doobin
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Well we are digging out and running 3.5t tippers of soil (or rather dust!) four miles back to the yard all day- nice easy job, and not in the sun too much. I've gone commando in shorts😲, and when it's too hot I just take a quick dip in the 3t dumper full of water at the yard.
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Forklifts using 50% more clear diesel than they did on red?
doobin replied to difflock's topic in General chat
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The company. No question about it. I’d order a new rope for the freelancer, and make sure everyone rips the piss out of the lad who did it. “Watch out Timmy, here comes another anaconda slithering out of the tree! Here, use my axe this time!”
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Maybe I read it wrong. Either way the price is right for the job in my book.
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Of course the costs change. All that is required is two men and a ladder. So he either sends two men and sends the machines on another job, or he says ‘I’m sorry, the job is too small for me’ Or he prices stupid, hopes he gets it and doesn’t care if he doesn’t. What he shouldn’t do is come on here, acting the big ‘I am’ and slating a firm with just a hedgecutter for doing a decent job at a fair (and profitable for them) price.
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Yup, plenty of room for a larger battery- you might need to loose the plastic cover, but nothing a couple of large cable ties wouldn't sort. If you are going down this route, then I'd fit a leisure battery. The CCA required to start a 15hp engine (that starts first pull by hand) won't even move the needle on a 40ah leisure battery, but that battery would stand up far better to being used for winching.
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I don't know, but I hear £600 for a mini skidsteer and operator is about right 🤣
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What bit of it don't you get? Your hourly rate is justified for what you do best- big takedowns that would take hundreds of man hours without machinery. If you can convince someone to pay you that for a poxy conifer hedge, then more power to you (and you'll probably make more from sales than being on the ground!) If I have a customer that requires a hedge cut, I don't charge two lads out at what it costs to send a digger and a Heziohack. I charge them a fair rate (one could say the going rate?) that covers my costs and allows profit relative to that job. Meanwhile the diggers are out paying their way at a suitable rate for them. In business, this is called duplication. It's not selling yourself short to charge less for two men than you do for two mean and £150k worth of kit. Your snide dig at a bloke not wearing a helmet in a conifer hedge that you could pretty much walk along, on the hottest day of the year just makes you look butthurt.
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This 100% £600 a day is good money for two blokes, a ladder and some hedgecutters. John, I don't know why you take umbridge at the suggestion that a garden conifer hedge trim isn't an ideal fit for a business that has spent hundreds of thousands on big kit? Nobody is suggesting that the same two man team with a ladder (however long 🤣) takes on a row of sixty feet tall dead ash on the roadside.
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Mine weighs 75kg and is very solidly constructed. I think you'd have to have one made, you'd not find one off the shelf to suit. It wants to be narrow from back to front to keep the load centre as tight as possible. It also needs the brackets welded to a suitable bit of the frame that transmits the load to the rest of it, which you're not going to have on a crate designed to be carried on the forks.
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Best I've used. I have had both M12 and M18 Milwaukee grease guns, and this is much faster. I also have the old school Makita drill attachment which isn't bad either.
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That will fold up soon as look at it. Plus you don’t want the additional weight of the pallet forks, it’d be too much.
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It'll be set next the hedge you want to cut and then climb in to it I think. It's really for those nasty wide ones in back gardens. The beauty of a man crate is that you can push it into the hedge for more reach if needed, and you can be a lot more exuberant with the cutters than if you were working off a ladder. Basically it's no higher than a stepladder, but much more stable.
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Here you go.
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Visa and PayPal are like Levi’s during the gold rush. They know that thar hill is all worked out, nothing left- but they’ll sell any idiot who wants to dig there a pair of jeans!
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All done, comes in at 70kg and works a treat. Will get a photo tomorrow.
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Quite the opposite!
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CMC (S22HD) or CTE TRACCESS 230 or Teupen Leo 21GT
doobin replied to Clutchy's topic in General chat
Jesus that’s some coin. I was contemplating a secondhand one for 30k but reckon it would take too much to keep it going. -
Till they ban diesels! my 1.3 tdci corsa van must save me a lot these days on commuting and quoting. I remember years ago doing a spreadsheet to gauge how many miles id need to do in one to cover the insurance and tax. Now I run seven vehicles but I wouldn’t be without it.
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It’s not an investment. It’s a gamble, and basically a Ponzi scheme. To make a profit, someone needs to buy in at more than you paid for yours. All well and good when there’s a ton of free money sloshing about (BBL anyone?) but once that money dries up it’s game over. Housing is similar, but shelter is a necessity and so people will pay through the nose for that. But remove the free money (via substantial increases in the interest rate) and watch the prices tumble.
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Personally I think it will enter a death spiral. It has nothing to sustain it.
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Wouldn’t touch it with a bargepole. There are a few more established cheaper options available, but that has Chinesium written all over it.
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Can’t stand him. “Hello friend!” And singing along badly to the end of a good song. radio just generally sucks post Spotify to be fair.
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I’d recommend the mountfield above, I have three around five years old and they’ve lasted better than any other cheapish mower, and better than an Etesia (utter overpriced shit) and Viking
