Stephen Blair

cool mate

hi qtip, i know you cetainly know what you are doing after seeing your sequioa crane job. did you find you were running out of time when doing a standard back cut??or was it just the diference in the speed of sound to light scenario that you get from some videos. were you on the tree on your strop or were you tied in off the other tree?(tell me you were on your strop) i think i can see another climber up the standing tree. am i right?

it said not to on the packet:thumbdown:i wii tonight though:001_smile:

over did the milton stuff last night and nearly spewed my guts out in a customers garden today, it was like a bad day at the swimming pool:scared1:

if you said that round here it would have about 30 loads in it by lunchtime:ohmy:

you have just had a rant matt, nothing more, what was the figure then??how much of the new jeep is yours, how much do you have to show for the last 12 months work. not excuses on health or how affluent the area is, and i think you will find the cairngorms is better than the west coast down my way. the point i am trying to make with you, and maybe on a public forum isnt the best place but you posted the thread and you have been having a good winge recently, so i will continue. it is for your own good, accepting there is a problem is the first step, you have been treating this job as a crusade, some kind of glory run, but the long and short of it is you are stressed out your head, out of your depth and its time to wake up and smell the roses, you are a friend so this is why i am saying this, you can try and convince yourself everything is ok, we have had these discussions many times before in the past, but you dont realise, what others think means squat diddly when your head goes on the pillow and you cant sleep with worry, cant think straight and live on your nerves. you have got yourself out of a rutt you were in a few years ago, you have got contracts and done loads of training, good on you. but when that little one turns up in a few months, your work problems are going to be ten fold if you dont sort them out.. forget driving about looking the part of a tree surgeon, you are going to be DAD, the most important job you are ever going to have, a lifelong contract. get a hold of your life and business, it took me to be 32.5k in overdraft before i woke up mate, we wont drag this on any longer on here, as only we know what i am talking about....:001_smile:but let me ask you one thing, what do you want written on your gravestone when you pass away..

good stuff mate

sorry mate, just remembered skyhuck has one, i saw it last week. it is like new, i think he bought it but has never used it. pm him mate.

out of all that which part is really true, do you earn good money? no do you keep the boys going? yes. how much of the pound is yours mat? as i said before, there is what you want to do, and what you have to do. do you have a figure written in black and white that when you hit in outstanding bills that you are going to stop or have to stop. what have you implemented for non payers, are you just going to keep phoning them with empty threats or do something about it? what do you have to show for your last 12 months work that is yours, bought and paid for money in the bank?then subtract all your finance and money owed. be honest with yourself and look at that figure, now think if you had to go and show your boss that figure in the morning, do you think he would be happy, would he keep you on in a job??

calidonian forestery services stocks them from new to second hand, google them

the most i have made in a week is 11.5k with me my mog and one groundie, but it took 3 months to get paid and nearly put me in a grave with worry and rage. and i have had days where i have had repair bills for nearly 4k. an even keel would suit me better but some jobs come your way that make you money some dont, the wind can be on your side where a full days lowering takedown can go in a gutsy balls out fell. and other days you can break a fence or pull down a bt line, get a parking ticket or puncture. all i know is as the years go on, the trees get smaller, the buzz gets less and the job gets easier. its not the trees that are hard to cut down its the running of your life and job together in harmony that is difficult. once you get that bit sussed it should be plane sailing

an early finish mate, plus how many opertunities do you get to do the real surge:001_cool: i used to just bung the guys on the 360's to just go and push over the trees on big sites and i would go for coffee and rolls. sweeeeeet:001_smile:

i know mate, just messing.

you dont want one with too much lean matty, like one that has really stretched for the sky very quickly, the one in the video above was a bigy but not too much lean, and all the growth was at the top, so not pulling it over to quick:001_smile:

not sure marc, mike was telling me about it at the AA, i usually do a tiny gub, come back as far as i can with the saw before getting jammed(never been nipped yet)then come in from the back, the small gub snapps the hinge early, as it is going over so fas you can get a bit of distance with them. you want the 046 like a razor though, not cool with a blunt underpowered saw:ohmy:

calidonian forestery services usually have second hand ones in stock:001_smile:

was there a lot of signs that kids had been climbing all over it for years?did you scare the nieghbours when you changed out your ballistics into your jeans dean:001_tongue:

if he had done a fin cut with a little stick in the gub he would of jumped it further. he was lucky there to get away with it the way he did it

some can do it, some cant. the fact that it wasnt his kit and he now gets a years full pay on the sick doesnt help your arguement:001_tongue:

i agree with monkeyd, lop-pem and top-pem, the gentlemans pruning technique

i would of thought it would of had an earth anyway john:confused1:

if i hear a rumble i get down, usually because it means there is going to be some crazy hail or rain. i stayed up a big ash covered in ivy one day for about half an hour once in a hail storm type thing in a t shirt, never again!!

100k turnover mate, not profit. i can cut a lot of stuff down mate, so i need a quick way of clearing my feet, a 6 inch to-behind and a transit could never keep up, in a 3 man team most guys will be working about 60% of there capability. have 2 guys and beast it, dont walk when you can run, if one hand is empty carry something else. it is all about being organised. and good at your job. i am usually cheaper than my competitors, i just do it quicker and more in a day.

good man, even if the plan you have to make goes against all your desire to take over the highlands in the world of tree surgery, stick with it. if i were you i would stop everything. get on the phone tomorrow and chase your money, if anyone is over the agreed payment term then get a lawyer onto it, if you want a good one give me a call. go through your phone and take out all the bad payers and crap customers, focus on the good ones. what takes the least effort for the biggest return. learn to say NO mate. dont think what a job might lead to, because all that mental weeling and dealing goes unheard in business...

it beats the ikea bag:blushing: