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Off to go tree climbing with my new set of 8.5 metres ladders.
Daythe trees replied to George Gorman's topic in General chat
It's when you get to the top of the third section and realise one dead bit of ivy is actually all that's holding you up that you become a world record lanyard attached! -
If you're considering a 550 from husky and the 620 from echo what about the Echo 501sx had mine about two months and it's rendered the 620sx pretty much obsolete. Worth a look handles a 16 bar very well and is much lighter and nimbler than the 620 and seems like a screamer in comparison. However the 620 is good and if you forget your hammer just take the chain of the bar and use the saw it's built like a bloody tank!
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You could cal the police but I suspect that no names or phone numbers or emails were exchanged I also highly doubt the contractor left an invoice for payment. I also suspect the transit used for the job is probably registered at a spurious address and is being used to ply it's owners trade/scam elsewhere in the country or Europe. I could however be wrong and before I get fingers pointed I'm not blaming travellers or gypsies or aliens or immigrants it could be bloody anyone out on the make!
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How accurate do you need to be ie what's the tolerance for error? Os maps in 3.175k to one should be good enough for rough estimates.
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Did a tidy up a couple of years ago where Connie's had been topped by about twenty feet, the old lady thought they'd tidied up really well. However she got a letter from the council as they had simply felled these twenty foot lumps into the park behind her fence and left them where they fell. Surprisingly when I jumped up what remained to tidy up the feathers every top had been back cut and ripped of not a gob or hinge in sight. So yes it happens and always will while gullible people accepted quotes from tradesmen who knock on doors to find work.
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They are good machines and maintenance is simple, I'd check what's been said above and that you get the gauges supplied when new to check the anvil is set right for the blades after sharpening. The manual tells you how to use them and the seller should know what you mean if not I'm sure greenmech will sell a new set.
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Climbing Kit, Loler and the Sole Trader, Whats the Point?
Daythe trees replied to R Mac's topic in Climbers talk
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Climbing Kit, Loler and the Sole Trader, Whats the Point?
Daythe trees replied to R Mac's topic in Climbers talk
I do it for the above point about insurance and the fact that some companies I subcontract to ask to see my loler certificate and know when the last one I gave them ran out, so for me it keeps me working! The other day a lad who serves as my second climber on a subbie basis noticed the crab on my saw strop was not snapping shut properly, I suspect it had got crudded up that day dismantling wet slimy syc however was it three weeks ago it stopped working and I hadn't noticed in my weekly checks? So even though I resent paying a second pair of eyes with no vested interest in saving your pennies in my mind is worthwhile. Panic not a bit of wd40 and the airline and the crab is saved from the scrap bin, fifteen quid saved! -
I have a cs100 and at 18hp it's impressive for what it is especially if timber is presented to it dressed out right. However compared to my a tr6 it's painfully slow, I'm not sure id want to go any smaller.
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Peter I agree I Had an 05 golf and used that function at any opportunity and it cost a fortune in tyres but I grinned every time I screamed up to thirty out of the garage carpark.
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No need for lights bob the vibration and noise of the damn thing means you can use it like you've been blind for twenty years even if you've twenty twenty.
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Spend September quoting like mad and line stuff up and try and got all your hedge cutting out of the way. Then try and enjoy the early finishes but actually suffer the realisation that the one days work you quoted in September is actually two because the suns arrived late and buggered off early!
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Have your tried kayaking cagouls mark? Long sleeved t shirt under neath so you can't feel the clammy sweat on the inside and only for when it's hammering it down! I've found nothing breathable which remains waterproof and noting cool enough to really work in which isn't.
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Why didn't you post last week I had twenty ton plus to loose that I couldn't fit in the yard! Fortunately a local farmer had the lot. Regularly have big jobs with tons of stuff I need to loose, give me a call tomorrow and we can have a chat I will put you on file for future jobs. 07925319595.
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We do about the same amount and find a rock machinery 22 ton splitter and their circular saw to be ideal. It's not fast but for arb timber it seems to work well for us. I've looked at other options and for arb arisings I can't seem to find anything suitable for everything we get in which would be more efficient and cost effective. The thing which has improved our productivity is ensuring we sned properly and not leave daft pegs and step cuts which are unavoidable to get it on the ground still in place once it's in the yard.
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I've a spud'd 460 and it's a cracking tool, my favourite saw without doubt and also the favourite of all my subbies. I'm not sure id bother with any of the 44 series if you're looking for a step up from your 362. If you need a bigger saw to cover every eventuality but be used infrequently why not a 661? Handles everything from a twenty to thirty six bar no bother.
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Not had it long but my vote for an in production model would be a 501sx! However that would be made by becks as I agree carlsberg to me tastes like fermented cat pxxs!
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Depends on how well I knew the TO and how that particular local authority worked. I have a great relationship with two of the local authorities I regularly work within the others not so much because I never seem to speak to the same person twice and multiple departments manage the same process. So to answer your question; for me it would depend where the job was and what I knew of the local authority it fell within and I would make a judgement call.
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He speaks in terms i can understand! Does he do any other tutorials I'd love to see one about "dwarf conifers" and the futility of planting them now that would be funny too. Many of my customers planted these in the eighties and they are bloody big dwarfs!
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I use two simple excel spreadsheets, money in and money out. Keep all business related receipts in my wallet and every time I have to load up the PC to create invoices or other business paperwork my first Job is to update money in and out spreadsheets and make a list of calls from the pending jobs list and those who are overdue paying. Takes ten minutes and that bit of discipline before sorting tomorrow's invoice keeps me straight. Then all receipts go in a box file with newest on top, simples!
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Is the team leader being given a job to go to and get on with and an amount of days to complete or is he given a contract to manage or book of work to get through and a daily figure to hit as a minimum? Issued jobs with set amount of man hours are hard to be lazy on however contract on scheduled rates where the jobs can be put together to give a hard day on Monday and a cheers easy rest of week and still hit the figures and keep the client happy then it's dead easy to be idle!
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If the drags alright and nice and easy then yeah half day, so depending on your area and your overheads I'm guessing anything from 250-500. Quoting is a funny thing so many factors at play and more than just the work in hand, the customers personality, the nature of the client commercial or someone's grandma, how much you want the work, or how much you don't the list goes on .
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Sounds like reverse gardening leave, whereby people are kept on the books for a period until their corporate knowledge is deemed null and void. In that circumstance they sign a clause to state they won't work for someone in the same industry until a set date but are still paid at their normal rate for that period. However what's being done to your mate sounds unlawful, unless they agreed to this in their initial contract? I'm no lawyer but I don't see how even that would be legal as the employer would then be withholding income legitimately owed within the same contract. Did I help or just throw soil in clear water?
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Now that's seriously clever! Then only snag I saw was when a loop caught on a jacket button for a split second. I spent twenty minutes today trying to teach an alpine butterfly to a new subbie groundie who is usually quite bright, this video has not made me think anymore of my new groundie!
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What he said, I like the cheapo Lyon black vinyl drawstring daysack type things. You need more than one though. I'd like two sewn onto a backpad with decent straps and a reinforced waterproof compartment for paperwork. If your son makes it I'll trial it!
