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woody1

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  1. Hi All

     

    I'm looking to move to Surrey asap but this is obviously dependant on work. Ideally i'd like climbing work but i'm happy to do most things. I hold the relevant nptc tickets and have 10 years climbing and forestry experience.

     

    Full time work would be perfect but anything that would give me a run of work is equally as good. I've got strong personal reasons for wanting to move so i wont let anyone down who can give me a chance.

     

    Thanks

     

    Mike

  2. chainsaw cut to my left wrist, through my own stupidity and fustration with clematis. Managed to get myself out of the tree, lads on the ground patched me up and took me to a+e. Quite a few silky cuts though! Bloomin things are lethal! I think they are programmed to be attracted to thumbs!

  3. i have never thrown a negative comment on this forum before so here goes ...what a pile of rubbish comments ! £50 to chip for an hour if your local or at the end of the days work is bang on , if i could do 5 of them a week thats an extra 250 a week ,some of you guys i just dont understand ,we should be glad of little earnrs such a 50 pound here and there ,and helping out some one on here at the same time

     

    :thumbup: Sense at last!

  4. £50 aint taking the piss, come on guys, Jack is a good bloke, he's done a few days with me in the woods and he's keen to learn. Fuel on top is a liberty, we all know it costs pence to run a chipper for less than an hour. Give him a break and stop being greedy! It's cash!! Come on you greedy worcester lot, help a bloke out![/QUOT

     

    Why dont you do it :001_smile: its only up the M5 and jack might return the favour some day :001_smile:

     

    £50 aint alot nowadays .

     

    If i had a job in Worcs i would do it. Its over an hour away for me so its not viable. :001_tt2:

  5. £50 aint taking the piss, come on guys, Jack is a good bloke, he's done a few days with me in the woods and he's keen to learn. Fuel on top is a liberty, we all know it costs pence to run a chipper for less than an hour. Give him a break and stop being greedy! It's cash!! Come on you greedy worcester lot, help a bloke out!

  6. Welcome to the forum mate. Best of luck with the job hunt, dont entertain £50 a day, anyone who is offering that is takin the P! £70 is a good startin point, £80 once you've proved your worth. It's worth going employed with a firm like fountains for a year or so to gain experience, or until something better comes up with another company. Its tough out there at the mo, as you'll see in the employment section.

    Don't be put off though, someone will give you a start.

  7. My thoughts would be that freelancers/new bods would list their services, a brief summary of CV etc. The advantage of a designated area would certainly be that it is a place that a company looking for staff would go straight to, rther than trawling through the employment forum trying to find someone in their area. If someone is desperate to seek employment froma network of Companies, surely this is worth a small investment? I think an added bonus would be maybe a 5* feedback system, so you can view what others thought of someone, ie whether they'd be worth employing?

     

    Another improvement I feel would be a "situations vacant" area where companies can list job opportunities. (I think this should be f.o.c.)

     

    This is your forum too, give us feedback on ideas, improvements and maybe some of them may get incorporated.:thumbup1:

     

    You've pretty much summed up what i was trying to say Andy :thumbup:

  8. Regarding the subscription fee, my idea was the person who wanted listing on the site would pay the fee. Those viewing and accessing the persons details, ie the employers, would be able to do so free of charge.

     

    Basically a 24/7 'agency' but the profit making middle man is taken out of the equation.

     

    The star rating system is a good option, or maybe some sort of feedback system???

     

    Regarding the kit list, I meant it more as equipment available, ie Truck, Chipper, Tractor etc.

     

    I dont have the know how to create such a thing but perhaps if we show enough interest then the powes that be may have!

  9. I Cant remember the chipper but i am sure i saw a guy on ebay with a listing saying something along the lines of.... Someone has posted his chipper for sale using the pics from the advert he bought the chipper from. When i looked the pictures were identical, if that makes sense! I'll see if i can go back in the search history in ebay!

  10. The thread about starting an arb agency is going a bit off track... however how many of you would subscribe to a freelance worker database if it was available on arbtalk?

     

    My thought was freelancers out there could subscribe for a nominal fee (like a tenner) and have their location, credentials, equipment listed along with references from other members etc.

     

    The employment section is great, but if looking for work, you have to repeatedly post to keep yourself up there.

     

    I'd be interested to know opinions.

  11. What and you could get in a good climber for tomorrow....give over

     

    Aaahhh - But what if Arbtalk had a database of freelancers in your area - with references from other members THAT I would pay a subscription to... not a fee to an agency for some unknown bod.

     

    The odds are better for finding someone in your area - especially after office hours the night before.:001_tt2:

  12. Ok, seriously, how many of you would employ agency staff? Have any of you experienced agency staff, from home or abroad? If so, thoughts?

    There is only a market if we want a market.

     

    I was in the building industry before i retrained and got into our industry. I have experienced first hand how the employment agencies ruined the trade for jobbing builders and now seem now to have gone one step further and pretty much source their staff from eastern european countries. Surely, in our industry, which is in comparison, small, agencies are not needed.

     

    I'll say it again! All we need is a governed database on a site such as Arbtalk :001_rolleyes:!

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