Pedroski
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Yep, just been looking. I'll give Lawson-HIS a call today as well - they've got some great prices on the Makitas, and if they can one to me by end of week I'll be happy.
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Brilliant. Dunno why I didn't see that - B/Hill is only just up the road from me! Cheers.
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Please help. Trying to get hold of a Makita saw, but Screwfix everywhere seem out of stock. Anyone know of a supplier in Sussex? Cheers.
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What time would you start work on a sunday morning?
Pedroski replied to swinny's topic in General chat
Noisy work on Sunday.... no way. Not ever unless it's a proper emergency. If it's just traffic causing you a problem then just do it properly by using cones and stuff, rather than ruining someone's peace and quiet. -
Helical hitch
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It is indeed. PL is for £1,000,000 and EL for £10,000,000. The quote is to cover me, as sole trader/business owner, 50 days/year for temporary employees (so it can be 2 temp employees for 25 days each, or any similar combination, and up to 15 temp employees on any one day!) and also covers subbies (only condition is that they are bona fide types with PL insurance). I'm taking them up on it, although may increase tool cover to £2500/employee from £1000 for an extra £3/month. The basic PL and EL with no tool cover is only £9 or so per month!
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I just use a normal grease gun by removing the bit that would normally push onto a nipple. The grease gun tube then goes into the grease hole enough to avoid any mess. The stihl tubes are a complete and utter waste of money when doing lots of hedgecutting. Much like the stihl one shot oils....another waste of money.
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just been looking for quotes today, fairly simple, landscaper (mainly), want PL and EL and some tool cover for employees (£1k/employee or so). Tradesman Insure quote is £438, and Direct Line £165!
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I'm just off to pick up litter in the middle of town free of charge so those council workers haven't got any work to do come Monday. That'll teach 'em!
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Just enjoyed reading your post Hamadryad. Re leaving interior growth, on the ones that I've done (which isn't many - it's usually someone more experienced than me that does them!) I try and remove just enough to make a route through the tree and think about useful foot and hand placements, and places to chuck a rope over so I can reach where I need. Almost like making an organic ladder! And on my route through I just remove dead/decaying wood and really cluttered stuff. Unless I'm properly opening up a fruit tree.
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Fed up working my nads off for cashews to enable someone else to do better than me so starting to grow bigger nads and branching out. Ideally I want to end up with a small company that can cover a wide range of jobs by using a good bunch of sub-contractors....
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urgent help with hedges in a conservation area
Pedroski replied to yourm9's topic in Trees and the Law
I'm not sure now (I've lost the plot) but I think the laurel hedge under discussion was 10m long, not 10m high....but I stand to be corrected. I've been reading up more on laurel, and it seems it is often a tree. Also hedge 'shrubs' like laurel that have been unmaintained for a long time can then become hedge 'trees'. And once it's a tree than a TPO CAN be put on it, but not on the hedge as a whole. So you could have TPOs on several or all hedge trees within the hedge. UK hedgerow legislation | hedgelink - working together for the UK\'s hedgerows - is interesting. -
Another thing that pees me off about the council is some of the "consumer advice" they put on the council web site... like only use contractors who are registered with Checkatrade. Checkatrade is a commercial advertising thing that virtually any old Tom, Dick or Harry can pay to be in, so what right does the council have to turn customers against people who are not paying advertisers in Checkatrade? I pay £1500/year in council tax, and I expect the council to do right by me as much as anyone else, there are businesses who pay thousands in business rates to the council and the council should do right by them, yet they are in cahoots with Checkatrade to make things tough. Why should I be pressured into paying £600/year for an ad just to be acceptable to people who read the blurb on the council web site?
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I disagree - it's not the same at all, as the LA can undercut AND have all the insurance, yards etc, so it doesn't cost them money.
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Also, have you seen all the tax payer funded Incident Support Unit vehicles parked up by the side of roads with the crew flailing and strimming, thereby taking work away from the tax payer funded maintenance crews, leaving them to take work away from the tax payer?? Bonkers. Mind you, if council bloke knocked on my door offering to cut the grass for a tenner, he's welcome to it!
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I'd rather borrow the tax payer funded girl who answers the phone, and take her for a quick spin round the block
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urgent help with hedges in a conservation area
Pedroski replied to yourm9's topic in Trees and the Law
So, if a laurel is 18 metres tall, it's still a shrub then? -
The "Dd" is short for "Doubled" init? FYI IKWYM though, but CBA is no excuse for being lazy.
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We use HT75 - absolutely fantastic. Also use it with a hedgecutter attachment for the massive hedges we do. I'm perfectly comfortable using it full stretch with no harness for long periods and I'm not a big bloke. My work mate is a big bloke and he can't use it without a harness. He uses the harness with the support that goes up and over the shoulder - I hate using the harness, esp when up ladders as I feel it tips me back and does my lower back it. Without the harness you need some core strength and that soon comes over time with using it. Long and short, wouldn't be without it - one of the best tools in our box.
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'cos it's "Doubled Rope Technique" as opposed to "Double Rope"
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People have made them out of hickory hammer handles, so I guess about the size of one of them. Hole drilled through at an angle and filed nicely to accept the rope, and holes on t'other end so you can attach the tether.
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That looks really neat. It amazes me, though, the number of people who cut trees with umbrellas.
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Good possibility for weekend after next (i.e. first weekend in March). There's some work being done on 3 trees that needs doing first, which should be next week all being well.
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I'm owed £6k by someone who was a mate and I did a favour for. I tried nicely for months to get the money back, but he always fobbed me off, then got made bankrupt by HMRC. I have no legal means of getting this back as it was cash and nothing in writing. Looking back, I wish I'd sent someone round who was a bit more persuasive than me - I'd be able to put a roof on my home extension and my family would be better off for it. As it is, it eats at me every single day, and all I can do is keep tabs on where he and his family are living and what he is up to. One day, I will get it back one way or another
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:laugh1:I like the bit at 4:36! Good music. But still not really showing properly what the RW is doing that some other bit of equipment, such as a rocker, would do just as well, or am I missing something?
