raker
-
Posts
370 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Classifieds
Tip Site Directory
Blogs
Articles
News
Arborist Reviews
Arbtalk Knot Guide
Gallery
Store
Freelancers directory
Everything posted by raker
-
People will pay you shag all if they can get away with it.Put your money up.If you have a child on the way you can get tax credits to really boost your income.Bang another one in the back of the net and you wont have to worry about your rate. When mine were young, i was working two day jobs and door work three nights a week.If its there, claim for it.Some of the young lads i work with dont want a payrise.Tax credits make it up and then some.
-
I put one up by some siliage clamps at a farm.Its now covered in crap after being used as a perch.
-
The snows going here steadily, but still a few blocked roads off the main routes.Blue skies but very windy.I had a couple of sycamores to remove, but postponed it till another day.
-
I`ve put up this link: Natural England - General licences For info. Some pest species can have nests destroyed under the terms of the general license under certain conditions which is explained in detail.This may or may not be of help. If birds nesting in trees are a local pest according to the license, then the nests could be destroyed as a consequence of the trees being removed.depriving them of further nesting in the future.Rookeries are a good example.However,it is a minefield
-
This should help: Natural England - Hedgerow regulations Or not, as the case may be.
-
Get stuck in mate and enjoy yourself.If you are fit and have looked after yourself then theres no stopping you. I`m in my forties.I`ve done arb as a sideline for about seven years.Mostly agricultural work, clearances etc, but i will soon be made redundant.I cant wait.I`m booking up a climbing course and will run away from my boring job laughing. I`ve worked with people half my age with no get up and go.Sitting around picking their noses,whinging about blisters, aching feet,getting up too early.A couple of hours graft and they`re done. Too old? righto.
-
A fair bit of stuff, some blends into others:cycling,kayaking,landrovers,shooting with rifles,foxing mostly.Pigeon shooting,a bit of part time keepering.Working and training my dogs,family stuff,chickens,messing about with mechanical things,welding,drinking real ales.
-
The older my old chap gets the more frightened i am of losing him.He is seeing his 70th year soon, but theres nobody else i would turn to to do concreting.Hes a human dynamo, who has built several houses practically solo with a bit of help from me and my bro. Hes spent his whole life as a sparkey, and had a good life on it.Never heard him swear. Hes only said a few things that stuck: `Where we going?` `To see a man about a dog` or `There and back to see how far it is`. When i`ve moaned about the kids, hes always said`They`re soon gone.Enjoy them while they`re home`. Measure twice, cut once. `Dont rush a job even if you`ve priced wrong`.
-
A oners fair for someone who can graft hard with their own kit,and can work off their own initiative.
-
I have a pair of the stihl gloves, but they are crap when wet.I just see them as general work gloves that are nice and warm.I use woolen rubber dipped gloves most of the time though.Nice and tactile even when wet.Only three quid or so.
-
People dont see the costs.They see a cheap saw in b&q and think they are all like that.A chipper, not that far removed from their plug in shredder in their eyes. People also asume that your charge for the job is going straight in your pocket.They cant factor in running costs, perhaps because they are on a salary so just turn up to get paid. I looked at a job the other day.The bloke said someone had quoted a couple of months previous but hadnt been back.Connies, to be halved. I gave him a reasonable price, and he said the other blokes was 150 cheaper.He looked shocked when i said snap his hand off at that price.I said hes probably not been back cos he knows hes under charged. This boy then went on to ask if i could undercut this other bloke cos its still too expensive...errrm..no.
-
Welcome.Qualifications are only half the story.If you can graft and operate off your own initiative, you will find work and lots of it.Theres plenty of folk out there ticking along, but work like a demon and you will be noticed.No job too small, they`re the jobs you get the recomends off.
-
Its a sideline for me at the mo. so its convenient to get my consumables local.Bar oil and mix i can pick up very close, and they knock me up a loop of chain straight away. Things i need in a while i shop for online for a good deal.I do like to support local people but there are limits. I`m getting laid off shortly, so i`ll be looking at it in more detail as i`m planning on going into treework fulltime.Time will tell, but i suspect it will be a mixture.
-
I`ll take it from that glowing endorsement of the flexiblade that you dont like it:laugh1:However for the application the op said:brambles and whips,it can clear a lot of ground. If the larger diameter strips cant cope, then i`ll stick a metal blade on, but this will be for thicker stems, saplings and the like.
-
I`ve trained a few in the past.Quite an absorbing hobby.I was always looking for potential candidates for training and had some quite nice ones. They are temporamental and prone to dieing very quickly if you dont keep your eye on them or rely on others while you are away. There are some good books around which are worth a read.
-
Slightly different angle on it, but i use one of these: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBNzUm5iZ1Q]Oregon Flexiblade & Jet-Fit Trimmer Head from baileysonline.com - YouTube[/ame] Up against a mate with his brushknife, the oregon shreds.I can clear considerably more ground than he can in the same time.
-
I use `noodles`in my henhouse, the long spirally bits you get cutting along the grain.I bag it, but if i run out i only need to cut a bit more.It generates more bulk than shavings.Seems to last longer before getting trampled down too.
-
A good week.Sixty five birds picked monday for eight of us shooting.I had a mixed bag of eleven, which i was pleased with.My lad shot himself a duck.A seventy bird day on weds, but a lot of walking and there were two teams of nine guns, plus five or six who dont shoot who we paid to beat. It should have been the better day, but there was a let day on monday so not many birds.Cocks only though. A small group of us friday at the same estate.A bit of walked up and a bit of standing at pegs.Great day, but i was sore by evening with all the walking.Forty birds. Just need to get on the pigeon now, and catch up on some foxing before the birds start to nest.
-
Days walked up tomorrow.Birds are getting thin on the ground now, and i suspect it will be cocks only, but its a free invite, so i`ll be happy with a couple of birds and some pigeons.
-
Yorkshireman,most shoots lose 40% of released birds.Thats a very good return.You must do well on wild birds, keeping the predators down, or an adjacent shoot cant hold their birds for whatever reason.
-
Sounds like a good plan easy lift guy.From what i`ve heard of coyotes they are a large predator and very destructive.
-
Had a good beaters day monday.Bag was 65, but there was no shortage of birds.Gave my lad a few goes, and he shot a duck.I was pleased with my 10 or so good birds. Beaters day at a different shoot tomorrow which is clashing with a days walked up elsewhere that i`m invited to.Bugger.
-
Did this by hand a few years ago.A mate, whos a farmer got some kind of hedging grant.6000 mixed plants,canes and guards. We used a scafold pole for weight with a spade blade welded onto it to cut the slots to put the roots and canes in, then press around with feet.Curl the guard round. You really need a system for fast progress and using the pole made the slowest bit,making the hole, a breeze.Bang it into the ground, pull it back and forth, theres your slot. There was three of us alternating jobs and we finished quite a few days faster than expected.Otherwise i dont remember length of time or cost.It was about seven years ago. What i do know is that now its a very thick set of hedges with not many dead plants.
-
Also, i should have said.Foxes can climb weldmesh.Use plastic mesh on the upper part of your fence as its springy.A persistent fox cant throw itself at it and climb up.Leave it `flappy` at the top,higher than the posts. I`ve built several pheasant pens and have never seen fox penetration while the poults are in using this method.
-
If you are very susceptible to fox attack in a rural location you need to build your chicken run like a pheasant pen.Firstly the wire must be a bit poor if a fox can chew through it. Run your wire down to the ground then run it out flat to the ground and flat out about a foot.Peg it down. Burying it straight down will just result in the fox going up to the fence then digging down and under.They dont have the intelect to back off a foot then dig. Run an electric fence wire around the pen eight inches of the ground run off a good fencer and car battery.Cheap to run and effective. Hope this helps. Cheers. Andy.
