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I'd have quoted for the dead trees and highway clearence and quoted to survey the rest. Some jobs you'll never get so you live and learn
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I was thinkin of going
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And we wander why so many want to do this job
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But then the cost of that length of rope is likely to be unrealistic for this job. I cant imagine needing 120m of double esterlon regularly enough to warrant speading several hundred pounds on it for a job. I'd ideally like something workable for £100 but not sure if this is realistic
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I had a problem with a stud in a timberwolf. I heated the nut with small gas blow torch then rammed a tuning screw driver in with the star socket. Lost a little knuckle skin but it came out good.
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I shall, I just wanted to pre arm myself with a little info before hand.
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Justseen an advert full page advert placend in our local paper today by a tree surgeon. He has ripped off line for line our mission statement which we have on our website and our associated company policies. If you are going to plagerise some elses work why not choose a company not based on your doorstep.? Is there any action we can take? The local paper has forwarded me his flyer which is headed with our statement, so it seems he is using this statement in all of his stationary
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Thanks. I am off snow boarding tomorrow afternoon so I might be hard to get hold of. I'll still be picking up calls next week but it might be easier just to get it and I'll sort you when I'm back. Nice one with the landy. Make sure you get an ifor too if your to makes real use of it.
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Yes please
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I have a job where were we will be felling some Sycamore and Elm on top of a 20m bank. I'm wandering about speedlining the timber down to the garden and would need to set up a fairly long run of around 100m. The heaviest sections would be 80-100 kg I guess. I would tension the line with either a grcs or landrover winch I think I would need around 120m of rope for the speedline and don't want to spead a fortune on it for 1 job. Would 16mm polyprop do the job?
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Good job! Red Oaks love to tear don't they
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Was that my hand writing?
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Groundsman needed 4th and 5th of February (North Devon)
gibbon replied to Jeremy's topic in Employment
I can send up someone if your stuck -
Redwood Forest Hiking Vacation ~ It's this affordable
gibbon replied to mdvaden's topic in General chat
I've seen a lot of jungle and it aint a patch on the Coast Redwoods. Get over there! -
Worst I did was turn up at the wrong time to quote a job twice and missed them. The 3rd time was the morning after I had been out parting (I sudendly remebered and thought I'd better go), when I got there it was a big job and I realised I was still far too drunk to price it properly. After confessing to the clients (whom I had never worked for, or met) how unproffesional I was and how I should just go back to bed, they told me that they liked me and wanted me to do the job, just send the the bill after when I know how much to charge.
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I got one from them, they seem like a good set up. If its an autolift conversion and have mud terrains then cut the mud gaurds off as soon as you get it or they will grind your tyres with the smallest load on
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Regulary prune Sue Lawley's bush and got to do a quote for Jasper Carrot. Met some pretty famous hollywood types in Califonia on our honey moon too.
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I could never hold down a real job.
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I ran 4 guys full time on the tools and partime help this winter. From what I can gather the additional hassel and stress of sending 2 teams out wasn't really worth it for me. Yeah we pulled in more money but the logistics of what to do when caused quite a bit of stress. If I was just pricing and organising it would have been fine but doing 4 days on the tools too was a hassel. For me 2 employees full time, quote fridays strickly now work on weekends seems to suit. I've never been in this for the money, I just want to do the work how I want to and treat employees how I would have liked to be treated. You could operate for alot less than I do, i'm sure of that
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That was my last full year ending mid 09 and to run a 3 man team. My wages are not included as the directors loan comes out of the profit.
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Just shy of 90K last year for the pleasure of going to work
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A M Lane Ltd
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Hamadryads big phat fungi thread!
gibbon replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Fungi Pictures
I thought that was the case a couple of years back. I mentioned it on the PTI course and no one else new a thing about it. The guy doing the course told me that australe was the name before it had been changed to adspersum some 40 od years ago. Thanks for clearing it up. You seem to know your mould there Hama. Good little resource -
Hamadryads big phat fungi thread!
gibbon replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Fungi Pictures
I see you've listed the ganoderma as australe. Has the name changed to australe again or is it still adspersum. I thought it had beed australe before it was adspersum. -
Our last trip to Argentina was covered by NFU's travel insurance policy and covered accidents at work. My mate had to take it out for all of us as NFU would not sell me the policy as I didn't already get cover from them. You could try your exesting work cover for an extension too, Lycets gave extended PL to cover overseas
