tommer9

:thumbup: Bring a heap of those new saws, a stack of cordwood, some PPE and a release date and you will make my show!!

Class!

You read my 0845 number rant thread Mark? e-on are still sending me statemnets for a house i moved out of 4 months ago despite confirmation that we dont live there any more.....from them!!!! In the words of Dr Gonzo: " Raoul: Hey, hey! Hey, listen. Raoul: Don't take any guff from these swine. Raoul: If you have any trouble, remember: Raoul: you can always send a telegram to the right people. Dr: Yeah, explaining my position. Some asshole wrote a poem about that once.

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They wouldnt say exactly what they wanted, just more information regarding some info he had supplied about our gas and electricity supplier. (this is total B.S. as we have bottled gas and pay our neighbour for the electric we use). Other people are getting hung up on when they answer, and some say its is e-on according to the few websites i looked at. I am sure there isnt anything particularly sinister going on, but I did find myself getting all protective and VERY p-ed off.....a fact i made abundantly clear to mancunian Jamie on the other end of the phone line.....

you certainly must:sneaky2: My condolences BTW mate. I had one of those as a project.......

This number has been calling me recently. Apparently it is affiliated to e-on the electricity supplier. Normally i would just ignore the calls, or if it were to a landline bar the number. What has really peeved me about this is that the caller has asked for my 10 year old son by name.......whilst having rung my mobile!!! At first they hung up the moment i answered....yesterday i managed to get into a conversation with the vile abusive snotty little turd at the call centre (as he turned out to be) and he couldnt even give me a decent excuse as to how my 10 year old son's name has become associated with my mobile. I ended up calling the police and finally got e-on to look into it. I googled the number and it seems that lots of people have had this...the weird thing is that e-on dont reckon its one of their call centres!!!!! Rant over.

If it isnt so wet a tractor could travel on it then these guys would be worth speaking to. You can see the biobaler in action [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J1l9oEjkLM]here[/ame].

FFS you lot. Lets not turn this thread into a 'who is to blame' thing. You will achieve nothing but to belittle this awful incident, and it wont help anything anyway. Now wind your necks in please and show at least a modecom of respect.

You see i dont think that the roots are a problem at the moment. Pollarding is not your only option, and I believe not your best. In the long term this tree will probably have to come out. The root damage from the road and pavement, the root damage to the road and pavement and possible root interference with your property and underground services will all eventually contribute to necessitating this. However if you were to raise the crown and thin the crown out you would still have the benefits of a beautiful tree,(and we all know that these are manifold), but would also get the light back into your house. YOu also wouldnt have the repeated regular cost of maintaining a pollard.

Do you want to remove the tree?

Sad news indeed. BBC News - Falling branch kills girl, 13, in Cambridgeshire park

I have had gazillions of blackthorn spikes (it must be one of the most abundant species in cornwall) and cant remember ever going septic. I ended up in hospital having one sliced out of my hand and quizzed them about this and apparently the blackthorn itself is not poisonous as is commonly believed, but due to its abundance of thorns and the sharpness, the infection comes from either what is stuck on the thorn- e.g from a previously passing wild animal, or simply the depth that the thorn reaches. I think you have to prich the berries with a blackthorn spike first too.

As above. The suppliers on the right of the page will give you very competitive prices.

Beautiful pics mate.

You have a serious problem with perception, both of what others are saying, and of what others think of you. I also think that you have undermined any level of respect for yourself by that rather inane and immature final comment. My comments about experience are NOTHING to do with flexing muscles, ganging up on you, impressing anybody or anything else. It had got to the stage in the discussion that nothing anybody said that you did not agree with was seen by you as anything but getting at you. I was only using those terms in order that you may have understood why people were disagreeing with your ungrounded belief that an hours chipping is only worth £50. And where do you get off, with zero practical knowledge of the subject, accusing those with knowledge of it, of talking BS. This is a discussion forum. Just because no-one has jumped at the chance of doing your job you say their comments are BS!!! Grow up.

Being as you are (i guess) a farmer......I would think that you have a choice of vauxhall or land rover...what with buying british and all that.....

Is this a wind up......... We are not ganging up on you. You just need to see that 1 hours chipping is worth more than £50:001_rolleyes:

Ironjack- you strike me as a most awkward person. I am sorry that you see a discussion as being patronising to you and you feel that everyone is getting at you. I also feel that you re being rather presumtious. Rupe and others among us have many many years experience in this business, you have none. You haven't even got any experience of commercial chippers. You havent quantified how much brash there is by putting up a picture, and your (admitted) lack of experience means that we are unable to take your word on the volume of material, as those of us with alot of experience also have the experience to know that this stuff is almost universally underestimated. From this thread you have decided that we are al getting at you and trying to gainsay you (Especially, it seems, Rupe- a VERY experienced arborist). perhaps you should look at the replies you seem to have taken offense at as a way of expanding your knowledge. We have put these replies forward with the backing of years of running and paying for this kit, without the help of a forum and the wealth of experience it brings- i.e. we have learnt from mistakes. You would do well to take this on board and you may save yourself time and expense in the future when it comes to pricing jobs. Or am i having a go at you???????

That is way over the top. I am speechless TBH!!

Redruth. I daont need anyone at the mo, I have a good groundy and quite a bit of my work is climbing for someone else, but if I hear of owt i can give them your number etc. or if i need another pair of hands then I have your details.

Whereabouts are you?

Ironjack- you want someone to leave their house, check that the machine is greased, fuelled, ready for work, hitch it up, drive to the site, set up (including the hellos and deciding where to park etc etc) do the job, drive back and tip, or even go via their yard or tip site if that isnt home, get back and un hitch and get ready for the next job with the machine .....yet you maintain its an hours work? Even if the job was 3 miles down the road it is more than an hours work. If the brash is all neatly stacked i can fill my truck with about 3 cubic metre if brash in about 25 minutes....so your hours worth of chipping would necessitate leaving site to empty the truck during that hour too.....involving unhitching, more diesel... blah blah blah.....do you begin to see why that £50 is beginning to be a long way off realistic and that we arent being greedy?

Sell the kids.

You sure you are tying it right??????