Mark Bolam
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Same here. We use pulleys a lot for redirects and 3:1's for pull trees and winching as well, so I'll be sticking to them. 'Oooooh, but the rings are lighter!' Hit the weights then gaylords.
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Yes Gary, Atlas Cedar. We won't be replanting till November at the earliest. We'll have until next March. Hoping to catch up with the TO today about the species change.
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It’s a fair point, I’ve got Danny Mac in on the job.
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Ah the good old days. Loads of different companies using the same stock photos of the bloke in the white Petzl lid and blue wife-beater.
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£899? Pfffft. I must be pumping out at least £5k’s worth of harm burning MDF and old copies of Razzle I can’t open anymore. -
We are felling a dead cedar next week which is TPO'd, so the TO has specced a replant. The customer would like to plant a walnut instead. The tree is at the centre of a small circular bed, so to plant it elsewhere would look odd. The plan is a deep grind then plant the walnut exactly in it's spot. We will have a bit of time to play with. Is there anything we can do to give the young tree a good start? I'd be looking to replace the grindings with topsoil, at least to a degree. There is absolutely no clue as to how or why the cedar died.
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Working in Brisbane, Australia.
Mark Bolam replied to Adam Cobb's topic in International Arborist Forum
Can’t help with the work mate, but Brizzy is a pretty smooth place, my outlaws live there and I’ve been over a couple of times. Bloody hot - it’s Queensland! So many places accessible for a weekend - Byron, Noosa etc. Good luck with it, let us know how you go. -
Have you been drinking Bon?
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Paramo is beginning to sound more and more like exactly what I’m after. That Atlas looks good but I need it in green or olive. I’ll have a proper look tomorrow when I’m on a PC. Cheers fellas.
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I hear you to an extent mate. I’ve got a Swanndri Ranger shirt and it’s pretty comfy even when wet. There must be something that keeps you dry with the hood up and your arms down? I haven’t got a nice home to go back to, you see. I have a wife and three kids.
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His worst mistake was being filmed.
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I’d heard you were a fan of the monkey fist.
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Any good?
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Foot ascender? All healthy mature trees are just begging for us to snippity-snip loads of tiny tips off with a pole saw, it’s a known fact.
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How clean is the energy that powers the kilns?
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Nice mate, but I don’t want the insulation.
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I get that Paul. The whole point of the thread is can anyone recommend something that will keep me dry for say 10 years at £500? I hate shopping. The RL was only really waterproof for about 2 of the 5 years. Re-read the thread title.
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Vat registered companies.... how do you stay competitive
Mark Bolam replied to swinny's topic in Business Management
My tuppence worth is if you’re earning enough to be VAT registered you’re good enough not to worry, which someone has already pointed out. I’ve been VAT registered before, and they are scary people if you cross them, which I did. Massive VAT bill, but my Ltd. Company hadn’t been paid a penny. They literally didn’t give a fuck and would have destroyed me. Should have been cash accounting but was badly advised back then. It was a very close call. The lads advocating putting 20% in a separate account are bang on IMO, then you simply can’t go wrong. If I was on the way up rather than down going VAT registered wouldn’t bother me in the slightest. You only lose the lowball customers anyway. Just spend more time at initial quote stage to suss them out if you don’t know them. Incidentally, I’ve lost jobs by not being VAT registered, as people think I’m a one man and his dog operation. Which is pretty fair, to be honest. -
Vat registered companies.... how do you stay competitive
Mark Bolam replied to swinny's topic in Business Management
Sorry mate, missed the point there entirely, I thought all VAT was turnover based. To stay under 2% INCLUDING wages you’d have to be Amazon, or Ryanair! My bad. -
Vat registered companies.... how do you stay competitive
Mark Bolam replied to swinny's topic in Business Management
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Dan that is exactly the kind of thing would probably be great at first but 2 years later would be another £130 down the shitter. My Ridgeline smock is probably about 5 years old. I doubt it was a snide, I bought it from a pukka gun shop. It was 100% waterproof when new, it’s down to light showerproof now. The test is to do very little in lashing rain with the hood up. If your t-shirt is wet your jacket isn’t waterproof.
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For sale - Ridgeline Pintail smock, size L. One careful owner. Good condition. £125, no offers. PM if interested.
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Cheers all. The Paramo stuff and Rich’s post above, along with a few others, is where I’m at. The breathability thing is an old bugbear of mine. If it’s pissing down on the outside, water vapour (sweat) can’t possibly escape from the inside. It’s all a trade off. Plenty to get me Googling around tomorrow. It’s forecast wet. Took Dutchie out for an hour in my Ridgeline, hood up throughout, and I had to wring my t-shirt out in the utility room sink before I came in. It’s a lovely, comfy, well-designed smock, but it’s £130 odd I could have put towards something better.
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Only if they’re too wet to smoke....
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Aye, I’ll be the miserable looking bastard walking around really slowly, piss-wet through in a leaking, fleece-lined bright orange jacket with no hood.
