Little Butch

I worked for Manfred as a subby for 18 months and can agree he’s an absolute scumbag. I’ve also met many others that have worked for him and none have anything nice to say about the guy! Dont trust this guy at all!

I’m starting to venture into my own jobs as opposed to subbying all the time and am looking for 1 or 2 reliable subbies to help me on random days. 
 

Most jobs will be Ipswich area. Message me with your experience and day rate. 

Cheers.

I tried contacting a few tree firms around Malaga but so far, no luck!

Now that’s very tempting!

Thanks for the reply. That's potentially the kind of thing I'd do to log the hours. Do you think you'll stay doing that or are you looking to move into a specific field?

After being a subby arborist for getting onto 6 years now I'm thinking about taking a slightly different career route and doing my irata level 1. Does anybody have experience of this?

I just want to make sure it's the right move for me. I haven't decided what route to take it yet but I was thinking geo technical at the start to get my hours in as it's the closest to what I've been doing the last 6 years. 

Is it common to be a freelance rope access worker? What money should I expect to start on and what's possible money wise with experience?

Can't offer any advice other than Madrid was bloody cold when I went earlier in the year! I'd love to get the chance to work in Spain at somepoint but have heard there's not much in the way of Arb over there which has certainly been my experience too. 

I've made a log store by building a square out of 4x 3.5m Heras fence panels, should hold 25 cube heaped. Will sling a tarp over the top tomorrow to keep the rain off. 

They sound a winner then! I'll look at the Balfour but I bet they're a fair step up in price? 

Good buy then! I'll have to keep an eye out, £550 is a great price, I was looking at rock exotica ones but they're £1250 and probably not that dissimilar. 

That's not a bad price, how have you found it? Anything to make life easier!

Are they worth it over a chainsaw when running a small scale firewood business? I've never used one but they look much easier and faster for cutting cord up than by chainsaw?

What size range of cord do they generally cut? I don't have a tractor so would have to be a standalone unit. 

Photos of of your saws welcome

Yeah, they're a huge trailer! Probably overkill in most cases. Something like a caged lm126 would probably be better suited?

I'm in the same situation and think I'm going to go trailer route. Worked with a bloke today who had a big 16ft ifor trailer, big thing! Tempted to get one of those as it'll double up as a car/plant trailer. 

Watching this with interest as I'm keen to know what percentage of people's sales are from softwood. 

Sounds simple but effective. I need to get some of those blue pallets, most of mine are falling apart!

Ive been climbing on mine with no spliced eye for 2 years now and haven't even noticed it getting in the way. That's with a bowline btw. Although I've never used it with a spliced eye so I could be in for a great when I replace my rope!

Just some Arb waste today, hard on the back! 

Cheers! I actually got a load from him today, a repeat customer wanted some unprocessed stuff so I loaded up a trailer and the back of my pickup. Turns out the chap got confused and was after split, ready to burn stuff even though I'd specifically said do you want un processed stuff like last time to which he replied yes! Anyway long story short I wasn't going to unload it so took it to my place. 

Soon realised it was hard work just logging it up let alone splitting the stuff haha!

thinking cordwood delivered may be the way to go.....

Yeah that’s what I meant mate. They look easy enough to convert so that should help. 

Ram speed wasn’t okay, I don’t have a lot else to compare it to but being 22t I don’t think it’s ever going to rapid, plenty for me though. It’ll do knotty stuff no problem. I’m splitting some more later so I’ll get a quick video for you. 

I used it today rich, worked well! I was alone so not the fastest but I still produced a half decent pile in around an hour. It took a bit to get it running at first, had to figure out what way was fuel on and choke etc but after it had been run it was fine. 

The two handed controls aren’t annoying but look really simple to convert to single handed so that shouldn’t speeds things up when I’m alone. 

Still haven’t used it but it was delivered with a cracked rear reflector. I’m going to give them a call tomorrow and see if they’ll send a replacement. No biggie and I can’t imagine they’ll say no. 

It looks exactly the same as the more expensive one bar the engine and tables from what I can see. I’ll just bolt some steel brackets to the machine and rivet some plate to them to make my own table. 

Finally got round to moving my stuff to another piece of land now which is much better suited. I’ve set one heras fence cage up, has anybody put two up next to each other using the outer holes feet on the feet? And if so did you find it was sufficient airgap to stop them rotting? Must be 2 foot apart and it seems situated in the middle of a field so airflow shoulda be decent. 

It’s not being delivered until Friday as I’m in France at the moment. I’ll report back once I’ve had a chance to give it a blast.