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That is very true, i know several that wont take advise as the only way to do it is there way, i have been on sites and seen a lot over the years and seen some really silly things going on, one of late was seventeen trees being removed for a housing development all bar about 4 small Sycamores where climbed and dismantled ? it was in the middle of some rough fields, i went to ask them what they where doing with 4 half decent oak stems, answer not for sale they where going to move it all, i offered the services of a tractor and forwarding trailer but declined, i would of moved it all to roadside in a day and loaded his transit n trailer for him several times in the day, him and 3 lads carrying rings 60/70yds across a rough field for 4 days, no logic in that to me at all, this guy has been doing it 20+yrs !!!, I am ready for scaling back and getting rid of some toys and spending more time on my boat and more important more me time,,,

It wasen,t aimed at any body really, but sorry if you think it was ! You say or think i do it for purely for enjoyment ! i did not say that, what i said was i do get enjoyment and satisfaction from my work, now i have always understood that if you are happy with in your work it leads to a better job and with a happier crew you will get far more out of than a crew that is not happy, i have ran a business since the mid 80s and the way i see it is, if i dont know what i am doing by now its time to give up, so why would i want to go and climb for someone else when i am in my now late 50s ? or go and work for some one else when i have my own work and plenty of it ?, Where do you get it from that i am dragging the industry rates down ? i have not said anything about any rates nor would i ever print any rates on a public forum and that is something i lernt many many years ago, that information is for me and my accountant only, what other people charge is there business as like what i charge and make is mine, I am in a very good position in life at present and if i get out of bed in the morning and i have not planed any work in, i may take myself of fishing, shooting or dog training for the day i dont really need to go to work every day now a days, Now with your answer to the price of beer in London, you answered it as i see it, rent mortgage costs they all have to be factored in, but after all the bar you get served in in London is the same as a bar in say York, its 4 walls with a roof on it, electric and gas costs are the same nation wide !! its just the Greedy barstards at the top of the chain like the muti million airs who have bought the properties councils and all the other organisations that fleece the every day working man, I think you have got the wrong picture of me !! one thing i do enjoy doing is passing my knowledge and experience down to the younger generations and that i do for a very fair swap for a bit of free labour back,,

Seems to be a lot of different numbers being chucked about, i know pay will differ from different regions, the original post was asking for prices in the northwest region, now call me thick stupid or what ever you want but we all live on a relativly small island but there is one or 2 things i will never get my head round in life, Why does a pint of beer in my local cost £3.10 and the same pint in London £6.40 ? so the cost of living or going out in London costs more but the pint of beer or a loaf which is made in the same brewery/bakery as mine ?, We seem to have turned in to a very greedy nation over the last 30-40 yrs and its down to the same old thing Money,, i am pretty old school really and one thing i do get out of my work is enjoyment and satisfaction and i think at times for me that is more important than the money side of it, I have employed lads straight out of Myerscough collage who have got a few tickets but unfortunatly very little know how and some with even less drive, they start talking about being paid £100-£120 a day, but due to lack of knowledge can i afford to pay that ? i am not a charity and nor will i subsidise people, we all tend to start at the bottom and work our way up but pay at the bottom is not good and its like every thing else we have to put some effort in and work towards our goals in life, i for one would never of thought i would be the main go to guy for a multi million pound company when it comes to getting big oversized trees down in the north west and i dont know how i got there, Ok pay is not brilliant compared to other tree related jobs but the satisfaction of the job for me makes up for that, so to sum things up just work towards your goals and you will get there, to give you some idea the Beech logs below are 3.1 mtr long,

The main Leyland plant was not far from me and when i was at school back in the 70s, some lads i knocked about with where quite proud of there dads, grandads and uncles working, or should we say going to Leyland motors on nights and doing FA, one lads dad worked/went to Leyland on nights and had a window cleaning round 4 days a wk so he didnt do much on nights, and after all they could only work with what they was given and that would be reflect from the companys profits, some where on the rob as well one bloke who was a painter used to spray more cars in his garage than he did at Leyland and all the paint would belong to Leyland, i remember painting a tipping trailer in the mid 70s with my Dad and the paint was a Leyland colour and if my memory serves me right it cost my Dad 50p for a gallon tin,

Totally agree with you 100% here, and i know some will shoot me down on m next comment , But may be if the average British employed worker, had actually done some work when they went to work instead of skiving we may still of had our great British engineering empire that we once had and lead the world in for many many years, No british trucks built any more no British Leyland car manufacturing, all trains built over seas, even a poxy metal footbridge for going across the river in a small local village had to be made in Germany, where the F - - k did it all go wrong,,,

Did you change the filter as well when you changed the oil ??

Yes should have a slot for the worm drive for the oil pump to fit in to, Is there a worn drive in the saw behind the clutch to drive the oil pump,? Is there a oil pump fitted in behind the clutch?

To be honest Ian i dont know, as i am trying to stay away from the bull as much as i can, apart from saw/machinery tickets with us working mainly in forestry we dont really need the Cscs cards and the main forestry co we sub to put a health and safety day on every 2-3 years and we get a certificate of attendance, the only thing that have a issue with is having to have a wellfare unit on site if the job is over 3 days, i havent got one or have no desire to either hire one or buy one, we have managed for decades to have our breaks and lunch sat on a log out side, or have a piss where ever, we dont need to walk 400yds to a van ? Just had a conversation with a manager and he asked about a wellfare unit for a 2 wk job so i just said we will do 3 days a week but i will bring another pair of hands or 2 to speed the job up, How things have changed over the years eh,

2/6d an hour on site, then 2 cabbages, half a dozen eggs and if we have had a good day a bottle of Brown ale for the crew to share 😂, Seriously, whats your staffs skill set ? can they think for themselves ?, punctual ?, team players ?, do they get on with it ?, moan and whinge about things ?, there are several other things to take in to consideration as well, one thing i wont have is some one pissing about on there phone when i am paying them, brew time dinner time yes thats fine, i think you need to sit down and work out your daily/weekly costs and work it out from there as we all have different running costs and asking for someone elses costs/prices might be way out compared to your own, and as for increases in costs lust add it on to your daily cost,,,where abouts in the northwest are you ?

i have had a look for that 4 slot charger and cant find owt, but i did find some very confusing battery charge times stating any where from 30 mins to 55 mins to charge the 500 battery ? This saw for domestic arb work and say a home owner cutting a bit of firewood at home i can see these saws really working with some advantages with low noise and emmisions at zero, but for us working in a forestry enviroment and after doing some quick calculations i got quite a shock, the saw body bar n chain, 10 500 batteries and 5 chargers i would be looking at around the 5k mark for a saw that compares to a 50cc 261petrol saw for what £650-£700, so i think for us its a long long way off yet for us, tree below i would need 2-3 batteries to brash it out, But as said above i can really see it working in the arb sector,,

It sounds ok, but i just cant see myself with one just yet, on a typical day for us in say some hardwood thinings i would say we would refuel 6-8 times and in softwood maybe 10-12 times a day, and i cant see myself buying or carrying 10-12 battery,s about, i dont know how long a battery would take to charge but i would see that as another job as well when at home, then there is another cost issue of how many chargers would i need to buy ? it may all sound and perform well but i think for forestry work we are a long way off yet ?, mind you with the way fuel and energy prices are at the moment i will be getting my Grandads double ended cross cut out and using that,,,

Sorry to here that J, i went through it in Oct and its heart wrenching, sorry again 😒😒

Thats how i see how the F1 season might be this year 😂

Not really in to reductions, well we are but not quite like the one above, looking at the photo and from what has been said all ready i will agree with most like taken to much at 10 and 2 o,clock and bottom right is sticking out could be a better shape in my eyes but what was the man on the ground doing ?,

It would need to be low emission as well, as sat on a cart right behind it wont be good,, so no cabbages or sprouts for my Donkey 😂

Yes probably something like that, answer i kept getting was we have posted it ? oh i will send you another one then, waste of time if you ask me,

Yes been scrapped about 12 month ago and they blamed it on covid, ?, with the way things are at the moment we wont be needing driving refresher courses as we will all be getting a Donkey and cart each,,😂

But you get a free of charge magazine every 3 month as well,😂 i have and will never have any intension of doing owt with FISA, some one once tried to talk me in to it several years ago and told me it would be to my advantage ? i think he was on a earner trying to sign people up, i hope you have read the other post i put on back to open space man, and i still aint got it and i have rang em about half a dozen times for certificate,

Yes it is, and FISA introduced the chainsaw refresher course, which had to be done every 5 years, we did one 3 years ago, 5 of us on it one trainer there and it was £208 each for a 4 hr refresher course and my gripe with this is they cant be arsed to send us a certificate, just imagine how much money could be made out of doing a driver refresher course every 5 years it would be tens of millions a year, !!!!

You dont have to be a member of any organisation to fell,sell or but timber, Who said you did ?, but if you are a member of FISA you get to put on FISA registered on your invoice and them when you renew the year after you get a bill of them for a percentage of what your yearly sales where, i think its about £1,70 per tonne at the moment , the same will happen with the woodsure scheme,

That to me sounds very much like being a member of FISA, you pay them a annually fee to be a member and then they charge you a percentage of every tonne of wood or chip you sell, the woodsure scheme sounds very much the same, its just a way for the government to get a bit back, and looking at whats going on with Gas and Oil at the moment there will be a lot of stoves being fitted this summer ready for next winter as gas and oil will not come down as quick as it goes up, thats if we have any ???

Had a Collie back in the mid 80s that was a very clever dog, and i bit different as it was Grey and white, i will see if i can find a photo of it and post it for you,,,,

4 different dogs there Eggs spanning near on 20 years all very well bred, but its just unfortunate that they are all docile and stupid 😂😂

This sounds about right to me from past expieriance, a guy i do a bit of work for has a fishery and they put some up on his land a few years back, they wanted to just put them up in a line across the middle of a field, he asked them why could they not put them up along a near by fence line and he never really got a answer, so he just handed it to his land agent and the poles went along the fence line, and you should get a yearly payment for each pole but i think you should have a say in where it is to be situated, it would be worth talking to a land agent,,

Really !! after breeding and training Labs for near on 40yrs now i think you could be a bit off the mark there, you could say that about any breed of dog but its all down to how that dog was treated and trained back when it was young, and all that falls back on to its owner and that is usually the stumbling point !!, there is a young Lady not far from me who trains Labs and Spaniels for the Police, border security and the fire brigade for firearms detection, drugs, accelerants and laundered cash, her success rate with these dogs is approx 85% pass rate, her kennels are full of dogs like about 60 of them at all different stages of training and i would say 70-80% are labs so for you to say Labs are docile and stupid i think your a bit out with that quote and just take a step back and look at the owners of the Labs you have seen and i will bet i substantial amount that them owners are totally clueless when it comes to buying and training a dog ??,