Billy
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Sounds like a steady days work for a climber and two groundies £750-£1000.but I think your 'competitor' is coming in at £200.00
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Nice rigging and fell. Nice to see the near miss included, happens to us all?
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You shouldn't need any kit, borrow/rent it for any courses and then when you get a job it will be supplied.
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If you want to set up for jobs like the one mentioned in your post and other high volume applications a big bandit drum chipper 12-18" but then you'll need a lorry or big grain trailer to match or its a waste of time, you'll just move the 'bottleneck' along the chain, that's assuming you usually have to clear your sites.
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You should be looking for late 90s early 2000s bandits and vermeers. Most sub 750kg machines will be completely shagged in that price bracket and £4k is too much for one anyway!
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Single cab with tool box, or single cab and carry tools on another vehicle
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Had one of these it was NEVER stuck and it lived in the woods most of its life, makes my landy look pathetic in terms of off road ability
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I had is recently with a big walnut some people wanted reduced, lots of talk of doing a proper job and the constraints of this etc, they tell me about how concerned they are about having a good job, but then they nearly fell over when I gave them the price....drive past a few weeks later someone's cut a line straight across about a 3rd down from the top it is brutal, not even touched the sides. What annoys me is if they were straight about what they wanted I could have done exactly that and the price would have reflected how easy it would have been! Also back on topic we turned up at an elderly clients house this morning she opened the door said " he trees have been done" then slammed the door and refused to answer it or the phone again and the largest tree we had quoted to work on was still untouched as we could see it from the front, very strange!
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First arb vehicle - van or truck? New or used? Buy or lease?
Billy replied to Shipwrecked Bones's topic in Arb-Trucks
Get a tidy old tipper for around £1k, you don't need anything more. Save the rest or spend it on tools/chipper etc -
I get belts and filters for mine from local motor factors etc. if your buying your belts from there you could save loads shopping local.
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But he's a subby, so he will work for the other contractors he normally also works for most weeks, surely?
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Something's have gone through my clippers and they've never needed new blades, these things happen compared to some of the other kit that can break or be lost etc a flip line a a good sharpen is t the end of the world.
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Last few weeks Lorry- king pins and spring bushes L200- starter motor and leaf spring Landy- half shaft, starter motor And the hand brake on the grinder
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This is what it's about, you'd be going to prison and fined massively
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Full in the disk, put it in the right way. Set to other work for a few mins each morning to show your doing your walk around checks then onto driving whilst you deive then other work whilst on site working. Switch to break after 4 hours for 45mins then back to work or driving take it out when you get home. Something like that
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temporary roadway for crane in Suffolk. Any suggestions?
Billy replied to Jay's topic in Cranes and Mewps
Not sure what the pads are called but in the field up from my house they are tipping fertiliser and driving 8 wheelers across. Field on big plastic matts would be spot on. -
Mine are metal, when they get bent or ripped open from a blowout like last week just kick or weld them back into shape
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One large excavator should be able to pick them up and put them on a trailer I should think. Anything that can do the job this time of year will be more or less on that budget or over it though.
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Is this for a 4, 6 or 8 wheeler and what M3?
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I saw this was funny I said to the girlfriend that is about £4 k at most the. They chime in with "I'll get ten grand for that easy" I think the American series is real but they seem way out on all the values on the uk stuff.
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If the £100 is coming my way I can do the same ;-)
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I've got a HS-81R brilliant hedge trimmer bit pricey! I also have the husky equivalent which is not a patch on it and has terrible build quality, the bolts on the bar rattle loose all the time etc.
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Minimum wage but that's still about £16k for full time, can one gang support one full time office worker?
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Isn't 10% a bit steep for a thank you?
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I wouldn't! Someone passes you work you do the same back win win.
