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Not really. With the orange writing its obvious but if resprayed i am not sure. The body is a custom body arb , made in bristol. got a ladder rack with 2 holes on each side to hook the ladder on, a roller shutter box with a home made shelf in the middle. Otherwise its really standard. cheers

yeah i wasnt sure about the reg hence i left it out. maby a moderator can edit my post to remove the company name for me please?

Got up for work to find my transit gone. Taken from out the front of my house. Black 2010 tansit tipper with tool box. Got bright orange sign writing on the side with Wood chips tree surgery. Stolens from bracknell berkshire some time through the night (10-5am). Any sightings please pass the word. Not sure if i should post the reg. cheers

Taking this down on friday the 11th of may if anybody wants some or is local. Afriad i cant find the pics i took of it. Many thanks Jose

Laser! I had mine years ago, different meathod. No cutting open a flap as is sone theses days, they just burnt away till the eye was the right shape. Sore for a week! But now i never look back. Couldnt handle going back to contacts and glasses. not to mention very quickly it makes financial sense too. WOrd of caution it can go wrong, a mate i know had his done and 1 eye turned out with worse vision then it started with. and they did it twice but no joy.

Yep sometimes we really have to bite our tounge! We were very lucky in that the co we subbed to took the hit ( they are massive too) but its very annoying as we did it to the letter of our quote. Anyway back to work for them some more in the morning!

had one for 4 yrs now. \never let us down yet. Always keep the blades sharp and its fantastic! Very light to move and under the 750 tow weight for licenses got after 97. Had to change a bearing after about 3 yrs but its chipped absolutely tones of stuff! only down side is as its so small i cant see it behind my truck which makes reverseing a bit more skillfull! had a yellow entec (which became timber wolf i belive) which had a koler engine which developed a fueling problem which nobody could every seem to fix. Ended up px ing it in for a new one, best move every!

lol we get it all the time, thing is its never a real h&S issue, its just a teanant ( living for free) wanting more free work doing! had one recently where we pollarded a london plane, the tenant wanted the tree down. We expalined to her that the hosing association was not willing to pay for the removal, we did the work. As soon as we left she put in a complaint. we were told to come back and reduce the tree further, as this is what the tenant told us to do in the first place! Didnt realise we were to take orders from the tenants. We said no as we had done exactly as we quoted. any further work would be charged for. Housing asociation then demaned a site meeting, so we had to do a 70 mile round trip for the h/a woman to tip up, not say a word to me (rude woman) say we r not paying you and then left. luckly we were subbing for another company so we got paid but they took the hit. what can u do? thing is if u complain they just dont bother to use u again! What bugs me is there is an army of free loaders out there who make a living out of demanding stuff, as soon as they dont get extras the complain and the housing people automatically take there word over yours! ok rant over:001_smile:

i will try and find the pics i took last year. Cheers jose

Hi all Taking down a london plane in east london, E6 in about 3 weeks. Just wondering if anybody local want some wood? Going to be using a crane so will have a couple big lumps off it, nothing too long as for its girth its not a tall tree. Cheers Jose

Smoke came out of the bonnet of my car, pulled over and opend it up, there was Fire!! turns out the ac had seized up. how much to replace and flush- £838 combined with the week off with the kids makes me feel just a little poor!

thanks for the repleys guys. Dont you just hate it when people start picking holes in a good relationship! We have a good thing going, always treat the company fair, only a couple of times they questioned out prices, got another quote in only to fine on one we were 50% cheaper, the other was not far off that either! Oh well.

Been asked by a company i do work for to produce a schedule of rates for them, which is a bit of a pain because a lot of the work requires a lot of traveling, plus we have a relaxed relationship were we often go out of way to help them/ advise them on tree issues which we dont get paid for. Has anybody got any links to a general kind of layout for one? Been looking around but not had much luck. Many thanks

Hi all Got a couple of landy bits, was for my 130 defender, 1995 plate (m reg). Honestly i cant remember if its a 200tdi or 300 tdi engine (sold it aleat 3 yrs ago). got a fuel filter = Britpart rtc679 Oil seal =Britpart FTC3401 Air filter, Britpart. No serial no. All r unsed and still in packaging. I am in Bracknell berks They r free to anybody on a first come first serve basis. Otherwise i will bin them as i stuck them on ebay, again pretty much giving them away and nobody wanted them and i just want shot of them. Cheers

from speaking to people that have done nov a lot of people wear wet suits as u do a fair bit of water stuff combines with possibly queing at obstacles = freezing your butt off big time. Personally i cant wait till nov, too far away.

I am all signed up! Got a 4 man team, cant wait. Just got to get into shape! heard the nov one is seriously cold though, hence doing it in May

thats the guy i belive, have actually spoken to him. priced around £1500 or so for the tipper.

Yes i am VAT registered. I am suffering from practicality vs looking good vs just getting from A to B Many a MG owner would argue that its not a rover its a MG, but i dont really care. To me it does look very much like a rover 75. It handles brilliantly, goes stops and turns so well. Yes its rwd and if you turn of the traction control you can have a blast! if u have a min youtube clarkson driving it on topgear. cheers

after so thoughts really. i have always wanted a big v8 engined car, finally got on a year ago. Got a MGZT260 (4.6V8 from a mustang). Its loud and fast and has all the bells and whisltes. Problem is i can see it in the eyes of customers when i go pricing they see a shiny (2 tone paint scheme) noisy and probably expensive car and they are thinking this guys charges too much! In fact the cares values is 7k On top of that i dont do a lot of miles (except in the work truck). ALso maybe i am getting old but as i said its loud!. Sounds fantastic but theses days its a bit much for me! (kids not to keen either!) So i am thinking of changing it in. Thinking 3 different vehicles Pickup (Crew cab navara) Second truck ( toyota dyna) small run around (yaris etc) The vehicle is to be used to collect the kids from school occasional, pricing, shopping etc. Has to have at least 3 seats ( got 2 kids). Not massive so can fit into a parking bay (my transit is too fat to do the school run in) My company is small, only 3 of us so we rarely need a second truck and if we do i normally just rent for the day. I am however getting into doing firewood this coming winter. Tempted by a pickup and sticking the tipper body that i have seen a chap on here advertise. that way it can deliver logs of take a small load of chippings. Or do i just get a small car, cheap to run easy to park etc? Budget depends on the vehicle, if a run around the around 6k, if truck or pickup then around 13k. And am i right in saying i should be able to run a navara as a company vehicle and get the VAT back? Thoughts please cos i cant think what is the best route! cheers

i spoke to a guy around my way (wokingham, berks) and he started talking £300 pcm for a tiny shared corner, no joke u couldnt fit a artic in it, then split it 3 ways! nice guy but i would be doing firewood to pay him and make a loss at that rate! start asking around farmer etc. good luck

Well it sounds like some of you guys are having a much worse start than me! at least the sun was shining today Thanks for the replys and lets hope nobody needs add to this with more bad news Jose

Anybody else having one? 1st job turned into a right pig. Poplar stump which i did about 5 yrs ago to come down. It was easy twice the size i rememberd! 13 hr day in the bad weather with a touchy customer! Only saving grace a neighbour took a truck load of logs saving us coming back the next day and actually costing us money! 2 days later i come home to find someone screw drivered the drivers lock to try and nick my little diahatsu fourtrack. only failed as the battery was flat as i havnt used it for quite a while. Typical as i am just getting it ready to sell and now got to get a new lock fitted and it damaged the lovely paint work. All this in my first week back! and i had a good feeling about this year too. jose

i went to one today, cedar lost a load of limbs, half covering the road. Want a quote to fell as council condemed. No problem. What about the branches half covering the road? i ask If you want them fell free to process it and take it away. ???? Sorry i say but we charge for this. shocked look on face she says to me never mind leave it there! Unbeliveable

only thing that smells is the dirty water its in the tree fell over 2 yrs ago and i cleared it up but the remainig stump and butt was lying on the dirt so we dint want to do in the chains digging dirt. Since then the gardener has tried to lever it up a bit and it has actually moved up about 6 inches so you could cut off the remaining timber without any worries. The problem is it was originally on the edge of the stream so there isnt any kind of hole where the root plate was so it needs to go up over the edge again. Actually tbh its really a ditch, about 3-4ft deep and 3-4ft wide i guess. as far as i know nobody else has looked as i am good friends with the gardener and hes the one who got me in the first time and again this time. All honesty i dont want it, i mean theres only so much you can put on a job, and i dont really know where to start with regards to the time it will take and the hire costs and strengts of the winches etc. Hence why i thought i would offer it up to thoses who may have done this kind of thing before.

Hi all. Been asked to remove a large beech stump that fell into a small stream a couple of years ago. I dont ever do any and dont have the kit or knowledge to do it. Its at the bottom of a garden with not access other than by foot so no machinery access. The trunk is still about 6ft from the ground level however its almost lying flat on the ground. there are a few trees nearby that could be used to winch from, at most 5 m away at a guess. The job is in Ascot, Berks Anybody interested please pm me and then we could go have a look. If i am passing again i will pop in and get some pics. Many thanks Jose