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  1. jonathan hall
    this is the best advice ive seen on this thread. straight into the trees, fresh from course has always baffled me. ( if this isnt the case with you, no offence). but whats wrong with having time on the saw - on the ground! seeing how to process wood, good basic stuff.
  2. jonathan hall
    yup,, seems to be abit sticky, but ok when youve just posted! just keep posting!
  3. jonathan hall
    damn straight, the works hard enough without sending cheaper quotes out, there just so you can forefill more contacts, for not alot more money.
  4. jonathan hall
    run out of 2x lock ups, in centre. use f.r.m like a bad boy. got my wood stack near carlops. + some farmer/ equine centre / plant nursery contacts, bit of a juggling act to be honest!
  5. jonathan hall
    ok, 20% profit. but doesnt it depend on the maturity of the business? it might take 2 to 6 years to get to a position where your profit can start getting cranked up. like it or not when new businesses set up near you they have lower profit margine, to get on their feet. once contacts and client base are sorted ( and reputation, of course) you can start to crank that figure up...if you can.
  6. jonathan hall
    oh man, when i set up i paid myself peanuts for two years...
  7. jonathan hall
    These are too bigger generalisations i suppose... we all work with totaly different set ups - some own yards, others use commercial tips or have farming mates, locality from client effects that figure greatly( i live 3 miles from 70% of my clients) and the differnce in kit set-ups from company to company, make this an impossibility to answer. i supposes the kind of trees prevelent to your area effects this too and what kinda contracts your doing... what kinda work are you doing / going to do?
  8. jonathan hall
    dylan moran uses the same shop as me regular like, and he seems to be just like he is in black books!
  9. jonathan hall
    i run at £400.00 a day, for 2 men, but my bussiness is hardly sensible !
  10. jonathan hall
    lots of lords, ladies and baronets, judges, mp's, smp's( prince andrew regulaly used to pop into an estate i worked on in kelso.) a month ago i was walking on gullane beach and my dog tore off to go and shag a terrier on the other side of the beach, i tore after him and when i got there Jack (my dog) had him pinned and was making attempted thrusts at the poor thing, when i got to them. i was splitting them up and i saw to feet beside me and looked up... 7 feet of gavin hastings, past rugby captain of scotland, grimacing at me. sorry sir!
  11. jonathan hall
    getty and harbour building too... does some funny reaction ting in salt water, belive salt water makes it rot slower! so the story goes...is this true?
  12. jonathan hall
    if find when im logging elm up, i have to maul round the edges, moving in consentricly and it chips of fine, a massive block underneath so you dont have to re-right the wood every blow. chip, chip, chip! nearly 50 % of my tree work earnings are from elm, edinburghs got tons of the stuff, its getting taken down at a rapid rate over these last 5 years. most of the elms i take down are in conservation areas and have to be burned onsite. as well as other stipulations about 'waste' processing, wont allow it to be moved offsite usnless debarked, which we find doesnt really add up unless theres a good bit of plank in it. at the moment the wood isnt allowed to be logged up and distributed within edinburgh ( regardless of debarking). even if it was, nobbley burred elm doesnt debark very well, so your time spent wont add up at all. bit of a shames really lot of good wood going to waste...
  13. jonathan hall
    i love that about the male sexual organ - no bigger than a grain of salt! good find.
  14. jonathan hall
    you damn right we are on for monday still ! can you belive it, i cleaned out the cab the night before they struck, no indian take aways, banana skins or dog hair, you could actually see the passenger foot well floor! its an omen, i vow never to clean the cab again.
  15. jonathan hall
    just found this hungy fella. took it in france last year.
  16. jonathan hall
    i was thinking that, but that would just end up with me panning them in and ending up getting in more trouble than them!
  17. jonathan hall
    er... when hes got a roller? ladders are fine to getyou onto the first limb, esp if your trying to tho a bag thru tons of lime epocomic. thro bags are great on nice open limbs, i reckon ladders only look un proffesional if you actualy cutting on them. ill use ladders, garden wall, top of landy! whatevers about. telescopic ladders are grrrreat, if you can keep em clean.
  18. jonathan hall
    empty out your first aid kit and keep 2 back up bottles in there!
  19. jonathan hall
    thats way cool. ive got a cedar to fell later on in the year, im sure the estate owner would love a 1:1 scale x wing.
  20. jonathan hall
    looks good, looks great to be honest. do you know what these retial at?
  21. jonathan hall
    very good.
  22. jonathan hall
    is there a nptc 'manning up' unit? 54.a show basic knowledge off manning up. 54.b 200 hours of manning up in the work place. 54.c health and saftey.
  23. jonathan hall
    price of a tracker?
  24. jonathan hall
    thats harsh, hiarious, but harsh!
  25. jonathan hall
    from your avitar it looks like you might be the hoodlums who dunnit!

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