nick channer

all i no is we;re signing up for 20 yrs at a guaranteed set figure.. like i said without the incentive and being in the tree business where vi burn hundreds of tons a year of conifer willow poplar etc on fire in yard to get rid of it it'll be put in a heap and used to heat 4 houses that normally cost 5 or 6 grand a year to heat.. my dad will get his house heated for nothing and charge the tennants 4000 a yr for the heat... and i'll get my logs dried quicker.... obviously there be a small cost in processing the wood to put in boiler.. but it needs o be cut to 900mm long and can be up to 12-14 inch diameter.. basically as long as you can lift it in there it'l do... the guy who's selling them is looking and has succesfully found houses where he can install a boiler and heat 2 or 3 of the next door neighbours.. he will guarantee them heat and charge them for it at reduced rate to what they pay and he gets the incentive money.... he reckons the money from the heat will more than pay for the wood and labour to process and fill boilers every day and incentive is all profit... he is also offering a top up service to customers who buy a boiler.. where he'll go round the sites..[mainly big hotels..stately homes etc] in 7.5 ton lorry with hiab and drop stillages of wood ready to go in boiler and take the empty ones away.. obviously some people would be put off with the processing/handling of the wood but this eliminates that problem... once theres a few boilers installed and people can see them in action etc i think it'll take off in big way... theres 840 million in the gov pot at min and once thats gone there be no incentives which is why you have to jump on quickly...

thats chance you take... for £18500 ill take my chances.. and he'll be signing log book over to me with a reciept saying he's given it in loo of money owed... i'll give him few weeks after that to pay what he owes and 1500 on top then he can have his lorry back.. i really cant believe some of the things i hear on here.... if someone owes you money... money in this case that i worked bloody hard for working 18-20 hrs a day.. not seing my boys sometimes for 2 or 3 days at a time.. then i'm sorry but i'm gonna do anything and everything i can to get it back.. and if that involves a little bit of heavy handedness then so be it... if they cant stand the heat stay out the fire.. simples... if people wanna go down the lets take em to court route good luck to em.. cos unfortunatly theyl need it.... this country is not set up to deal with the small business/self employed worker... my money is hard earned and i'm dammed if i'm gonna let someone walk off with it...

call it what you like.... he owed me money... i got it.. end of!!

you certainly do... same as you get paid for havin solar panels on your roof... BUT you are only entitled to the incentive if you are heating more than one residence.. they call it communual heat... so for one house i think you get small one off payment of around £1000 a year same as solar panels... doesnt have to be 2 houses your heating.. can be a workshop... mess room or office... so for every log you put on the burner you earn profit.. and as someone mentioned earlier there right in saying you need heating on full wack with all doors and windows open... every kw of heat produced you get paid for....

you get paid by the kw.. each house has a metre fitted.. there was a seminar in november where all the boiler suppliers etc attended... the incentives were given out as a rough guide... a 65kw boiler running to its full potential 6 days a week 24 hrs a day, all yr round will return you between 15 and 18k a year... obviously 90% of the boilers fitted will only run for less than half that time so the average payment is 5 to 7k a yr.. this is for a 20 year period guaranteed and the payment goes up and down with inflation.... to be honest we'd already ordered our one before any of this information was available and just based on heating costs for our 4 houses over 4 yrs meant it'd pay for itself in that time.. the incentiv, what ever it may be will be a bonus... the guy who is selling them over here runs one 6 days a week 24 hrs a day for his drying shed at his brickworks and he's just about to recieve his first payment for his first quarter of use so we'll see how much he gets?? he also has one fitted to his big old farm house where he has every radiator on in house [whereas when it was on oil only half were on and half house not lived in] and he reckons he has less than halved his heating bill per month.. and thats with buying hardwood cord in at £50 a ton...

going through courts etc is a complete waste of time and effort.. we had customer in 2000 who owed the farm £5000 for contract work etc. he went into voluntary liquidation.. we got aronnd 20p in the pound back... not at once either.. he's still m,aking payments now... if i could turn the clock back i'd a taken every thing in his yard that was worth anything.... we have a hay and straw dealer who owes us £18500 since august 20011... i'm gonna give him one last chance then i'm taking one of his lorrys off of him...[wolrth 50 grand].. someone else owes me £5000 from 18 months ago for skips that i'd done for him.. he too has a large skip firm and i will in no uncertain terms be loading up my artic trailer with 5 gands worth of his best skips very shortly... some people honestly live in a dream world!!!!!!

we're in process of fitting a large outdoor wood boiler to heat the houses on our farm... we're supposed to get a very good incentive from gov for doing this and the more heat we produce the more money we earn... obviously in summer it will only be running on tick over so i thought i'd put a feed into a nearby shed... partition the shed off and install a drying fan [my mate has exactly same thing to dry bricks at his brick yard] which is only £400, and fill crates with logs [shed should hold at least 30].. means i can dry my logs for free as all wood we will use will be softwood otherwise destined for fire in yard and get paid by the gov for privillege...

sounds like you've led a very sheltered life... either that or you let people walk all over u???

exactly.. i gave him plenty chances to do it properly...

as soon as he opened the front door.. and yes it is when they have no intention of paying.. actions speak louder than words..

it was his job... he had told the next person down the line that there was no tpo's or it wasnt in a consercation area... after that it wasnt mentioned... he had originally said to me on the day of the tpo officer turning up that he would pay any fines incurred... after being fined etc and me telling him so he agreed to pay most of it..... months of him ignoring my calls, emails etc is when i followed him home and told him in no uncertain terms what was gonna happen to him if i didnt recieve what was agreed.. i took him to the cash machine and he gave me 500 there and then and cheque for rest... he had no intention of payin me through the normal channels...

this was my argument... they could only prove in court that i had pollarded several smallish limes which had been done reguarly before..trimming back hard a big laurel next to a building which was causing damp on wall and cutting down a 8ft high conifer which i cut down so i could get mog and lorry on the site.. as i said no comment to every question relating to other trees that had been felled they couldnt use them in court... and as there was no photographic or witness's to say i'd felled them they couldnt do thing about it... they obviously knew i'd done all the work so gave me everything they could... my solicitor told me to appeal but i knew i'd be getting some or all money back somewhere along the line so didnt want hassle and extra court costs if it failed

as stated in my first post i no this..but sometimes when the jobs come through at least 3 reputable firms you'd think it was legit... i wouldnt of expected the tree surgeon guy who the 2nd lanscaper used to do it or my climber but the others i 100% would.. civil case?? i followed him home from work after months of him ignoring my calls..emails etc.. he wasn't so cocky after that..

type in "nicholas channer aylesbury magestraits court" on google there's a whole page on there....!! sorry.. i was fined £2800 with £1000 costs.. knew it was around £4000..

he knew he was in the wrong.. he sent an email sayin he'd done all relevant checks and to carry on with work asap.. this is what got him in hot water with council and hence reason he had to re plant.. you think i'm letting someone take the piss out me for 4 grand your mistaken.. dont care what anyone on here says or thinks.. wouldnt care if i'd gone in there off my own back and started cuting.. thats down to me... when its gone through a national lanscaping firm and i've seen that email which was attatched to plan of work to be done then its different.. and turns out he'd priced the tree work for £12000 and i'd carried it out for £2500... only took us day and half so to me was good earner.. as i found out after the event he'd subbed it out for £6000 so wasn't like he didnt have the profit to pay the fine... he was struck noff HSBC's contractors list and replaced by me which was upside..

hello geoff.. not seen you on here in a while... i'm up your way all the time nowadays with lorry so let me no what you got and where and i'll see if i can help... been takin lot cord not far from you at daventry on A5.. i'm takin more there in next week or so..

tell me about it... i did get £2500 back off the first lanscape co... not without bloodshed from the boss's nose after accidently falling on my fist after blanking me for months... they made him spend 1000's planting new mature trees etc.. they couldnt prove i'd cut those ones down... they fined me for re pollarding several limes that they had actually given permission to do every 5 yrs for past 15 yrs and it was 4 yrs 6 months since they were done previously.. they said they had no problem with trees i'd done but i shoulda sought permisson... think they just wanted to make aqn example of us..

wouldnt say soft.... i was fined £4000 3 or 4 yrs ago for doing work in a conservation area... my own fault for not checking but i was sub contractor 5 times down the line... the site was owned by HSBC bank.. who gave the work to a large lanscaping co who subbed it to another lanscape firm who gave the tree work to one of their subbys who gave job to my climber as it was too big for him and my climber gave it to me... i assumed somewhere down the line someone woulda checked.. i was the one caught red handed cutting trees down etc and under interview i explained how i'd come to get the work... their reply was unfortunatly for me they cant afford to take everyone to court so they go for easy option ie me as they had photo's.. reg no's of trucks etc..

Thirty eight

have no green ash on its own... its mixed with horn beam and its located near stanstead airport so long way from you.. have some part seasoned birch/oak/alder on J12 of M4 if thats of interest...??

damm.. i priced that job couple months ago for Mcardles.... looks like i didnt get it then...!!

artic loads green ash/hornbeam.... or part seasoned birch/alder/oak.. all 4-14inch diameter..... based in buckinghamshire but will haul anywhere if price is right...

was -18 in chesham near me on fi nite and -15 at our farm... went to get in my newer of the 2 transits to start taking the 17 lods logs i had booked in.. got 3 miles up road and over heating... rad was froze solid... had to get the old one out and deliver all day in that... left the other running all day anb by 4pm it was fine..

i used to get that when i bought a new range rover few yrs back..... when they said ooh there must be good money in tree work i just said yeah there is... especially when you do it 7 days week 364 days a year.... that soon shut em up.....

mine was 35% in october when i cut some.... that was the bigger stuff mind you... all mine is under 10 inchs which prob helps... all the birch/alder/oak i had was 4-10inch...