oldwoodcutter
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You’ll be hard pressed to find any firm who will hire you a 661 Tom, even Ben Burgess don’t hire saws out now. If you do find one they will want £1500 into their account up front,repayable upon return of saw in same condition as hired. Just pay a local cutter to come and do it for you.
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Micks hit the nail on the head there, either personally supervise the work, or do it yourself with a labourer to help you, or have a turn on it. We all know as soon as you go underground anything can happen.
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Buying the so called goodwill and the euphemistically titled ‘customer base’ off a domestic/ little bit of commercial tree firm that’s throwing in the towel is akin to drawing that hard earned out of your savings account and wiping your arse with it. By all means cherry pick any of their assets that are not worn out, lashed together, or been welded on the hurry up on a Friday night, but that’s about it.
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If you’re going to be standing behind a petrol hedge cutter, even a long reach, all day use Aspen or similar, as that exhaust is right next to what you’re breathing in. And they are all so viby, using it bare handed for hours at a time will damage your nerves irrevocably in later life. For overgrown runs of connie topping think of a price and double it.
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Rumour has it he pruned it to ground level. . . . for firewood
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Yes the so called modern term of ghosting is really bad this year, no matter how well you thought your people skills were performing on the site visit, and confidence of getting the work in , that’s it you’re left in limbo. The old trick of calling them 3 weeks later yields little fruit either. And the amount of chippers, tippers, saws ,climbing kits ,and whole companies ( including ‘goodwill’) up and down the country are coming onto my screen almost as often as lost cats, stolen dogs, and invitations to claim thousands from being sold a diesel car way back when.
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If it turns out to be the neighbours, he may generously offer it to you ‘for the wood’ as long as you get it all cleared up 👍 -
Sawlogs required - Suffolk - anyone willing to share contacts
oldwoodcutter replied to Stihl123's topic in General chat
Unless you’ve got scales on your axles they prefer to deliver to you, with a weigh bill, that way there’s no argument- 1 reply
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Yes the term cordwood is seldom heard in the forest nowadays, images of an old age pensioner standing all day behind a circular saw bench in some bleak wind lashed yard spring to mind, often belted off a fordson major. It’s referred to as green sawlog ( dead straight), or red sawlog (bit knotty but quite straight) now. Whitewood can mean different things to different people, from softwood like spruce to hardwood like sycamore. Roundwood is usually any kind of trunkwood.
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A friend of mines Raptor just gone back for Ford to deal with, 6 months old and chassis is as rusty as an old horseshoe.
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THIS ADVERT HAS EXPIRED!
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Collectable antiques. Not for use. For decoration only. 2 massive gin traps with swivels & chains.Can post at cost. Priced as the pair.£100
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How to run a job site, do’s and dont’s
oldwoodcutter replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in Business Management
The way you tell the men to do things also counts for a lot, could you just, or would you mind, not barking orders balling and shouting, effing and blinding all day like a regimental sergeant major. If someone cocks up don’t have a go at him in front of everyone, take him to one side and have a word . And I always try to thank everyone at the end of the day, to try and show some level of appreciation if they’ve been slogging their guts out all day for you. Its also good practice to get everyone together at the start of the job, particularly a big one, with a plan of action, and don’t forget the youngest member of the team- on more than one occasion they have chipped in with a good idea, which when you’re in the thick of it thinking about a million things at once even the boss can overlook something silly on occasion. -
It used to be ok to pour paraffin in a horses ear if it wouldn’t stand up, but I wouldn’t recommend it nowadays, unless you want your name all over the local press, and a hefty fine and about 500 hrs community service .
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Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version
oldwoodcutter replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Picture Forum
Not something you see everyday, sycamore and Scot’s pine welded together, dead man’s plantation, cockley cley.
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Qualified Climber Seeking Opportunities in Norfolk
oldwoodcutter replied to cdmh2's topic in Employment
Rather unfortunately for you, tree climbers are climbing over themselves in Norfolk at the moment trying to get a day or two a week at best, subbing to tree firms. You can blame the government, or brexit or Liz Truss, but bulging order books and climber shortages are a thing of the past. -
When my mate ran a petrol station he’d often remark to me about the difference between the volume of petrol put in at the depot, and how that would shrink by a staggering amount on hot days when being put into his storage tanks, which of course he had to pay up front for.
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A friend of mine , and a big player in our tree world has had a very good run these past few years . At least 2 teams out, and often 3, and machinery that smaller firms can only dream about. Like most of us recently, invitations to quote have dried up, and big bread n butter commercial contracts shelved or cancelled. He was telling me last week that his leasing and rent payments are constant at 20k per month . I asked him what he was going to do and he said he just doesn’t know yet.
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The one man band grass cutting and hedge clipping fellows are tripping over themselves to offer their services around here, £7 per hour seems to be the average. To use a relatively modern phrase, they should stick to smoking it rather than mowing it.
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If they can lift 3 brand new top of the range quads from a stand overnight ( like at the royal norfolk show last year) and they never seen again, there’s precious little hope they can stop a climbing rope , a zigzag and a few carabiners.
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Helping my son in law out yesterday, just about to put cones out and this gets dumped in our work area in about 5 seconds flat. So quickly that the lads setting up didn’t even see him. After calling the number with no reply I knocked a few neighbours doors. Eventually shifted after 15 minutes. Happy days. IMG_9771.mov IMG_9771.mov IMG_9771.mov
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I was sitting in my van outside Wetherspoons and an old codger came shuffling up the street and his mut stopped right on their doorstep and did a heap. As a couple approached from the opposite direction he made out he was searching his pockets for a bag. As soon as they’d passed, he just wandered off , leaving it in the doorway.
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A friends wife was sent to head office on a 1 week training course with her insurance co. He said that her week was entirely made up of how not to pay out on any car/van/truck claims.
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Many years ago we were working in a stand of timber which blackthorn had been left to encroach. I was only young but remember an old cutter got stabbed in his scrotum by a thorn, chainsaw trousers of course were unknown that time of day so it had gone straight through his trousers and pants, although as we know not even modern saw trousers will stop one. He went to one side and sorted himself out but realised as the day wore on he must have left a small bit of the tip in himself. When he came back to work after a few days he explained that it had swelled up to the size of a cricket ball quite quickly, his old lady was unable to find it, so of course he went to his village doctor who numbed him and did remove it, and put him on antibiotics or whatever. Needless to say he was the butt of continuous ribald comments from the squad for a long time after that.
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A friend of mine was recently telling me of his investigation /audit. He keeps an attack dog in his yard, so the hmrc man is at the yard gate ringing the visitors bell, with his dog going even more mental than usual. Anyway upon safe entry the man says well at least we know your dog food allowance is all above board.
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My search for a bigger saw is over - I got me a 66
oldwoodcutter replied to djbobbins's topic in Chainsaws
Yes that’s the one, when would you like me to ship it to you?
