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Only done one grant job in the last 2-3 years and that was a smallish fencing job earlier this year, used to be booked up right through winter with hedgelaying and fencing work through the Countryside Stewardship, have seen someone advertising in Farmers Guardian saying grants are still available but it didnt say where from
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When I had my Hi cap, a few years back now admittedly I was charging £45 a load heaped up and lads with hiluxs were charging £35, by my reckoning a landy hicap filled level is about 1.6 cube, I'm working on £75 a cube this year as all timber is now bought in and thats what I need to make it pay at the minimum but I've got back into logs more to improve cashflow through winter than make any serious money off it
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Think you'd make more selling the crane and the winch off first, been clearing my yard and basic scrap is making £160 a ton at the minute so not mega bucks
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Lmao
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Dont know if this is any help to you, they do list flails for logic mowers flailsdirect.co.uk
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Yep, pity I've not seen him again since
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Yep got plenty of those Mind havent been able to get in the workshop since march as Me dad had a tidy up due to sisters wedding reception being at the farm and dumped everything in the workshop, on the plus side means I'm now having a big sort out, which is probably long overdue looking at some of the stuff I'm uncovering
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So does that mean its the recession or I'm to expensive? as I've been flat out since January but have now only had 1 price accepted out of the last 5
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Hmm probably a toss up between clearing drains/septic tanks and newt fencing
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Been a while since I bought any binders for hedgelaying so cant really help much, but I do remember a guy who made walking sticks, came up the farm once to cut sticks, think he gave me something like 40p for short shanks, 80p for long shanks and anything interesting i.e ash knob sticks were negotiable on size and quality, anyway up shot of it was I ended up £40 better off for spending an hour wandering round showing him where to look for the best ones
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Must leak faster than my old ford then
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My brothers old boss (well known for being a tight aris) had bought a roll of woven coil land drain and cut it into metre lengths and used it as tree guards, but he never took them off so 10-12 years later I spent 2 days cutting them off for him, not a pleasant job as most of them were full of water and rotten leaves, mind surprisingly most of the trees hadnt taken too much harm
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No probs Just had a quick squizz on ebay, you can get the lidded drums on there for between, £4.50 and £9.50 each, only downside is the closest ones are 45 miles away Used to get mine of my brother when he worked for a local engineering firm
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I've got am oil drum charcoal burner if your passing this way and want a look any time, much simpler if you can get the drums with lids that they use for holding powders or briquettes
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I don't see owt wrong with it as an add on to a tree surgery business, personally I pulled out of domestic fencing and landscaping as a main source of work a couple of years back, as it was getting flooded with people pricing well below any chance of making a living from it, still do an odd one, mostly for regular customers, although this week I will mostly be out on the tractor flail mowing
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Customers like that you can do without, once had one who wanted all his logs cut exactly 12 inches long because his log store was 2ft deep and it made it easier for him to stack them
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Been there done that mate, I started out as a keeper, but coming straight out of college nobody would give you a job as you had no experience, but as you couldnt get a job to get experience I was stuck in a vicous circle, so thats how I ended up setting up on my own at 17, works changed direction a few times but if I didnt know how to do something I found out rather than turning work down
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On first look I thought it looked ok to, but I can see it now lol, they concrete the copers on round here too as its not unusual for them to go walk about if thier left loose
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If you don't like finding nails in trees, don't go hedgelaying, your lucky to get 100 yards of hedge out of chain on average on older hedges
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Good on you mate best way to learn, if you don't try you don't find out, trouble with our 3 is they listen to anybody except them that knows, we pointed out to eldest recently about chances of getting straight into a job in media and his response was well in such and such magazine there were 2 jobs for camera men, one in london and one in manchester, funily enough he didnt have an answer when we asked if on the off chance you could walk into a job like that, how exactly are you going to pay to live where the work is til your first pay cheque comes through don't get me wrong thier none of them stupid, just completely blind to common sense and the ways of the world
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I've been trying to work this out recently, when I was last doing logs a few years back I was charging £45 for a landy hi cap load which is about 1.6 cube, but that was when timber was perks of the job on hedgelaying and fencing jobs, now with buying it in I reckon its got to be in the £75-80 a cube area
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I've got three stepsons, 18,17 and 15, two want to go into media and the youngest into catering and the number of times I've come back home and found them in the dark because they didnt know how to change a light bulb or flick the trip back on is unreal, even when I've showed them it goes in one ear and out the other, we've tried to persuade the eldest to learn a trade first before going to uni to do media so he's got a fall back but he wont listen to us or any of grandparents he even got offered a guaranteed place on an engineering apprenticeship on the railways by his physics teacher at school, starting at salary of £25k and he turned it down:001_cool: Theres no helping some folk, when it comes the day that thiers nobody to do the practical manual jobs then it might start to sink in
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The pointless threads have been brought in under HSE legislation to avoid you having to wear PPE in the home/office as required when reading pointed/pointy threads, so far sharp wit and sarcasm are exempt from the current legislation
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I've found the pole saw comes in very handy for untangling big hedges, saves alot of mauling and means you end up with more usable tree left :thumbup1:As for species I lay whatevers there except for elder, as it grows to fast smothers the other trees then dies and leaves a gap, so that gets cut out and roundupped Think in the pics I posted both hedges were mostly blackthorn, the big hedge in the first few pics also had a bit of hawthorn, holly, hazel, elm and dog rose in it, had 3 bonfires worth of brash out of it all 3 higher than the tractor out of 180 yards of hedge
