josharb87

I just fail to see the relevance of you spending nearly a couple hundred quid at other businesses and then being grumpy that a charity that hasn’t benefited of your spending “want” you to pay to park in their parking area where you want to park?

Ok, but did you spend two hundred with that charity?

anyone got a really big rolling eyes emoji I can use?

Replying to you isn’t high up on my to do list What I said is my answer, shouldn't really need elaboration? You just came up with another excuse/tried to not make it your responsibility with the MP comment MPS are just attention seeking narcissists, once the town starts to recover they’ll get on board, not before though My belief is regular people really can make a difference. You want your town thriving again, move back, employ some local lads doing your drain gig, they rent a room/pad locally, they buy pints in the pub, publican employs an extra barmaid, the barmaid and your lads use the local shop, local shop does better etc etc etc Similarly, want to support British farming/ industry? But British, buy local, boycott foreign stuff. Yes it’ll be an expensive time ahead, or living in a shithole for a while, but slowly the town would pick up again likewise British produce Yeah I may be naive, but better to stick by your principles than complaining, doing nothing, expecting others to fix it whilst being unwittingly part of the problem FWIW, I don’t want to move to your shithole with you, why would I? but I do support the local produce (food particularly) comment above - it is expensive but better than being a hypocrite

Move back support the local economy set an example towns don’t become dilapidated cesspits because too many people want to live there and spend too much money

The uk market baffles me at times, companies needing cash up front for relatively small expenses, subbies wanting paid first even though they may be shite, sounds a bit like I’d imagine the deprived areas in America to be! Here, it’s generally the rule that private individuals get 10 days to pay, companies 30, so even if you’ve got poor cash flow, you should be paid by the customer before needing to pay for hired in services

I’ve always called it the donkeys dick, but not gonna google that for confirmation 😂 anchor or fisherman’s for carabiners and barrel for a stopper knot

Nah, general opinion is you’re pretty thick 8 vs 2 on echo vs stihl

I liked the 150, bit lackluster performance but quite an ok pruning saw, went through two of them then got the echo, revolutionary wee saw! Definitely in the top 5 saws released the past 10-15years, it’s what the 150 should have been. got it with the echo carving bar (tes-c) which is a rebadged tsumari I believe No problems with it, no retuning, and I don’t look after my saws/do maintenance tbh but do run aspen

What advice are you after?

Caddy 4 motion a car/estate/suv looks unprofessional imo.

Inc 25% Vat

Blocket - Sveriges största marknadsplats, bilar, bostäder, möbler m.m. WWW.BLOCKET.SE Probably. Closest I know off, you’d be just 50kg over with this one

is that if you’re using a company owned vehicle privately? What’s the road tax like on new pickups in the uk?

What’s that all mean in practice then? How much would tax be?

I’ll echo the others, a tirfor clone, great for the odd tree or when getting stuck. slow and heavy but relatively cheap lives in a crate in the depths of the truck all but one day each year. just had a quick google, reckon the prices here have doubled since I got mine 5 years ago, mental

Not on a Timberwolf, (they wouldn’t entertain the idea of hydraulic and I wouldn’t entertain the idea of electric) But I had a 3,5t one on my Jensen, can’t remember the make, American, Ramsey perhaps? if you’re spending a bit of dough in a winch and plate etc have a serious thought about going remote controlled - that’d really be the icing on the cake! got a remote controlled hydraulic winch on my wee forwarder, improves winching efficiency immensely where are you planning to mount it? Under or above the hopper? Mine Was mounted low down under the hopper, brilliant for heavy work, pulling trees over, skidding whole trees, logs etc. there’s a Norwegian firm that supplies brackets to hold the winch over the hopper for dragging, less capacity, faster and remote controlled - good for dragging bundles of brash and tops straight up into the hopper

great isn’t it! taking a snippet out of John’s link, This ultimately sets the shape of things that were to come, as the precedent set was one of outlining how a tree owner must be able to recognise that trees, by virtue of their mere presence, can cause problems. Failing to recognise this and deal with such problems appropriately is, therefore, negligent. In which case building a house near established tree’s should also be a recognisable problem and therefore negligence on the planners part!

Snap!

100k of arb kit you say? reminds me of a mythical story Once upon a time, many years ago, there were two conifers…… 100ft tall he said……….

different country so irrelevant. Probably the equivalent of 250-300. A few years ago now though the two good subbys I had I wouldn’t have batted an eyelid if they upped their rate 20% over night. might not have been as many 1pm finishes though! the bearably average guys wouldn’t have gotten any more work had they asked for even 1% though. tree works not rocket science, you don’t need to be clever or have a degree, it’s simple, grubby, grunty manual labour. there’s no such thing as market rate, just the balance point of a climbers productivity/money. it might just be that your productivity is only worth £200 a day. If you’re able to get shit done more efficiently/quicker there’s no reason the employing company can’t get through more work that day and therefore pay more. Just like bringing a machine to site, you don’t necessarily charge more, but you get the job done quicker so can do another job that day, upping the daily turnover.

if there’s no shortage of people wanting you, up your rates! people want you because you’re either cheap and good, or cheap and bearable/average. True, if you’re the latter and up your rates you’ll be unemployed if you’re good, you’ll still be needed

Seen quite a few, normally with a Volvo BM (Swedish brand in Sweden I guess) why? Better maneuverability than a tractor and trailer would be my guess

Waste of time, waste of a container and waste of logs but it looks pretty!