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GYPOS beware they will be back mate, with a lurcher bitch in season to distract your dog!!!!

The plus vat to him doesn't make a difference. He has to charge it but he doesn't actually get it as that's the vat mans cut! Emphasising that doesn't really make it negative.

 

The situation in the first half of the post. If that was what £500 was. That's about right! To get that many logs it sounds more like half a tree than just a limb

yeah it was a fair old limb lol was from a fork in the trunk about 8ft up then right up to around 30ft with branches coming of it all the way up.......never took a pic but a quick look on google and found similar.....

 

imagine the stem to the left of the tree as you look at it but over a greenhouse and summer house.........PS the tree wasnt protected in any way at all.....

Dont forget that the other guy didnt charge £1500 he just quoted £1500. Every now and then I go and quote for a job and if theres something I just dont like about it, like quoting to another trade rather than to the customer directly, I might well put in a high price so that the other tradesman cant add much on.

 

If the guy had quoted you a fair 4-500 you could have stuck 100 on top and done no work for it at all, they way he quoted meant you had to pull your finger out and do some work, so you got a share of £250 but worked for it as apposed to £100 for doing nothing.

 

I think he did the right thing. If he wanted the work it woud have been a lesser quote, but as I say, he did charge £1500 for the job and probably doesnt ever charge that much, he gets paid for quotes that he wins and I bet they are all a lot less than that, and for the jobs he actually wants.

well i guess thats true mate but in fairness i said to him the jobs was all his as he had lads with him.....i dont know maybe im just lucky to have a good friend who happens to be an arborist.......i also have a sore head from the party i went to last night prior to posting this one........ but i think you all have read between the lines well.....just made me laugh how someone can quote a job for 2days and be a grand more but has now lost work and a fair bit of wood if he said right ill bang it down for you now........works work at the end of the day mate.......

oh and just to add he had it on the deck in 50 mins not 20 as i mistakenly put lol........

 

so come on then a big limb over a greenhouse and summer house, 3 people working, a chipper, a transit tipper and 7.5 iveco full of logs, horse-box full of chip, and a slag of a drag/carry to get it all out.........how much would you say??? i no a guy round here who dropped two decent pines and took them away on a grab lorry.......took about an hr and charged £1750 PLUS vat........cant see my mates price being to bad really????

i like the bit where it was all logged up with an 020T

does sound like that lol.......we had a 441 for that bit.........

500 for 3hrs work sounds like you told you mate what the other chap quoted and he thought he'd pull a fast one as well. 500 for 3 hrs of a old granny ??

the lady was about 36 lol and my mate even deadwooded the tree while he was up there........and i never mentioned no price to my mate till after the job.......lowering a massive limb over a greenhouse and summer house, deadwooding, a chipper for two hours, disposal, diesel and petrol ain't that bad a price i thought???

right from the onset i know this is going to cause controversy..... but its a question ive always wanted to ask the arborist world.......ill tell you know im no arborist........NOOOOOOOOO FREAKING WAY could i do the stuff you guys do day in, day out but ill have a go at small trees, conifer hedge, deadwooding and such like.........big dismantle quote comes in then im on the phone........

 

now this is where i begin my question.......i went to look at a job few weeks back........just cutting hedges, strimming the jungle of a garden down and raking everything into a compost pile....... got the job and took 2 hrs........ nice easy £40 in your pocket on a friday afternoon when on your way home.........

 

so i get paid and the lady asked about her conker tree and taking a huge limb down as it hangs over her neighbours garden and is blocking there aerial! i said i no a guy who does it, ill get him to look at it for her........... turns out guy i normally ring is away so i googled a local tree surgery firm.........guy comes in a truck that under no certain terms you cant fail to see he is a TREE SURGEON.........he gets out telling me this and that needs doing, saying all his courses his passed, who he has worked for etc but then he drew me in with the talk of this hitch, them spikes, new rope, old chainsaws..........im like FFS mate just give me a price......... he looks up and down the tree scratching his chin...."ill do it over two days for 1500"....... i said leaf it........... my fully qualified arborist friend came home the week after, showed it him "500 and go halves mate"..........sound.... and a good few rings each each........ he had it on the deck in 20 mins...........all with a prussic on a mainline, an old butterfly harness and a 020t all logged up and away in around 3 hrs........ customer more than happy and were off with good wage, good load of logs each and the neighbours got TV again..........

 

just think some off you arborists think its more than what it is at times......no doubt its a dangerous job but its a job that can be done on basic equipment but you boys pricing all the latest shiny gear into your prices ruin it for the ones who work to live, not live to work................

It comes under racism, they are a race and its derogatory.

they are a race.........it was derogatory........BUT i was right.........

 

glad you got your hard earned chipper back mate........bet it was empty of diesel tho???

It comes under racism, they are a race and its derogatory.

ok sorry..........is calling them Caravan Using Nomadic TravelerS better.............

why is p.i.k.e.y.s a banned word.............

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do you think they will even care??? i doubt very much they would be watching there every move, writing down your company name to tell everyone about an untidy sorbus???

 

imo your over reacting......most people probably wouldnt of even noticed anything other than a few men at work..........

worth it or not????

 

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sorry for late reply mate not had to time to play with it since that day.......but compressor never did a thing!!! put loads of air through it........then ran a bit of petrol through.........nothing..........

 

so next question how do i get them pump out???

 

and what do i do with it when its out........

 

many thanks in advance..........

oh and ive got a few trees to cut back tomorrow that are over hanging a fishing lake.........its either a half hour job with the pole pruner or a 2 hr job if i climb them.........do i risk using the saw or wait till its done as i dont really fancy climbing weak willows over hanging a lake.........

well stripped the head down and took out the black plastic "thing" that the filter goes into and thats as far as i could get, above that is a valve that goes to the pump and as far as i can see no crap could get into that??? cleaned it all out as best i could but unfortunately no compressor as i can see where that would come in next!!! ran a bit of petrol through it when put back together and still the same

 

can take it to my mates garage to use his compressor in the morning but tbh i think its a new pump.........any ideas where to get one from on here???

 

thanks again for all your help.........

Multi van policy with Aviva! saved me a fortune. They DO insure tippers!

soooooooo glad ive read this ive just insured my transit and escort with them on multi car and its cheaper than i was paying just for the tipper last year......... id recommend them for everyone, cut the middleman and go direct to aviva.......excellent company to deal with......

cheers mate, nice of you to take time out of your sunday afternoon to help........

 

ill have a go in a min and letyou no....guess i cant make it any worse than it is and its destined for the repair shop anyway whether its in bits or not............:laugh1:

 

thanks again.......

here you go mate......

 

 

sorry i got it wrong lol the oil is coming out of the round hole not the groove that lines up with the bar!!! but its only seeping out and is no where fast enough to keep with the speed of the chain!!!

 

bit miffed as i brought few weeks back off ebay and apart from this it runs amazing but cant use it tomorrow on the job i mainly brought it for......

hi cheers lads!! ive took bar off and clean it out, took the oil tank off and the little black filter was covered in crap! thought result just that blocked so cleaned it all out and ran it but still nothing now this is whats throwing me off as the couple of cm groove that lines up with the oil hole on the bar is bone dry but there is a smaller hole above it an oil comes out of that real slow but it is piontless as it lines up with nothing at all on the bar?? hope that makes sense lol ill go get a pic now

any tips before i take it into a shop?????

Every time I go out walking the dogs I'm always looking at trees (sad I know!) and I always think the same sort of thing! Oh that dead lim b could come off, or tops dead in that!

I think the thing to remember is the massive difference in the role trees play in a forest, over trees in gardens etc

 

 

 

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exactly the same here dogs and logs!!! ill get some photos up later

cheers pal, to be honest thats what i thought leave nature to its means!!! im there tomorrow so will take a couple of pics......and ill check that forum out, thank you for that......

ive been out with the dogs today on a shoot ran by a good friend of mine and on our little mooch through the pines that are plentiful i came across a grand old oak tree right in the middle of the forest!! now i doubt if anyone apart from me has seen this tree in years as its not part of the shoot that is shot over and i only stumbled across it as the dogs ran off after a rabbit and i had to search for them for an hr or so lol............anyway looking at the tree its one of them oaks that look like robin hood would pop out of the stump at anytime a real beauty!!! but the amount of dead wood in it is unreal and my question is would that tree benefit from removing it all??? i no trees "deadwood" themselves over the years, but im keen to do it for practice aswell as i cant damage anything underneath it and im sure no one has ever climbed the tree as its really hard to find, ive walked round that area for 7 years now and only just seen it today!!!! also can i touch it by law??? i have the landowners permission and that, just thought id ask as not sure whether to do it or leave it

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can anything be done to stop an innocent person buying this saw??? they have been on telly before now!!!

 

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