RobRainford

Have you not given your barrow a bright pink paint job like the rest of your kit yet?

I never had any jobs in Kendal? I sure will do mate cheers. Organising an inspection next Tuesday. Gonna go up with a torch and have a look. Are there any signs I should look for for evidence of bats? I'm not too clued up about the critters!

currently, i do work for myself, and all the insurances come from my dads side, meaning i have public liability up to my teeth pretty much. However, i am thinking of declaring self employed and wondering what i would need to do, ive looked online and i need to do my tax returns and id have to add VAT to jobs i do and have all sorts of paperwork, plus generic risk assessments, although there is one available anyway, it would enable me to invoice people. But with my dad having a business, i can use that and although i operate under robert rainford tree care services i could invoice people as rainford contract services which is his company, and then money paid to them i will get paid to myself as wages, which then would need tax depending on the amount. Its a real headscratcher, as when i dicuss it with my dad he says i can put things through the business and can invoice people through his business. There is a wealth of information available i know, but i need mroe real life interpretations of this information in order to help myself make the choice, i was planning to do it next year after i finish my foundation degree, and go to st helens chamber for business advice, where i may be eligible for grants if im lucky.

They would probably be your best bet IMO. We have enough so when spraying we can take an extra 2000l of water. Plus they will fit inside a van. With room for gear too. We used to run a system with a tranny van with the tank in the back with a small Honda water pump coming off that. Worked well

when ive used a friends tachyon compared to my XTC i found very little difference in feel, it was definately lighter, but it felt the same in the hand and the thinner rope seemed to work better with a VT system.

we have about 10 1000l IBC containers, large hole on top for filling and tap at bottom, you can fit a hose to these and then attach a small water pump, you can get two on a trailer and be towing approx 2 ton. The tap is the lowest point so work well as a gravity fed hose.

Happy birthday matey You may be younger than stevie. But there's very few of you eld folk who are younger than me!

That looks like a pretty cool Place to work at! I can hear the sound of. Hedgetrimmers ringing in my ears looking at that!

Cool. I'd love to make a bench out of the logs we have. But it would take a while. I've made a couple of stools. Automatic quad? I would say they are for softies but we had a Kawasaki 650 with a CVT gearbox. That thing was a beast. 60 mph across a bumpy field at night. Selectable 2/4wd in 2wd it would pop a wheelie easily. And if you hammered the throttle in a corner you'd be facing the other way pretty quickly.

That's a pretty amazing tree. I found a website a while ago that had a list of all the champion trees in the UK and had some of the ancient yew trees. Each one was spectacular in it's own right. Where's mr Blair, that's a good candidate for a stunt fell!

Haha that's one cool picture. The HSE say nothing about trees, in the sense that they have to be safely secured to the floor!

some good pics there ed. the guy in the last pic looks puzzled that the wood has a bench in it! plus thats a cool quad in the shed!

ive been using samsons from the book they have produced, following what they say as best as i can. Each one seems to give me a bit of a lump for a crossover, unless im doing something wrong.

I seem to get that with my double braid splices. Could I not be tapering enough cover? Or is something being done wrong?

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Here's the two I did before. I will be buying a sailmakers palm and some twine for lock stitching these. Is it a good idea to put some sort of number on these if they are used for work? I won't be using them for climbing

ive just bought some 13mm portland braid, was going to to for double esterlon but at a bit less of the cost, seeing as i do little rigging i thought it would be a good choice. Its a nice rope and after speaking to guys on the fletcher stewart stand at the arb show, its 10% less strength for a less cost, a good alternative if you dont do much lowering.

well surely wire cores are 3 strand wire? they would be awkward because of the lack of flexibility surely ive done 2 double braid splices today, pics will be up shortly im on the laptop and no iphone connection to take pics off i struggled with doing a poison ivy splice though, got through most of it but pushing the core tail back through i struggled to get it past the core exit to push it further, theres not as much room as other double braids.

Where's the course held? Congrats!

I hated spiking too. And learnt on a sycamore. It felt totally alien. Having these metal things on my legs and walking up the tree! I still haven't got fully used to them. Hell, I've not climbed properly in months. I've lost so much of it now. Need more climbing jobs, a buddy to climb in my free time with or just free time to go and climb

thanks guys, i knew it was a rookie mistake! if only some of you lived closer up here id be begging for some one on one splicing tips! old snake how have you anchored the end of the rope to the fid for pulling through? Ill buy some clean 16 strand and have a go at it when it arrives, still got plenty time to practice!

ive still nto managed with the 16 strand, ive got the wire fids from treeworker, but the loops on the end dont fit into the rope so i have to squeeze them in a bit to make apoint. When i get to where the core is sticking out i can get maybe another inch through but thats it, nothing else will happen! really fustrating! any help/tips?

welcome to arbtalk! i saw you on telly not too long ago [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_aKZSTo34w]YouTube - cookie monster goes to rehab(family guy)[/ame]

thats what i always do, show i have nothing to hide and if they ask any questions i answer them as much as i can. Ive been asked how old i am and people are surprised im 19, they usually expect someone a lot older!

I would love a go in that. Would turn some heads! Will surprise the plod too!