Will Heal

If it's only a screen not a hedge what about willow? Cheap to buy grows like mad, plant 4 or five rows close to each other and just trim the top each year with a flail when it reaches the desired height

Using petrol is fine, but just use one hand too cover yer eyebrows when you throw it on

I sold one about a year ago for £130, it ran lovely, wish I hadn't sold it..... Non runner probably worth less than 100

Good program on bbc2 about the forests of New England at the moment, great footage of leaf miners at work

I'm looking for somewhere to tip chip and or logs. Not everyday but I'm getting more of my own work now so need somewhere. Thanks will

Er, thanks I followed the link and spotted a Stijl 051 further down the page, now it will take all of my will power not to bid on this saw

Hi Sean, it's good that there are charities out there to help people through difficult times and I hope you are getting on ok. It's a very hard thing to do to run a marathon, I did a few years back, never again! Well done to your sister! Come on people if we all put in a little bit then we can help her raise a lot of money. Thanks will

Took me a while to get that, till I said it out loud in a Scottish accent!😂

Can't you take pictures everyday at work for a couple of weeks? I'm trying to do my website as well and this is what I am doing. I have plenty of photos of other people working but have to ask people to take them of me now. If you are desperate for some then pm me your mobile number and i will send you some of mine

That's what I thought!

Nearly had a couple saws on my bench earlier today. Couldn't work out why my husky 372 would fire up on choke run for a bit, smoke like a bonfire, and then die. Plus my groundys 461 was quite smokey. To cut a long story short someone had mixed five litres of diesel instead of petrol.... Emptied saws out back into the drum the diesel had come from filled with new petrol and it fired up fine and ran well all day. The 460 ran ok for nearly a whole tank of diesel😂

I've just started out on my own, priced and did a few jobs before Xmas, made good money, bit of subbing in between, but now on a job I have badly underpriced, going to take 5 days instead of three, with extra labour on top. I could kick myself. Should have known how long it would take, maybe I've been spoilt working for a big firm with lots of kit and bodies to help out. Forgotten how long things take with only 3 of us, a saw that's not big enough and having to handball everything. Feel like going back to work for someone else. But I won't get far with that attitude.

Where are the wood fairies when you need them?

Oh and it is a massive butt Jon, but it's cut up into quarters

Hi I've felled a large poplar tree yesterday but need the wood gone today. Had no log fairies turn up yet even tho I've advertised locally. So if anyone wants any it's free, roadside and in manageable lengths 07917725646 Thanks will

Yep I have bought one and only used it once, found it a few years later and took it to work. My mate wanted to try it and used it to wedge a big chog off, he left his hinge too big and put too much pressure on the handle and bent it. Probably dig it out in a few years time and have another go again! Does look good in the vid tho

My missus isn't posh and she likes shopping there👎I tell her that proper posh people go to lidls

He's got another pair just like that at home

I'm using one on my 200t. Doesn't seem to grabby to me. I'll be buying more if they ever wear out

For climbing I use a muddy fox cycling jacket, not completed waterproof but nice and light and only £20 in sports direct. I have 2 and change at lunch if wet all day

Thank you for your reply 10bears, this thread has potentially saved me a lot of bother with this job. And your in depth reply has helped me explain to the customer why I am holding off doing the work until the ownership of the trees is clear.

Hmm that's what I thought, I will go back to the homeowner and tell him that if he wants all of the work done to agree it with the neighbour and find out where the boundary lies. Maybe revise the quote just to take the over hang onto his property for now.

Can I ask who is liable for the damaged caused and for paying the fine/ putting back the tree? Is it the land owner who asked the contractor to do the work or the contractor? I am asking because I have priced a job for a home owner to take out an over grown holly hedge that is on the boundary of his garden. He says he is not exactly sure who owns it he says he thinks he does but the lady who owns the field behind thinks she does. He wants the trees out and plans to plant a new hedge. But she doesn't. The hedge seems to be in his garden as there is a fence on the field side. I don't mind upsetting the owner of the field but I also don't want to be liable to have to pay for any thing If she takes it that way. All the work is to be done from the customers side. Is there anything I can do to protect myself? Like get him to sign Something that says he owns the hedge. If he hadn't of said anything in the first place I would have just gone ahead and done it because from my point of view they are in his garden Sorry about the long post Thanks will

It's hidden in the landscaping category

Keep the 357 for when the 362 goes back to the dealer cos it won't run right and keep the 339 for when you break the top handle on the 201 and you can't get the part for two weeks