oldwoodcutter
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Everything posted by oldwoodcutter
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Reducing some hedges are the stuff of nightmares, the closer you can get up and in to them the better, the ms200t being the weapon of choice,but generally the sweat is rolling off my back just at the quoting stage. Gypsy sticks are not normally the answer for 2 reasons, holding it out horizontally at arms length pulls your guts out after the first 20 minutes , and once cut you still have to get up close and personal to drag the cut stuff off . Stick to knocking trees over, half the effort for 3 times the price.
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Funnily enough Dan, I’ve had some of my biggest pay days from calls on a Sunday night that came up withheld. Some honest people withhold their numbers for reasons best known to themselves. Naturally I’m on my guard to smell a rat, but now n then it all works out rather well.
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There’s not many trees left in Lincolnshire [emoji846]
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Yep we’re doing more and more for one of the big utility firms and of course they want to know who everyone is on their site and what tickets they hold, with all the assessments as standard practice nowadays.
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All I’m saying is that if I priced jobs up at the quoting stage, to pay labourers and improvers £30 an hour, I’d pretty soon be out of business.
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Good staff are hard to find, and even harder to keep. All we can do is try our best to keep getting the work in and hope that they stay with you, but of course they know what their mates get kitchen fitting or roof tiling . Unless you’re gonna start forking out £30 an hour all you can do is try to keep them at whatever rate you can afford, or let them go, and try to train up the next unlikely candidate that slopes into the yard 15 minutes late on their first Monday morning.
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You could always set your sights a bit higher, woodland management ‘for the wood’ you’ll be swimming against the tide a bit, no matter how enjoyable it may seem. Woodland owners will sit back and let you do is as it’s not costing them anything . Why not buy a bit more kit and progress into the firewood market, and make more money in the process, while still working with wood.
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and I’ve still got my tarmac rake somewhere
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Yes I’ve heard those old chestnuts a thousand times. They are looking for a mug, just make sure it’s not you.
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Giving all tree workers a bad name that’s for sure
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After Brexit, Latvian firewood will be heavily tariffed , making it uneconomical to import.
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A farmer local to me uses a neat trick, no saw required, he sends one of his fellows down in their 35 ton 360 and smashes the trees to bits, pulling them over, smashing up the limbs a bit more, then leaves it all in a heap on the edge of the field for ever more.
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Impressive
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Yes when customers, or subbies notice my red Aspen can, they ask about cost, with the usual jaw dropping gasp of incredulity. When I’m on my deathbed at least I won’t be thinking that I saved a few quid in my later years by using cancer inducing pump petrol.
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Well you certainly can’t do much more for him, apart from wiping his arse. I would have said cheerio a long while ago.
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I can remember the bad old days of going to bed with a sore throat after having my head 12” from a hedge cutter exhaust all day. I’d never thought as far as getting throat cancer , all I do know is I never had a sore throat after all day hedging with Aspen.
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I like to use my bahco 1/2” sockets for the simple reason I can clearly see the size stamped on the socket without running after my specs [emoji106]
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And at the first signs of breaking into a sweat, not disappearing for long periods ‘getting a drink’ or wandering off for half an hour every hour going for a Jimmy.
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and isn’t it funny that no one knows how or when the door got heavily grazed, or the front indicator got ripped off, or the 7 pin socket has gone leaving only the wires. One of life’s continuing mysteries.
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I’ve run everything on Aspen for quite a while now. My son in law hasn’t converted yet, and whilst putting in an appearance on one of his jobs the other day, I picked up his running hs45 to trim a few final whiskers of the hedge he’d cut, while he was tidying up, and after a minute or so I felt like some juvenile petrol sniffer, but rather than getting high I was nearly puking. I’d forgotten the difference between pump and aspen.
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I doubt there’s not a transit tipper in the uk that hasn’t been overloaded, with its mud flaps scraping the tarmac.
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I had mesh both sides, back in the mists of time, they opened me right up, couldn’t walk to the bog for a week, let alone try and walk down stairs.
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I know a few male ones, if being gay doesn’t count.
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I thought it said for virgin tree surgeons [emoji846]
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I know what you mean Ben, it’s not too unusual for me to have to get myself between them when the pushing and shouting and swinging starts. I’m not having that on my work site.
