Stephen Blair
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It’s amazing what a machine can do, my kit all lying dirty in the containers which I hate but weather conditions don’t allow a good clean just now.
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The fixed thumbs are limiting, go hydraulic and you can draw the ram in as you curl the bucket to allow you to lift more tight in and not be stuck working at almost full reach all the time. Demo grab imo is a. Much better grab for handling timber compared to a fixed timber grab. The fixed timber puts so much stress on the dipper when working and the timber angle is steep when lifting at full reach and height, the demo grab locks it of allowing the timber to sit level. Pushing down into a stack is better too and so much quicker at handling because the rams not having to open and shut as much as the timber. It’s just a different way of working. As far as lots of loose small rubble when using a thumb, get yourself a big riddle bucket, I’d say twice the size of your digging bucket. It’s half the weight I’d say and really nice to work along with the thumb.
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How’s the wee loader doing Mark?
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If it’s for rubble then I’d use a hydraulic thumb. If you want a grab get a demo grab not timber grab.
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Had a lasco for years, can’t fault it.
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Does he pester you every day to get a shot of climbing? Does he already use the climbing kit for setting up pool lines, pruning small trees with a silky and keen as mustard? If not yes to all of the above don’t waste your time with him. edit, if yes to them all, stick him on the arial rescue course and go from there. -
-9 just now.
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I like the 1 that goes ‘ if you think you are important, try telling someone else’s dog what to do!’
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The height limit does exist, don’t work above it without contacting them to increase it , the same as if you score a bigger contract than usual, call and discuss. If you spend most of the time doing smaller back garden stuff then break it down to percentages. I doubled what I charged years ago and at the end of the year a previous insurance company wanted to charge me more, I told them the risk was the same I just charge more now. I sent them my pricing schedule as proof and it stayed the same.
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Once, I bashed a car with the digger in a car park climbing out a foundation I was digging out. I was only insured for tree work at the time but the digger was fully comprehensive, they sorted the van no bother and there was no change to my discount. NFU all the way imo.
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never been an issue for me.
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NFU work on percentages and turnover. Mines broken down into digger work, ground work, tree surgery.
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Haven’t seen this for a while, it popped up on Utube so thought I’d share.
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100 %, all RAMS include staff tickets. That cover all aspects of the job, digger, chipper, Mewps, felling, climbing, Windblow . Bigger clients will ask for updated info every year to stay on the contractors list. It’s so much easier now we have technology in our pockets .
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Kate I already had a client list ranging from private customers, companies, councils, FC , RSPB and many more but the loop was closing with old school site agents retiring off and the new breed of safety officers who didn’t know the job on site but knew what contractors needed to have. The difference it made was I didn’t need to employ climbers with tickets to put on the RAMS for the jobs. So it gave me freedom from stress of employment problems that I was always poor at managing.
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I heard it’s to be 12 degrees next week!
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-15 here just now.
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-17 in the village last night. -13 just now, doors wouldn’t open in jeep.
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THIS ADVERT HAS EXPIRED!
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2022 intermecato Tree Shear to suit 12-20 tonner used for approx 3 hours purchased for a job that never went ahead. cost approx £10k plus vat with hoses and couplings 65 mm pins £7500 plus vat Ono£7,500
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Dodger Daves getting his winter coat!
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Here’s my version of a stump peeler. matock face 1 side and serated edge the other, with a sharp corner. made from Hardox 4 the secrets in its curved anchor shape for leverage so you use the crowning action and not pulling the machine back and forth loosing energy and power.
