Rupe
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Yeah, but think of how much they stand to lose if they dont work for a day or a week. If you have the big kit you can undercut but you cant afford not to!
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I think I know waht Tim is on about. Andy, you are a tree proffessional who hires in folk for the job but you have a vast knowledge of what is right and what isn't. Tim is on about knobs who know nothing but get a tree job somehow and then get people in. I have been hired in before and done work like that but not usually for long, if work is slow I would take their money for a while. Ultimatly is was my choice what to do, and if I didn't they could get someone else but for a while you do feel as though you are just there to help them get away with it. They might well go on to become good tree companies and still hire or employ folk. Thats fair enough. The other side of the coin Tim would be.........skillful tree climbers trying to run tree businesses when they have no idea about business!. A good businessman could run a much better tree company than a good climber, but I would say a reasonable amount of both skills is best and a company run purely as a business is unlikly to be that great anyway.
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Tim, I'm not agreat one for reading. I've seen the film of "the road" I hope the book was better!
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If you want dark and less childish you dont have to wait for transformers to help you out!
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Ok, I think I understand!! Good luck, miss you!
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It doesn't really do left or right, it sits in the middle and you can choose which hand you want to pull the slackl with. Thats one of the problems I first has with it, I was used to hitch on left, splice on the right, but the HC system is not like that.
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Ah, you not competing here then? No worries, hope all ok. laters.
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Get who to sign a bit of paper? Signing stuff doesn't alter the truth, so no need for it. Swinny should just leave it alone, there wont be any comback and if there is it can be ignored.
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Please elaborate though, does it make much difference?
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I installed it,so it was my fault, probably a bit too tight. No worries though I need the excercise. Stu, hope you are well mate, see you next weekend?
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Unfortunatly I doubt BT will bill him. Its their wire, across his land to provide a service they get paid for. They have to re install the wire, but swinny should stay well out of it, could end up with a bill for not seeign to it quick enough if this guy is as much of a twit as he sounds.
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I like it but dont use it so much these days. It easier to tie and get right than a VT. It can be a bit dodgy if too loose, so not for the faint hearted. The good point is that the leg can be long as the pulley is under the knot so there is no sit back, and then also you can push it up the rope like a prussik then if you want to, or self advance like a VT. One problem is that it wears at pretty much one point (the top coil) so generates a lot of heat, will either burn through quick or scorch the rope if using OP or AP. The stuff in my picture can get destroyed in one comp climb! I have had to hide the results from judge in the past! But pre HC it was a good set up, I think the VT is best overall.
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Quote "the ring limits sitback of the hitch." QUOTE
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But your not a subbie! That word is (or should be ) banned!
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Ah, yes thats not so good. So does the agency do any tax documentation for you? I guess you get no holiday/sick pay just hours that you work? I see what you mean now then, so the agency has sent you along but you can see that everyone there is worse than you yet you are stuck on your agency rates doing crap work? Ditching the agency and going direct to companies would be the only way but I guess you have tried that, and I can see that you wont make any contacts on a railway line!
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I was just trying to help with your question. While I do sypmathise, I have done railway work and I know what its like, the truth is your not a subbie, your employed on a very dodgy basis.
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Thats answered all the questions then! No it doesn't matter about any TPO and yes you will have to call the phone company. Or at least the tree owner will (or those who's line is broken) don't get involved with it.
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Thats exactly how I feel with some clients, and if they don't deserve trees then they dont deserve us coming and working on them. By "us" I mean all decent tree workers, not just you and me Tony, other tree surgeons are available.
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What is it your actually competing for? If you have work and are gettign paid then what does it matter if everyone else is crap? Finding your own work is the only way forward. Are you just a self employed person working with others for a company? If you have 12 months work then it sounds like you are an employee?
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No its not, don't do it for cheap, let it fall and brign the lines down. The job looks like good fun, but you need either a nice client or good money to make 2 out of 3. If you have neither of them and its a 1 out of 3 job then don't do it. If all he wants is cheap then let him get cheap and he wont pay them. By the very sound of it from the start, i.e you need to do it this weekend, its not a proper job worth doing.
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Should be fine then. My first chipper was a bandit, not as big as that one, and had some issues with it so am a bit cynical about them. At least you have use for all those imperial sockets in your socket set now!
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Fricken dinasoar more like! Is that your first chipper, or are you well enough down the road to know what you really need? If all you do is site clearance then it will be perfect, but for domestic work it will suck! I've used them quite a lot and you end up parked in the road when you should be in the driveway, or better still in the back garden! But like I say for site work it would be good, and as long as you are happy, I'm not tryign to dampen your spirits, well done.
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You taught me that one!
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I go like this, karabiner on the other leg.
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I've seen the Aurora like that, we had two or three weeks of it in Alaska, we would sleep in bivi bags on the mountain rather than tents so we could peep out at the aurora nearly everynight. Couldn't photo it though, I had a very old camera in those days, not even an SLR (although they did exist, I'm not that old!!)
