Stephen Blair
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Need to hire crane fed chipper and operator for job in dalkeith
Stephen Blair replied to jeffa999's topic in Employment
Contact Tom Dixon . -
A "no one's answering their 'phone day"...
Stephen Blair replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in The Lounge
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Nice 1 Forst!
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Yip here's mine!
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Call in JJ Baldwin!
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Similar day here!
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Just hack trees down randomly, drag them out, when the customer gives the big thumbs up, call the Timber lorry and be happy with what they give you. Sounds like a perfect job for a wee digger and grab
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Billy that's a cracking looking machine, looks like it has huge ground clearance. I've still got my Cat 2.7d, I'm going to get myself a fixed felling head, my energy head is great and will do stuff a fixed 1 won't but I do loose a lot height and reach for a job like you did. Do you think adding a blade to your fixed timber gran would work or would the ram not be strong enough for the shearing.
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All they did was show you how handy a mini digger is and oh you can stick a bucket on it if you like! I have 6 hydraulic pipes running along my boom, couldn't be bothered coupling all them.
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Very impressive set up! I love the attachments on the grab! What weight is your tree shear? Apologies if it's been asked already
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That picture doesn't show the true size of that tree, if you haven't been to it before be prepared for a monster! And if your cycling to it via the Rest And Be Thankfull you best get a good nights sleep before tackling her
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After 12pm as Huck says. No plans to replace as yet GG! I'm doing a lot of subbie climbing for a few different larger companies and really enjoying it.
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It's was advice not an offer I'm 4 hours from there sorry
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Mogs off to pastures new today.
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Daihatsu fourtrak your thoughts on using to tow 3500 kg
Stephen Blair replied to gensetsteve's topic in Arb-Trucks
Best towing motor I've ever had, it was my first jeep. Years before the Internet told us what to like and dislike, I had no idea of towing capacities, I bought the jeep I could afford and the trailer I could borrow then buy! Load it to the baws and drive home slowly, if it felt a bit dodgy, slow down and don't put as much in next time, but that rarely happened with the diahatsu! -
Good luck with the big shot on that tree, tripple extension ladder is what they used to use.
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The OP posed the question ( if he was vat reg )
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If you pay vat, you get it back. If you charge vat you have to give it back. It's that simple.
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I charge what I think people would want to pay.
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Remember you are entitled to half of her stuff too. Her pension pot is in the big halvers honey pot as well as your stuff.
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Yes it would have its own
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Everyone has their own story, but that's it, your personal experience. Moral contracts of the mind always lead to fall outs! Write it down in black and white before you start a saw.
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There has always been people like this, I used a subbie once from on here, some will remember the thread about the ' unclimbable tree '. Never used 1 since.
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John if you are going for a 5 ton machine then I'd have the Tigercut, basically a selector grab with shear . As for 10" on a 3 toner I would never of thought the machine could put enough power into it for that to work. For small stuff I'm enjoying my energy head as I can work close in and over fences where as on a fixed head I'd need to be at full stretch to achieve it. I have a spare blade and plan on changing the paddles on my demo grab to a timber grab and add the blade.
