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  1. mendiplogs has got a Katanaboy for sale. Relatively expensive but sounds perfect for your application. They are better than you could believe. Other normal size Silkys run rings around any bow saw anyway though.
  2. I need 14 stumps (10"-30" diameter, good access) ground near Ipswich, Suffolk later this month or in the new year. Please PM me your details so that I can contact you when they are down. Many thanks, Alex
  3. Somebody is bound to ask... Why not just felled?
  4. Also worth mentioning to any professional associations you're a member of. Or indeed not a member of. Arb Assoc would probably be interested to know about this. Federation of Small Businesses may be too. In fact, tell everyone. Get onto the papers first thing Monday morning. Hardly fair that taxpayers' money (including yours) is funding subsidised competition and doing you out of work. Of course contact the council first, just in case it was all a terrible misunderstanding...
  5. I say it shouldn't be legal. Couldn't say for sure whether it is legal but there have been cases very similar to this where councils have acted out of remit and been told off for it (Attorney General v Fulham Corporation [1921] 1 Ch 440). I imagine your MP would be interested.
  6. I think he needs three posts to his name to send a private message.
  7. 6 man days! Perhaps 1 of them should be a motivational speaker.
  8. Aspen and Stihl MotoMix. Carb tune needed when going between the two?
  9. Aspen is 95 RON and Stihl MotoMix is 92 RON. Carb tune needed when going between the two?
  10. Yep. You obviously don't just bomb big bits in without thought. Scrap pallets pad the brash. Brash pads the chogs. Much would come down on a rope anyway. I love chippers but sometimes the inelegant is better.
  11. Or save the need for a chipper and truck/trailer by having a farmer put a grain trailer underneath the tree and drop everything straight into it.
  12. Of course this is just a few numbers thrown out there. I'm guessing at your setup, what kit you already have etc. £200 for you £200 for Paul £200 for chipper and fuel £50 for truck and fuel £50 for saws and fuel £100 towards overheads (insurance, advertising) £150 for any kit you need to buy/profit £950. Under a grand so looks palatable so higher chance you'll get the job (which you have set aside primarily for learning). You learn. Blokes get paid well. Everything else covered or accidentally profited on. Kit profit or cash profit. Win all round. Add another groundsman if you want more time with Paul.
  13. Not being sh1t at your job surely applies to all work? Are there specific rules anywhere or specific norms in the insurance company relating to proximity to wires?
  14. Why wouldn't insurance cover it?
  15. I've been designing fantasy site clearance machines in my head recently. 1000hp tracked chippers/grinders with 40 yard ROROs on the back. That sort of thing.
  16. AHPP

    beech x 3

    Thanks, both. Excellent attempts but it being good for bugs, beasties, woodpeckers, squirrels, fungi and iggly wigglies is not in dispute. My question is, 'What's the point in doing something that's good for the bugs, beasties, woodpeckers, squirrels, fungi and iggly wigglies?' Is there not loads of space for them in all the stuff that gets left for reasons other than "An ecologist told me I would be doing the world's bugs, beasties, woodpeckers, squirrels, fungi and iggly wigglies a disservice if I didn't leave it there."? P.S. People think I'm getting on David's case. I'm not doing it in a nasty way. He is considered an authority on the subject. I'm testing him. If he's as good as his reputation, he shouldn't have any problem answering.
  17. AHPP

    beech x 3

    David. Please come back and enlighten us. I'll even take back what I said about people in comfortable public sector mushroom gazing jobs being happy to leave the issue purposefully clouded to keep themselves quietly employed.
  18. AHPP

    beech x 3

    I do still genuinely want to know the answer to my question by the way.
  19. AHPP

    beech x 3

    If the tree killing community seriously needed to re-evaluate its approach to habitat wood, someone as knowledgeable as David would no doubt say it simply enough for us saw-happy simpletons to understand. Reasons for explaining things in complicated ways include: You don't understand it well enough yourself You don't want people to understand it
  20. Booming market for second hand chainsaws on ebay. Brand new MS170; a paltry £170.

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