Stephen Blair

holly molly:001_tt1::001_cool:

if you dont have any money, and you get the contract. call up jonesie, fax him the contract and i am sure he will give you an account and 30 days payment.

no:001_tongue:but you can have my 4000th post:001_tt1:

well use the wee lovely symbols then:001_tt1:steve was up all night designing them

cool, bit pricey but they are sought after. i heard the synchros give a bit of bother though:confused1:

why dont you guys get together, buy a van and some sleeping bags and travel the country working for arbtalk members that can give you a days work here or there, get some sponsorship on the side of it and head off, plug in a laptop and roadtrip your way around the country, working for fuel and wages. you wont need any insurance because you will be offering such a low rate of pay you will be working under theirs. involve the colleges that promised you all this work and money once you finished.

you must be counting the chipper:sneaky2:

not much!!!!!!!!well done mate that is excellent, would you of thought this time last week you would of had such a change in life, would you of believed how much interest you have generated? i would reach round and give yourself a pat on the back. now get some signwriting on your car, your name and tree surgeon below it. the feeling is amazing when you see it when you leave the house in the morning, it gives you drive and pride. as for pricing. think of how much you want to earn this year. lets say 20k, get yourself a wee van or trailer. say another 2k, insurance, hopefully 500 quid, add up everything you have, ( what it cost you) plus fuel for the year. divide it by 2000(40hrs a week x50) then that gives you your hourly rate. everytime you buy a piece of kit, divide the cost by hrs and add it onto your rate. even if its a few pence, it all adds up.:001_smile:good on you:001_cool:

if you had stuck one of these:confused1:after your question then one of these:001_smile:at the end, it would come across much nicer. not having a go:001_tongue:see what i mean:001_cool:

hi mate, i take it you are a brit? i would love a bucket truck, i think they are awesome. would they be ok on our narrow roads and streets?and if i am not being rude, how much is a descent one, i have seen some for 20,000dollars ranging to 120,000dollars.

so mozza, its sunday night, you have all weekend to ponder your thoughts, pick our brains and i see someone might even have some work for you. my question is, what have you achieved this weekend, that you think will help for the future, have you work tomorrow, have you your list of people to call about work, vehicles, insurance or are you lying on the couch with a hangover feeling sorry for yourself:sneaky2:

now thats a big tree, wow. the noise of that wee 2 stroke would drive you nuts but it sure beats haulling your backside up that big bit of timber.

this is when i get confused, if monkeyd and his team had spent all day doing that in a park, then it would be congratulated, do it by the main rd and its butchery. in a few years it will look fine, its only when it gets a bit of weight on that it will start to fail, but i have seen 40year old damage still hold on in a storm with tons above blowing in the wind. by the way i do think it looks hellish, i can read a pruning cut or stump like a book, and you know the fear that must of been in the eyes of the bushman weelding, ladder standing weekend warrior money saving maniac, when it split out and knocked over his ladder and he hung there dangling with one arm:ohmy:

:001_cool:i am so jealous i cant think of anything to say. nice wheels mate. all 10 of them

i live in my own little world, i get up in the morning make alexander breakfast and go to work, i cut down trees and come home. i dont buy papers or watch the news, if i do it depresses me and i end up feeling crap because someone on the otherside of the world has had a bad day, i cant save the world, and it can be harsh, but no one helps me when the chips are down so i reap all my own reward for my family. i have never voted, and dont plan too, i dont know enough about it and feel everyone is out to line their own pockets. fair enough. the sun will rise, the sun will set. brambles will be jaggy and this job will give me a sore back, that i can handle. the worlds problems glamourised and shoved in our faces to keep us scared and locked in our houses afraid of everything, i cant. big brother is made out to be more important than wars around the world, and jeremy kyle could probably be voted in as prime minister if he wanted. not for me. i am going to go and have a fire up the woods with my boy and make spears, hope your wife and new kiddy will be safe and well soon mate, and you are in my thoughts. all the best franky my boy:001_smile:

that will be a yes:001_cool:

the local job shop is now a vets, unemployed folk now have to get a bus 15 miles to the nearest one now wtf, they wont give them bus money but they will re inburst them, now there are folk out there in need of help, single parents, folk genuinely sick and un able to get jobs through personal circumstances, and i really feel for them. my mate got a collapsed lung, he had worked since he was 15, never claimed a penny in his life, he was 40, so 25 years of paying tax and stamp. he never got a penny because he was self employed yet the job shop still wanted him to travel 30 miles return trip to sign on, he said no, they said why not, he said because you dont give me any money and i cant walk or breath and also i am skint. they gave him no end of grief:mad1:

do you take the ferrari and let the wind blow through your luxurious moustache:001_tt1:

mental rehearsal mate, that is the best thing to do, once you get the first cut in you will just treat it like any other job, just maybe bigger. break the minotony of cony hedges and sycamores. as i said it is a great oppertunity to get a job like that. enjoy it mate:001_cool:

i signed on once when i was 19, i turned up clean shaven smartly dressed, most of the other lads werent wearing tops as it was summer, they just grunted, signed there name and left. i got interugated because i was pleasant. q1-what can you do? a-anything reply- you must be more specific.we will put labouring q2-how much will you work for? a-anything reply-you cant put that, it must be at least 4 pounds per hr. q3-where will you work? a-anywhere reply- you cant put that, we will say local. q4-how many hrs will you work? a-as many as i can get reply-you can only put 40 so i summerised, i am looking for a job locally, i want 160 quid a week, i will only work monday to friday, no later than 4 pm. and i can only labour. now this was 14 years ago. guess what, no employer looked at my card from the job shop as i looked like a lazy, greedy useless sod. when i went into sign off a few weeks later because i couldnt be arsed with the hassle they asked me to fill in the form to say if i would say what i thought of the service, i cant repeat on here what i wrote and it probably never reached higher authority.

do you have to hand crank it??

what a great wee truck mate, can it go on the road, and why the smooth tyres on hte front:001_smile:

i couldnt think of a worse job mick:001_tongue:but i do feel i have bringing things into disrepair of late:blushing:lovely pics reg:001_cool:

i am with josh, husky start stop choke thing is crap, and i dont like the way the clutch sits out for when you are changing the bar and chain. apart from that i believe if a swa is sharp it will cut. but i do like my stills.