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Snap! I was especially impressed considering the pissing rain. Put about ten watering cans down it and left, still not really caring if it burned down the surrounding slum.

More detail please. What did becoming H&S qualified entail? Besides that, what else do you know about the law here, things like the arrangement, hierarchy and context of the various parts of it? And when was the last time you climbed a tree?

Working together or just having a side of the tree each?

Alright. You were here two hours ago and still didn't answer the question I asked last night. Let's try a different one. What's your legal expertise?

Can you give an example of the right job/right tree please.

You were online for a while after I’d asked last night. It’s half way through Monday now. How long ago did you last climb a tree?

Come on, Paul. How long ago?

And got about 0.2 of an answer.

How long ago?

At least three nights a week, despite it being pretty warm atm. Reckless.

How long ago?

Paul, 1. What is the legal status of the guidance in that link? 2. When was the last time you climbed a tree? Don't answer with anything else. 1. What is the legal status of the guidance in that link? 2. When was the last time you climbed a tree?

Temperature?

I think you’re half confusing me with someone else in this thread. I haven’t expressed an opinion on whether you should sole trade or incorporate. I just clarified a difference.

I assume you mean is this the hill I want to die on? Whatever. Whether I’m flogging a dead horse is down to you btw.

It’s not a company name because it’s not a company. It’s a sole trader trading as whatever. Call it a business or a firm or an enterprise or a commercial endeavour but it isn’t a company.

I couldn't get anyone on the phone so they're ignoring me by e-mail instead.

I think the 160T just has two deadman switches, a blade on the top of the handle and a button on the side. You get used to that pretty quickly and it's usable. No electronic switch. The 220T has an electronic switch that turns the saw on and off. The problem is that the saw also turns itself off after a few seconds of inactivity.

You’re not. You’re the individual natural person Gareth M of <home address>. You might trade as Gareth M or you might call yourself something like Clearview Tree Services or Supersmooth Driveways. Either way, you’re acting as Gareth M. You form contracts as Gareth M, you get sued at your home address as Gareth M. If you want to trade under a name like Clearview or Supersmooth, call it a firm or a business because it’s not a limited company. Think of a company like a boat. You go on the companies house website, pay them £9 ish and you get a boat that you name Clearview Tree Services Limited, company number 12345678, registered in England, registered office <accountant’s address>. You, Gareth M are the director. You get in the boat and steer it round. Deals your customers do are with the boat. Money in stays on the boat and you use money kept on the boat to buy stuff. If the boat gets sued and is going to lose everything, you go and sink it somewhere. Gareth M swims back to shore and lives to fight another day. You can have as many boats as you like. Your tree business boat might be sunk but your driveway business boat still has a load of money in it and is still sailing round doing stuff. tl:dr Unless you've paid companies house the £9 to have a company with a company number, you don't have a company and shouldn't call whatever you have a company.

Whips, Bwana.

Rumour has it that Steve makes a pound every time someone asks this and he still wishes they wouldn't.

Can we re-hijack this thread back to felling cuts?

openspaceman hates blacks don't forget. Might as well round up the lot of you together. You can share a duty solicitor.

Does anyone have much experience of using double climbers on big/tricky takedowns with rigging. Is it generally more productive? If so, how much more productive? Does double the climbers double productivity? Less than double? More than double? Maybe it's slower than one climber? I've done little stints, most memorably on lombardy poplars (straight up and down, repetitive tip tying). I've stayed high, clipping rigging and someone else cuts low. Saves me a lot of ascending and descending and I can keep my small saw, while the lower cutter can have a bigger saw and not have to move much with it. What's it like in more normal three dimensional crowns? One or two rigging systems? Working independently or ganging up on one branch at a time with span rigs etc? Anything to note about tie in points and climbing systems?

Terrorist.