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daveindales

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  1. keep in touch with old clients who have taken chip in the past. I usually give it away to old clients. Last week I gave a load away and got a dozen very good sausages from the old client:thumbup:
  2. Since i wrote post, have cleaned all terminals with wd40. I also cleaned the "thing" you mentioned. Will see how it goes next week
  3. I have a entec ch25ph, the one with the 25hp Kohler engine. Have had it 5 years with no real problems. Just recently, when you turn on the chipper, the rollers will not go round. Nither forward or reverse. This has happened about 5 times over the last month, and has never happened first thing in the morning. Always part way through the day. You have to turn off the chipper and try again. Eventually, after a few attempts the thing will work ok. Once they start going round there is no further problems, until chipper is turned off again. Nothing to do with filter, oil level, reset button, or engine revs being too low. Think it may be electrical. Does anyone have any idea as to what the problem may be
  4. 4 plum 1,2,3 look's like a larch (photo taken summer), but could do with better picture of foliage
  5. There is a company in ipswich acting as a dealer. If they arn't CE marked, does that mean it will be illegal to sell them over here?
  6. Am thinking of buying one of these Welcome to Lewis Winch what are your opinions of these. Already have tirfor, but think this a good looking thing and would be very useful. Posted question a few days ago about lewis winch, but little response.
  7. has anyone used one of these winches? are they any good? seem pretty useful tools
  8. Think deer man is right. If you are Limited, you will be employed by the company. I had to take out employers liability for the lad who works for me and also for myself, because I'm limited
  9. Like the idea of chipping x-mas trees for charity. Yes it is recycling, but I don't think it can be called environmentally friendly. It would be better for the environment if everyone left their tree in their garden to rot. I have a chipper and use it a lot, for convienience, not because it's 'green'. Think of all the fumes that are produced, together with the manufacture of oils, petrol/diesel, bearings, tyres, filters etc. All this has eventually to be disposed of. Then you have to get the chipper to the trees, using your vehicle. I know it's slightly off topic and I'm as guilty as anyone else. I also know that noboby on the thread has called it 'environmentally friendly', but felt I had to say it
  10. sorry to say it but with the pith of the tree in your piece of wood, it will probably shake (crack) I used to seal ends with PVA, but in this case I think a crack is likely to happen (hope I'm wrong though)
  11. Think thats a pretty good summing-up Andy
  12. Thats exactly what I mean. Could spell anythging years age
  13. If you look through Yellow Pages nearly everyone claims to be a professional or an expert in tree work. Is there a definate line between being a cowboy and a professional? Do you need a 'qualification' to be considered a professional? or is possessing the relevent NPTC tickets enough? I left college in 1995 with an HND and felt very much a professional. I could reel off botanical names with ease. I knew all the ins and outs of trees and the law.The list goes on. However, when it came to practical tree surgery I had an awful lot to learn. I started working for myself straight after college and now I will tackle most trees with confidence. However, I now can't spell half the botanical names and have forgotton many of them. When it comes to phloem and xylem, I struggle to remember what it's all about. Am I more professional now or when I left collage. Or was I ever a professional?
  14. Perhaps you have a point 18 stoner . The digestives were good. I'm definatly going soft. But still have no regrets, and I make money on every job. Maybe not much, but I've never been that ambitious. There's more to life than money, even though it's important to me (I am from Yorkshire)
  15. It was also a ship. See HMS Wensleydale home page My web site (non tree related)
  16. Have no regrets. Hopefully get some more work off them in. I'm Yorkshire born and bred. Maybe I'm getting soft? Can't explain it as I've never felt like doing that at all in the past. Perhaps it was that they were both aged around 90
  17. Wensleydale: Do you mean it's just not done giving the money back?
  18. Put a quote in for a job last month £350.00 plus VAT. Felling 1 birch and 1 alder. Client accepted bid, and we did the job a few weeks later. Leaves had fallen and the trees looked a lot smaller. We finished the job in a couple of hours. I took the cheque. Got home and felt quite guilty. So for the first time in 15 years, I went beck to the client and gave them £70 cash back. I felt a lot better for it and my concience is clear.
  19. Tree man tom, I think you have made a good point. But I just had to get it off my chest
  20. Glad someone else feels the same. Sometimes, whenever I see a post mentioning Landrover of Husqvarna, I quite often avoid reading it. But like you say, it is a place for opinions to be expressed.
  21. I read these forum's most days; and have come across a lot of good advice over the time Iv'e been a member. However, I personally do get a bit sick of people knocking certain makes of equipment. Stihl V's Husqvarna, Landrover V's Hilux/L200, Jenson V's Timberwolf. I'm 40 years old and have been in this business since I was 15; but according to some members I use chainsaws that drop to bits (orange one's), I drive a Jap pickup that's not a patch on a Landrover, and I use a Tinnywolf chippper. Don't mean to upset anyone. Has anyone elso got any opinions on this?
  22. is listed as a business asset. accountant says I need to charge vat on it, which seems a bit unfair as I paid no vat when I bought it
  23. I may be selling my L200 that I bought before going vat registered. The l200 was bought with no vat on it. Now that I am vat registered, do I charge vat on it when I sell It? Have loked on revenue and customs site but still a bit confused. Anyone any thoughts?
  24. Get a professional firm to erect the lights and signs. I use Hatton's £205.00 plus vat for lights/sign's. Price is for whole day. Not bad I think. In North Yorks you also have to fill in a simple form to inform highways of the work you intend to do and when.
  25. For the price of a bench grinder and a jig, it's well worth sharpening you own. Have never paid to have mine sharpened yet; and have had no cutting problems

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