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  1. Stephen Blair
    What does it say to you James?
  2. Stephen Blair
    £40 on a 3 week trial! You buy the cake!
  3. Stephen Blair
    You can be a fill before the back cut on horrible big outsiders! You can empty a can with an 88 in about 4 fills by 10.30am if you are on big big stuff:)
  4. Stephen Blair
    I don't really know what you would class as a specialist cutter. I hate the word specialist anyway, words I could never say seriously if discussing chainsaw work that's for sure. Today I made £100, I was pretty chuffed and got my lunch. Took me an hour but I'm getting older and my Groundie got a tenner so he was delighted!
  5. Stephen Blair
    I'm in my 40's and be doing this for 20 years now . I don't need to do 7 days of £100 any more but I have done and still would if need be. I do a bit of everything, I don't work alongside harvesters I do my own stuff. I was felling for 2 weeks for RSPB and by the time I pay for everything and wages I'll be about £100 a day and it's my contract, saw, insurance, vehicle and kit. Is it ideal, no! It was 10 days work in December and rill hopefully lead to other stuff.
  6. Stephen Blair
    You have a lot of money tied up in that! If your body gets tired, you stop and it self heals. If kit breaks down it costs a money to fix!
  7. Stephen Blair
    I'm not suggesting the OP is worth a £100 a day, I'm saying that's what he should expect to be paid. If he's getting more just now, great he may feel he's in the right track. I know what work is about, he's also from Britains richest part of the country that's on its arse due to the oil crashing . There are plenty of guys desperate for work that are used to graft , discipline and are skilled, maybe not with a saw yet but it doesn't take long to learn the basics. £100 a day is by no means the greatest but certainly not the worst. Look at what carers and nurses get!
  8. Stephen Blair
    I never mentioned lone working. I built my business on working 7 days a week as many hours as I could fit in the day, it worked for me. It's my expectation of others. I wasn't handed anything without working for it, I'm working now. Need to go.
  9. Stephen Blair
    It wasn't directed at him.
  10. Stephen Blair
    By not having a vehicle on finance, not having a £200 helmet and £250 boots and working 7 days a week and forgetting about social media. Insurance is a grand a year, less than £20 a week. Pension! Waste of time at the low end. Car, £200 from buy sell swap. People need to stop expecting everything then cry about not having it. I would make more profit on £700 a week with just a saw and a Nisan micra than I do with loads of kit, big house and finance up to my nuts.
  11. Stephen Blair
    I think it needs to be made clear, hand cutting in the woods is the hardest lowest paid option with a chainsaw, hence why we all mess about in gardens where the money is at. Buy a hedgecutter and you will be minted by the end of the summer
  12. Stephen Blair
    Work 7 days a week and it's £700, not a bad wage. Twice what a lot of people earn, with not a big outlay. £10 covers fuel/oil a day usually. If you get £200 all you would do is buy a new hilux, doesn't put your production up
  13. Stephen Blair
    £100 a day. It was better paid 20 years ago.
  14. Stephen Blair
    RIP Princess!
  15. Stephen Blair
    Best money is to firewood it yourself. If you have plenty of tree work then just ditch it in someone else's yard and get some favours back. If you feel the need to use up every hour at the end of a short rainy day then use a lot of fuel cutting it up and splitting it, drying it and then delivering it. I give mine away!
  16. Stephen Blair
    more than my skinny little arms!
  17. Stephen Blair
    A sad loss. RIP George.
  18. Stephen Blair
    Bought myself a van and new tyres for the Mog!
  19. Stephen Blair
    I use a ladder and have holes in the rungs, they sit below the height of the rail
  20. Stephen Blair
    Great stuff Johny!
  21. Stephen Blair
    You slowly let the lever go forward, as you go over the edge so to doesn't you will here things engage, if you need to give the foot throttle a little bit just to get her started then use hand throttle.
  22. Stephen Blair
    Holy moly kiboom tastic! No no no!! As Huck says ease her in on tick over! I'd be surprised if you haven't done damage!
  23. Stephen Blair
    Looks great!
  24. Stephen Blair
    Usually get a storm and flat out till April!
  25. Stephen Blair
    That's unbelievable Marc! You are paying for a brand new machine for the last year and you still get to play with your old machine and their crap machine and he thinks you should count yourself lucky! I think you are too close to this now, it will be exhausting 90% of your energy and brain function, you don't need this, especially in our job! The times I've made mistakes is been when my minds been elsewhere! Every problem I have had in business is because I've been too soft and always thought I'd be appreciated, pah! Bullys can smell kindness and just walk all over It! Hand it over to a lawyer, stop the DD now right now online and make a Lawyer priority tomorrow and hand this stress over to someone else and go shopping for a new machine! I'd also be keeping their old machine until you are refunded what you are out! You need some kind of lever.

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