Lorn Logs

I’ll find out this week....was a long long time ago. Dont know where the bit of paper is!

Yes, thanks all, I did a spraying ticket years and years ago, I must check if its still valid, was for bracken! Reckon I’ll start small with what Ive got, and get on with it .

Looks As though disaster has struck: this quarantine has stopped the sale of my villa in Spain, I was going to use some of the money to finance the new venture, buyers pulled out. So, at the mo I have a landrover and trailer and a selection of decent saws. Might be domestic rhoddys for a bit!

I’ll bear that in mind !

Aye, thats what I’m thinking, the niche is hand cutting that no one wants to do, potentially with a wee digger for slightly bigger stuff, I just need enough to keep ticking over...

More good replies, thanks again, I know Glen Etive well, am actually from Glencoe...would be good work there. Its overrun with campers now. Dont mind hand working, I need to keep going, cant stop working, too young, at 50!

Im thinking tractor and mulcher and/or mini digger might be the way....

Climbing palms for the last 7 years, 50 now and right hip is painful, same with knees, also hellish tennis elbow that comes and goes. Hopefully itll ease mow climbing is over.

Was thinking about a wee mini digger with grapple, as spuddog says, for flat areas. I’ve been cutting 15 footers by hand and piling and burning them, not too bad when you get going. Getting workers might be hard I suppose, not many up for this kind of work.

Great replies everyone, many thanks, a lot to pull together into a little business. I’ll update as soon as I get going. Would be happy to work all over, wherever the work is.

Thanks very much ! Will advise re progress....

Yes, spot on, thats what i was thinking of doing. The F C arent much use

Yes, thats what i was thinking. Dont mind the midges etc, grew up on the NW coast. Am thinking about specialist clearance where ground disturbance is important....hand cutting, mulching and herbicide control over tracked stuff. To start with.....

Hmmm thats kind of what I was wondering. Thing is where I live, there is a huge problem with rhodo ponticum running wild everywhere, I thought a small business doing removal and control, without using heavy machinery might be a niche

Have moved back to Scotland after a few years in Spain working on palms etc, now, at 50 I dont want to climb or do much domestic tree work, I bought a lovely old house with a huge garden, completely surrounded by massive rhodo hedges, whilst removing these, I wondered about the viability of running a rhododendron control business maybe combined with hogweed control. I’m kind of kicking the idea around, and I would be grateful for any opinions, observations, experiences of work in this kind of area....thanks in advance from a wet Scotland ...John