Albedo
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Dean, whilst your politeness and moral stance is admirable. There seems to be two camps here. The one you are argueing and the one everyone that disagrees with you is argueing. If I were to cast my vote, it would be against you on this one, or a no vote. Covering my butt is more important to me than the sensibilities of Joe public, or the money from the job (which I realise is not your motivation, but one of trust).
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PS. Think I might have spelt business wrong in these posts, no idea how many s'ss could need some more. Bang goes my snooze:001_smile:
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Thank you Mr Jonesie. I will now sleep soundly in my bed tonight, in the safe knowledge that all the I's and T's are now dotted so to speak.
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Are we on a mission??? I would like to know what it is:001_smile: My sympathies for the plagiarism, that must be deeply annoying:thumbdown:
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Ty Its really good getting your input from France, I used to work over there selling metal craftwork stuff that I used to weld together, mostly Narbonne and Lyon out of an old VW transporter with my welding shop in the back and living in the bit in the middle for about 2 years. Didn't reply to your bit in the 'what does it cost' .... thread as the maths was too much for me, but I know how punitive the tax, social security is, and got quite close to gaining a 'carte de sejour' ... long story This was years ago and my french is not so good now, my spanish is better so can speak FranSpan with you a bit. Anyway, Sounds like you don't have a problem with the language barrier, reading between the lines, but will ask anyway - Could this be a factor in any misunderstandings with said putain de client?
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Hi Mr jonesie I'm not trying to be clever or funny here and we tree surgeons are not the greatest spellers, but in your business, I thought it might be worth pointing out that there's two a's in bargAin. I think that's how you spell it, sure someone will say if I'm wrong Sorry but it was bugging me:001_smile:
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Can't believe this thread has such legs, don't any of you have something to say about stihl oil caps:001_smile: My advice to you young mr crisp is - Fight hard, Die well!
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I love this thread, glad it still has some miles in it. I mentioned the thread to a climber friend of mine, he's an old dog who knows a few tricks, and he made this point too. combi spanner hole in cap etc. So good point, but I will go to my grave hateing the new (or as pointed out 10 yr old) cap. My problem is that no matter how much I develop a technique, I forget to use said technique, assume its on then it isn't.
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Would be a nice bit of corro/fracture/bart work there if perhaps a bit higher up the stem. Whadya reckon monkeyd? (smiles)
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In all my time I've never done any cranework. I've always wondered exactly what cut you do and do you hide below the cut so the enormous lump of tree doesn't get you? etc Used to be afraid I might be in that position and not know what to do. Hence all this detailed stuff about the cut and the chains is very interesting and educational. Its answering these things. Keep it up chaps. And nice work peter, very brave!!
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an adult elephant has to drink 200 litres a day to survive. I wonder if their oil caps are made by stihl?? smiley
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Have my saw on my lap now. Have spotted the rectangles and given it a go, and it appears to work. Did have to clear some oily sawdusty bits out of the way, find my glasses and use a torch in poor light. I don't think I'm intelligent enough to be your groundie skyhuck:001_smile: and although I almost always agree with your thinking these days, we may have to agree to differ on this one mate. I think my hatred of the oil cap is too deep, I'm no longer open to reason:001_smile:
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Not picking on you Colson:001_smile: I'm just enjoying using this thread to vent my rage at the stihl oil cap. I have observed that the mechanism seems to be a miniature of the petrol cap, which works fine. It seems that in miniature it can miss the bits its meant to bite on but still sit down in the next grooves, held on only by oil. At best - you get your gloves oily when you reset the cap, to have another go. I don't think we should become black belts in oil cap handling, it should just work easily. Perhaps there should be an NPTC in it? All the advice given is good and agreed I think, but I'm angry (With stihl) because it shouldn't be necessary. Or in short - Its shite!
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My theory is that the longer you do it the worse you seem to get. I have previous employers who'd done quotes for eons and were terrible at it. Iv'e only been doing quotes for two years and seem to be getting worse at it already.
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Fair point, could be your climbers leg, but what if it falls off while he's pulling the saw up, and your standing underneath it?:sneaky2:
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I't'll sneak up and get you one day soon,
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When I saw the title of this thread I thought still had finally sorted out this shocking piece of design/ engineering. Dissapointed that its not the case. It is NOT FINE - it is a PIECE of S$$T. It caught me again just the other day, It catches me out about once a month at least. If it's so ok! Why doesn't the petrol cap do it?? Good thread mate --- SORT IT OUT STIHL, MAKE A CAP THAT STAYS ON !!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
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Rupe, as one of my favourite posters on arbtalk, I am dissapointed with this shocking example of chipperism!!! I had a long day at the office and can't be bothered to type my counter argument. So I will just say this - You can't bake a potato on a chipper!
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Do you take: broken rakes chain oil drums plastic 2 stroke bottles coke cans worn out chains disgarded chainsaw parts pallets oily rags old engines etc. If so, I know a few people who could do with their yards tidied. A good sweep and ironicaly, a bit of a go with the strimmer wouldn't hurt too.
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On reflection, skyhuck, this is interesting in the % turnover thing, as you have explained in some other thread, that you found the investment, in your mega rig to be efficient.
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At risk of being chewed up and spat a long distance, in less words than this: Did half of that go on Mog maintenance:001_cool: ?
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If you can still do that mate then you have huge respect from me. A lot of people in your position are eaten by the machine, so to speak, and turn into right barstewards. This is something I have noticed in my time, it really is a big deal !!!
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Another fine post, cheers arbogrunt, I think theres a lot of people on here at the same place in the life of an arborist. Could be time for Short Wheel Base to say more than his first, concise, post
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Thats interesting, thanks for the input. I bet you have to work hard doing quotes, and generally doing that turnover
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Thinking about it Gibbon its possible to be a 3-4 man outfit and have those kind of overheads, so as % turnover, would this be 60 plus ?
