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  1. Mark Bolam
    Sometimes it just all falls into place mate. I trust you had a good catch up!
  2. Mark Bolam
    Of course! With my fabrication skills I would probably end up with something that would make the scrub taller!
  3. Mark Bolam
    How would the self powered flail mower work backwards, so to speak? They are obviously designed to be pulled, not pushed. Or am I missing something?
  4. Mark Bolam
    @Dave Alviti recently put a vid up of a 1m flail on the Microbull thread. You’d need to go narrower for access, obviously, or detach the flail to get in the gates.
  5. Mark Bolam
    How is he subsidised to produce bananas and pineapples? The supermarkets pay him to take their waste, it’s not subsidised. He does put the hours in, but he’s a multi millionaire.
  6. Mark Bolam
    We all want more inches Big Lad! Marcs 230 was perfect here as we could shove it round with the loader in awkward spots. Cord was left on site, habitat piles! It’s a joy leaving 12” heavy in 6’ lengths and just stacking in the brambles! Mark Broadley’s Bandit would have got bogged, we can call in the bigger guns if we need them, but this wasn’t the site for it. Bigger chipper = bigger truck for me. Where does it end?!!!! Are you going to the APF?
  7. Mark Bolam
    Andy my mate has a biodigester plant that all the big supermarkets tip at. As you say, the waste is literally criminal. He has a pretty good separation system, and a lot is bust up for cattle feed. The hoops he has to jump through are unreal though. He’s a farmer through and through, and is disgusted by the waste situation, although he knows he’d be daft to say no to the money.
  8. Mark Bolam
    Another loader win today. Windblow job priced for 4 of us for 2 days, rinsed in an easy 2 with 2 of us and the loader. Multiple leylandii that had been in a paddock since Eunice, grass and bindweed grown through the brush etc. Would have been a nightmare pulling apart by hand. The WQ has it’s limitations power wise, but it’s still bloody amazing what it will do. Most grabbed, a few awkward bits pulled out with a short bull rope on the ball hitch.
  9. Mark Bolam
    Nice lunge John.
  10. Mark Bolam
    I have a similar photo of me felling in the Sahara Forest.
  11. Mark Bolam
    Do you not need to boil the rice first? I would have thought that would be bullet hard. Sounds tasty, mind.
  12. Mark Bolam
    It’s no wonder they fell off at the end.
  13. Mark Bolam
    Sorry Luke, bit late to the party, but Steve is your man.
  14. Mark Bolam
    We forgive you Sviatoslav! Fair play to you mate.
  15. Mark Bolam
    Where an earth do they keep that amount of guns? We genuinely have a struggle to store shoes for 3 kids.
  16. Mark Bolam
    Excellent and Shrewsbury.
  17. Mark Bolam
    Sawlogs are timber of good enough quality to go to the mill John.
  18. Mark Bolam
    Fair enough, but you can’t ‘take someone on’ on a self employed basis. Well, you can, and people do, but it’s completely illegal. I don’t make the rules, but the people who do don’t like making our lives easy.
  19. Mark Bolam
    That’s hardly the point Joe was making. I wouldn’t bother with the H&S questionnaire, you’d be better off reading up on employment law.
  20. Mark Bolam
    I’ve got £10m PL and £10m EL and the thought of using my insurance on a job like this gives me the shivers. I’m asked to do quite a few and always refuse unless agreement with the neighbours can be reached. Life’s too short to get involved in other peoples rows, and to leave trees looking utterly shit, which they always will do.
  21. Mark Bolam
    These guys will sort you out mate. Tree Surgeon Kent | Kent Tree Surgery | Leaf Tree Services WWW.LEAFTREESERVICES.CO.UK Need a tree surgeon? Leaf Tree Services offer professional, qualified, affordable tree care services...
  22. Mark Bolam
    Absolutely mate. A few years ago I wanted to be a tree surgeon and work with trees. A few kids and a mortgage later and I’m obsessed with hp and l/m.
  23. Mark Bolam
    That’s spot on Mick. I reckon even if on some jobs I could compete financially with 3 of us pissing about with a Transit and a TW160 for 10 days, some of these lads could rinse the job for the same money in 1. Any sane client will avoid the extra 9 days of agg.
  24. Mark Bolam
    That’s not a tender. Do you mean they’ve set a budget? They can’t say ‘how much are you going to charge us for £90k’s worth of work?’ I’m obviously missing something.
  25. Mark Bolam
    Lee you’d be better off mentioning what attachments you have as well.

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