doobin
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Chainsaw wellies are useless. You won’t wear them cause they hurt so much. Oregon Yukon leather boots are very comfy, I use them as general work boots. Chainsaw gloves are totally and utterly pointless. Don’t bother with them. You’re more likely to have an accident because you can’t grip anything. If the chain snaps (very unlikely) the chain catcher (clue is in the name) or the chainbrake handle will stop it from getting your hand.
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Yes, a selection on the common near here. They get pretty rotten though.
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Now you’re just being a prick. He’s in a giant house share, paying bugger all rent and mucking in with chores, as happens in a house share. Is your wife doing the washing up ‘forced labour? 🙄On top of that, he’s free to run his own business from there, and if he wants to buy a house to let, that’s cool too. I fail to see the communism. Is he forced at gun point to provide all his machinery for free?
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Can’t beat ripping up the whole footing and carrying it to the front. Better than messing about with the breaker in the shit.
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Muttley's setup sounds pretty cool. I've always thought that a big house split between a few families could provide a much better standard of living for less cost than the norm, so long as it wasn't too 'culty'. Economies of scale really kick in when you get into double digit bedroms! Sounds like there is ample room for personal enterprise too. I've lived in house shares in the country and if you have the right people it's great. Perhaps there are not too many older people because they buy their own place with the money they save? Muttley, are any of your members also renting their own houses out, or is that against the ethos?
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JCB specialise in short term hired in policies. Expensive though- you may well be better off getting it annually if its more than once a year.
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How does 47kg of gas last you only two weeks? I take it you're using it for heating? 47kg of gas lasts me about a year at the yard, doing hot water for the kitchen. Before I started taking cold showers, it would still last me half a year (a shower every day, I like to go home fresh and clean and keep the mucky clothes at the yard. Makes for an easier home life!) If I were you I'd look at fitting a log burner. Gas fires are **************** all use for heating a caravan- you want a nice lump of steel log burner/heatsink, and you could run it for free too. Doesn't take much wood to heat a small space like that until you need to open the windows.
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The small engine chap can be as honourable as you like, it's still a secondhand two stroke and liable to shit the bed. For light domestic use better to go new.
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You want a Husqvarna 135. StackPath WWW.WORLDOFPOWER.CO.UK £15 over budget, and even though cheaper than the Stihl MS181 it knocks the spots off it, let alone the MS171. More power and nicer to use, it'll pull that 14" it comes with fine. I was always a big fan of the value for money of the MS181 for garden jobs etc, until I bought one of these as the MS181 was out of stock. It is the perfect saw for your situation. Budget pro brand, genuinely pleasant to handle and enough power for what you want.
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Depends upon the axles but generally you will either tighten a bolt on the back of the hub (knott axles) or click an adjuster round with a screwdriver (alko axles). The wheel should rotate with a little bit of rubbing but not locked. look for around 5mm free play on each cable. Handbrake lever wants to come up around halfway.
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I think you'd need to find your own jobs to make enough profit and keep you busy. You might do better to start with smaller kit and a more diverse range of it, such as 15hp petrol chippers and stumpgrinders, maybe a pedestrian flail. Plenty of odd pruning jobs around as said. These little jobs if priced right will make money, and will lead to other things. So depending upon the work you end up being offered you can buy more machines to make your life easy. Really it comes down to this- you don't want to do forestry- fair enough. So what do you want to be doing to earn your living?
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Because it pertains to the original post. Low wages currently have to be subsidised via housing benefit so that low paid workers can afford to live, particularly in the SE.
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£200 a day is plenty for a subby, who takes none of the risk of quoting or being the main contractor with whom the buck stops. It's also miles away from minimum wage, (the original topic), and on top of that reads like a humble brag. You won't out-ball trigger andy, one-upmanship is his life's work.
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You're all missing the elephant in the room. The cost of shelter is too high. Anyone on minimum wage can afford to eat. Few if any can afford to live anywhere without a government subsidy.
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Indeed. To put it another way, when was the last time you saw anyone other than a Muslim holding a severed head?
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I'd be more concerned personally that your 'foreman' seems unable to manage either his own time or that of those under him. That, I feel, is the crux of the matter here. A feckless foreman will make even the keenest youngster slow down or start their own show.
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Enough already with your disengenous woke whataboutery. Not all Muslims are terrorists. But nearly all terrorists are Muslim. Same logic applies here, and will do until either party cleans up their act.
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That storm was close wasn't it! Bit disappointed it didn't last longer. Lovely with the fire on.
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Axe, just because I look so much cooler striding across the lawn shirtless with the 066 slung over my shoulder and the axe in the other hand.
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I just want one of every saw! You can never have too many.
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I have similar- let me know how you get on!
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It depends entirely upon what size timber you want to cut regularly.
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Haybob tines are OK on a lawn with a careful operator. One day I will get around to making a rake with a double row of gentler baler pickup tines for domestic jobs. I did think to myself yesterday 'shit, should have brought the forklift broom'. I had the pallet forks on site. In one of my photos you can just see the corner of a ton bag. There are two there that I filled up on site and placed to protect the septic tank lid just in case a stem bounced. It's amazing how having a loader changes the way you work.
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Yup. I’m nearly as smug as a Tesla driver currently.
