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Ok slightly forward planning, but I will require a freelance climber for two to three days in June sometime potentially, work is clearing fishing pegs on a river bank, so may need rigging/lowering, all arising staying on site as brash and I can take mini digger on site to help extract any larger pieces from the river, pm with a day rate if interested so I can get a price to the fishing club. Thanks Ed
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Ivy covered horrible stuff, but not come bad in the end.
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Me too, but people still seem to get offended when I say you can do it cheap or you can do it properly 🤔😄
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I've got a basic one, don't bother with the post boosting thing, it's more a gallery of work done, have had more jobs via that, than the website or any other advertising last few years.
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The basics are fairly simple, but it's learning what works you develop an eye for it after a while same as stone walling , also depends which style your laying and a lot depends on how good the hedge is to start with, the one I put pics up of above started out well, just been through a patch of mostly elm all growing off the same couple of old pleaches so has gone a bit iffy and I'm now in some thin hawthorn and then gets better again, so spoils the run a bit, you could tuck cut brash back into it to thicken it but I always prefer not to and just do best with what's there.
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In parts on this one it's been down to 8 or 10 as it was 20 odd foot wide at the start, should start getting up to 15 a day as get into the thinner stuffer, can get twenty plus a day on a younger hedge or more open older stuff
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Another 200 metres to go on this one
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Couple more one done and one just started first was a second lay that had been flailed and left for couple of years and was choked with ivy, second one has been left for a long time odd traces of original hedge in there but mostly laying the blackthorn to make good
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Happy New Year folks 🍻🎉
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Ts400 are the best if going for stihls, checking the air filters will give you as good an idea of condition as anything else if looks like a concrete block chances are the rest of its been treated the same Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app
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Two of the best I've seen on local selling pages on Facebook this year No.1 Lawns cut from £5 if I can plug my mower in somewhere No.2 was advertising gardening from £10 an hour with a picture proudly displayed of a lawn he'd edge and borders dug, fair play looked tidy, unfortunately had'nt weeded along the kerbs on the drive side, when someone pulled him up on it he sid he had'nt been asked to do that, even after that he got offered some work but said he could'nt do it as couldnt get there on the bus! Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app
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When my workshop was done twice, it was suggested to fit a silent alarm so you could wait outside with a lump of timber and cosh the theiving shite on the way out then burn the timber before police arrive, apparently other alternative is a frozen leg of lamb, you then roast and eat the evidence 😁 Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app
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Song as old as time, no money in tree work and still to many undervalued college leavers piling in to prop it up. P.s I've left was on £90 a day a self employed groundie/team leader/tractor driver 20 years experience on saws felling/hedge laying and firewood, not specifically tree surgery apart from odd days at it over the years and no tickets, can get £120 a day gardening and other jobs I do less stress, less hassle, although to be fair the gardening/landscaping job is just as saturated as tree work. Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app
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Pay peanuts and get monkeys Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app
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This 👍, but also the man who decides he's doing all the cutting and blunts all the saws then holds the job up by sharpening, everyone deciding there a hero and go off in all directions doing there own thing instead of working together, particuarly on site clearances. Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app
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Spotted this one on facebook earlier 😁 Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app
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I would suspect bragging about working for the church may pick you up more work with the god squad, wether you want to or not depends on your views I suppose. Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app
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Chap I used to work for used to say if it gets broke and nobody owns up it comes out of everyones wages, saws all had peoples names on trouble was it wasnt unusual to have a day off and find your saw had been taken and trashed by someone else, or that someones saw was damaged and they hadnt told the boss for fear of losing money, weeks when something did get broken or nicked and the threat of everyone paying for it was issued there was always a very obvious downturn in work ethic, much simpler way is the way we had it on YTS, "He who bends it mends it" ie if you break it you fix it, parts etc would be supplied but you stay on or come back in your own time and repair it. Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app
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This screwdriver has been a lifesaver many times dont know what make it is but is well made, came out of obe of those catalogues of bits and bobs you get through the door, apparently they were standard issue for BT engineers, dont know if still are. Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app
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Got a tobacciana still flowering at back of the house and had some sycamore budding on a job other day. Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app
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There was a back boiler gas fire in there when we moved in hence the small opening, used to cost a fortune to run so removed it and put combi boiler in, first winter it was removed was spent with an old duvet wedged in the bottom of the chimney while we saved up for the log burner. Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app
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Apologies for my gimpy mush in the pics, blame the other half, this was the end result from me having to refit the log burner, originally fitted by a "professional", chimney sweep informed me there was a six inch gap between the stove pipe and the clay liners, allowibg soot to fall back down and collect on register plate, ended up removing it, enlarging opening and refitting it, which then led onto building the shelving in the alcoves Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app
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Yep did one in Chesterfield earlier in year mostly conifer to come out green waste tip ten minutes down road and charged me 35 a time for well heaped up 12ft ifor flat bed 👍 Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app
