Pat Ferrett
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No visor or ear defenders
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Channel 5 now
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You just mind you dont go to bed with the axe, and wake up with no chopper
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Take the side off, leave the stubbs and either put Viginia creaper in there to fill the void or fire thorn to green things up a tad. Its not a perfect plan but a compromise. Thats option (1) (2) is to talk to the LA, (3) is to take it out and as said re-plant
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Strangers hand
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I tried that idea on the wife but it was a no she said that with all the mirrored glass in the room it would be an accident waiting to happen
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Dont encourage Me Butler! I get in enough trouble on here without you egging me on
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You boys get funnier and funnier Its going to end up being a 5% reduction all the waste left on site taking 15 minutes and allowing for 2 tea breaks, for £600 +vat
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I've seen a hydraulic chainsaw running off of a diesel engine
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Tickets are a joke if you were brought up around the arb industry an learnt from a younge age. If you were brought up in the concrete jungle and until you watched heli loggers you thought a Chainsaw was something you got from a cheap necklace then doing a basic course is a good start.
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I gave up with percentages years ago and prefer to work from fixed points in the tree when pricing . Im saving my green shield stamps up to get a lazer pointer, so I can show the customer where I would reduce a tree to without having to describe or quantify it
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Just a question! when you say 20% what are you refering to 20% of.... ?
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Alba ?
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Steady on there !
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Tickets!
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Hama! I love you Man But just remember that its taken you 24 years to come to this conclusion and you cant expect us to all catch up because of 1 beech tree. If you show us the light we might not take as long If tree's mean more to you than money then stop worrying about a job you cant get(at the moment) and concern yourself with the 10,000 members of this forum that you can enlighten, and inturn the amount of tree's and eco systems you could save for genorations as the knowledge is passed from one to another. Life my friend! is a journey, yours is just begining
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I brought the tree to the attention of the estate manager and they had an indepth tree survey conducted. the butt was resistance tested and was deemed to be at risk of hose pipping. the buttress roots were none existant and the poor old thing was only standing due to perfect balance and a sheltered spot. I've got the tree survey somewhere if you want to have a look , even a few pictures of the tree coming down and the state of the butt.
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The last Beech I did that size was ball ache from word go ! I had complaints from a 10 mile area and was watched by 1 member of the public that swore blind that the tree was fine and should have been left. When I got down to the last couple of metres it was like cutting chocolate cake and I ended up digging the centre of the tree out with a pitch fork. Got to give the man that shadowed me for the 2 days credit as when he saw the state of the butt he apologised not only to me and the gang but also to the woman that ran the estate
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Nice one WoodEd ! I saw it a few minutes after it went on ,the trouble is it would be to heavy to tow behind the truck. I rang pretty much every chipper dealer in the uk up yesterday without any luck I just wish I had the work to warrent buying new or nearly new. G a Mason has got one but with the Vat that I cant claim back its over 10k.
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No need to be like that, it was only an idea
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Mares tail ?
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I posted on here the other day for a labourer offering £40-£60 a day and got told that I was tight or words to that effect, on the flip side I have offered to work for nothing on here to learn hedge laying and post and rail splitting and couldnt give my labour away, so you figure it out and let me know what Im doing wrong -
Its tricky because were both talking about a tree that neither of us have seen, I would guess that myself and a groundie could do a 30% reduction on the Syc in 3 hours, If I wanted to stand a good chance of getting the job the I would price it at tad less than £200 all in if I wasnt to worried about getting the job then the price would be £250 and I can bet a pound to a pinch of pooh that it wouldnt come in.
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The end is nigh! when I started half of my work was dead Elm tree's and grinding stumps that were left over from the 1987 storm, needless to say that I havent cut any elm for months and as for stump grinding I charge the same now as I did in 2002 and probably do half the amount. When I got my first chipper I had the edge over other tree companies that at the time were still cutting the branches up in the back of transit vans. There was also only a handful of stump grinders in the area and alot of people didnt even know what stump grinding was. My old man charged £25 per man hour on jobs in the 1980 s with very few of the over heads that we all run with now, add to that the advances in the machines that we use and the amount that can be achieved compaired to the old ways of doing things and without doubt were doing more for less
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You would be lucky to get £200 for that job in my area Id like a few jobs like that on my books at £135 ph
