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  1. oldwoodcutter
    Yes the telescopic wolf one is favoured by contract climbers for whacking dead or rotten stuff off. If clouting it doesn’t work they resort to plan B and hooking it round and pulling it down. Of course if subbies are working on your job, you’ll need to supply it,as they can’t fit it in their Subaru rally replica with unusually splayed out wheels.
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    I’ve always been a big fan of village magazines, you’d be surprised how many customers/clients prefer to use ‘local’ people, and a good deal of our business comes from them. Yes our website and Facebook page bring it in too, indeed we pay extra to get at the top of local searches. What is a waste of time usually are those village selling page posts on Facebook from the Karen Loosedrawers out there wanting that 80ft conifer over some greenhouses gone this week , and willing to go as high as £50 as that’s top wack due to being on universal credit.
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    James says it’s covered within clients insurance . Ive had similar jobs, I’ve given the client a price, they’ve called the insurance company there and then with the cost, have come back outside to me and given the go ahead. The beauty in these situations is you can say £5k for something like that, get paid upon completion by customer, then they get paid in due course by insurance. Yes, some insurers want 15 quotes but others just say do it.
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    The 500i is on another level and a must have if your business is heading towards the big stuff. Get a 25” , 30” and 36” bar so you can take anything on.
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    Of course no one’s indispensable. At the same time if you have a good gang of lads that sweat their balls off for you day in day out, through boiling sun and lashing rain I certainly wouldn’t do a lot of balling and shouting about marks on walls ( which has happened on my sites in the past) A few well chosen words of advice and encouragement work wonders usually. A bucket and brush or sponge soon clean it off, which obviously they’d have to do before leaving, to the customers satisfaction. Im not training lads up from not knowing how to stir their tea up to being first rate ground workers to see them slope off never to be heard of again over something like that
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    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
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    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.
  18. 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.
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    Red fir
  21. oldwoodcutter
    Keep up the good work Jamie
  22. oldwoodcutter
    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
  24. oldwoodcutter
    The old forestry commission tariff boys measured 1 in every 100 on big stands.
  25. 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

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