DN22 Gardening

had it a few times now. even once had one of our travelling friends come with a five gallon drum asking if i could spare 5 gal. out of my truck.. a polite no, followed by laughter

sorry to hear this buddy. lesson to us all

even better just found one on youtube that's powered by an old 16hp briggs n scrapem mower engine !!!!! we've got a couple of them lying around.

hi all, got a load of timber sat in the yard that we're not going to have time to log up. as we're moving yards soon i was looking at constructing some bays in the new yard and thought i'd save cash, and solve space shortages by milling some of the larger pieces up to form the bay sides. we've priced an Alaskan up but feel a dedicated chainsaw mill, permanently sited in one corner would be better. as we're looking a bit quiet in the new year i'd thought to get one of the lads who's handy with a welder to make us one. anyone got any plans / photo's we could copy. failing that, does anyone fancy chipping in for a set of the procut plans. theyre $160 on the web (equates to about £100) if three or four of us clubbed together it'd only make em about £30 apiece

bought the 880 and the 4' bar but never needed it. run most saws on the minimum bar sizes 880 30" 441's 20" 341's have 15" the only exception are the 200t's we have half on 12" and half on 14"

the missus (katie) has D1GKT spaced as, DIG KT on her Pathfinder (not cheap) the old LDV bus i started with had the reg R35 COE and i didn't notice that if you put the 5 on COE you get SCOE. my name is Schofield, but everyone calls me Skoe transfered it onto one of the transits and until recently it read R3 5COE, until the rozzers slapped a £60 fine on one of the lads be careful they're watching

offer the customer what they want. we sell in any size of bag they want to buy in. we recently had a customer buy a dumpy bag of ash off us after i'd tried to sell him a cube but was told it was too expensive two doors further up the road bought a tipper load, also of ash a few days later. the first customer was straight on the phone.

It was mate, brilliant. What makes it even better is the fact that everyone sent me a text the following day saying thanks, and how good a night it was. Top team

FFS Stevie.....thats a beaut. Hope it heals quick, and not too much time off.

only problem is Josh.... ones my wife....... the others her sister.... but it was a very good night, apart from the fact i'm £300 lighter

Went out for our firms christmas drink last night. started at four pm. six of us, the youngest who works for me is 22, and very shy. we all take the micky out of him about his inability to hold a drink by eight thirty we were pouring my chief groundie into a taxi...hammered the young lad and the other fella who work for me lasted till ten ended up with me and the two girls who work for me out till half twelve..... can't see the boys getting off lightly when we start back ......

around a weeks pay (depending on attitude ) and i'll take em out on friday for as much beer as they can drink. one of the scaffolders i know treets his lads to "the gallon" they get an hour to drink eight pints. :lol:

no no huck. defo real, its over £200 !!!!!!!!!!!!!

i bought my first 440 off fleabay. the saw was sold for £127 and described as "running but won't cut" seller was from Barnsley, so went to pick her up, it was dark when i got there and the guy went down the garden to the shed to fetch her. fired it up, and it ran as sweet as a nut, loads of compression. He said he'd taken it to his local Stihl dealer to try n repair but they said it couldn't be fixed and offered him £50 off the rrp of a new saw. Paid him the cash for the saw n took it to the car and threw it in the boot. as i was closing the boot lid noticed the chain on back to front !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sorry but couldn't resist telling him why the saw wouldn't cut anything.... he was fuming to say the least and was threatening the dealer with all sorts of legal action. still got the saw today, still running sweet as roll on fleabay

we have a 53 crewcab transit which is the chip wagon and an 04 crewcab tipper with steel sides. even though the chip truck is all ally sides, legally it can carry all of 500kg, and, when all the saws are in the back, three in the cab i'll guarentee its overwieght on the front axle. the pick up has rear seats removed, but rarely carries tools now, went over the weighbridge the other day, myself and one in the cab, and it weighed in at 2700kg !!! that means legally it can carry all of 800kg's.....crap when we subbed to hw martins, they ran flatbed crewcab iveco's with the seats in, toolbox on the headboard. one of the lads got pulled by vosa, 4 men, tools, 4 jerry cans, full tank of fuel, jensen A530T behind. it was 400kg's overweight. i think the answer for anyone who wants to run legal is to either have two trucks, one for the chip, singlecab tipper with ally back. and another truck for the men, saws, chipper etc. or go down the 6/7.5 ton route. as for driving, the ivecos are a better drive imo. but, theyre more expensive, and the diffs are even worse than a transits. i was having this discussion the other day with the chap who does the repairs on my vehicles. a few years ago there was one choice for any sort of pickup, it had to be transit, with the introduction of the latest batch of transits ( 350's ) ford have shot themselves in the foot. everyone agrees they're crap, but theres nothing else out there !!!! we're swapping one of the panel vans next year, and i think i'm going to go for a VW T5, loads more expensive, but everyone i've spoken to swears by them.

i think you have to put vin no. in if the insurance from hpi is to be valid. we always use them, we were going to buy an alfa a couple of years ago and the report flagged up the fact the mileage had 'discrepencies'. one mot said 40,000 miles, and the next said 17,000. the car was being sold as 'low mileage' lol

we've had four now. oldest was a 1956 108, we bought it with the TD lump fitted....crap thew that away and fitted a 200tdi ( imo the best engine for a landy) it was like tiggers brush...the local mot station used to joke that it was made up from more landrovers than the army owned.... broke my heart when we had to sell her to buy my first tipper.. years down the line we run a nissan pathfinder as the family car. its just as good off road as the landy was ( as long as your careful of the plastic bits) but it is MILES more comfortable, quiet, DRY, warn etc than a landy could ever be would i have another landy....TOO RIGHT

i intend to take my boy on an apprenticeship when he leaves ( he's 12 atm) but would take another one in the meantime if his training was paid for. it'd break my heart ( and his legs) if i spent 4 or 5K training someone up for him to turn round in a couple of years and leave !!!! put one of my lads through his 30/31 earlier this year and he's done nowt but moan about his wages ever since. even though he's not far off climbers money anyway !!!

avant do one too. lots n lots of cash lol

we do a fair bit of ivy trimming / removal we prefer it live, start at the top it'll pull itself off tools are silkys, and wolf garten style hoes on short handles. easy money. once did a house where the stuff was all the way up one side, up the roof, all the way round the chimney. pre-warned the client that the ivy was through the concrete roof tiles into the attic and there may be damage to the tiles when we had removed the stuff. no problems there. got up on the roof cleared the chimney, put a strop round and anchored off that. worked down the roof, got to the guttering and WHAM..... the whole lot pulled itself off in a one-er.... good times. we'd quoted a full days work. got it done in two hours.... and we were half the price of the nearest quote

And the after ones

just found these pics of a deck we did in august before pics first

saw the puking pumpkin one on f/book the other day. still laughing now

most evenings i'm invoicing, or typing quotes up.. invoicing means theres a cheque on its way...= motivation quoting means work on the way = cash on the way = motivation what i struggle with is putting site packs together. the one for the job we're finishing tomorrow took me two days to put together ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ but, tonight, i've done the invoice KER'CHING !!!!!!!!!!!!

FR jones = brill Justin will sort you out