doobin
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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.
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Doubt it will make much difference. There seem to be plenty of Loncin Honda copies around- has one for a diaphragm pump the other day.
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Yup. It’s soooo good. I’ve just raked up here and then just grabbed the piles with the 4 in 1 on the multione. So easy. That’s three ash 20” at the bottom felled, cleared up, brash and 8’ timber lengths moved 100 yards in a day, just me and two machines.
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I used some wedges on this an hour ago just to make sure it didn’t sit back as Im on my own. Pulling with the digger. Didn’t need them as it happened, the back cut opened up and I left the hinge fat before pulling, good job I did too.
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Look underneath, it'll be obvious. Just needs a firm ish tap with a suitable punch.
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Yup, I've sent my missus off to her weekend with friends in my little diesel van with a full tank and taken her little petrol car with half a tank to the yard. Didn't want her running out, she'd not be likely to be able to get more. She was so grateful. What she doesn't know is that I'm going to be draining her car for the saws 🤣
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My town is a dry town now 🤣 I've locked the diesel tanks and hidden the petrol cans!
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^ What he said. With my 462, it will pull a 36 for the odd job where required (and that oak ain't it!), but like your 500i, wouldn't deliver the oil. However, there is a stop for the oiler adjuster that you knock in with a punch, and then it lets you turn it up further. Probably some eco bullshit, but problem solved, and may well be the same with your 500i.
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Coming to the end of it's life, need to get round to building myself another one rather than just for other people! That was the original prototype from probably 7 years ago, it's done well but I want to make another up with a proper grab pocket. I would just weld onto that but it's slightly bent so may as well start afresh with PFC rather than UC, as that's a bit heavier.
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Been a while since I had a fire that size! Since I bought the 2.7t I don't hire in 7.5t machines with grapples anymore, the 2.7t with rotator is just as quick for most of my jobs. Less mess, smaller fire and tidy up as you go! This was yesterdays effort with the machine and two men. Sloping ground, dead ash and boggy patches, I get all the best sites!
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I think that’s the same as mine. gr55ff. They take some stick I can tell you 😂
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I can pull mine round like that, and it will rotate with the leverage of a log. In normal use it’s fine, and I’m often surprised what it will rotate. If you want torque and holding power then you need a worm drive rotator- at a hefty price. What make of rotator is it?
