nick channer
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but i no what your sayin.. often i hear i've had cheaper quote and you can have job if you match it... why are they offerin me the job if someones come in cheaper.. just tryin it on i guess...
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i woulda done the job for a 1000.. i dont care if they had my trousers down.. £330 in wages and £40's worth of red diesel.. and i wont touch a twig...
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i give the customer about a week then if its not too far i'll drive past to see if jobs been done.. if not i'll call them to ask if they've had any more thoughts on havin the tree work done.. or if they've had any more quotes.. you wouldnt believe the amount of people who say "glad u called i been meanin to call u"or "yeah we've had another quote and its bit less than yours can you match, or beat it".. got job to do friday that i called back few weeks ago... it was for £1400 and they'd been quoted 1250.. could i do it for 1200 which i said yes to and turns out neighbour wants small job done which i looked at and won for £280.. so back up and above the 1400 and all will be done on friday so yes def worth callin back...
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none for a cherry picker...! i've owned one for nearly ten yrs now and can say i've never been asked....
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i had my 110 high cap L/rover made into a tipper with original body.. worked a treat.. and also did dodge ram 2500 club cab before that.. both of them i sold with good profit... the land rover flew away.. phone never stopped ringing till months after.. people loved the fact it was still original and unless you knew it woulda been hard to tell it was a tipper..
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i hired one from them last year.. cant remember height but it was on a 24 ton chassis.. never asked us for any tickets which was good cos we dont have any.. took the driver over hour and half to set it up and i had to help with most of it.. he didnt have a clue what he was doing as it was 1st time he'd taken it out.. when we finally got it going we did the job with no problems..
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same thing.. teach/preach
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as i've said before, if we all do everything the way HSE want us to do it we wont get very far... how many of those HSE workers have got there own business's... like my grandad used to say.. those that cant do teach...
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if your stupid enough to put your hands in the splitting area while its workin then you shouldnt be anywhere near anything mechanical in first place..
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he's doing well from day to day, breathing on his own, all his organs workin ok. he was quite a good weight at 2lb 12oz and as they managed to give faye full course of steroids before he was born means his lungs are workin well.. our main concern is any brain damage that may have been caused by takin 15 mins to get his heart going.although the docs say the fact all his organs are workin is good sign he may not have any but they cant tell for few months when they can do an MRI scan.
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hi all.. this is Taylor Nicholas James Channer.. born 30/5/11 [same day as me].. Unfortunatly born at 28 weeks with few complications..
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we gotan avenue of around 30 eucs at farm and day by day theres more leaves turning brown.. started near trunk and working thereway out..
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i constantly move them aroundwith the forklift.. also took few side sheets off to get some air flow in barn.. most of that wood was outside in rings or cord for couple months before splittin although it gets cut down and split within couple days at mo and seems to be ok
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gonna have to move them round corner to our other farm.. theres an old silage pit there.. they'l fit nicely in there.. gotta have a clean concrete base so i can load em with fork lift grain bucket.. if i had my way the fieldswould be rented to my cousin next door and that shed and the 2 next to it would be full to the door with split logs..
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This is my split log pile ready for the winter.. Hopefully it will get alot bigger by the end of the summer
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def would include range rover in that, there the WORST!!.
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i've had X5's in past and theres no way thereworse than a rane rover or range sport.
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this time 3 months ago i had 3 veichles.. 4 if you include my old mans with a land rover badge on.. all bought either brand new or less han yr old.. now i only got 1 and old man wont have his for long.. i'm lookin to get rid of my last one very soon when i can find a nice late low mileage X5.. i have to say i or my dad will never own anything land rover again.. why people put up with the **** they churn out begs belief..
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the one i drove wasa 2l and it was a 2 wheel drive.. not that i woulda known had i not been told..
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i drove one in argentina and might only be a 2l but my god did it fly.. all the farmers have replaced there toyotas with them..
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DO NOT GET A LAND ROVER!! the new vw double cab looks good. was in argentina last month and there all over the place over there.
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got airsuspension on my scania skip lorry.. when you got bit too much weight on a little press of the button and airbags lift up thus stops lorry lookin over weight..
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dont think its that cos it does actually boil over if left with dirty rad and as it runs hot lot of time it uses water... not to mention i'm on my 3rd compressor 1n 2 yrs which is obviously watercooled and exessive heat causes it to seize..
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the tensioning arms and bush's etc inc all belts were replaced a yr or so ago. and the water pump was also replaced couple yrs ago when it had a previous over heating problem. my fitter and couple others are pretty clued up on lorry/plant etc and it was them that advised these changes... its a mystery to them also... thinking about it it still raises the temp considerably when the chippers not been used and its towing a big trailer..
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Best seasoning/handling/delivery methods
nick channer replied to Michael C's topic in Firewood forum
i get 3 loads at time on my transit and thatsa tipper. i too have cages all round and have 2 cages in the middle to act as a petition. the cages are hinged at the top and have a a sprung loaded shoot bolt either side at bottom of partition. open back up, tip first load, let body down, release shoot bolts, tip 2nd load, release shoot bolts tip 3rd load..if i do a double load i release bolts first before loading, that way 2 loads come out at once... i just bought a new shape transit and having cages made to take 4 loads.. its best thing i've ever done, takin 3 loads at time.. 15 loads day i was takin out 7 days week averagin 200 miles a day.. that mileage woulda doubled takin one load at a time.
