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I have literally made no headway at all into a replacement management program, has anyone else made a decision? Currently I'm swaying towards Xero. I wonder if Mark would let me buy Arbpro? hmmm.

The news of Arbpro to cease trading has certainly come as a shock. My entire business runs from it and I'm comfortable with using it. What else do we use? Im considering a non are specific one now as there is obviously not the market for it in this country. Seems strange though... how many users do they have at £60+ a month? how much does it cost to maintain? I don't really need them to develop it more, they could just leave the servers running or sell it as a program to run off our personal computers.

I hate change... this is pushing all my neurotic buttons. ;-)

A nice gentle reduction..... good one dude.

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You can't they're mutually exclusive.

How about; My boss pays me 2 pound an hour, sexually abuses me and has demanded that I surrender my first born to him, is this reasonable?

Usual answer, "You're lucky to have a job"

That's right! See your learning. This post literally cracked me up. So, so true!

It's about 110kg or so I believe, it's not light but 2 people can carry it up steps and it fits through internal doorways and around the bottoms of stairs. It's very similar to the Rayco RG13

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We have one, they are good when you really need it but the cutters ( even the extra hard rock ones) loose their edge in no time, they very labour intensive on the arms and chest and give a lot of vibration through the trigger. Think hard before buying one do you really get that many inaccessible stumps to warrant one? Maybe it would be easier to sub those ones out to stumpbusters or similar. End of the day it's your money. It certainly was not one of our best investments we use the cammon whenever we can.

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Speak to Richard at kings wood training or catch up with him at the jones Arb show, he provided us with a very useful UK species orientated log chart. It's laminated and one of the team now!

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Couldn't agree more Treequip, great minds think alike.

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I will never see a more epic Arb product again!

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Forget the chainsaw tickets in the first instance and go for a driving licence and then a towing licence, you need a shitty stick to beat off plebs out of college with a ton of tickets and no experience.

 

A driving licence and some means to get yourself to work will set you head and shoulders above the "sorry, my bus was late" brigade.

 

You can gain tickets as you get experience but you can't get experience without a job.

That's a really good point actually, many of the CV's we get are from non drivers, pretty much as soon as someone with some decent categories sends one in the get a trial immediately if we're looking for staff. So I'd say get a driving licence and CS30 & 31. You'll likely get a job grounding and can head on up the ladder from there. Like others have said experience is the key thing so make your self marketable, reliable and polite. It may just get you that foot in the door.

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I wish I had the choice, im officially jealous of you self employed guys.

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Ahh good job, plenty of labour saving equipment, I wouldn't have thought of burying the stump, I'd have probably dug it out with the 360 and used the hiab to get it on the truck. Nicely finished job, very tidy.

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You got a nice considerate groundie there letting those lumps 'run' good to see.

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The way I look at it is that we spend most of the week doing a job that could potentially cause a good amount of serious bodily harm or worse, how much more dangerous can riding a motorbike be, if any?

That's very true I guess I'm just being over cautious these days. A few years ago I broke an arm, a leg and both collar bones crashing a crosser,

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I regularly wish I was still kite surfing and going bigger and harder on my mountain bike but mortgage and work did slow me down. But I'm getting itchy feet with the kite surfing again lately. I'll just have to not hurt myself next time.

Anyway, I'm too scared to get a bike for this very reason. I know I'll get hurt!!

It's sooo tempting isn't it, but I'm just too scared I spent 9 months off with a badly broken ankle the other year and financially it crippled me. I love my bikes but just can't justify the risk, interestingly enough I have gotten into mountain biking as a substitute. Slightly less risk I was thinking but now you mention it you could suffer a fairly unfortunate one on those too.

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I haven't ridden a bike for 2 years, has anyone else given up riding through fear of being off work for an extended period in the event of an accident or injured profoundly enough that you can no longer climb?

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Great video, I loved it. Think I might have a go at your felling cuts on the main stem. I haven't seen those ones before coming in under the sink cut. So both entertaining and educational, good job dude!

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I think the 1250 does about 6-9 to the gallon. Depending on how heavily loaded it is.

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Bottom line is the 1250makes money, we back it up with a transit which we rarely use these days. The mog chips faster, carries more and can go anywhere. That more than makes up for single digit MPG and slightly higher repair bills. In fact it's more reliable than the 61 reg transit! In fact the boss loves it so much he bought a U1300 with a 6 tonne HIAB and 10 tonne high speed trailer to save time ringing up big stems! Mogs = efficiency in our game. You just need the right type of work. The one advantage of the transit is you can actually hear the radio.

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Brilliant! Was it the vibration or did you clip it?

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Have you considered dual tanks for using red on site? Or maybe gas for the road and red in the tank.

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We run a U1250 AG spec rear lift arms with chipper. It's AG tax (free), no MOT, but we do run it on white as customs and excise spot checked us (with white in the tank) and I asked them, they said absolutely no to red diesel. Never had any issues with it. Have it checked over and it gets a certificate of road worthiness just for piece of mind and no doubt good ammo if the worst we're to happen and the accident investigators tried to claim otherwise.

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Sick pay??? Ahahahahahahahaha!

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As for what should a quotation cover, I wouldn't go into too much detail. Just put the job spec and the price, remember to include every service you provide like tidying up, carting stuff away etc. then they know what they are buying and you know what you are being paid for. Simples!

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We use a U1300 with a HIAB to pull a 10 tonne trailer and it seems pretty good. We also use a U1250 with at TP200 and a superwinch 6300kg straight line pull as a chip and winch truck. What attracted you to the U1700?

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