Stephen Blair

well spotted franky. but i bet when you lift the hopper he has a lovley new number plate cable tied on it.

do i feel silly now, got me again there frank. how is it you get the scaffold to and from the work site.

the greenmech fills it real quick to

looks like i need a scaffold then:sneaky2:

if the job was 600 quid and my profit was 500 quid. it is still more than if the job was 400 quid and the profit was 200 quid. how much would you charge for 2 men, your scaffold and and removal of 5 big bags of waste?

we were discussing the best use of labour and kit that i was using on the day, and do you think any of the above costs came out of my profit?

you little tease, i tried there but quest wasnt an option

i had a look but i dont want to mess with it too much

how do i do that? mine is a standard sky box with a free view card

can i watch it on line?

no working for me, boo hoo

cheers nick but it isnt free on free view:thumbdown:

a dry dumpy bag weighs approx 250kg and that 0.55m3. woodpicker weighed one once.

what channel is it on sky? i have sky freeview and cant find quest

i loved my isuzu trooper swb, it was the 3.2 litre turbo. best jeep i have ever had by far, got owed a lot of money after a storm and had to sell it to pay the tax man:thumbdown:

thought so, good job:001_cool:

is it a keepers house tom, going by the spikey fence

most of the stuff is dropped pretty close to the stem i think steve(the distance between the fly job and the other bit), so either go for a little spin or un clip and hang on to dodgy tree. that has got to be the worst split i have seen in a tree that didnt fail completely, that last cut was a gutsy one, great job and well done the climber

adapting robert, that is the secret.

it looks worse than the pic you sent me, youch mate, not cool. would bull bars of prevented that??

since buying gloria, and changing all my ways i can afford to spend the extra time i always did do in gardens and put in that little extra bit, my costs are down and my profit is up, the most frequent comment i get now is ' are you sure, wont it cost more than that?' which is excellent for business. the only time i go up th eyard is to turn over the chipper and lorry, which now needs the battery charged as i dont use it enough lol

on fire plastic bottle thrown against the tree! sorry john thats the best i can do

take the decision out of your hands and give it to a professional, you are too close to the business to take the financial decision that is best for the biz, thats what i did. Get a good financial/business advisor to sort it out for you. If hedge cutting isnt cost effective then bin it, if chipping and removing off site is costing you more than you are earning then sell the chipper and free lance climb. They wont care about the sentimental stuff like how you have done old mrs smiths hedge since you were 15 and she might tell her friends at the bingo you are nice and you might get a job out of it, they will tell you straight and it is amazing the confidence and releif when someone makes the decisions for you. the best advice is i was ever given, was work out who your top 5 customers were, work out what percentage they give your business profit, ditch every other customer and fins another five just like that. For me a i ditched the moaners, the criticisers and the bad payers. now i am doing great and i dont get any grief anymore

i was trying to get the clip from bugsy malone, where the wee fat boxer put a pile on his head and started singing ' my name is tilulah' but i couldnt find it lol

the business side of our job is the hard bit, cutting trees is easy for a tree cutter. if you are in a hole you dont keep digging