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  1. oldwoodcutter
    At least this fits, last year’s gloves I could only start to get 3 fingers in.
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    What often happens after a short while is you’ll get the condensed milk, while your arb contractor gets fat on the cream.
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    Many years ago a friend of mine went out one dark night and took the top out of a spruce that he’d had his eye on for a few weeks. Unfortunately for him, the estate was heavily keepered, and at that time they were out and about guarding against poachers. The land owner decided to prosecute and it went to court, where he sympathetically told the magistrates he couldn’t afford to buy a tree ( in truth he’d been raking cash in all year doing domestic tree work) and didn’t want his 2 young daughters to have a xmas without a xmas tree. The land owners friends were on the bench and he was fined heavily, and had his name splashed across all the local papers . This was a good 50 years ago and I recalled it the last time we got chatting and he laughed about it, but it wasn’t funny at the time for him.
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    I’d like a pound for every time I’ve stood under the yard security light after getting back to the yard this time of year and disinfecting lines or boots or just about everything else that can get in contact with rancid stinking dog muck. And after finally thinking about trudging into the house out of the rain and cold, I notice the truck pedals and mats are covered in it too.
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    A young (but very experienced) friend of mine had his new £250 Saw Boots on the other day and his foot slipped under the trunk he was bucking on a greasy slope. His 500i got his boot between where the tongue starts and toe cap ends, and it went through like a knife through butter. The Kevlar didn’t block the chain, he hit the brake as the cutters touched his sock. Shook him up a bit I can tell you.
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    If you’re self employed running your tree firm then ‘work’ never ends unless you shut up shop completely for a week or 2. Many aim to be out working with a team or two at least 5 days a week,Saturday’s are often set aside for grinding odd stumps out by yourself, And with these days of short daylight Sundays are quoting days,out n about getting more work in , and heading towards your first million.
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    Red fir
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    There’s not a straight foot of timber in it, so you’ll have a long wait for the millers to start queuing up
  9. oldwoodcutter
    If you venture onto FC land and get caught cutting anything the commission will be down on you like a ton of wet concrete. They may give you one warning if the ranger is in a good mood, or taken to court and prosecuted if he’s not.
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    I’ve seen boom and bust countless times, if you’re heavily mortgaged and all your big kit is on tick there could be trouble ahead, if you’ve got your first million on deposit in the Nationwide you may have a bit more of a skip in your step. On a more personal level, I put a skip in my step if I open my eyes at sunrise and realise I’m still alive enough to get out n about and price a few jobs up.
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    Not that I’m aware of Bill.
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    The Larringtons still farm at Wolferton I believe.
  13. oldwoodcutter
    Much of the above is sound advice, things may turn out alright. I don’t know whether I should admit to this but several years ago I looked at a run of connie hedge/trees about 50 yards long which they wanted reduced from 20 / 30 feet high to 8 feet or so,which as usual needed climbing with a 200 and jumping from one to the next . At that time we were snowed under with offers of easy tree work so I quoted £6k and thought no more about it. Until they called next day and gave the go ahead.
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    Unless you are really desperate for work, or the client will accept an unusually high quotation, I’d steer clear of anything to do with bamboo.
  15. oldwoodcutter
    Red fir
  16. oldwoodcutter
    Keep up the good work Jamie
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    Not on that occasion Steve, but more recently the air ministry at raf marham told me my 660 is so loud now,it interferes with their F35’s approach radar . I told them it was your fault, and gave them your details, so they’ll be in touch shortly in an official capacity .
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    Red fir
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    The old forestry commission tariff boys measured 1 in every 100 on big stands.
  20. oldwoodcutter
    I’m reminded of that famous Reg Coates vid where he did his own mod on the 201, under the wheel of his truck and thanked god for the 540
  21. oldwoodcutter
    Perhaps he was booking himself onto a cs34/cs35 course , that’s fairly important [emoji41]
  22. oldwoodcutter
    Northern Arb and I got off on the wrong foot when they lost my stack of genuine TW blades for resharpening, and after several heated calls to the higher echelons, they begrudgingly sent me some el cheapo chocolate replacements. This in itself was then rectified after a series of robust conversations. However since that unfortunate incident they’ve pulled their socks up and have delivered faultless service and can’t be more helpful to me.
  23. oldwoodcutter
    We know it’s quiet when the many tree worker sites that run alongside A/T , that somehow pour onto my phone 24 hrs a day have subbie climbers offering their services and willing to drive for half a day to bash trees down for me are increasing on a daily basis .
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    Yes good point there Dumper, I’ve never really liked to ask, long as the jobs done safely and expeditiously .

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