Stephen Blair

Do you have permission from Cairngorms National Park for this?

Personally this makes the good guys feel not trusted and resentful while the lazy and sneaky will remain just that. Reprimand the bad and reward the good.

Bargain!

If you are good just chuck it and start yourself, I don’t see why any climber would stick working for anyone else after they have learnt the ropes.

It’s been a great year for conkers.

Anti histamine helps.

You need to show a future employer you can do the job, concentrate on cutting and climbing, getting strong, training, researching and thinking trees 24/7. You can’t be shown how to be self employed and how to be an accountant in a few posts on here. You are starting a new journey, you can’t expect to see the final destination, that will hopefully take you 30-40 years. What you lack is confidence, that is gained through achievement. You are right to be nervous but don’t let it cripple you, deep breaths and charge on is what I’ve always told myself. Good luck

Just out the gaffs facing each other in the middle of your bag with your rope around it, or what some use is the ends off of silicone guns, those wee plastic cones.

It’s not yours to sell. Anyone who has any common sense will ask if there’s an HP, if you say no then you are lying and at fault. If they don’t ask and there is and you say nothing, you are lying and at fault and would be taking advantage of someone. Call up your finance and ask for a settlement figure, if there is interest in the finance they usually add this on in a oner then your payments are knocked off that total. So you could still have 3k plus interest to pay on a machine worth less than you paid for it. If it’s a 0% finance deal like most offer then it’s a better situation. Ask for the settlement, have a look around and see what it’s worth. Hopefully it’s about the same. If someone wants it, you show them the settlement figure that’s valid up to a certain date. If you want more for it and can get more, they pay that amount to the finance and they will send you the change. Or if they trust you and it’s a mate, get them to pay you and you pay it. If less then you pay the pitfall to make it up. Just remember, the guy who sold you it is a salesman, he isn’t in the business of buying a machine back to help you. So you might get passed straight to finance.

Superman right there! Get him dragging brash and lifting logs![emoji3]

Get as good stump grinder guy in and turn it into soil and dust.

Still a 261! My first saw was an 026, it’s been my main saw for over 20 years. Only ever had 2 bad ones I bought at the same time, just Friday afternoon saws. They both still work but nothing like they should. I’d recommend keeping away from top handles when first climbing, learn to get into position and do cuts right rather than learn to cut and hold or catch and swiping around like zoro!

Effortless, you can put 1 on your forwarder.

Hi Nick, what courses would be needed to accurately use and interpret both the above. Thanks

What is it you do Trotter?

I’ve only ever seen it on beech trees.

Interesting stuff Steve.

Deezyboy, firstly please don’t take anti depressant. I understand counciling didn’t work for Westphalian , my answer to that it, get a better councillor. Firstly reading your post, you are not depressed. Real depressed folk can’t leave the house. You have successfully ran your business for 2 years, you simply are not loving your life the way you want to live your life. I believe you will know WHO stresses you and WHAT stresses you. My first business move was to dead wood the energy vampires, firstly work related then in my personal life. Go through your phone, delete any contact that you know did not treat you like the awesome guy you are, if there is any resentment to that person, delete! Any family member, so called friend that uses you, manipulates you and doesn’t support you like mate should as you are crossing the line of a marathon, then delete, ignore and put them out your life. These people won’t go without a struggle, like putting a young puppy on a lead, it will wrestle and choke itself trying to get free, just hold the lead tight, ignore the little shit and guess what,mit will behave before it chokes out. Anything you are doing that you know you shouldn’t, stop it! Anything that’s not what you would want your parents or kids to know about, just stop it. Be it doing 31mph in a 30 mph or robbing banks, stop! You need to get the balance. If anyone owes you money, either go and get it or forget it. Being in a rage about it will eat you up, hating someone is like drinking poison and hoping the other guy dies! Do something that you are scared to do and just see if the world falls apart like you think it will. Sit down and write down some business rules and follow them. Stop talking negatively, teach yourself how to get better at what you are trying to achieve. If your partner is suffering, then tell her you are sorry and ask her what she thinks you need to do. This guy puts into 90 minutes what I’ve searched for myself in the last 10 years. Well worth a watch. Enjoy!

Forgetting he’s laws, rules etc. It comes down to the morality of the person in charge of the climber. If they care for others well being, their gut instinct will be to teach and keep everyone safe. Imo it depends what trees have been put in front of them, get new starts up the deadest scariest stuff imaginable straight away, get them really bricking themselves, then they will decide how much they want the job and if they are willing to trust their mentor on the ground encouraging them to trust their guidance. Running around connies with a top handle and a go pro for a year doing domestic garden topping just leads to arrogance and false confidence in many, so when the day comes they have to get up something scary they try and save face and then that’s where the danger starts, they can’t climb, can’t cut and put others in danger. This is all based from my little goldfish bowl in tree work and watching lots of utube videos [emoji3]

My Cats the same, I upgraded my trailer like for like and when I got home the cat fitted on by a whiskers! Last trailer had 6-8” either side.

The answer is do it the right way and it’s all good, that comes with experience and your skill set. Jim’s saw was probably blunt and he would of had a stitch from eating too many pies at lunch [emoji3]

Good to see your work again Reg, I’m 43 next month and still scrambling around trees and hitting wedges. The battery saws are great, I really need to upgrade mine.

I got a VAT review when I first registered in 2002 I think it was a Si was claiming about £8k back on assets, a nice lady turned up, looked through all my receipts and found a further £1100 I hadn’t noticed, no drama job done.

I don’t know what the business answer is but what I’ve always did when my business was growing was explain to my annual hedge cutting customers( as they were only really my regulars ) that I’ll get to them when I can at the old prices, if they want to book me in it would be so much more as I then had bigger kit and staff. The good ones were always happy to wait and wished me well, the bad ones would be stroppy and I’d make them wait longer until they would finally just use someone else. If I’d had a good week and bills were paid then we would catch the little jobs on a Friday afternoon or Saturday and just blitz our way through the list mob handed, job and finish.