Billy
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Just read the price in the first post Jesus! Don't touch that with a barge pole I paid £5200 for my 06 with 28k on it last Christmas that's well into the new shape better engine money.
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Cut it down.
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Sounds about right to me, I'm 25 got a 2004 110 tipper and a 2006 L200 and they're £2013 fully comp for the pair but the land rover has 3 years NCB on it and me and my Groundy (also 25) . Before my 25th birthday they wanted £1660 for the landy alone! Cancelled and Renewed on the day and only £1000.00 shocking. So at 22 yours is about right
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Plumber across the road from me tried them on his connect absolute rubbish, barely got off his driveway, save your money.
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Firewood delivery with the L200
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I've had it on a sprinter due to not re-torquing the nuts 30 miles after changing wheel, always check them now!
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Is that new or old shape? I've a new shape (B40) one and its great up to 40MPG on a run but will average out around 30 through a normal tank with a mix of quoting and heavy towing and now with BFG ATs it's quite capable off road. Don't know a lot about the older ones except that they like a drink
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Who's Chipper at the helicopter crash site?
Billy replied to redmoosefaction's topic in General chat
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Interesting thread, I guess you have to trust your gut, when I last freelanced regularly at one point one company owed just over £3k but I got it all no problems, it was just his way. I don't agree with it but someone else would have and I don't think he could afford to pay on time tbh. However now I just run my own stuff anyone who is brought in to help gets paid at the end of the day or week or when invoiced, regardless of my cash flow situation.
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I've got a SIP TopMig 190, I see a lot of people slating them online but works fine for me, it's reconditioned a few choppers and Donne various bit on the old landy I had, will weld 10mm at a push but I always groove it out and run multiple beads at that sort of thickness just to be sure.
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Invoice2go but it gets moody if you do too many quotes in a month and then stops sending them to customers/not allowing customers to open the docs, very annoying!
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Anything less than a tipper or pickup is no good. Although from what I remember from who you worked for me last year you have a lot of experience to build up before you worry about buying a truck etc
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Awesome!
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De Walt do a smaller one than that which is very good, it's also small enough to use whilst working on vehicles etc but still powerful enough to use like a proper torch
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Wow, that's unfortunate I always presume ropes etc are quite safe and the scum are only after the saws etc. sorry to hear that, but it's Crawley afterlife I suppose !
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Every now and again, what truck is that you have?
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I hate MEWPs and will cut and chuck 95% of the time but I still think a well set up and operated MEWP is safer, and usually faster.
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No, because a MEWP allows me to cut smaller and drop stuff further away than I can throw it as there are no work positioning issues. My point about less experience is less experienced climber will rig big lumps on dangerous tree without appreciating the extra danger, I've been there whilst working for others in the past, looking back I was being taken advantage of. I'm sure the tree could be climbed and if I were more keen for the job I would do it, but looking at it as a professional the extra risk means a different approach should be taken, specially as we should be aiming to be using MEWPs as our first resort rather than last, strictly speaking. Basically sure it could be done but we should all be pricing to do things right and utilise the machinery and technology at our disposal rather than 'risking it'
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I've climber plenty of 'unclimbable' trees too, but this really needed lowering and had a lot of lean on a steep bank overhanging four gardens, it was tricky before chucking the extent of its decay into the equation. Paying some keen less experienced climber to do it and telling them it was fine crossed my mind but I deemed it to be a tad unethical no doubt that's the type of character who will unwittingly find himself up there!
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There's one of inside
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Some of the cavities I could stick my hand in and 'hold' the tree so 4" or less in several places, also had a line of cavities up one side and thickness of wood was very thin up the whole side, apparently another local contractor
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Had an Ash like this last week, but it was rotten and hollow for the first 25-30ft, thus only became apparent after stripping the ivy and finding lots of cavities through to the hollow middle up to quite a height, after seeing this I informed the client that I wasn't happy with climbs it now the situation had developed further. Long story short he said he'd stick with me and to re price for access equipment the. Phoned me up a few days later saying his neighbours mate who's a tree surgeon was willing to do it without a MEWP.
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Probably an hour or so to do one side and top about £150.
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Small capacity, non serviceable bearings, general low quality just get yourself a nice Vermeer/Jensen/Schlising the bigger the better, get B+E if your concerned about the towing
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Correct, cat B is up to 3.5t the 5.5 is a cat C vehicle
