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With you there... ! How many professions do you get where the contractor is mobile and can turn up with 20-30k (probably more in alot of cases) worth of specialised kit. If you have a van, chipper, ground staff, all the saws, kit, grinder, climber, fuel etc - you're not long before your cost of operation is 500 a day.
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has anyone found that customers who go for loads of quotes and hunt down the cheapest possible quote are always the worst kind of customers in a general sense? The customers I like are like the one I had on friday... a reccomendation from another customer, and the contract was mine even before I quoted. Fair price, nice work, everyone is happy and payment immediatley on completion... Now if I could get that for every job I'd be a happy chappy.
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Not sure where I fit in really.. over 90% of my work is commercial, and alot of it is for safety reasons such as roadside felling, de-veg, remedial work etc. I see myself somewhere up there with plummers, electricians ??
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He'll go bankrupt eventually mate, undercutting and people that undercut stupidly create a false economy and a slow death.
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Tom - i've found similar mate, but have started to come round to the idea that I am worth more than working my balls off for next to nothing or indeed no profit at all. I think 30k a year is realistic for an owner. If it's a larger company I'd be looking towards 50k
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I have nothing to add to this thread..... I'm not old enough! Enjoying reading it all the same
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18?? some brass neck.
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hmmmm I'll bid him £500 for his chipper...
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2 hrs digging and slogging??? 20mins with a grinder..... ho humm
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cash too..... S.O.A.B
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The name James Pinder appears on the tree officers list... £630????? Robbing sod. lol
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They will be wanting him to under quote to make the rogues price look worse..
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I would have been minimum £350 to look at that lot.. and stump grinding extra.. £150??? not worth the fuel to get there! I'm not condoning ripping off old folk by the way..... if you take two guys and a chipper and a grinder on site it better be worth more than £150 or we'll be bankrupt by next week.
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Jesus!!! did you see that guy with the saw? Nearly cut his mates hand off!!
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I know it's not been on the programme just yet but I doubt very much it could be Acorn Tree Surgery.... they have won awards and are acreddited.. Unless there are two if the same name? Time will tell..
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Sweet job Dave! Great pics and vids.... I envy you, the lowering device is a beauty!
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Is this thread a pi$$ take or what???
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I'd be using a petrol cut off saw with a metal disk on it.... will cut through the wood no bother at all, and the metal with ease... use it to disk the stump up and then remove from garden. You might use a couple or even a few disks to get through the whole lot but would be cheap compared to a cobalt chain for your saw - the rescue chains cost a bomb and can't cut through steel bars.
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Me too... bloody poplars
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I've tried both and prefer and use the TM... If you can get yours through your LOLER inspection, I believe treemagineers are bringing out a TM2 which promises to be even better... not sure when it's out though or how far from the market it is at the moment. The thing with the TM that I love most is that it lets the user put gear loops etc where he wants it rather than factory defined - it's a damned good harness for working off spikes and the rope bridge can be adjusted which was useful for me.
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We've had a few frosts here now.... have had to defrost the truck on at least three occasions I can think of!
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Screwfix had some in their catalogue last year! I bet they would be quite handy actually.... the makita ones should be reasonable quality. An electric silky!!! Having said that.. you can't quite beat the feeling of a super sharp silky cutting like a hot knife through butter. Getting back on track, I use Stihl myself.. dont like the huskys. I have a husky 281XP though which is an absolute animal of a saw.
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Stoxs, it's a 3 or 4 day course and one day assessment, roughly shy of £500 I seem to recall...
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My experience of the jensen A530T was the same, used one for about 8 weeks on rail clearance, and generally fed whole tree through it with no problems at all.... infact it was an absolute animal. We were felling small diameter stuff like sycamore, birch, willow and ash, cutting a leader for the chipper and then letting it take the whole lot..
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Jensen jensen jensen jensen!!
