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I can't deny that I'd like one!

Here's ya fix: http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/62516-heads-up-good-replacement-engine-stihl-polesaws-pole-hedgcutters-combi-units.html?highlight=replacement+engine Love my FS70s, 8 months of abuse and still going strong. I'll chop them in at the end of summer for new ones. For a polesaw, you could even go for an FS240- twice the power you currently have. I might change one of the 70s for a 240, but TBH the 70 has plenty of power and it's harder to justify the cost of a 240. Long story short, 4mix are crap, 2mix are great.

Mog Operating Instructions: Step 1: Open wallet...

If he's winding down and already has five tractors and word of mouth contacts then he's halfway there. Trouble is, he's probably been doing it for beer money. You need £40/hour to make a tractor and flail pay. And when you're up against every jumped up little **** with Daddies tractor and Daddies diesel, agricultural work starts to look stupid compared to gardening at £15-20/hour just for a few tools.

What's he got two tractors and flails for if he's been employed to drive someone elses for the last ten years??

Surely you mean 'wing wing'?

For anyone on this diet and in particular Keto, I would recommend something like Stronglifts 5x5 as the exercise of choice. Very time efficient also.

All selling a few bags of coal means is that your customers will take an extra week to burn the wood you sell them. It would be OK if you made as much money on coal as the wood, but that's not the case IME.

Water weight mate, it'll shift quick enough. What's your BF% at? I'm at 5%

Good man! Best course of action. It's amazing how a little bit of success motivates you to do more. My top tip is this- no matter how busy/rushed you are, always take time to put a card through the houses around you. Once you are quiet, it's too late to start advertising!

The X-box isn't free, the phone contract is paying for it. Hell, you can't even get a year contract any more- they're all 18 or 24 months. Doesn't that tell you something? My post re the cheap phone and GiffGaff sim is your ticket out of a monthly cycle of being screwed by a phone company for 'going over your minutes' just because you wanted a 'free' phone (which is isn't). Take the principles behind it, and apply it to the rest of your life. Then you will find things much easier.

We can't all be happy-clappy. You just can't help some people, and plenty of posters with somewhat more tact than me have already referenced this.

And a £20 Samsung will pick up signal almost anywhere, has a two week battery life and can survive being tracked over with a mini digger David, if you're reading this, GiffGaff do a pay-as-you go sim where you top up £20 a month for 2000 free minutes, unlimited texts and internet. Runs on the O2 network so signal is as good as you can expect for out in the sticks. I spend only £10 as I only need 500 minutes. I'm not tied to any damn phone company.

I'm glad you quoted my post, some do-gooder clearly decided it wasn't relevant to this thread (which it bloody well is) and my original post has now disappeared.

.325 is a downgrade on that size saw if you ask me. I recently gave up trying to find an 8t 3/8p sprocket to fit an MS250, but settled for a 7t instead. With a 12" 1.1mm gauge bar on it, it cuts easily as quick as a 13" / .325 9t combo on an 036. And at half the weight too.

....Is the right decision!

Adjustable spanners.

Someone should employ the OP, there must be CITC grants available....

Stihl ones are crap too. The system is designed for 'homeowners' who are afraid of spanners (although strangely not afraid of chainsaws?) and is best avoided.

That's the funny thing- big machines are three-four times as much to buy as a 1.5t yet command only a small premium in hire rate pro rata for their weight. A mini is £50/day, a 7.5t is £100/day (machine hire only) from a local place. That's why I like smaller kit, much less investment and similar rates. Your bloke with the 8 tonner was a touch too cheap, even if he hired one it would be machine £100/day, operator £150 (we all agree that's a fair rate?) which doesn't leave any room for the 40-50l of diesel burnt? Bottom line is this- with my skill set I can get £150 for just my labour as a subby anywhere, any place. If I provide a mini digger, whether my own or hired in, it needs to cove all the extra costs- hire, transport, fuel, insurance. Which is at least £100 a day. If you cost your labour out at that, which seems to be the norm from threads on here, then you need the same. If the 'going rate' is less, I won't bother. Same with logs.

I ask and get £260 a day me and machine, and if I don't it can damn well sit there in the yard. Were I to put a driver on it, it could go out for a bit less- but nothing like some of the rates you see on eBay.

Horses for courses. On big quote rate jobs I always hire bigger machines. My point is, don't be an eBay idiot asking £150/day for a man and 1.5t.

Worth £750 when fixed up more like. Tyres and brakes will easily set you back £100 a wheel so think carefully.

Put it this way- who would send out a bloke and chipper for less than £250/day? Same kind of money and running costs for the machine.

Per hour, you want about £32.50, or £260 a day. Plenty of idiots about on eBay though offering a digger and driver for £150 a day. My mini costs me £5/hour including repairs, servicing, diesel and grease. If £150/day or £18.75/hour is a fair day rate for a skilled bloke, that leaves £8.75/hour profit for having your own machine and all the hassle that entails as opposed to just turning up and providing labour for £150/day. Take it or leave it is my attitude. Per metre is harder to quantify as it depends greatly upon the site and how the customer wants is left.