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Did you drop those sticks high scale? Looks like you were lowering one off the other, if so how did you deal with the remaining stem. Yours curiously

If you stuff a loads of the seeds up your ass you will trip out. Apparantly

Figs have the coolest biomechanics of all trees. This is a street fig in Buenoa aires that has a crown radius in excess of 30m.

I know a few. PM me

Yes. The more chainsaw related accidents the HSE record the higher the percieved risk = higher insurance

There is more to it than that of course, but either your taking a lot of cash or you need to charge more. This recession has been an eye opener for me and as a result I charge about 30% more than I did last year. I used to seek comfort in that I nearly always had 2 months work ahead of me, this dropped to about a week this summer. If your still working your still earning the same no matter how much work you have. Now I charge alot more, employ more and have less work on the books, but turn over more too. Its a gamble but who cares, you gotta be in it too win it.

Hyperthetical sum. 3man team billing £200 per man per day 4 days a week. 2 man team 1 day a week while owner is pricing = £2800 per week plus vat. Do this 48 weeks of the year = £134,000 plus vat. £19K for climber, £14k trainee climber leaves £100k in the pot for company expenses. MD couls easily take £50k home. Charge more or employ more then you could earn even more. Only catch is you need the work

I once heard it was the fruit is hallucinogenic in large quantities. Is this true?

Ok Done

We hired a tracked machine from perry plant hire a few years ago. I think they had 2

Easily But if you are ltd then the director would have a tax free salary and the rest is a dividend. Therefor it is hard to put a before tax figure on a MD's wage

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I had the same truck same year as my first.Good luck

AA were meant to be involved as the guy claimed to be aaac. Not sure why that was not included, not great TV I guess

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcEto_Q8MlY&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - Redwood Lumber Industry, Northern California - 1947[/ame] This is how we still do it down south

I've been reading that over breakfast last few days. Very funny! Sows another seed of doubt in the whole thermal imaging debate

Does the iphone stand up to being carried around in your pocket while doing tree work?

Just hire a crane for an hour

Reg Do you supply your own groundsman when you you contract climb? Do you think you would have been working close to the limits of your system if you'd been using just 1 pulley and lowering rope?

I'll collect it for a ton

You don't do work like that for money.

I had a chat to my wife about this job but she's expecting our 2nd child this year. Nothing like this again for us for a few years. Looks like a fantastic oportunity for someone. Primate-Jobs: Research assistant with skills in tree climbing -- Max-Planck-Institute for Evol. Anthropology

looks like a hedge cutter job to me

Do you mean pruning a plum this late in the year?