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Lovely job ??
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Now that’s a return! [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
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Going to the filling station must feel like setting fire to £50 notes [emoji85]??[emoji383][emoji383]
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Hi Mike, Is there any wiggle room with spending on forwarder? Eg. Use some more of your collateral on towing vehicle. It’s no good having the dogs b****x of a forest machine if you keep braking down/have towing problems getting to site?! Cheers I
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Still bloody hopeful now £180 per day!
Yorkshire Brummie replied to beddowtreeltd's topic in Employment
Good points made by all. Anyone who has run their own business in this trade, however big or small, will understand too well that being the gaffer means you are often no longer able to focus on the various practical skills of Arboriculture, because you are so focused on keeping the priced works coming in. I think the job offer on the table, perhaps along with a little tinkering suggested by Kriss and Stephen is about as near as possible to having your cake and eating it if you truly love the Arb game, want to be paid a proper wage and not just running your own business because of the buzz of chasing the money has perhaps clouded our vision of why we entered the trade in the first place. Sounds a very good opportunity to me, Good luck Cheers I -
Hi Miker, I guess what area of the country you are using it in and on what, but pretty much this time of the year I'd say thumbs up to Stere's advice Glysophate based herbicides tend to be most efficient in the growing season and with plenty of surface area of contact to work on. So if treating Mares tail or the like, using a wetting agent/surfactant along with "smashing" the stems up a bit can help the chemical take. Plus waiting till Spring gives you more "green" for it to work on. If your client is getting impatient then get the flame thrower out! Cheers I
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Mmm I've got it in both since Chrimble. Ibruprofen, Ice/heat, strap your forearm/s. Don't use your saw/hedgecutter for a bit!:huh:
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Good evening all, Apologies if I've posted this in the wrong place. I'm after a Chip site in the Alderley Edge, Cheshire, SK9 area Mon/Tues 8th/9th Feb. Probably 3 or 4 Landy 110 Chip box loads of Conifer chip with the cord wood as well if possible. If anyone can help, I'd be very grateful Cheers Guys
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Thanks for all the posts Fellas, although seems to be a few discrepancies in the prices. I guess it's down to the old chestnut of what your business model needs to make it work. It's gonna put a hole in half a day everything being even, so a half days money me thinks. If It all goes swimmingly happy days, if not I haven't lost out completely!
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Thank you White Noise appreciate it
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Just wondering if anyone got any advice on pricing grinding. I've got a 30" conifer stump with fairly raised 'buttress' roots to grind out. We felled the tree middle of last year and customer has asked is to quote to grind the stump out. Any thoughts Guys? Do you work on per stump rate or half day/day rate? Cheers
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Seems a nightmare down there, sending Marines in on such a small scale this late appears to be a bit of PR by the looks of it. The suits seem to not give a monkeys about our British farmers, am I not right that the dairy industry down there has been decimated already over recent years ?!? My thoughts are with you, Cheers Ian
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Mmm not sure, moved a bird box with Bees and hive already in situ last summer for a customer. Moved it 100 metres to the end of the garden behind a shed. They seemed happy enough, Cheers ian
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I have an immaculate 07 Thunder Double Cab Ranger for sale, leather seats, air con, roll top cover.... Great comfy truck, done only 66k, 12 months MOT and fully serviced. It's had an easy life hence the unblemished paintwork! On eBay and auto trader next week. PM me for further details, Cheers Ian
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Nah fair does Daniel, if he hasn't got an "account" set up with you, you want to see the colour of his money. Tesco etc wouldn't let you walk out without paying. You will shift those decent logs no probs and see the money, if you had let that lot go, no guarantee you would see any £'s or at the very least have to chase for it. Hats off to you for standing up to a Bullying customer
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I like your log splitter Chris, what's it like? Pretty efficient? Whats it like on the juice? Nice 4x4 and I bet that Vermeer can pull it through! Cheers Ian
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Ditto:thumbup:
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Hi Guys, I am after some advice regarding a 4 metre Green Oak butt I took down today. It's approx 450 mm in diameter and pretty straight. Is it worth anything kept as a whole? Or should I ring it up ready for splitting and firewood, and easier to move. Thanks in advance, Cheers Ian
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Great thread. I have just started doing a bit of firewood to run alongside tree surgery. Have a small amount of seasoned wood split and ready to go sat on pallets in airy concrete garage. As I only have said airy garage as dry store and fairly large outdoor areas the idea of billets sounds good. I have the use of a small tractor mounted splitter with supplies of various timber not all straight. Do you recommend billets of 1 metre in length to be then cut with circular saw to approx 240 mm logs.? If I stacked them 9 or 10 each way approx how long to season billets? Cheers in advance, Ian
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Hi Guys, I am still climbing on a Blakes Hitch and using Prussiks on my strops as I was taught 10 years or so ago. Should I be looking to use something else? Am I making life harder than it needs to be? Not to sure about these mechanical grabs, spider jacks etc. Cheers in advance Guys Ian
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Sorry to hear that Arb123, hope you get it back
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Hi Guys, I am a bit new to the firewood trade. I am hoping to sell a bit, to accompany the tree work side. I'm afraid it will be a bit old school, cutting rings then splitting with small tractor driven splitter. Excuse me if these Q's all sound a bit lame but - Is there an industry average size per log, say 9"? How do I measure say 1 m3 worth of logs? (I will deliver in my Pick up/trailer) Is it about 250 x 9 " logs? How do I measure the moisture content in said logs? As I say this will only be small scale, probably to my existing customer base but all the same I would like to do it right, and make a few Bob! As for costing, well it seems charges vary from £50 - £100 per m3! Cheers in advance fellas, Ian
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Mmm, could be a good call thanks Gensetsteve. B....y thing is working fine now. Me thinks hopefully just bad connection at switch? Just need to find out where it seems to be spitting out hydraulic oil from now...... The joys of pension age chippers
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Hi Guys, to open up an old thread I could do with some info if anyone has any ideas. I have a 2001 Entec/Timberwolf 35/150 H. The feed rollers suddenly stopped working the other day, so I bypassed the anti stress which got the rollers going again and we could finish the job. Plugged wires back together next day and roller feed was working fine. It doesn't look like the anti stress is working though, we were shoving reasonable size diameter Rhodendendron and thorn through it. Any idea's? Thanks in advance, Ian
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Just worked out the Fuel consumption on my 08 Double Cab Ranger. Towing Chipper and dragging loaded TT85 about - 20 mpg. As bad as any LR it seems :-(
