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Don't use a brass implement the key so history so use a sharp chisel to get purchase on it. If the key is completely mullerd and all else fails welding something to the remains of the key will give you the purchase you need. The heat involved will also help. Be careful with the shaft It's a while since I looked at one but i have it in memory that it's a parallel key and watch that auto correct its woodruff, not wood drift
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Surely that speaks to the volume of work that's about and what competition you have I don't sell a job, I give a customer advice so they can make an informed decision.
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Ummm Dunno about that, If the piece is close it may come down to a sakes pitch but most will go with price
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To go again they just need an inspection
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Work out your hourly rate, multiply that by how long you think the job think take and be ready to have to stand on when you got it wrong Or this
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No mate, I thought it was a left over from that harry potter film:laugh1:
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dead Monkeypuzzle , before it is felled n hagged up for firewood
treequip replied to difflock's topic in General chat
Log it up, the whorls look good when turned as whorls -
You could make that by welding a bit of rectangular box to a bit of flat bar, the other part is a screw fastener and a bit of tube, all garage diy stuff.
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SORRY ALL GOING TO GET BRAIN JAMES TRAILER NOW thanks
treequip replied to mendiplogs's topic in Large equipment
So have you bought a trailer or not? -
SORRY ALL GOING TO GET BRAIN JAMES TRAILER NOW thanks
treequip replied to mendiplogs's topic in Large equipment
Ha ha All talk and no go -
There is no great mystery to it. Your kit will pass or fail on condition and or age. LOLER expects you to perform pre use checks so there ought to be no real surprises. Make sure any mechanisms are clean and function as they should, its easy for just a bit of crud to stop a biner working properly. I flush them out with WD40 or similar, dry then and lube with graphite powder. Make sure your ID's are legible, you can re label stuff as needed but remember to keep track of its date into service, particularly for fabrics. Don't bother tipping the sawdust out, its not subject to LOLER :laugh1:
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No I have and do dabbled in bits of timber but I learned early on that it has to be volume or speciality. I have some nice Taxus put aside but if the man its promised to doesn't pick it up soon it wont see the other side of yule tide. What you need to bear in mind is that tree surgery mainly makes its money out of tree removals, often defective trees in locations with bad access, its not a natural hunting ground for craftwood materials. As an example, one guy wanted a price to fell a small walnut, small, badly decayed and nail ridden he had been told by a mate down the pub that all walnuts were "worth a grand because Purdey use then to make guns" he wanted me to buy it. Tree surgeons do turn up the odd bit of useable timber from time to time but the associated costs make it barely worth doing. You make more money sticking to what you know.
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I can, I have firewooded hundreds of cankered trees where the decorative hasn't gone more than a inch or two under the cambium.
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That's not a tree, its a chess piece made of ice :confused1:
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You keep banging that drum but here are a couple of reasons why not Its a fence line tree that looks to pre date the property so look out for nails and suchlike. Its got poor access. Its got decay. Any interesting grain is often limited to the "post infected" timber so may not go much into the stem. Once you get under the bark there isn't a lot of timber there to begin with When the client sees you taking what looks like a saleable product they start wondering what its worth and why you aren't doing the job for free or even paying them for the timber. To fell and firewood on site looks like an easy morning for 2 men (Carting extra) so at most an easy days work with a trolley. Ball park price £300 as a minimum to a max of £800. Value of milled and extracted timber once stored and seasoned? The man with the mobile sawmill will probably want a full days money even if all you have is a couple of hours work.
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And did anyone clear this with her and "her girls" Just asking?
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The point was that's its not just as easy as all that. I have had occasion to move 3 busted chippers and until you have been in that situation don't underestimate the problems involved. I had to recover a chipper off a rail possession by "borrowing" the starter off a mini digger in the middle of a rainy night under the eyes of a newly qualified PICOW who was proper stressed out.
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Not a good comparison, in antiquity slaves and time were plentyfull. Every break down I have seen was late afternoon and involved too few people and too little kit.
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Cougar orange sounds like she has been in the sun bed a bit to long
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Groan,,,,,, Not yet again :thumbdown
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The wave is a badge of honour thing, it's a bit like an alcoholic salute. Look carefully, the cleanliness of the hand tells you how many days since the last time it broke down:laugh1:
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That's a better way to do it, no individuals to deal with, no one coming to your place, just a better way to do it:thumbup1:
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Now there is the entire point, OK, so say a blank is worth "X" as a blank but hauling, cutting, seasoning, storage, advertising and such like costs half of that there is little profit left in the job particularly when the low volume is taken into consideration. Compared with chucking it in the firewood pile which is as simple as it gets and requires no more effort than you are already going to.
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Its still waiting for you mate
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But how much more will it cost to make it into a blank and how long will it take to sell?
