DN22 Gardening

NFU here too. thats all we've got with them, no problem and all of £52 for the year

i have two lads who come in and do as much, or as little as they like. they get £15-00 per cube split. just got back from my hols and they'd done 30 cube

brakes are non existing the other fork was on the back of the transit, it fell off on the way to site

yes mate, bought it in jan. needs a front tyre but other than that she's fully legal the trailer is the back half of a 2000 transit tipper that one of the boy racers in the village wrote off.

and now i'm working for myself i've got these. but its a start :lol:

some one the gear i've driven in my day

we've got one we made ourselves. if its a regular tree customer, or mate, they can have it for nowt. other than that its £40-00 per day, £60-00 for the weekend, or £150-00 for a week. strictly on the understanding that if it breaks while they've got it, they pay for the repair oh, and it goes full, so it better come back full.

ms 341's here. all running 15" ms441 with a 20" for slightly bigger and the 880 with a 30" for the daddy stuff

getting lots of enquiries thanks, still a bit stumped on prices though. any ideas anyone? whats harwood per ton road side ?? thanks, dave

tuesday. removing some fallen willow from the river Trent. also some leaners, and a couple on the footpath that were dangerous. first outing for our tractor. performed brilliantly. pulling 40' 24" dia willow out with ease, so easily that we decided to fell the worst of the leaners into the river then pull em out.

turns out the top fell off during Novembers snow fall the tip of the tree was 5' into the neighbours lawn !!!!! would have loved to see it go

mondays job. Emergency call out from one of our letting agency clients. top came off a tree and landed in next doors garden

the last two show our 'homemade' splitter, and the finished product lol pm sent callum, thanks

and a couple more

pics as promised

forgot to say collection from DN22 0AN i'll put pics on later today (after we've tidied the yard )

Hi all, After a winter and spring of 7 day weeks, our yard is overflowing with cord. Mainly Birch, some Oak, H/ Chestnut, Ash, Etc. NO softwood (seperate pile) Ranging from 8" dia up to 30" . At a guess we've got about 80/100 ton. Also got about 70 cube ringed up in crates, again mainly Birch, Oak. Just need splitting. Any offers

whats wrong with sending the lad to knock on the clients door. "'Scuse me but my boss says i have to ask if the kettles broke ???" works ace in school break time when my 11 year old gives them the puppy dog eyes

brill !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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i like the sound of making the power unit out of a mower engine. we've got half a dozen honda ones here. the hardest thing i'd forsee is making the blade holder / chain adjuster

nice, does it split as well

i'd have said around 1.5 as well, dependant on species. we sell in crates of just over a meter cube, and one of those weighs between 600 and 750 per crate, again dependant on the species.

IMO its not the ACTUAL value for money the customer is getting its the PERSEEVED (excuse the spelling) value that dictates price. A client wouldn't think it was good value to pay £300 (say) for two men to spend a day cutting their hedges, but might think it excellent value for two men to spend half a day felling the big tree in the garden for the same £300. Same costs to us. I'm afraid its a sad fact of life that Old Tom dosen't have our overheads and you'll never beat him on price. Don't even try Two days conny bashing for £400.....If i was skint i'd do it.. but i'm not As forhaving a minimum day rate....I'm with Steve on this. We've just had two days where all i've earnt is the lads wages, doing work for a contracts manager who in the past has speeded our payments up, and done loads more favours for us. Got a job last week from a sheltered housing Co. because earlier on in the year we'd done some hedge removal work for an old dear (lovely tea and bickies ALL morning) and i'd knocked £50 off the bill. I'd thought it'd take us while about 2 ish, we were done for 12 and i felt guilty charging her the full quoted price Turns out her daughter runs around a dozen care homes so it was £50 well spent. Karma i think its called

no pockets for me. sick of the wife playing hell with me when a pile of sawdust falls out all over the bedroom floor. currently got 2 pairs of hiflex and one pair of husky type c's at the menders. every pair of stihls i've ever owned has let go in the zip area within months of having them. also i seem to wear out the front of my left thigh fairly quickly. ?????????