselves sacked very quickly, and as yet I dont know of any taking it to an employment tribunal.

hi everyone! i currently have a full time job but am really wanting to set up on my on so im looking into getting a van get bits of equipment that i dont already have and start getting out there. ive been offered work on weekends by a mate who runs a local firm but only if i go self employed so that fits into this aswell. im looking at getting my own insurance and go self employed see how much work i can get etc and see how things go before dumping a safe job any info on good insurance etc would be great i know theres a loads of you clued up in this so any help would be much appreciated many thank In the absence of a specific cause to exclude the employee working for other than the employer, the employer would need to show the employee's actions were in direct competition with their business and so likely to harm them. Restraint of trade clauses are prima facie void, with the onus on the party relying on them to show them as 'reasonable'. You can quote stuff all you want, but it will be up to him to prove that after he's sacked. I'm not saying dont do it, just saying you can expect to be sacked or at the least your job may become very unpleasant. I dont understand a word of what you said, but I know that you get sacked first and can sort it out after if think you will win. Seen it happen plenty of times, and I would do it to an employee aswell, in a second, with little regard for what some HR expert had to say about it. And even if you win (your employer gets fined) you still wont have your job back and the likelyhood of employment in the industry in the same area is then much slimmer. With the shortage of jobs that there is at the moment, I give my advice with all honesty, without the need for quoting legal BS.

In fact your better off doing it as cash only at the weekends, then there is no proof.

If you are full time employed in an industry then any part time work in the same industry can be seen as gross misconduct. Its not against tax law if hes all self employed etc. and its not against the law to do it, but the employer can use employment law to get rid of him. I'm not saying dont do it, just sayign dont worry about what laws are involved, just get on with it, and if you get sacked then it was a bad idea and if you end up with loads of work and you dont need your full time job anymore then it will have been a good idea.

Yoga, or just stetching, doesnt have to be yoga which pretends to be more than just stretching, but good yoga is probably the best form of correct and intense stretching

What "law"? Do it at the weekends and you run the risk of being sacked from your job, thats a law that your employer can use!! Its called gross misconduct.

Yep, mine might not do all that stuff!! Luckily I dont need it to.

My 13 year old subaru would go everywhere he just took that! Plus it will go 120 on the motorway, aparantly!!

I dont want to depress anyone but in the late 90's northern rock were doing 110% mortgages, no wonder we got in so much trouble. All you needed was a salary which when multiplied by 3.5 equalled (or greater) the value of the house you were buying, then a 10% deposit. As soon as you actually bought the house you got the 10% deposit back plus another 10% taking the value of your mortgage to 110% of the property and most likely above 3.5 times your income (definatly in my case) So, of course many poeple defaulted, hence the crash and northern rock leading the crash. I have hung on ok, but couldnt buy another house if I wanted to move. The other funny thing was that I borrowed the 10% deposit from the bank with 2 months deferred payments, and paid it all back within the two months so only paid them about £60 in fees IIRC !!

26th of may at shuttleworth college. Volunteer as a time keeper/judge and see what goes on. Then organise another one next year for the ISA, Craig (judge) will be very pleased I'm sure!!

And the other 75% of each is like chalk and cheese.

Imagine two circles that represent the skills required for the two jobs. I would say that those circles overlap by 25%. i.e. 25 of arb work is the same as 25% or forestry work.

Good luck! You will need three years of accounts showing income, but of course our income is always shown to be as small as possible (i.e. we claim as much as poss as expenditure) for tax, for a mortgage you need it to be as high as possible. Then you will need a higher than normal deposit, not sure hwo high, it depends on the lenders but it wasnt that long ago that they were asking around 30%. I bought my house will I was on a wage, and got it through northern rock in the late 90's when they didnt wask any questions!! I remortaged when self employed using the self assessment method, again that was in the days when they didnt ask any questions! I doubt I could even get a mortgage now to buy the house I already own at the price I paid for it in '99 !!

Take it to the dump was my second suggestion. Or launch it into a woodland, it can rot away happilly there.

Jet wash it then cut it up with a chains saw.

I just keep 90% of my thoughts on beer, food and naked ladies!! The rest is just wasted on trivial stuff!

Cheers Paul. I did nearly call you last Sunday for a hand with a blown over oak in Fairford but I only had to cut a few bits off it that day so I managed.