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Get your accountant to run payroll and sort pension etc. It's not expensive and it's the sort of thing you don't want to mess up. Within the first two years of employment you can lay them off for no reason- just pay them their notice. If he's young (and it sounds it) then don't be too generous. Otherwise there's a big risk of him just expecting top money and not thinking that he has to graft for it. Reward good work with ad hoc bonuses rather than just paying him the same for three days as he currently gets for six. One course a month is going to cost you a fair wedge too.

Well this thing is magic. Must have cost around £700 with both the Baltic Abrasives CBN wheels but it's worth every penny. It's turned chain sharpening into a pleasure rather than a chore. I was pleasantly surprised to see how accurate my hand sharpening actually is, but with this you just set it and make like a robot. Advance chain, pull back against stop, dip wheel, repeat. The hydraulic clamp is a very clever addition, I wouldn't want to be without it. I didn't even mount the pink stones- straight to CBN. You'll never need to dress them and it's putting on an edge every bit as good as you get with a file- and I know how to hand sharpen properly! What I did notice is that where I was putting a decent hook on them with a file, I wasn't perhaps going deep enough into the gullet. Because of the way this works, this does both. The curve of the disc forms the gullet, and the hook is set by the flat of the disc at the angle you chose. The Orgeon grinder and the CBN wheels combine to make a product that is perfectly capable of taking off as little as you would with a file given a careful operator with some mechanical knowledge. If anyone still thinks that a file 'gets them sharper' or a grinder 'takes too much off', then I'm happy to prove them wrong. There is enough adjustment in every plane for even the most finnicky of mechanics. It also comes with a flat wheel for doing the depth guages, which I found worked very well too.

Jesus, even with all the millions worth of properties that they get left every year, the National Trust are exploiting people like you to work for free full time, before they might offer you a role paying £21k/year?? **************** them.

You mean you’ve interpreted the guidance in the way that best matches what you want to hear! 🤣 Thats all anyone ever does, from guys who run a digger behind a fastrac claiming they dig farm tracks (still construction. To be agri it would need to be repair), or guys running a unimog for domestic tree surgery claiming it’s horticultural. it’s all fine until you get a summons or have an accident. But the longer people get away with it the more it becomes ‘right’ in their mind. like when I towed a trailer with no be 🤣

Probably because the electric company quotes unrealistic amounts to install a supply. Until this is sorted (government subsidy?), the ‘green revolution’ can never really happen. It’s not just industrial users that are affected. I have multiple customers who are upgrading oil burners as they would need three phase to run a large enough heat pump and are being quoted stupid amounts like £45k to install three poles and an extra cable across a field.

Change the tax class and you also change the license needed. Full HGV license required, full tax, ran on white.

The general consensus is that it's not up to the tasks you'd require, unfortunately.

Jesus, don't move to Reading. Where's the usual rubbish about the bins being emptied late or contentious planning issues?

No often I disagree with Stubby, but- total waste of effort. I will burn anything, but all you will get from horse chestnut is a load of ash and pathetic heat.

You won’t do it. Leaving the stump high will be no help. With a three ton digger you can curl the ripper right under, isolate rap roots and you have the weight to pull back against. The avant will just spin it’s wheels. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

Possibly consider a switch to battery? Pro ones will most likely be better than cheap corded.

Been meaning to do this for years. Chainsaw holder and fire extinguishers on e27.

Google northern Arb supplies

What he said. Get the 15hp model and keep the blades sharp. Adjust the anvil gap to suit the material you are putting through it.

Dibs on your pickup 😜

I don’t do tree work much, but that’s how I’d do it. I often have a micro digger or mini loader on the back of my trucks, leaving the trailer free for more gear.

Scaffolding can be used with Clipex to make box strainers. Works out a lot cheaper.

The Chinese ones are crap. The Honda powered ones for £1k plus I was surprised by- the keeper hired one in for knocking in Clipex posts in chalk. Any handheld knocker will struggle with proper 4” timber posts however. Best I’ve found is an atlas copco hydraulic one. It weighs 30kg, and the weight is critical if you actually want to thump things in. If you are doing half round posts on soft ground you should be fine- lots of places hire the Honda type these days.

So that’s what that well known brand of heavy duty tape is for?! I always wondered!

The only time I’ve ever found work to be lucrative is once I’ve got all the gear to make it easy.

Is this the same brother who’s booked up for months solid at over £600 profit a day doing basic handyman stuff?

A skilled computer games designer can make a company a lot of money- there is a mass market for these products, despite what you or I think of them. Anyone can be trained up to be a digger driver (cpcs) in a week or so. We’d call them a seat filler, but hs2 and other bloated government projects are full of them. The whole working culture of the UK needs to change. Look at Scandinavia.

I'm out if they are gonna insist on a stupid safety button. The one on the Makita is the most annoying piece of shit ever. We don't have them on battery grinders or circular saws, we don't need them on a chainsaw. If someone can't be trusted to use a saw unless they push a safety button first then they can't be trusted with a saw full stop.

I reckon I've got more load capacity in the back of my Corsa van 🤣

Only things that would create sparks are dirty wood, a lack of oil, or bad tolerances between the chain drive links and bar slot. Sparks would generally indicated a harder (rather than inferior quality, softer) metal. I find the chains bob on for the money, but I like a decent light bar and when I tried a Rotatech bar on a cheap saw it wore quickly. But yes, have just ordered reels of the chains, they can't be beat for value for money. 95% as good as the big brands for half the cost, compared to brands like Archer which are 45% as good for half the cost, which doesn't stack up. Keep the chains and change the bar, see if that solves your issue.