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spuddog0507

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  1. From what i have herd 2 & 6 for you 8 till 5, I am still on 2 bob a day 😂😂
  2. I just cant see how you would expect to get a straight answer on this subject, its a bit like going round every one in the pub on a Friday night and asking them how much they get paid, some would be daft enough to tell you, but most would just tell you f, ,k off, every one thinks different and every business runs different so as others have said work your costs out + a profit + a bit more incase you have a cock up, so really there is no answer to your question and the only person who can answer your question is yourself ,,,
  3. Stubby just put a bit of Cassy R in to any fuel, you dont need much about 2 tea spoon full per gallon, and as you know it smells fantastic, bit like going to a vintage bike sprint or a race meeting, i have put it in all sorts from 50cc Fizzy,s to 750 triumphs 😂
  4. 2 here had a hard wet day today, only 3 of use picking up today and l probably picked 50 60 birds today out of a bag of 223
  5. Hi and welcome, most lads i work with in a forestry enviroment run a 261 along side either a 462 or a 500i, i run a 261 with a 461, the 261 is a very well balanced saw and very manoverable when snedding out, its lively and has plenty of power, mine wont get as much hammer as some do and its been faultless,,,
  6. yes your right only need cross cutting ticket and no felling ticket needed, it don,t say anything about the size of tree you deal with on this course ? ,Some things in life i just cant see the cense in and this is one of them, i can only see this going one way and thats the wrong way !!
  7. Single windblown ticket still available new code of 003937 and interwoven stems and part blown trees is now 003935,
  8. It used to be 2 tickets but you could do both together or do the singular windblown ticket, 1 site we work on the local council and EA used do singular windblown or emergancy tree work tickets, so in the money grabbing world we live in today you have to do 2 seperate tickets now ??
  9. If your doing what you say, you want to be looking for £150 plus a day, But i would start a bit higher At £200 a day as its a starting point for negotiations, this would give you a bit more scope to may be get a bit more than £150, you can all ways come down a bit on your price but you can never go up once a price has been mentioned, another bit of advise i would give you is look at doing CS34/35 singular windblown and multiple windblown tickets, and dont let any one tell you that you have to do these seperatly as you dont you only need to pay once ,,
  10. Think these will be the last pair of saw boots i buy as well but you never know, my go to every day boots are a pair of meindl Dovre (not the high ones) i give em a dose of Hoggs boot care dubbin about 3 times a year and they are doing well bought back in 2013 for £230 so they are looking like a very cheap pair of boots in the ling run,,,
  11. thats not a very good advert ? , once had a pair of the Stihl basic £99 boots and they did me 7 yrs, got a pair of Meindl wood walkers at moment and seem to be ok but not as comfy as the stihl ones i had,,
  12. Been loads of adds like that on FB this last couple of years, and given the people who have stoves fitted this last year and want a saw but dont have a clue what they are looking at, many will of sent money and recieved FA, one that caught my eye one night was a new 261 for £149,99 advertised in Bradistan ?? Karcher power washers and Dewalt battery tools has been another one, all scams but a very easy way to make money,
  13. Very Nice ,, it turns in a lot less space than mine ,,
  14. i had Stacy Dooley sleeps over on last night and she was on the Hebradies with a bloke who was a activist sure he was speaking at that Kensington protest, he looked a bit like Henry Cole but with white hair and spoke like right a h but we are all entitled to our own opinion and beliefes
  15. I just cant see myself towing a 3.5tonne trailer about with a push bike, well not nowadays 😂😂
  16. Yes and a big gripe i have is with temperary traffic lights, all set up and FA being done, Just been for some shopping and pick some dog food up, 2 sets of lights on the A6 one lot a bit going on and the other nowt, 30/40 cars HGVs coaches all sat waiting, and the powers that be say we need to get our carbon foot print down, i think they need to start the shake up at the top first,,,
  17. If it is going for cattle bedding he will be ok on red,,
  18. Not been much help on here so far for you, there is a awful lot to be considered here, first what do you call fully certificated ? CS 30,31 ? and what other tickets after them ?, how long you been doing it ? are you fresh out of collage as many a young lad thinks he is the Bs n Es once he has a chainsaw ticket, i have employed young lads fresh out of collage and they are just 1 step up from useless but want £100 £120 a day using my saws n fuel and they cant cut enough timber to pay there wage and thats not good for me, can you use a tape measure and cut to spec as this is one issue with me that i see the younger lads struggling with, from a employers view you need to be cutting a value of timber that is more than your day rate espeicially on a clear fell, i have one lad who is shit hot as he will put 20-25 tonne on the floor in the day on a clear fell, the other lad working 100mts away might do half that, Thinings is different it can be straight forward at times or it can be a pain in the arse, i went and looked at job recently and soon as i walked in to the woodland i just thought i dont want this job, planted in the early 60s at 4ft quite a few dead stems and very poor timber with not much over 12" in dia, told him to clear fell it and start again as thining it would be a night mare as it should of been done 30 yrs ago, where abouts are you located,,
  19. Just been told this morning that the bright star above and to the left of the moon is the planet Jupiter,, every days a school day,,
  20. Just having 5 while waiting for the 5th drive to start on a fantastic sunny day on the edge of the pennines and fyld plain, 2nd photo was the view from shoot base about 7,30pm
  21. Not sure if Bally had a double drum Igland or Boughton on a 1164 a few year back, and it will of been worked hard with him, both good winches,,
  22. Igland a third more , might be a good reason for that, look at the double drum Iglands that where fitted to countys and worked day in day out, One i know of is still on a county 1164 ok not been worked for about 3 year now but if memory serves me well it was fitted to the tractor in 1979 and it will of done a bit of work in its time and can still pull,,
  23. Been raining here all most all night and most of today had a looking a tub out back this aft and i would say close on 25mm of water in it ,,
  24. Yes i Googled it and no mention of Dr Graham Garden on it but he was and Benard Cribbings i could be mistaken as he was on several other things at that time including Jackanory,,
  25. Jack Hargreaves was all so on a kids program called How back in the 70s with Graham garden, Bernard Cribbings and i think Fred Dineage,i suppose it was a early version of How its made or How do they do that, i will have a look for his stepsons page, cheers for that,,

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