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Couple more of the hedge I posted few weeks ago, found some better hawthorn at the end 315 metres in this run, got another 150 to do on that farm and off to do a short run on a building site tomorrow

Very true mate

Been a while since planted any large amounts but seem to remember could get up to 500 a day done slit planting and then guarding afterwards, its guards that slow you down, its not quick putting spiral guards on hawthorns

Nice one mate, think I need to walk my dogs more often

Hi Ben, still not too close but I can find you some room at the yard its between Belper and Ashbourne if thats any help let me know, cheers Ed

Never had any problems with insuring kit, its all with NFU though, the only thing I have noticed with them is in the last couple of years that is that timber haulage on the road and felling of roadside trees has been removed from the standard tractor insurance and also spraying has been removed from the public liability insurance and has to be added as a specific item

Theres two usual ones customers come out with its either "do me a good price on this one and theres plenty more work for you" believe it and there a pretty fair chance you'll do yourself and the same line will be trotted out to the next person they ask or its "so and so has qouted x but we really want you to do it" to which the correct reply is that "if so and so can do it for x then let them get on with it" you can't please all the people all the time so don't try, don't stress over the jobs you don't get and do the ones you do get well at a reasonable price and wait for repeat business/word of mouth reccomendations, and the idiots doing it on the cheap will eventually reduce by natural selection

Been that way for a few years I used to do at least 1500m a winter under Countryside Stewardship and would always be booked up for the year ahead plus associated works, fencing, coppicing, planting etc. The hedges I'm doing at the minute are on ELS grant through English Nature, difference with these ones is if you dont complete the capital works in the year their allotted then they don't roll over to next year the money goes back in the pot and the landowner doesnt get the grant hence currently working like a loony

I'm being let off this time so long as go next week as thier having a site inspection this week and the man I'm subbing for has offered to lend me the booklets and book me in to do the test

The black plug suggests that the saw is running rich - lean it up on the H screw - it should be around 1 turn out - if it is this then check the airfilter is clean and if it is, lean it down 1/6th turn and try it again.

 

The coil may be on the way out but worth resetting the coil to flywheel gap by using a thin business card between the flywheel and coil and loosening the bolts and allowing the coil to stick to the magnet and doing them back up.

 

Try that for starters:thumbup:

Cheers Spud will do

Thanks will have a look, its spent quite a while in retirement but has had to be pressed back into service recently, the plugs usually black suggesting its running rich but doesnt smell rich when running or smoke, there is no damage to the actual plug when removed its just they don't spark/weak spark

Evening all, my old Stihl 028 AV super has suddenly taken to killing spark plugs, I had put it down to the only ones I had spare in my tool box were secondhand ones but fitted a new one last week and it has done the same, done 4-5 days work with it and then in the middle of a cut today back fired and cut out same thing when took the plug out only had a weak orange spark, put another plug in and away to go has run fine rest of day again, any ideas? cheers

If you use postcrete you dont need to worry about propping the posts either, just hold for a couple of mins til it begins to set and double check level before it fully cures, a few bricks are always handy for setting the gravel board level while putting the next post in

Remember doing PA1 at college good few year ago now, we spent weeks reading and trying to memorise rules and regs, went for the test, first question.....do you want a smoke? followed by don't worry lad its not a trick question :laugh1:all I was asked was when don't you spray i.e too hot, too windy or when its raining, then it was put on overall, face shield and gloves measure 200ml of coloured water in that jug, put it in the knapsack sprayer without spilling it, thanks you've passed

Just run into this problem, priced for some hedgelaying on a site, sub contract job to a tree surgeon I know, I was supposed to be in and out before the site was officialy open, as he's been waiting for an order number for the job, site is now open and I have'nt got a cscs because I've only been on site once in the last 5 years or so, so have'nt worried about getting one, ho hum another thing on the to do list

6 day weeks, missus works 3days and skint. Between rent,bills and nursery costs it's getting too tight. This month more going out than in its a joke we earn too much apparently for council tax relief and most of the tax credits we were getting are been taken away. I dunno working hard seems bloody pointless sometimes

 

 

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Know that feeling mate, busier than I've been for two years today makes 9 weeks I've worked straight through without anytime off and still no better off because by time I get something finished and paid for its already been accounted for, which is doing my anxiety levels no good at all, but just got to keep fighting, it always comes right eventually

According to the Cross Compliance guidelines you can lay up to the end of march closed season for hedge cutting with a flail is 1st march til 1st August.

Price wise, I start from £5 m if the customer supplies the stakes and go up to £9 per metre if I supply stakes/big rough hedge, burning up is extra at £1 m if over 100 metres or on price if less

Nice job there mate

Sorry to hear about this mate, it happens, I've been self employed for 16 years now and last couple of years have been tight for me too, works picked up now and hopefully will continue, its happened before and it will happen again I dare say, tighten your belt, keep your head down and carry on regardless

You just need to educate them of the benefits of British charcoal compared to the imported crap. I sell it on my stalls, start small first.

 

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When I first met my Mrs, she invited me over for a bbq so I said I would supply the charcoal as made my own, this was greeted with some disbelief as to quality , until I went, her half barrel bbq was so hot I had to go find some welding gloves out the van so I could turn the steaks

It was more the way he went "oh right......." before he hung up, he'd be out of luck if he's after processing equipment all he'd get is an axe and some wedges

Hi Hedgesparrow, I made a burner out of a 45 gallon steel drum the sort with the lift off lid, drilled 4-5 inch and half holes in the base for air flow and stood it on 4 bricks, then build soil up round the base to reduce the draft, I followed the directions in The Encyclopedia of Green Wood Working, I've found it best not to put in anything over 3 inch as it wont get hot enough to burn it fully, using one this size a burn takes about 4-6 hours and produces a feed bag to a feed bag and a half of good charcoal

Got a call earlier off a mobile number saying had seen my wanted ad on woodlots and was I still looking for firewood, I said yes and he said your in Belper and I said well between Belper and Ashbourne, he then said "oh near ......" Isaid yes and he replied "oh right" and hung up, as there is another firewood man up the road from me I can only think maybe he has possibly had a run in with him before

And the worst ones for screwing you down on price are the ones with money because as the old saying goes "you don't get rich by spending it"

I don't specifically price in profit, I've always found when I do this I dont get the job! What I do is say put 4 days on a 3 day job, this is twofold if I get it done in 3 days I'm quids in, if I get held up and it takes 3 1/2 days I'm still safe, I have found recently that its helped not being vat registered because although there is still vat on materials, theres no vat on my labour which makes me 20% cheaper than a vat registered firm to start with, also I always give an estimate rather than a qoute, its rare that I under price it and have to ask for more, but it also allows me if a job goes easily to maybe knock some off the final price which always goes down with the customer