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Similar vein are these two that I had got into lovely shape 3 years ago. Maybe customer has moved, or just didn’t want to shell out to get it done properly? Now wrecked ☹️

A decent stump grinder would sort that in a morning. Whereabouts is it located? What’s the width of access?

They’ll be busy during the day, probably still off loading tools and getting ready for the morning. I may check messages during the day but only reply to urgent ones. If you were near us you could have your pick - I have supplied dozens to a couple of forest areas in schools locally for the kids to use as seats, woodchips to cover the mud, logs for burning, pine cones for education etc. never asked for anything in return but did get some chocolates from the kids at one school 😁

A lot of the biggest ones seem to get darker and a bit more gnarly bark like in your picture - pretty sure it’s birch

60 in a few months - learning to delegate as much as I can and vary the work to change muscle use. Try to finish early a couple of days a week. Still doing most Saturdays though and pricing at weekends/evenings too. my wife got me this T shirt as its very appropriate 👍

Try offering to do a couple of trial days for free to see how you like it first. We all started off dragging brash and I’ll still muck in to clear up as will my main climber. As woody says above too 👍

Neck oil is in loads of pubs round here but I can’t stomach it 🤮 mind you I won’t drink fosters or Budweiser either. A nice dark or amber ale, stout, mild, old ale or decent quality cold lager in the summer goes down a treat 👍 Bar oil I use Gator or Rotatech

I’ve always found hawthorn splits really easily when green but goes like concrete when seasoned. Best get it split early 👍

One of my favourites when out there - along with spicy beef salad and Tom yung khun- spicy king prawn clear soup

At least with a printed cheque you know the app will accept it. Some customers writing is like a doctors prescription- not a hope of putting that cheque in online ☹️

Label on the tank filler saying petrol only?

Me too - learnt quite a bit from reading your posts over the years. As I’m getting older and climbing is getting harder year by year, I find it easier to be on the grinder - hope to upgrade to a tracked or wheeled non pedestrian for the bigger jobs 👍

Good to see you posting again Stefan - hope you’re ok and have learned from this! All machinery is dangerous and we can all be guilty of complacency at times 👍

Wow that’s just mad- what with buyer protection fees as well, sales have literally fallen off a cliff this last month. i only do a few bits on there but I’ve only had one sale since Christmas

Live and learn I’m afraid - get recommendations, more than one quote etc and go with who you feel can do what you want/gives ideas and opinions for the desired outcome Had similar- quoted a prunus reduction, they couldn’t wait till I could get there so had some Romanian gardeners do it. wouldnt take the waste away and the tree was appalling - got me in to chip the waste and try to salvage a shape from the wreckage