Shane

A mewp for very tall people

If you want a final cheapo possibility.... Get a length of steel pipe and find a pipe bender and a heavy vice- off you go! A bit heavier but it could work

Can you not swap your work around? Tell next week's customers you have an emergency? Or tell them the truth - loads of people understand wildlife issues. Then tick off the urgent postponed jobs on Saturdays. We've just done that where we had to take out 20 leylandii this week to beat the nesting dickies. Everyone was OK with it.

If you register for VAT you can claim back 20% of the purchase price, but you have to pay 20% of the sale price back to HMRC. If you are running at a profit, then by definition the ouotgoing 20% to HMRC will be more than you claim back on the purchase price. Are you not just becoming a tax collector? As long as your turnover stays below the threshold you're better off not VAT registered. Please correct my maths if I've misunderstood how this works.

It allows you to offer a full service and I recon it's a lt less competitive. I honestly can't remember the last time I didn't get a grinding job I bid for. Start with a machine that will get into small access gardens so you can do the jobs some others can't. Then as you grow, get a bigger machine for accessible monster stumps. You can make big bucks grinding, less waste to get rid of and you only need 1 or 2 working on the team.

FFS It's gotta be a wind up! I've even been sent a text today about sexy 2 stroke oil. Aaaaargh, this marketing shite is turning into harassement. It's so crud it's turning me into a laughing paranoid now!

£60-£80 for one job? Spend £400-£500 and do hundreds of jobs.

The advantage with being a miserable git is that things can only get better. Where I grew up the only people who smiled were nutters and ... well it's politically incorrect to mention this group.. but either way you would get beaten up. So miserable git it is! The adult section can be found by clicking on the

Looks like I've caused a derail on this thread - I was asking if the relevant sections of Arbtrader should be for what they are supposed to be selling and NOT ads that should be in the 'Adult' section. Steve B - whats your view PS what happened to the member whos avatar was that topless woman carrying some rope, bring it back!

Be careful what you say - what age girlies do YOU mean?

While it's great to look at pleasant young women, how come the 4x4 and arbtruck sections on Arbtrader have only got a bleedin ad for super sexy oil? What is the oil supposed to be used for? I keep looking to see if there's an intersting truck for sale. Isn't there another place these ads should be? I'm affraid I've reached the age where I'd rather see a truck for sale than some tart advertising lube. Awaiting bombardment. Grrrrr Boring old git.

Too late in your current dilemma but I was told by one of the 'factory' guys that the rear bearing is a 'purge' job (you have to pump in as much grease as necessary till it oozes out around the flywheel. The front one has seals which mean you do a couple of gentle pumps to avoid blowing the seals out. Mine is the older 15-23 with the 34hp turbo engine. They also suggested doing this every week regardless of hours. Maybe worth checking with Pete B in case theres a difference with the quadchip

ELG I know the maths is wrong - I was basing it on an old Monty Python sketch 'We used to live in shoe-box in middle o road etc....' Just stupid Brit humour I'm affraid. In reality we keep fairly sensible hours 9-4:30 (often less) Maybe a bit lazy but I work to live, not live to work. I can make enough dosh to lead the lifestyle I want. I just need an underwater chainsaw now.

We start at 3:00 in the morning, only use Silkys till 7:00 then chainsaw till 5PM then back to Silkys till the scum-bag lazy staff finally finish the job around midnight. Then it's back to the yard for 6 hours of maintenance and log splitting. But at least they are happy in their work. Grateful for the pittance I pay them and grateful for the high quality chinkachoppi saws and 3 core nylon rope I supply them with.

Can I comission a beaver please?

This leads us into the philosophical realms... If you are old school and wrap the rope round the trunk of the tree could you be nobbled by the HSE if the tree has not been loler tested?

You should be able to publish their names and their company name - but that would infringe on their civil liberties. Why not go back to medieval times and put them in a cage in the local high street every working hour and allow passers by to ridicule the little @@@@s

Quoted to remove a big ish sycamore over 4 gardens. Dealing with one client. I explained it was awkward, the sequence we would do it etc. and said she woul liaise with the other interested parties. I never heard back and forgot all about it. A couple of months later she phoned me to price up 'finishing it off'. I asked what she meant and she said something like.. 'One of the other people thought your price was too expensive so she got someone else in. We paid them in advance when they turned up and asked for the money. They took the top off then the man in the tree cut his arm and was rushed to hospital in an ambulance. They all ran off and have never come back' Wow said yours truly - I'll come and have a look. As the 'economy-merchants' had removed the best anchor points to start with I explained that it would cost just as much to finish it as it would have been to do it properly in the first place. They agreed in the end and we did the job. I believe the original 'tree man' has now given up tree work as he lost the use of his arm (the cut was 75% through). Still.... go for the cheap option and you MIGHT save a few quid.

Best one I had 'I need some stumps grinding out urgently' 'What do you mean by urgently'? 'The fence is being put up today - in fact the fencers are waiting now' Answers on a postcard to......

Potato box rotator -I'll admit I never knew I needed one!

Bastardos - it's everywhere now. Comiserations to Andy, just gotta be soooooo vigilant these days. Or should that be vigilante? Keep safe John.

Turn mine every 30 ish hours. get them sharpened by Saturn Machine Knives (or whatever they are called now). Nothing like £80 a set but I had 4 sets sharpened at once. I think it was under £100 for 4 sets including return postage. They even packed them in identically weighted pairs.

Did soemone from Stihl squeeze in a comment about apple/microsoft to deflect the discussion? All too political for me... As Homer Simpson said 'What.. they've even got computers on the internet now'?

???????????????? Mods - What is this - Have I missed something?

None of the grab lorry drivers want to know unless it's completely free. They dont want to pull against the roots (bunch of Julian Clareys)