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  1. oldwoodcutter
    We were working in a village last Monday and when the builders turned up first thing to continue their work on the church tower found that over the weekend all the scaffolding around the steeple had disappeared. There was a lot of chin scratching and disbelief, obviously whoever they were that dismantled it all had to know what they were doing, and have the front to do it.
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    I very seldom lone work nowadays,latterly when doing log production I too had my truck pointing the right way for a quick getaway, (which did pay dividends one time) and worked more slowly and methodically to keep myself safe. Back in the day I have many memories of lone workers 'accidents'. - some got away with it and some sadly didn't.
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    I have a 2045 turbo which we use temporarily when a daily saw has broken down, it punches well above its weight, was this marketed as semi-pro Mr Troll ? Sorry, just seen your reply to adw.
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    Thanks Bob, it was just that I thought "migrate" was what birds do, but i guess it's a word used by people that know a lot about grease.
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    I give my 230 a few pumps when it's running but I can never quite see that its going where it should, no surplus grease oozing from the bearings etc, which worried me. I mentioned it to the Timberwolf mechanic when he came the other day, and he said that it migrates easily,whatever that means.
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    I wondered where my ladders went .
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    My tippers a double cab mk 7 with alloy sides, and is really good. You will have your work cut out finding a decent low mileage mk 6 , but not impossible. There are plenty of mk 7s about, yes they are dear but if you find an owner driver one that's not had the guts thrashed out of it you should be ok.
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    There's no shortage of climbers, Merrist wood and Easton are churning them out wholesale. They work for firms paying them £80 a day for a few months then buy a Renault kango and start their own tree surgery company hiring a chipper and working with a mate with a chip truck. Yes they are then run off their feet charging £150 for a days work between the two of them. I see this all the time but we can't change the world.
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    I've often noticed that it's when hedge cutting or tree topping on a still day or cutting in a confined space like beside high hedges that the fumes would be very noticeable with the old pump petrol, occasionally gagging , so you have to stop and have a breather. With aspen you still can feel the hot gases around your head , but you're not poisoning yourself doing it.
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    Yes it is expensive, but I don't want to end my days in a cancer ward because I liked inhaling pump petrol. So I put aspen in everything with a 2 stroke engine from a leaf blower to a 660.
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    Generally if you use agency workers you've got your work cut out motivating them, often the week before they were plucking chickens or cutting lettuces out of a field somewhere. I use a strategically placed advert locally or get them via word of mouth. The Eastern European lads that have come to us like that have proved to be very hard working and switched on. Apart from one fellow who, if I understood him correctly, came from Macedonia. That was all he could say in English and was his standard reply to everything I asked him to do.
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    If you don't slow down a bit as you get older, tiredness will take over sooner or later. Getting to bed before 11 at night, and delegating more during the day works for me.
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    My brother in law (a full time pen pusher)gave me a qualcast electric chainsaw after buying it new to slash a few bushes down in his posh garden. A more vicious saw I've seldom seen, self sharpening with very weird cutters. I plugged it in just to see what happened and soon blinkin switched it off again. It's a wonder he didn't cut his own neck off with it. One of my daughters got shot of it for me on eBay. Steer well clear of that model my friend.
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    My old Ranger had an intermittent starting fault, nothing serious just clicked on the key now and then before catching. Owners forum said key switch is known fault, but local garage would hear none of it and put new starter on. 6 months later got worse so back it went, this time they confidently put a starter relay on. And then it got quite bad so they put a big 5 year battery on. Then it got even worse, again I suggest key switch but this time they put a 'genuine 'starter goes on ( wouldn't be warranty as over a year now). Then stops and won't start at all, just clicks. Now they think yes it may be ignition switch. Has been trouble free now for years.
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    This is exactly what we had to do one day last week, a birch above a fishpond, stipulated nothing must go into pond, so I sorted out some full length scaffold boards to take with us and a big tarp. Worked out just right.
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    I was in the mean streets of suburban Kings Lynn tonight pricing up a simple remove and grind out a poxy little Connie hedge. I priced normally and by the way the householder reacted you'd think I was talking about a defence budget . I got the usual "well you're the first firm we've asked to quote, we'll get back to you'' Some hope, another hour and a half out of my life.
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    Of course the only person that wins is the 'customer' . They'll let you work all day for nothing if you want to.
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    Whenever my truck and chipper is followed back to the yard or house,it is usually a little white van with 2 little weasels aboard.
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    Thanks headgroundsman, we have had the gate alarmed previously, but the tractor drivers use it at all times of the day, and at night the gamekeepers go up past my main yard to shoot foxes with lamps,so alarm a bit impractical. Sooner or later the goblins luck will run out.
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    I have a phone full of work pics and vids but Ive never grasped how to send them to anyone, my phone has a lot of features, but hasn't got any of those things on that I can see Peatff.
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    I read the bit about posting pics, as I do from time to time, and still can't understand a word of it. I have an iPhone 6 Plus.
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    Ah, the phantom door knocker finally unmasked , you make me laugh Mark, Tim.
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    I had to chuckle to myself yesterday, we were treeing in a lady's garden and when she brought the coffees out I asked her who had cut her hedge, ( I'd noticed someone had really hacked into her Connie hedge and there wasn't a straight 12 inches in it anywhere. )Apparently this was the work of a door knocker, she had asked him first to dig her flower border but to pot up some things she wanted to keep. After he'd gone and been paid she went out and had a look to see he'd dug the lot in but had potted up some dandelions.
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    This is always a worry for me too, expecting a slanging match from anybody at any minute. I can't offer any legal help but just the other day we pulled up and because of the junction had to park truck and chipper near a neighbors but not blocking them in. I knocked and told a lady that we would move if required and warned politely about noise. All good natured . We just get the greedy boards up when out comes her loud mouthed cockney partner I guess and gets right in my face saying 'I know what one of those is and you're not covering my brickweave in dust and he threatened to call police if we didn't move. We shunted round other side of junction, three times as far to drag brash but what can you do when you want to get on.
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    I got court out once like that , I had priced to take all arising away on a 3 day job. During the second day the customer says his neighbour will be coming round to pick up some of thinner lengths of cord we had on the deck. I thought well that's less for us to cart away. But when the time came to settle up my customer said the deal was for you to take it all away and you didn't did you, my neighbour took some. And that blinkin skinflint would not give me the full amount no matter how long I stood on his doorstep and argued the toss. Another lesson learned .

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