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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, you’re a supremely useful fellow to have on here.
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I did a job yesterday. Loads of straight up, straight down little birches and a couple of willow so almost all just on a pair of strops. I did use a single climbing line (mystery rope that someone gave me fifteen years ago btw) to transfer into a weak one and took it up the biggest willow to rig a branch off my harness bridge. Did a good bit of one handing a domestic battery backhandle. Only started a 250 at about 16:30. Took seven hours with breaks and finishing the groundwork that my groundsman didn't get to while he was smoking joints. Safe and productive day. Happy clients. They should be. The next cheapest quote was £3000. I did it for the wood. No point really. Just thought it might annoy Edward.
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Does anyone on here have experience of BOTH the mechanically injected and the electronically injected (common rail) engines in 2000s Ivecos? With Ford Transits for example, there's a massive difference. Mechanically injected ones broadly speaking work. But with common rail ones, all you ever hear about is smoke, warning lights and VERY expensive electronic injectors. Is the difference with Iveco engines as stark? I'm looking at a 2008 common rail 2.3 but the common rail is putting me off.
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It's not insurers generally. It's specifically ones who profit from legally mandatory insurance. They stand by while the state sticks a gun in my face and tells me I have to have it and then they charge like Jews because they can.
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Adrian Flux got me a policy from Equity Redstar for a Discovery that I stuffed into a parked Micra. All reported immediately, straight down the line, totally my fault, no injuries (Micra was empty), should have been £500 for a new Micra and £10 for a bunch of flowers to say sorry to the girl whose car I wrote off. Sounds easy doesn't it. They still didn't shield me from a form N1 ("we're suing you" paperwork) arriving a few weeks later and they were then a nightmare to pass the problem to. More recently, I was with Brentacre for a sort of campervan. They do other weird stuff, specialist, luxury etc. They were OK for a few years. I forget why I fell out with them. Probably ever-increasing premiums. They're all cunts. These days I go as cheap as I can possibly get and would always try to sort a prang privately before involving insurers.
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Nobody in their right mind will admit to being part of it. It’s an abhorrently big pork barrel project. The only public infrastructure project worth doing is digging a hole the size of Shropshire and burying the government in it.
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Value IS subjective. Huts and fairy lights make these people happy. The absence of those things makes you happy. Subjective. Different subjects like different things. You say destroy etc. Bear in mind humans are part of the ecosystem too. If squirrels could, they'd slash and burn the trees, lay concrete and farm nuts in polytunnels. A few wigwams are neither here nor there. Man plans, god laughs. It'll all be trees again one day. I stand slightly corrected on your employment but you do come across like a government worker.
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Since we're already off topic... It is subjective (all value is subjective). Ponds and brambles are great for naturewatchers but bad for housing developers. Clearings and wigwams are great for forest schools but poor for industrial coppicing. etc etc I understand from your posts on here that you work for the government so may struggle to understand the notion that people's property is theirs to do what they want with. You don't have to understand or like people's choices but you do have to respect them (or they might stop respecting your property rights).
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The (albeit subjective) harm to woodlands aside, it's a great business model. I especially like the bit where generally ghastly people get ripped off. I can't wait for the bubble to burst and they all sell up because they've had enough of arguing with neighbours about leaves blowing into their plot etc. I'm going to make utterly insulting offers, firmly looking them in the eye to make sure they know that I know that they know their predicament.
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Have you come across (or done yourself) any numbers on the costs of a diesel engine running on red and a petrol engine running on propane? Which does more work for the same money?
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Certainly have, got a digger on hire making a track so it is can be driven to, then need to sort out alot of renewables, and wiring in house, insulate all the walls, renew windows, few wooden floors down, convert an attic into a bedroom, sky lights in, re fit bathroom, carpets upstairs, jobs a gooden! Sounds excellent. Updates please.
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Not sure how much it will be but got to be a game changer..
AHPP replied to Rob D's topic in Chainsawbars
That's the ballpark. I know of one probably similar to Stihl's that was £13k. -
I'd also happily drown a VAT inspector in a horse trough if that helps.
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I know a plant man who had one on the dash of a Transit that hadn't been started in years. Only A4 paper size. Started straight up, like it had been driven that morning. Couldn't believe it.
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I've seen you mention horticultural registration on here before. What's the score?
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I didn't. We're arguing about nothing. Back on topic, twatting about with trees makes money from people who are scared into thinking they need to twat about with them.
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The ratio in Congleton is that protecting people from every little thing isn't necessary if it reduces public utility. The law realises that making things 100% safe will make life miserable.
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Yes it will. Tomlinson v Congleton.
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370,000,000 years ago - trees arrive 200,000 years ago - humans arrive 1000 years ago - modern legal system emerges in UK - people now definitely responsible for their property damaging other people's property 970 years of people being responsible for their trees causing damage etc goes happily by 30 years ago - internet arrives, lets people more effectively swap ideas about how to scare people into unnecessary tree work, people act like fannies about perceived liability hiding behind every photon We're talking about things like silver birches in a McDonalds car park. They'll be dead from drought, compaction or the need to put a bin where they were before they're twelve feet tall anyway. It's not a two tonne limb from a heritage oak that could fall on a picnic in Hyde Park.
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13 Douglas Firs from 12" to 30" DBH, along a main road and with a power line as thick as a boner running through all of them. Done mostly solo, a bit of help from a five foot girl and my 65-year-old dad and a day with a one-armed man with a winch on a 110 to put the biggest one down the side of a house. I undercut the nearest quote by £2500 and still made made money after buying outright almost all of what I needed to do the job. Once I'd done it, I knew there was no tree job I couldn't do. Uninsured and for cash btw. I love telling this story.
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Bollocks. Trees know what they're doing. They grew fine for the hundreds of millions of years before we invented the arboricultural consultant. Formative pruning is important for doing three jobs to trees that probably need no jobs doing to them.
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I love videos like this. Any time that someone tells me the training standards in this country are anything less than laughable, I can show them it. I usually use the one with the slow motion heroic blower tutoring.
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You blow my mind every time you post this. You sound like a badger asking a dogfighting ring for careers advice. You seem to appreciate quality in other areas of your business. Why not with financial planning? You're at war. Tool up with an accountant.
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Electric. You won’t care if it lasts a year. They’re excellent.
