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  1. Rupe
    I used to say on my invoices that the customer can ask me for my account number and sort code, but I have changed it now so those details are on every iinvoice therefore encouraging them to use that method. If its differing banks then it still take 4 days but in a few years time it will be second nature and new technology is coming in all the time. Card payments by streamiline device are way too expensive IMO.
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    Onlin epayments work fine and lots of my clients do that. Sometimes, if they have the same bank, the money is in your account by the time you get home the same day!! (not often enough though) I put cheques in throuhg the banks letter box so no need to rush to the bank durign opening hours. I think those streamline things are no good for us, they are for multi transactions only, not one a day transactions. By the time cheques are gone there will be new mothods in use anyway, possibly by mobile phones, so you would use your phone to scan the customers phone and that would be it. As will all these things it takes time to "train" the public. So now we are used to self service tills in supermarkets and its only a few older poeple who are left behind. By 2018 (or whatever date) cheques will probably cease to be on their own.
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    oh, 2m from a house wall? I thought you meant boundary wall. If you happen to be on clay soil then I would remove it a bit sharpish, but if the soil is well drained with no clay (pretty much anything other than clay is good) then you could keep it for a while. If it has just been planted then it would be quite easy to pull up now and move or sell on e bay maybe? Buyer collects and bring a shovel.
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    I went for the samsung galaxy s in the end (not the s2 which is just out). Free phone and £26 a month for 18months with all the data/texts/calls etc you could need.
  5. Rupe
    They are lovely trees, enjoy it for as many years as you can and then get one of us lot in to remove it, thats what we are here for.
  6. Rupe
    what number of hits does the firewood directory get?
  7. Rupe
    Your client list will always be worth something to somebody, especially if its electronically stored, lilke on a spread sheet or something. But I don't think the 2-3 times annual profit theory will hold for a goodwill based tree business.
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    TreeBuzz, the american forum. The pictures were years ago so not much chance of finding them, unless anyone here can remember who posted them? One of our american freinds might know, Gord for example?
  9. Rupe
    Has he got a pony tail and a mullett!!? Now thats talent!
  10. Rupe
    The winch that the GRCS uses is about £800 I think. But yes, there have been a few home made ones done in the past. Have seen pictures on TB of at least one.
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    Heres an pld pic (2006) of a home made bollard in use alongside the GRCS. Basically anything large in diameter and fixed to the tree in a solid fashion is goiNG to be awsome and easy to use. This one was never tested to destruction so it has no official MBS or SWL and definatly no CE mark but who gives a stuff, it works, job done thank you very much.
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    You might find that selling to one of those "local contracotors" is your best bet. They could take on you client base etc. Trouble is they will all think they can take on that extra work without paying you any money and if they are good then they probably will. Anyone you sell to will have to make their own mark so if they are not already established (like the "local contractors") then they have little chance. I would value your business at the value of its fixed assets nothing more. And I dont mean to be harsh, if mine were for sale I would be in the same boat, these small businesses that we run do not stand on their own two feet, they require our input at 14+ hours a day and without us they are nothing. My client list is awsome but they would all go elsewhere (even just for comparitive quotes) if I sold up. And then the best new quote would win the job, regardless of how much someone had paid for the business.
  13. Rupe
    Drayer do the real grcs as well. Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk
  14. Rupe
    "Living on the hedge" Thats actually quite well structured humour for a red neck!
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    That will be SWL though not breaking strength. I know its not much but if they used a 10:1 safety factor that means the breaking strength is at least 5000kgs, all it means is that it shouldn't be used repeatedly over 500kgs. The whole point of these units though is to allow you to dissipate the forces generated from snatching lumps. So a 300kgs lump would generate huge forces if dropped onto a fixed rope, but if you let the rope run you will lower the peak forces. Its easier to let the rope run on a fixed bollard than it is on a flying capstan so a 500kgs limit on a bollard is way higher than a 500kgs limit on a capstan if that makes sense? i.e. in proper use you can do bigger stuff and still not get near to the 500 limit. If you are unsure about it then only use it with a 13mm rope for starters, and you sill soon learn that the rope is the limiting factor on all things not the hardware. (not including slings as they are often a weak point)
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    second hand? As long as its not been abused it should be ok.
  17. Rupe
    That one is a cheaper version of the GRCS really, it still costs way more than just a bollard.
  18. Rupe
    273 euros....... Brems- und Ablassgeräte
  19. Rupe
    Ah, there you are then!
  20. Rupe
    Or this which is the cheaper version.........
  21. Rupe
    Drayer make the European GRCS'. Is that you you mean?
  22. Rupe
    This is an interesting program about the history of festivals in this country, some good old footage too. BBC iPlayer - Festivals Britannia
  23. Rupe
    The whole point of these fancy bollards is to be able to dissipate forces through proper use. So we all know the figures, a 200kgs lump falling 2m creates a force of a gaziliion kgs when it comes to a stop. Well thats all well and good but if you bring it to stop slowly those forces are lost. I still think the 700gs sounds low, but thats SWL at 10:1 so its as low as can be. 1000kgs is more like it plenty IMO. A 500kg lump lowered by a competant groundie will not generate that much force, but the higher up it is the mpre time he has to slow it down. Tony if you are looking for the ideal lowering system then the proven one thus far is the grcs, and if you need a fixed bollard then a cimple RC device on the same tree will do, plus then you have the ability to put the bollard on a seperate tree or to have another crew usign that elsewhere.
  24. Rupe
    A large rope of 19mm would have a MBS of 9000kgs. and if you use a 7:1 (fine for rigging) that gives SWL of around 1250kgs. So your 7.5t truck might have exceeded the SWL but as long as you applied the force progressivley you would have a job to snap the rope, and the pulley of course is going to be fine.
  25. Rupe
    Basically the ISC pulleys are super awsomely strong, and the DMM impact ones are even stronger, they will always be the strongest part of your set up. Like Peter is implying they actually carry double the load (the log on one side PLUS the same load on the other side holding the log in place. So, a WLL of 3000kgs is about right, that means a load of 1500 kgs can be applied to either side, which is double waht the winch can handle which is exactly ok. If the pulley could only handle the same as the winch then you would have problems. I have never snatched anythign like 500kgs, like majestic says 250kgs is ample. We have however lifted 600kgs lumps with no bother but that would be putting 1200kgs of force on the block so a 3000kgs WLL is very comforting. The large ISC actually has a WLL of 4500kgs!

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