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  1. oldwoodcutter
    This is the worse sort of publicity for our line of work. We try hard for years to build our businesses and work in a professional way,and in a few minutes of prime time tv these herberts give all our potential clients watching this a reason to be suspicious of every tree and hedge contractor.
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    Ime reminded of my father in law, the more fat on his pork the better he liked it, i used to watch him take great slabs of the stuff and crackling and fatty lamb. His breakfasts would include large lumps of fat bacon and and the like,and i very seldom saw him eat veg, let alone fruit. He died about 20 years ago and was well into his 90s. As Dave said, genetics play a part.
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    Price is about the going rate. As Eggs says insurance is a factor,i was under the impression that once the stove and flue liner and vermiculite was put in, then the appliance had to be commisioned and signed off in the event of a house fire and claim.
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    I had a 135 but sold it within a year, as above,Shavey will sort you out.
  5. oldwoodcutter
    But one of the most blatant bad habits,and often resulting in a verbal warning from me,is an evacuation of gas comparable to a supa nova exploding, 15 seconds after getting into my truck of a morning.
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    One of the bad habits i often pull them up on is not having their visor down when chipping,they start off with it down then have a walk about and come back visor up and chip a bit more up. And another i nip in the bud is reaching in the hopper when chipping short stuff instead of using a 'broomstick' .
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    New husqvarna combi can, in a word . . crap.
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    One of my favourite parts of the job is right at the end, on the doorstep,when they slowly rip that cheque out of their book, its the noise that it makes that ive always enjoyed.
  9. oldwoodcutter
    Gladwins spent £7k in parts and labour, and off the road for 7 weeks, after the front of my transit tipper was ripped off last year after a 40 ton beet lorry decided to try and kill me.
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    Ide say something like - do you mind keeping it down a bit, and if that didnt work, i would say it in stronger terms.
  11. oldwoodcutter
    Clay shooting, and being thankful my eyes have opened again after a nights sleep.
  12. oldwoodcutter
    Happy birthday my friend
  13. oldwoodcutter
    Day off today, but yesterday was really good, connies topped, hedges all clipped, shrubs all pruned back, 4 of us finished in the pelting rain at 6:00. Customer paid on the doorstep and gave me an extra ton as thanks for slogging on. The evening was rounded off with a nice glass of beer - mrs oldwoodcutters headaches started in 1984 as i recollect.
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    I am good friends with 4 lifelong climbers in my area, they all run their own domestic and commercial tree companies and they all also climb as subbies too. They are in their forties and fifties and all prefer to only use a prussik. I have occasionally asked why they like to stay old school and there answer is the same - 'safe and simple'
  15. oldwoodcutter
    Some days its endless conifer,trimming,topping,removing or chipping. Yes they can be soaking wet,or dirty, dusty,sappy,and spikey. But we'd all be poorer without them.
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    Dolmar

    oldwoodcutter replied to luap's topic in Chainsaws

    I looked under my bench Shavey, but all i picked up was a dead rat
  17. oldwoodcutter
    Thats true Johny,but the vibes are picked up off the towball,through the chassis, and upwards.Thats my humble opinion rightly or wrongly.
  18. oldwoodcutter
    I ask that the chipper is detached before work commences, my transit is temperamental enough without vibrating all the electric connectors and half the other stuff on it for hours on end.
  19. oldwoodcutter
    This is the sort of post that i like to read on a/t, i would think it very unlikely the little git will try to nick anything out of white noise's yard any time soon. Some years ago i was in the same situation, and even now if i got wind that someone was going to visit my yard i would do it again. I think i can just about remember how to dish out a few internal injuries.
  20. oldwoodcutter
    If he had 1000 customers,he would be one of the biggest firewood retailers in the country.Just carry on as normal my friend.
  21. oldwoodcutter
    You make me laugh Eggs
  22. oldwoodcutter
    I havn't posted lately for the simple reason my laptop bust,but a young i.t. fellow got it going again. He did tell me what was up with it,but i cannot say because i didnt understand a word he said.
  23. oldwoodcutter
    No holidays here ime afraid, the thought of driving to Gatwick for 4 in the morning and then waiting 3 hours in a big shed before flying to some crumby hotel,or forking out £400 for the priviledge of dossing in a damp 'holiday cottage' for a week here in the uk is stress i can do without.
  24. oldwoodcutter
    Well he's keen and getting stuck into it leastways. If anyones got his number i will give him a days trial. PPE all supplied of course.
  25. oldwoodcutter
    Sorry to hear that ,hope your insurance pays up quickly.

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