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They`re fine for small stuff or as a redirect.

yes but the working load limit is way lower ie divide that by 10 to be safe so 450kg.

Google adwords is pay per click. You set up an ad put in how much you want to bid per click max and a daily budget say £2 and see what happens. Adwords is ok but but people have variable results. I used to pay about £20 per month tops and get a few enquiteis. Recemtly a competator of mine took out an ad and suddenly i`m paying loads ie they click my ad alot. Basically adwords is worth a go but its variable. To rank highly on google your site needs to be optimized. The criteria for google ranking changes but the following are important. Keywords ie tree surgeon, tree surgery, hull etc. The more keywords you have the higher you come up. Speed of loading is now an issue ie a large site with too many pictures will rank lower than a simple, well designed site. Links (see my signiture) are a massive part of optimization. The more site that link to you the better. Also anchor text links ie a link to you sights which has the words "tree surgeon ****" as the link rather than website.co.uk Domain FOR SALE! You can optimise yourself, i have, its alot of work. There are people who can make budget optimized sites or you can pay loads. I hope that is useful.:001_smile:

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I hate mine, get a petzl:thumbup:

Try the personnal insurance for tree surgeons sponsoed link. Thats what they specialize in. You pay a bit for decent cover.

Did some work like that a couple of years ago. One day, i wasn`t in, a car came off the motorway and crashed into the bank where the other guys had been working minutes before:scared1: Someone did ask a supervisor about more protection but nothing ever happened.

I`ve use a 357 with 15 - 18" bar and i think its great. 346 is lighter, less power but also good. 260`s i havn`t used for a while but they used to be fine. See if you can try a few then you can decided if you want a bit more power (if you`re doing a bit of medium logging), or a bit less weight (more for snedding and a bit of logging) all pro type saws are fine if you look after them.

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Just a little pick of the inside of a hollow Ash. The photo doesn`t do justice to the tree really.

The site looks really good. The only problem as said is the writing on the about page. If you are going to put capitals at the beginning of words either do it for all words or just names and sentence beginnings. How about: "We are a small company based in between Kings Lynn and Fakenham with 4 years experience in the business. We are fully insured for 5 million pounds public liability. We pride ourselves on high quality work. ":001_smile: Hope thats useful.

THAT sounds like a very good idea.

sounds like you might spend your money better on getting the rest of your tickets then and get working.

I think the 10 week course is a very good foundation to begin learning from. You get your tickets, you get some science knowledge and its a great experience. Just bear in mind you are a "full qualified" novice when you leave so you still need to learn the job which will take many years. Personally i would rather employ an apprentice with tickets rather than without. But thats just my opinion.

Thats great i have a piece of Ash that looks like a hand!

Sorry to be ignorant but is that equivelant to Cs38/39?

I`ll add at this point that i hold neither. I have considered 41 as part of optional certs for the RFS cert. This AFAG leaflet rather implies that as i don`t hold either i shouldn`t be working in a tree. As the guidelines states NEED, that potentially leaves me in a questionable situaution if something goes wrong during a rigging operation, either as employer or employee. This doesn`t need to turn into a buerocracy debate, i`m just interested.

wow you answered that before i posted it, magic.

From AFAG training and certification; "Arborists operating a chainsaw during tree-climbing operations NEED to have the additional Certificates of Competence, CS40 ‘Carry out pruning operations’ and/or CS41 ‘Undertake sectional felling’, as relevant." How many people climbing or supervising actually have one or other of these?

Thats about what you`d pay round my way too.

Essential no, useful possibly. If you have the offer and you can afford it then why not.

Sounds fine to me as self employed.

i know exactly who you mean

Looks like you did a good job. Was that you pollarding the lime the other day? I saw that, it was a nice tidy pollard.

Would that be the next photo thread challenge?