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  1. Mark Bolam
    Big difference between want and get mate.
  2. Mark Bolam
    I totally agree mate, you’re spot on. Industry rates have been depressed for years, across the board. It’s like anything though, if enough people are prepared to endure it nothing will ever change. I would stretch to £160/day for the OP freelance, not on the books. I’ve got some good customers, but still need to win jobs on price, and I’m in fat, minted Kent. The dream of £1k/day for standard 3 men truck and chipper would just find an empty diary.
  3. Mark Bolam
    £160/day is £41.6k on the books.
  4. Mark Bolam
    I love the manoeuvreability of my 160 and it’s a great machine, but an ST6 will outchip it all day every day.
  5. Mark Bolam

    Harry

    Mark Bolam replied to Wolfieoo's topic in Employment

    The sooner Bark f off and die the better.
  6. Mark Bolam
    Maybe those lads will check out arb courses later. My mate just sent me this.
  7. Mark Bolam
    Fair play Jamie.
  8. Mark Bolam
    I had two 17 year olds dragging for me this morning and I showed them this. They are researching arb courses this afternoon.
  9. Mark Bolam
    Thanks for your input Chris and Jules, I’ve been living in the dark ages a bit!
  10. Mark Bolam
    Were the blades flat ground instead of hollow ground perhaps? As Jase said it makes a huge difference to a gravity fed machine.
  11. Mark Bolam
    B985DVK - my parents VW Polo from when I was about 10! I keep a picture of my current reg on my phone so I can remember it in car parks etc!
  12. Mark Bolam
    Memory is a very weird thing. I can forget names within 30 seconds yet recite Pogues lyrics perfectly from 30 years ago. There’s a few on here that I’m sure could contribute a lot more than I can, but I can’t remember who they are! Age is a factor, of course, but I don’t think it’s as simple as old age = bad memory. There’s a lot more to it than that. I’d value the opinion of the Village Idiot, but I can’t seem to tag him? Appreciate it if someone could, I’ll forget tomorrow! You’re not alone mate.
  13. Mark Bolam
    And I’ll bare my arse in Burtons if that hasn’t heaved. (Sorry to go into ‘80’s speak).
  14. Mark Bolam
    I’d apply for a fell under a 5 day DDD and await response. Get on the phone to the TO tomorrow.
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  16. Mark Bolam
    God knows what it’s loading, pic was meant to be attached. Touch wood it wasn’t anything I was looking at last night.
  17. Mark Bolam
    Didn’t know you were on the Petzl RW rip-off Joe. Macca loves his, teaming with a hitch at the mo. Keeping us busy, though. Why overload one Transit when you can overload two?
  18. Mark Bolam
    @Tom D
  19. Mark Bolam
    Nor me! Bloody cedar phone....
  20. Mark Bolam
    As in base tie the retrieval leg Joe?
  21. Mark Bolam
    No mate, it’s a cedar.
  22. Mark Bolam
    Slight tangent but I heard my first Cuckoo yesterday. Quick diary check showed 3 weeks later than last year, to the day. Pretty much in line with the bluebell ‘show’. Still bloody cold at night.
  23. Mark Bolam
    Glad you get on with them Paddy. Same set up as mine. Pound for pound one of the best investments I’ve made.
  24. Mark Bolam
    Metasequoia?
  25. Mark Bolam
    Alec stop ruining this thread with your good sense. Thank you.

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