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  1. oldwoodcutter
    Best of luck Matty
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    Perhaps you’ll find someone will do it for the wood , if you think the £2k is an incorrect estimate from arbtalkers with a lifetime experience in pricing tree work.
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    That’s more like it, just steer clear of london
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    At lunchtime earlier this week I thought I saw Ray Mears walking along the street in Downham Market eating fish and chips, it was his trademark green coat and haversack,but I couldn’t swear it was him.
  5. oldwoodcutter
    Leaving the tree huggers, John the Baptists , and holy joes to one side for a moment, big bad Ben made a nice neat job of that top cut, almost faultless as you might say.
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    Hope Megan’s lawyers don’t catch up on Arbtalk of an evening , they’re pretty vindictive at the moment
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    With all the redundancies this last 10 months from the service and hospitality sectors, many forced into a change of scenery, have/ are booked in on climbing courses which I’m told , to use a modern expression, are rammed ,and fully booked up well into 2021. So come the summer you won’t be able to move in your own back street for recently modified Rangers and transit trucks , with enthusiastic and cheap “tree surgeons “ at the wheel doing all the local work for half your rate. Yes, I know half will be here today and gone tomorrow , but I wouldn’t recommend jacking up your day rates until after the dust storm has settled.
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    Ive seen some tripe in my time, but cf takes the biscuit, what an opportunity wasted
  9. oldwoodcutter
    This was told to me today by a young fellow who claims to work for me And one for all you i.t. experts in a/t land Why was the spider on its computer? Looking for its web site .
  10. oldwoodcutter
    Arbtalk at its best - helping each other out
  11. oldwoodcutter
    There’s enough info, tips, and good advice above that I should think Richard Branson could pick up a few dodges if he ever came onto a/t and read that.
  12. oldwoodcutter
    I was passing the time of day with a young FC ranger and he was telling me that he’s been instructed to take that sort of thing very seriously when he comes across it. Even going in the forest to collect sticks and twigs for kindling is within his jurisdiction to start proceedings for repeat offenders, let alone felling trees.
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    An oppo of mine ran out of petrol on his motorbike just a couple of miles from a garage, and another couple of miles from home. This was in the 60s when 4 stroke jap bikes had just appeared and he had one. Pushing his big bike up a couple of hills was out of the question so he tucked it behind a farmers hedge and walked . When he got to the garage he realised he’d left his wallet at home, but he did have some loose change in his pocket. Then came the problem of what to put it in, but being young and enterprising, as we all were once, he dug out a Johnny from his inside pocket and put some in that, tied a knot in the usual way, placed it by the pump and went in and paid. I remember he said he ran back, on and off, as he had an idea the petrol may melt it before he could get it to his tank. He came to grief on it a year or so later I can’t remember exactly, and that was that.
  14. oldwoodcutter
    NFU are good, looked after me ok, and premium reduced annually as it’s a mutual
  15. oldwoodcutter
    The bread n butter of every start up to lifelong tree firm, straight fell manky connie onto that grass,cut up and clear, grind stump or recommend putting a flower tub on it if you haven’t got the time or inclination to grind the sod out, and want to undercut someone that’s quoted to leave it as flat as a witches tit.
  16. oldwoodcutter
    I have the Stihl Function Ergo, as worn by pikies , rogue traders and cold callers up n down the country, which I often get mistaken for.
  17. oldwoodcutter
    It’s when a new customer calls and wants stacking so you say yes £10, and when you pull up access is through a small overgrown garden gate, and they direct you to the log shed that’s up those steps, down those steps, around the slippery pond,and through the chicken run. And you’ve forgotten your wheelbarrow. If you want them I’ll tip them on the side of the road for you missus.
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    Big dealers offer a further discount if you pdi it yourself, sold still in the box as it were. I prefer this, as I not only don’t run it at full throttle out of the cut for the first 3 tanks, I don’t run it full throttle in the cut for that period either.
  19. oldwoodcutter
    I run everything 2 stroke with Aspen, never had any problems. Similar to Stephens experience above, in that I dropped in on one of my son in laws jobs , his gang were hedge cutting. ( He only uses Aspen in his topping saws) . As old habits die hard I picked up a hs45 that was ticking over on the ground and had a minute buzzing the side of a connie hedge while his lads were busy. Talk about making me gag, I’d forgotten how bad pump petrol fumes affected the lungs and brain.
  20. oldwoodcutter
    I’m diversifying into actually working less hands on, to use a relatively modern phrase, and to get those that claim to work for me to work more. I also diversified into jacking my prices well up a couple of months ago, and am getting even more quotes accepted than ever.
  21. oldwoodcutter
    Perhaps the fancy term of ‘sub contractor’, when referring to itinerant climbers , should more correctly say - a youngish fellow ( ie under 55) who has grasped how a zigzag works, and is quite adept at stuffing an unchecked bundle of £20 notes into his shirt pocket, before clearing off in a bent up 4x4 with very oversized wheels on at a rate of knots, usually about 3 hours before the rest of ‘the team’ wearily stagger to the firms transit tipper and head back to the yard.
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    When the time comes for one of my lads to go after the greener grass, they ask me fo a reference, which of course I do. On the other side of the coin when I’m hiring they send me their cvs, which is only a rough guide, or come and see me . Between 5 minutes and an hour I can tell if they can cut the mustard, if they can, they stay, if they cant they go at the end of the day.
  23. oldwoodcutter
    16” on a 500i will be ok, I pop an 18” on my tuned and ported 660 for certain jobs. Yes of course you’ve got to grip it firmly as it’s a box of dynamite ready to take your head off given half the chance with that much power on a tiny bar, that’s more suited to one of twice that length.
  24. oldwoodcutter
    Why is it than anyone under 40 calls me Buddy or Bruv or Bro. Harmless enough I know, but if they are the age of my grandsons, I remind them what my name is. We are not in the Lower East side of NY yet.
  25. oldwoodcutter
    An oppo of mine parks he’s defender under his bedroom window, his jaw dropped when he went out to see both doors, bonnet and bumper missing . They simply walked through his 5 bar gate and worked under his security light.

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