dan494
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No its not. Where does the money for buying the truck, chipper, saws, ropes, harnesses etc come from? what about the advertising, and repair bills. What about the time and fuel taking of an evening and weekend pricing jobs, sending invoices, chasing late payers? You'd last about a week in the game pricing at wages plus disposal costs. Gardener with a rope rocking up for £15 an hour is a different world and is no comparison
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Well I've had issues straight out of the box with the Oregon. Several posts on here saying the same thing so I'm not the only one! Never snapped a rotatech chain, only chain I've snapped in the past year is the sugihara chain I got with my echo 2511
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What for? once you've got a website and its ranked high in your area they tend to stay there with little effort. I did mine myself, update it about once a year and come top in my area. Costs me £5 a month hosting it and that's it
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Normally I'd totally agree with this but with the Oregon chain I found them to bite in and jam constantly in wood over 6 inches or so until you spend time sorting it by filing. I'd go for a stihl full chisel everytime, even rotatech chains cut better tbh
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I agree, won't buy it again. Far too snatchy. I'd hate to be up a tree knocking a large limb out and the chain grab and take the saw with the branch, can see it happening.
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Can't stand that oregon chain, really snatchy. I'd bin it and get a stihl (ideally) or even a rotatech chain over the oregon!
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This is my back I've just done, spent a fair bit on the van so had to keep costs down. Whole thing is plywood, this morning I painted it with waterproofing woodstain and the sides and roof I had aluminium diabond sheets printed with my logo etc for more protection. Whole thing has cost me around £300 and about 3 hours, I expect will last a few years. Can't see a point spending thousands
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they break easy, i've heard of them cracking within a week. I needed a new one so went on ebay and picked up a decent used old style one instead and gonna get my old one rebuilt
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Whatever works for you. Either way, get something bought and start earning with it
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you wouldn't need an electric winch, with my last stump grinder (which wasn't self propelled) I could get it onto the back of a transit up scaffold boards easily with a hand winch like this
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defo, mine looked at me funny when i told her i was spending 2k on my first chipper, not quite as funny a look when told her i was spending 6k on my next chipper. Recently told her i was planning on buying a brand new one and she's not batted an eyelid as finally understands they make us more money than they cost
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Absolutely, borrowing to 'invest' is asking for trouble but all these people across the world thinking this will make them wealthy losing out so clever/immoral people can make money out of them is a sad state of affairs
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Got to feel bad for people who have lost out big time. Doubt they'll be the last http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/19/heartbroken-families-lose-life-savings-catastrophic-crash-bitconnect-cryptocurrency-7242067/
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bitcoin december $19k - bitcoin jan $12k. Ridiculous 'investement'
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ill take the risk and do a straight swap for a 2004 jensen a530 for the st8
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I remember an old Vermeer my dad used to have that was single roller, you have to double up on the springs to get them to grip anything
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not that much, ebay overprices stuff but you lose that in fees anyway. Its 8 years old, why not just keep it and buy another as well?
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Tree work isn't the sort of work you want to be doing with a brand new motor unless you have a very good turnover. I just picked up a new (for me) 08 transit with only 39k on the clock for £5k. A £25k one wont look much smarter and will do the exact same job
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Yeah I didn't even bother trying theirs. Only £2 for an NGK
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Are you using their spark plug or switched it out for a decent one? Might make a difference?
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easiest way would be just change the engine, wouldn't be hard to do but prob looking at £1500 or so
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Already paid for itself tbh with the work I did today. Lets see how long it goes for. Just waiting for the 200t kit so have an excuse to do another!
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Just ran it on a few small fells, bit of snedding out. General stuff you'd use a saw for. Let it cool down for a bit and had a look and then did the vid no complaints at all. Expected it to go bang tbh, just down to my ability (or lack) to build a saw from bits rather than the components
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Quick update for anyone that's interested. Finally got a few cuts out of it. Still in the first tank, pulled the plug after about 10 minutes work and think the colour looks good? Then did a vid of it cutting. Bit boggy but expect it'll loosen up with few tanks through it and a decent tune
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Had to chuckle yesterday when read the creator of a parody coin called dogecoin that he made to mock the bitcoin hype is now worth hundreds of millions can't work out why anyones buying his coin. It's not even been updated in 2 years goes to show how ridiculous some people are with their 'investments' http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/05/bitcoin-parody-dogecoin-worth-more-than-862000000-after-being-invented-to-mock-cryptocurrency-7207630/
