Will C
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Evening Ive got a decent size birch to fell this week, got to have about 30' of straight trunk and about 20" across at the but end. So is Silver Birch worth milling or will it just warp/twist as it drys and if I manage to get it dry is it any good for owt or will I just spend a lot of time making plank shape fire wood? Cheers all. Sorry if its a daft question but ive got the bug to plank any thing that's worth doing
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Where are you based? I started like you and now I like to give people a chance, A couple of teams gave me a chance and a start in the industry a few years ago and ive not looked back or forgotten those who gave me that chance. In my mind any good employer wont expect you to work for nowt, you might not earn top money till you have shown your worth but to work for nowt is just taking the pi** out of some one and makes for a demoralised bloke that never shows his best Good Luck find your chance to get a start:001_smile:
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Apple table, Its about 18" high 2' long and 8" wide The legs are made from scrap chain and a bit of angle from under the bench
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Ive still got a spare one, had little use. I will check the date of first use for you and would send it with a new loler test. Send me a message on here if your interested. Its about a year old I think, im about a 34 waist and have it almost as small as it will go. The only reason I would let it go is I now have a tree motion and reckon its as good. before I used a tree motion I wouldn't climb in any thing else. Any ways it here, if its of interest give me a shout and we will work out a deal Will
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That's the type of customer we could all do with out, He is more than welcome to go to some local village idiot, unfortunately I do believe the job of village idiot may already be taken by the man him self
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Thank you for pointing out my crap spelling It is a bad habit of mine to write things as they sound when scribbling my notes down to re write later, it would appear its not only when i'm scribbling my own notes Oh well if you cant laugh and be laughed at whats life got? Back to the insurance side
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We are looking for cover for doing lola testing. Any one got any idea who to try for professional indemnity insurance to cover it? It will only be a side line to the main arb work so little income from it to start. We are currently insured with arbor risk for our PL,EL and tools etc but they don't do PE insurance for lola testing so recommendations welcome Thanks all:thumbup1:
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Ours is: crosscountryservices.co.uk Seems to bring work in but then we are in quite a ocalised area that makes searching easier
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a bloke said to me recently "work for cash and spend it all on classic cars you wont go far wrong" But personally I couldn't answer your question, there is never any spare money after the I could do with that items
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Very good We sent a letter along the same lines and got payment with in 24hrs. Customer then rang up and asked if we could do another weeks work for him:001_rolleyes: he was told that we have plenty of paying customers so he was welcome to go to some one else:laugh1:
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Lunches while at work- How important to get it right?
Will C replied to Sharpy92's topic in General chat
porridge and a coffee or 2 for breakfast evey day. Todays box had 4 slices of bread with ham, pickle and lettuce. A Cornish pasty, a banana, a apple, bag of crisps, a chocolate bar and a slice of cake (home made and one for all the lads - this keeps our team motivated when provided with tea or coffee, they bring flask of hot water and we provide the brew kit and slice of cake) That's my standard pack up along with my flask and a couple of litres of tap juice oh and I always leave home with a tea in the thermos cup. I reckon man is only a machine, machines need fuel you got to eat and drink well or your not going to preform -
Ours paid for its self on first job, a week long connie bashing session,saved us paying a 4th man on a 750yrd drag:thumbup: It sits there doing nowt for weeks at a time but every time its needed its worth its gold, wouldn't be with out t now:thumbup1:
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Good good, I wasn't meaning to cause offence, I just got wound up teying to be competitive in a difficult market when some of the competition don't play fair I know a climber working for a big "reputable company " he had no rescue climber for 5 years and was told to walk if he didn't like it!
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We reply to emails in the evening every day and hope the mobile doesn't ring. I leave a day free to get round all the quotes when back. If they wont wait a few days for a quote then we wont get the job with a 6-8 week waiting list as they wont wait. for every customer that wants it done tomorrow cheaply there is another good customer waiting for you round the corner ;-)
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composite or steel toe cap? You may think twice!
Will C replied to jaime bray's topic in General chat
We take a stihl smart holder saw horse when we have to log every thing at end of day, this came about after a lad I know had a close one with a saw and a boot. We are on mendle boots to, not given the toe caps a second thought until now Never cut any boots in the tree, that's got to be some odd positions going on, however I am guilty of using the saw one handed at times even though I should know better. Things like this can not be a bad thing to make people think every now and again -
2 inch beach stone so its not got sharp edges, will take a couple of months to bed in but once its rolled in well it doesn't move what ever you run on it and doesn't wash out with heavy rain
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We were much the same, ours had to go out for one week a month to pay for its self over hiring a horrible thing with blunt blades! In its first 18month it didn't sit still for more than a couple of days a month Seriously though I get the not wanting to borrow, our chipper was the first finance I had had since my first car at 18 Speak to the dealers and cost it up but also think about how much that warrantee is worth, being able to pick up the phone and say "my/your chipper has broken down fix it" is worth a fortune when the other option is a days work missed that would of paid its finance instead you spent 6 hours in the workshop losing money!
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Nice to see you all run with a qualified rescuce climber And no doubt if your in the mood for cutting corners your gear is all lola tested to make sure your insurance is valid I use 4 different subbies, mainly climb my self but that could be changing as we now have a good climber subieing for us. but always 2 on site to comply with hse regs with rescue climber/ lone working isnt good etc
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Fair nuff, will have a look at some point, 60 sounds enough like you said
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Where do you get the shoulder straps from? my TM didnt come with any, only had mine since the arb show and am very pleased with it. but did find the 66 pulling it down the other day, funny that
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For me and my good lady, we don't employ any other staff, but do bring in subbies when needed. Is there much weight and difference in flexability between the type As and the Cs? Ive never climbed in all round trousers, i find the freedom of movment from front only alow a better work position which means your safer out weighing the need for the protection from all round trousers. However i am open to extra protection when some one can show me all round trousers that move nicley Will you be the arb show? we have got quite a list of stuff we need while we are there Thanks for you thoughts every one, sounds good
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We are in the market for some new trousers soon. Im liking the look of the Arbortec Breatheflex but thought i would ask what every one thinks of them? I.E. Comfort? Hard wearing? value for money? If there not good what is in that sort of price range? Cheers for your thoughts
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What makes it even more laughable is there was no rush for the job to be done! But our Customer Service is still disgusting as we didn't reply at 3.45 am on Bank Holiday Monday or at lunchtime on Bank Holiday Sunday. Shame on us! For us it has definitely proven why we don't do facebook personally, and why we seriously considered whether we wanted to do it for the business! Reading this thread tonight has made me feel a whole lot better, that in fact, we were pretty polite given the situation! Thanks guys! Also had some very interesting points been made!
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We dont on a personal level but thought it may be worth a try on a work level but quite tempted to pull the plug on that to. Our local version of gumtree sort of thing bring customers that want every thing for nothing it now seems facebook brings customers that want every thing done now, or at least want a reply to a message/enquiry with in 2 min what ever the hour of the day
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LOL already done as recomended by you and stubby Just glad every one agrees. I can deal with 10pm happily, got used to that a long time ago. I can even deal with 03:45 when a tree is a emergency. modern tech seems to make people want every thing done NOW Now she can go somewhere else
