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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
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Nice job Not quite sure what style mines classed as, think its a cross between midlands and welsh
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The first one I've been putting off for a few years as it was mostly blackthorn, all greened up nicely now just got to gap up acouple of places and back fence it
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Some people shouldnt be allowed near chainsaws....
csservices replied to csservices's topic in General chat
I did suggest to my mate that we knock on the door and see if they wanted it sorting, but we decided looking at the state of the place they wouldnt want to pay for it -
My mate had a tractor mounted one like that when he first started, fookin lethal, chuck and duck
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Some people shouldnt be allowed near chainsaws....
csservices replied to csservices's topic in General chat
I'd assume so the house is still lived in -
Some people shouldnt be allowed near chainsaws....
csservices replied to csservices's topic in General chat
Think the poles got most of the weight where its laid on it -
Some pictures of a couple of hedges I've done this winter, bit out of practice as hadnt done any for a couple of years
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Spotted this yesterday, while we were fencing in the field next door, the guys obviously panicked after his attempt and left it like this
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Had one like that from someone down south the other week, reckoned she had a large fallen tree in the garden and did I know someone who would clear it up for the timber
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Not being pessimistic mate, been in the job long enough to know, less you outlay the quicker you get it back, working on the 40k figure you'd have to sell 500 cubic metre loads at £80 a load just to get the investment on equipment back and that obviously doesnt include outlay on labour and timber, I agree that good stuff will always sell, at one time I was the only person round here dry storing logs before sale, I even knew one lad who was going into the woods and felling as the orders came in and taking it out green and wondered why he didnt get repeat custom
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I work on the K.I.S.S principle, plus by not having a firewood processor it means I can handle a wider range of timber rather than having to find straight stuff of a certain diameter
