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ArthurBottlesworth

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  1. KTBO them ........ Kick the buggers out
  2. Might make more sense to buy say 10 tonnes of hardwood And get it delivered Share the work of logging it up and splitting Need few chainsaws and cheap splitter Could be fun
  3. Fine them £50 first offence £100 second offence Third offence Screw them Makes you feel happier
  4. Could be more dangerous phil Drabble mentioned finding a bloke using a circular saw who was blind
  5. Whats rough price of pto branch logger?
  6. Its horrible Blowing a gale and torrential rain Gutters all overflowing but can't face going up a ladder
  7. Bought small rib of beef today Might try it ...........
  8. Why notcheck this with finance company before youbuy They are keen to get business and may improve the deal if you negotiate first
  9. Stitchelton is what you want All stilton is now pasturised and tastes crap Stitchelton is unpasturised and 1000 times better
  10. Do you want customers coming to your website or leaving it? If you want them to come DON'T advertise on your own site - your just giving customers away to someone else.......... If you want them to come then your arguing about whats mosteconomical route to market ... What are you selling And where are you
  11. If your selling firewood Work locally and restrict your ads to a tight postcode area That will get you top of the tree without spending too much ( hopefully ) Loads of people advertising in areas they cannot supply Loads of rip off merchants in SEO i spent several months last year looking at them Their trick is to get you to pay £500 per month for 15 months so they get £7500 for not much work If you have to go SEO route get woorank and make sure you follow everything it says 100% that will get you to the top And its free if you only do a bit each week And if you do all changes you'll get there fastersaving £7500 and get benefits quicker
  12. If you suspect travellers, bear in mind they are very superstitious Scrap yard owner told me to put something to do with death near entrance because they will not pass it ( he used scrap hearse) After localthefts I made fake coffin lid and attached to entrance gate ( no problems but rotted away now) I have seen a plastc skelton under the cattle grid as well ( that was by ex-police solicitor) Discussed it with police and they confirm travellers are VERY SUPERSTITIOUS and agreed above could well work Simple n cheap
  13. I like "Heritage Demolition" In Liverpool "Global Taxis" In Cowen ( small welsh village ) at least he has ambition
  14. It ocurred to me that these guys could have gone through horror of WW1 Hw good to come back to the woods after that.
  15. Found this on you tube [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP5_OJxNccY]The Chiltern Bodgers.mp4 - YouTube[/ame]
  16. Woke up middle of night to thunder and lightening Howling gale and honking it down It was the flashes that woke me up ......didn't believe it myself
  17. My dad went to join up on the first day of the war Told reserve occupation So joined up on second day ( told lies in different town ) Joined RAF After basic traing went to first squadren which were Sopworth Camels ( I know but its what he told me) and he thought " we're for it now" after 3 weeks replaced by spitfires He was ground crew On front line squadron After battle of britain sent to Assynyboya (?) in canada for pilot training ( which he failed) Then back to UK Back tofront line ground crew Ended upin essex marshes shooting down doodlebugs On D day was delivering dakota along s coast, channel was full of ships sothey went for a look, got tofrance, flak came up and they went home and kept quiet, Squadron got typhoons After ve day he got his far east kit and was aboutto embalk when atom bomb dropped He said it was happiest day of his life I've got his last logbook somewhere, previous 4 blown up with his kit Died in 1978 after putting out fire, fire brigade couldn't believe old bloke had put it out,
  18. Talking to guy who had garden centre Vat inspector turned up and asked him how much turf he'd sold Pressed few buttons and gave hie figure Vat inspector said " thats vatable"and gave him bill for £3500 So I have paper system All invoices shoved in an envelope If he wants to analyse it he can but it will take him hours
  19. Blowing a gale and pissing it down Really horrible
  20. I believe They did some local farmers for going to quarry for stone to repair farm tracks using tractor and trailer Quarry is about 7 miles away I did some inspections for ministry re use of red diesel ....they were so aggressive If caught using red diesel in hidden tank the fine then was 1)work out your consumption of fuel since you set business up 2) work out loss of revenue between red and white diesel 3) multiply by FIVE to calculate fine They usually destroyed any business they caught Most people caught by disgruntled employees tipping them off I actually saw inspectors dance in a farmyard when they caught haulage contractor .........
  21. Nice to see he sells lots of woodburning stoves Gives you great confidence that he knows his product inside out
  22. You'd only forget something once .......
  23. Read book byfarmer who went through hungry thirties He replaced all his machinery asap with new despite others saying not worthwhile Hi argument was " if we hit hard times again I can hold out without buying new machinery for 10 years" Allways thought that was very sound argument
  24. Sounds like hell to me
  25. Woke up with three dogs on the bed... Lovely and warm butabit tight on room

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