aspenarb
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I am assuming the road going past the field entrance is not that wide. If one of these trucks get stuck the tom toms will beat and you wont see another timber lorry near the place. If a truck can drive in then it will be able to reverse in so pull out the gates and posts , trim back the vegetation around the entrance so they dont tear off their mirrors and chuck down a few loads of crushed concrete for them to back onto. If the entrance is made wide enough you will be able to stack both sides of the track, a hard standing 80` long and 15 feet wide should be enough. Dont forget to inform the council and highways because they get nervous when they see activity like this in the green belt. Bob
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As the premium for arb insurance is based on turnover and the number of employees would it not pay to have just a professional indemnity insurance running for the consultancy and a separate one for the arb work? Bob
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If protection of the light is important sink a hamburger into a piece of steel tube with a simple removable grid cover on top. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=181788&stc=1&d=1431077554 Used this on trailers etc for a while and never lost a lamp unit or lens.
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You lot are all singing off the same Hymn sheet. The guy with these trees had quotes of between £2k and £4k, we did it for £2000 inc the vodka and tonic. All our kit was on a clearance job next door, the lot was felled into his drive, then grabbed with the telehandler and dumped next to the timber trailer roadside. I crunched them up whole with the grab and stuffed them into the trailer, the boys gave the trailer a quick trim and we were gone all in a couple of hours. GDC had way too much leaf in their chip at the time and were desperate for wood so that was a free tip on the way home and some browny points for later favours. Without the kit being there already it would not been worth doing, I heard through the grapevine later that we were being accused of undercutting but if thats not charging enough for your time what is. As a tree surgery job it may have taken a two man team a week so where does the 4K come from? Bob
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Only a bit of fun Kev . The customer had quotes that varied by such a large margin I am curious to know how you all see it. Now take another swig of that rum and price it. Bob
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Sorry missed this , no fences these were the boundary trees . Bob
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Price it kevin Bob
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Out of interest how would you guys price to remove 20 mature conifers down a drive with good access. All of them a foot to eighteen inches in diameter at the base and about 25/30 feet tall.Nothing in the way and all arisings to be taken off site. No stumps to be ground. Bob
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Forgot to add the bit about the lack of handbrake on the sub 750kg timberwolf. Our old 150 towalong has no handbrake fitted and that is a pita especially if chipping into different vehicles on less than even ground. Has the new series of lightweights got a handbrake? Bob
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I reckon Ian is a closet Timberwolf fan, probably struts around the house at night in a Timberwolf onesie. We have Greenplant just up the road and they keep just about everything for the Timberwolf chippers, its for this reason alone that we have them. They may be a bit flimsy and have a few quirks but by and large they do the job. I am keeping an eye on the Forst my mate has just bought, that really is a cracking piece of kit. Sorry for the thread drift Rhys but they started it Bob
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Fencing for horses how far should the post be apart thanks
aspenarb replied to mendiplogs's topic in The Lounge
Bang on. She that must be obeyed wont have wire anywhere near her animals, its post and rail, if they start to eat it add a strand of electric on top. Bob -
Dude`s Ski`s or surfboard, max Probably what it was designed for. Bob
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Being a hub with a shaft through it there is probably a tapered bush or bearing top and bottom. Not the conventional king pin so the hammer and chisel can wait for another day Bob
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There are two versions of the rams . There is the one generated for the site Forman which is the full phone book version which is designed to make his eyes glaze over in less than sixty seconds which will prompt him to bung it in the filing cabinet where it's fit for purpose . The lads get the basic working version which include nearest A&E and a few contact numbers on it. You will never beat the system so you may as well join in. As said before this is not the governments doing its the in house H&S bull individual companies devise to appease insurers and their legal teams. HSE by and large only point us in the right direction which is for our benefit. Bob
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A lad at the fencing suppliers the other day loaded a few battens onto the roof of his Navara and the thing snapped dumping the whole lot onto his roof. Made of chocolate
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Of course your right, what we are talking about here is satisfying the needs of a site agent/manager/H&S guy on site. The workforce are always inducted on sites which can be anything from 20 minutes to half a day, they carry with them a schedule of works with a brief method statement and they are given a site briefing by our guys. That wont stop them leaving it in the truck and doing it the way they see fit on the day but all the boxes are ticked. It is what it is. Bob
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I dont understand what the problem is here, if you want to do arb work within the construction industry you have to play by their rules. Its no different to Rail, MOD or any of the larger employers. For the sake of about 2K a year we employ a H&S consultant that has given us a package on the computer that generates these telephone book thick RAMS in a few minutes. They also keep us on our toes with maintenance records, expiry dates on certs, accident books and record keeping. Its a small tax deductible price to pay ( which is off loaded onto the customer anyway) to be hassle free when going on site. I gave this a bit of thought and I think where we differ on site to any other trade is that what we do is inherently dangerous , what they fail to understand is that we are well rehearsed working in this environment, that said look what happened to Sean. Bob
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You need a castellated socket for that. I was feeling lazy and bought the ones I needed but there`s nothing wrong with a file and a bit of tube to make one. It may pay to heat it up and quench it to harden it when done. Bob
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I thought that some of us older gits would appreciate the irony of this GetInline.jpg (52.7 KB)
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A contract climber we had in a few weeks a go took down a couple of overhead phone lines, he had these repair kits on his wagon and I thought they were brilliant. The breaks were in the middle of the wire so we used the cherry picker, there was this piece of string with a loop on each end that brought both ends of the cable back together and held it there which made the wire joining stress free, it had these twist on joiners and when finished the plastic box with gel in it clamped over the top which gripped the outer sheath of the cable. Job done and properly in less time than it took to type this. Not unlike this WATERPROOF EXTERNAL TELEPHONE CABLE REPAIR KIT | eBay Bob
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Probably worth the effort though, these hydraulic winches just dont tire, the only downside is if the engine is dead there is no winch. I have never had any luck with electric winches, they always seem to be in trouble if used in anger. The steel cage is home grown but has been really good, the lads tie off the tool strops on the top rail with tools hanging outside which leaves the inside of the basket clear. The plastic ones are expensive and we were damaging too many of them, trees and plastic:thumbdown: Bob
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I fitted a hydraulic diverter on our cherry picker to run the hydraulic winch that sits between the chassis rails on the back . Its nothing fancy and the forward and reverse is on a single lever spool valve which you can see hanging down just behind the rear light . I think ours is on 33x12.5 15`s so it never really gets stuck but the winch is really handy for pulling trees over. Bob
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Or Plodgasmic Bob
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We shift a lot of timber like this in our bulker bin and sell it on to the log boys that dont have processors. Normally charge about £450 for a load like this if its not to far away.It normally has to be cut into handleable sizes. Bob
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End of the tree planting season (nearly)!
aspenarb replied to thorndene forestry's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
We got roped into the drive because we had machines on site. 750mts of it with sleepers for edging and a foot of crushed concrete topped of with scalpings. Nothing fancy but it looks ok, in a year or two the guy will have it tarmacked Bob The short bit down to the main road we topped with plannings in an attempt to stop the binder in the scalps getting on the main road. Dont think it will.
