born2trot

I finally took the plunge & invested in a new saw!

mind and give a review

Surely local lads can do this , although its fair dues winning a days work 9 hours drive away . I'm not bitter honest

my dog is done through basc ,i lost a dog in work 8 months ago insurance or not ,keep him safe on a lead or in the van

Sounds canny advice to me .

I'm a bit confused about what type of insurance you are after here. It sounds starting out as if you are after a sort of critical illness type of cover but ends by you wanting third party liability cover

I'm quite surprised about them asking if you take your dog to work there again this may well be the norm now i dont know , but as you say how on earth would they prove your dog got injured at work ?

As for liability cover unless you own a pit bull x tiger and let it run about loose would you bother with liability cover anyway ?

Hi TD, PA1 & PA6A which i assume is the ones you have booked covers foundation pesticide and hand held applicators. Although you will probably only use a Knapsack sprayer i have always assumed that this would cover you for stem injection , hatchet , paintbrush, weedwiper etc as these after all are hand held applicators.

Most companies you come across will be delighted to see these tickets anyway .

Lasses!! It's cost me a fortune:sneaky2:

Just wait till they get horses...

Thing is, if I make it too shiny,I won't want to get it dirty again!

Hmmm, I dont know about that !!

this seems to be a very much common sense issue rolled in with an arrogant horse type! no offence to any horse types on here, but you always get bad eggs!

 

with you moving the fence even though it was said that it had been moved, IME you have grounds to not start any work until the client has held up their end of the 'contract'.

 

On top of everything else, take lots of photos, nobody can disprove a photo! especially of the poor horse!

Sorry Rob this a nutcase who hasn't a clue about horses , no offence taken by the way .

I've just seen a sanding and polishing kit for angle grinders for a tenner, so will give that a go. I've also got a scythe and draw knife that might get a clean up too

My farrier has just polished his draw knife on a pedestal grinder/polisher, the result is just spectacular.. imagine what your axe would look like ?

Could I through this forum give a mention to the brave men of Scott's 1912 Antartic Expedition who reached the south pole 100 years ago today but sadly lost their lives on the return journey.

To the memory of Edgar ' Taff ' Evans , Lawrence 'Titus' Oates, Edward Wilson, Henry 'Birdie' Bowers and the leader Robert Falcon Scott.

You could go the full hog and get it machine buffed / polished , it would look absolutely awesome.

Yip , I'm a vulture aswell .

I think I am relieved about that.

Does this mean we have something else in common?

Yeah, a good sense of humour

Quite a novel wee video that. Enjoyed it

I'm not sure I know how to take "a bit of cowboy in me".

lol .. Didn't mean it in the broke back mountain sort of way honest !!

Purely in the highest of equestrian context.

the defib is the utimate in rescue/life saving desires. It is the defib that starts the heart, which is what the paramedics will use if your performing CPR till they get there.

 

the advice to carry one is good advice because it is the most important part of the proscess, cpr does not re start a heart all it does is pump blood to organs and put oxygen in the system to be pumped around.

 

I want a defib.

One of my heroes Ranulph Fiennes took a heart attack on a small aircraft that was about to take off . The paramedics there were the only ones in the uk at the time to have a defib and they saved his life.. The rest is history as they say !!

What am i looking at here? a turd, a slug....?

A glow-worm.

For me there are three, my family(my wife and three children), fishing(that's fishing not catching) and Spurs, hence the 1961.

SPURS ! TC .. Always thought there was a bit of cowboy in you

I agree with deerman , QUALITY of life in our faithfull friends is the single most important virtue we can bestow on them. Keeping things alive at all costs is a human trait , and simply has no place in the animal world. The fact that he has reached a good age for a pointer despite all his problems speaks volumes in how youve cared for him over the years . ..

And another for FR Jones

Sad news indeed

 

RIP

 

Tree work has and always will be considered 'an easy job' you put a cut/wedge in the direction you want the tree to go and it goes that way.

 

Sounds stupid but just think of all the cartoons/comedy clips and tv shows of people chopping down trees. Now compare that to the above but some messing about with electricity.

 

Usually the lumber jack gets his tree but the electrician gets a comedy zap.

 

 

I priced a job about two months ago where the client wanted me to do the trees that he couldn't. He knew exactly how to fell the other trees by pulling them over with a tractor while chopping the back of the tree, well he had used a chainsaw to cut up a few logs for his fire so knew all the cuts.

 

I doubt he is attempting to rewire his house although he has changed a few 13 amp plugs.

I totally agree with that. Early days into my arb career i definetely got the feeling from people that you were a labourer and still get that feeling from some customers today.

2 deaths in a week is a tragedy however.

So basically Skilled labour (me) £80 is about the average to ask for?

If you put in a 1000 whips thats only 8pence a plant. Your effectively doing it for half price. £80 is about 500 plants worth and will be a reasonable shifts worth. But once that 500th one was in thats it i would be off,thats only fair.

We did that at our house and it worked well.

lol! I didnt mean with the mother in law as well !

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You want to limit the power of a 200t? seriously? some people will only be happy when they are banned. Well I have a message for all the hi viz wearing euronits, I will give you my 200t....... when you come and take it out of my cold dead hands. (with apologies to Charlton Heston)

Youve totally misread what i said. From an engineering point of view power to weight and the fulcrum point of a top handle saw , there simply must come a point surely when a safety margin is breached. Thats all i was suggesting.

A diy -er ( or pro ) not recognising this fact is in danger.

Who on earth doesn't bother paying tax, you don't have a choice, you either earn money and you pay them or you don't earn and don't pay, Its not a case of just not bothering. Like I say tho if you arn't running a buisness you wont have many overheads and £80 is fine for just the labour.

I charge the £110 as its the minimum day rate i can do to cover costs without passing on work. I don't have kids to raise but still have to pay standard tree surgery expenses ie insurance, machinery costs, so its all reletive.

I didnt go into finances with people i was planting with but i could tell you now they wouldn't have a clue about paying taxes and that wasnt that long ago. As someone else said on here you were paid per plant for whips , 12pence i think it was.