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likeitorlumpit

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  1. some good stuff up your prices a bit for individual touch can't like as not on FB
  2. happy prosperous new decade to all
  3. ppe is for employees and the self employed everyone else if unpaid for the work can do what the hell they like Thats the law Don't know how this applies to volunteers though- I guess the organisation using them have a duty of care so h&s laws must apply. Does anyone on here use a chainsaw at home- for firewooding- without trousers/boots/head protection. I know I feel vulnerable without but sometimes lazy wins.
  4. Round ones look best in a nice stack in the hearth Oh to have the perfect log (matron....) Best wood ever is the wood begged by a neighbour on the job you are on for a drink-well big drink. Sometimes we'll even round it up for them!
  5. always change the plug its my mantra start it in the dark and look for arcing from ht thats me done though it does sound like fuel filters/air cleaner
  6. what about the eyeball and huge tits:001_rolleyes:
  7. still short everyone clapped when we landed They now see the eucalyptus as invasive and are trying to control them- plenty still there though- mighty fine specimens too
  8. The trouble is what is considered good practice sometimes changes:001_rolleyes:
  9. then they get to the age when you feel they need you as an example of what they can achieve in life- tricky one Bit of balance- believe me they won't remember much of what has happened at their age when they reach 16
  10. come on we've all done that perfect crown reduction only for the customer to come out and request a bit more here, a bit more there- oh ' I wanted more light' etc etc It's just disheartening- but we have to try and educate though they still think you're cheating on them. If you didn't want a nice tree why didn't you just ask me to cut it down. So Not always the tree surgeons fault though I admit there are a few motorway maintenance fellas out there
  11. always been horticulture -33 years treework is a bonus:thumbup1: don't see myself doing anything else
  12. then he's a very special person:001_tt2:
  13. spot on- I see so many guys fail in business though they were good practitioners of their trade. You still got to put in a full days work and then some to make a business successful. Too many opt for the long lie ins /early finishes/ days off to do whatever. Having said that I suspect anyone starting out these days would have a tough time whatever they did.
  14. i thought green mech was designed originally to deal with flax waste- do they not deal with cordyline
  15. sycamores fine was it someone on here who mentioned that all wood dried to the same moisture content has the same calorific value of heat pound for pound
  16. 2010 been great 2011 - not so sure- VAT plus worry about job cuts will play a big part
  17. levarda do norte check it out on you tube- but expect it to be worse than the video
  18. Walk the Laverdas Some of them are mighty vertiginous especially with all the landslides last year. Laverda do nort was one i remember-Best way is taxi to the start then taxi back from the end. Hire cars OK but don't expect one without dents etc in it- they don't seem to check when you return them though. Brilliant place though- just walk as much as you can - there is lorisilva forest -think thats how you spell it- No real beaches
  19. Did you ever sell this-i'd be interested to know the price
  20. try toolstation- bout £13inc vat
  21. never used one though i wonder whether it would split big lumps of something harder to split than birch- anyone here tried one?
  22. i only ever had kick back when i did my cs31 ticket- after the examiner told me i'd passed- theres a lesson there:blushing:
  23. Isn't this their chance to get some experience:001_huh:
  24. 4.5% woodland in this country Is that really true including all the small parcels of woods that i see every day driving around. The govt. have identified a growing demand for people to own woodland and aim to benefit from this- for us hopefully Sell it in parcels of 5 acres at £5000 per acre so 600'000 acres becomes 3billion pounds. Not a bad sum and woodland still protected by law.

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