Mountain man
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Sounds ok, gear seems sufficient, I'd be tempted to get them to fork out for a bowsaw.
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She is the envy of many of her friends? Most of whom are in a Thai correction institution presumably:001_smile:
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Well go on, I'm curious, stopper knots........
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And yes,stopper knots are the answer, but they can infuriate if they get caught in forks/under brush when moving around.
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Sorry I meant born to trot, similar avatars, sorry
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20 years up trees Joe. But Let's not have a peeing contest:001_smile: I don't want to butt heads on it, what I'm saying is when descending do you do it Hollywood style or come down in a controlled manner. I've come off the end of my rope at 5 ft off the ground because I have different lengths for different trees and I misjudged it. What I'm saying is I wouldn't take someone's word for it and fly down SAS style.
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This is why commas are important!
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That last line is very true, not understood by many. I work with landscapers and smaller scale tree boys and cannot believe how they allow themselves to be manipulated by clients. Don't apologise, don't over explain, just say I can't do it.
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Out of curiosity who else takes a phone up a tree? I've never done it, it's a whole new world out there.
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I wouldn't ask if I had enough, I'd check myself. Or perhaps more pertinently look whilst descending.
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quote=Joe Newton;1247536]Get off yer phones and do some bloody work! Sent from the transit, with a mouthful of burger. I was thinking that!! Sent from an armchair with a packet of crisps.
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First of all, I apologise for the flippant comment, sorry, no excuse, mea culpa. Secondly if your wife is smoking dope this is exacerbating her depression, She may say it's helping but it isn't. Quite the reverse. First thing is get her off that. Personal experience here.
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I oftenrig big branches when there's no targets,touch the tip on the ground, then the groundy(s) can pull the butt end in the direction of the chipper, apart from anything can help stop mud and gravel from going through the chipper. Sure crash and bash works on some jobs, but the one by one method with a rope is more relaxed, less work (less tugging and wrenching of stuck branches) and more efficient. No need for rigging pulleys a lot of times, just throw the rope over the branch above. Every jobs different of course.
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:biggrin:You didn't disappoint.
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:001_smile:Hurray!!!! Hodge's put a picture of his Land Rover up.
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Whilst taking a stroll with my badger......
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Agreed Big J, I thought possibly lime as an alternative, the coloring just inside the bark and the twigs could point to that.
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No, this won't work with my wife, worth a try though.....
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I opened this thread with a sense of foreboding, and am leaving it with a smile! Brilliant!
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Do you charge more for commercial work
Mountain man replied to Dryad's saddle's topic in Business Management
Doesn't suprise me, holding onto money is an industry in itself. You did the right thing. -
None of them will do it as standard. I had an electric winch on my hilux which I then transferred to my navarra. Super winch and Warn (I think) sell them with kits for fitting them to most of the jap stuff. I think the guy moved the oil cooler on the Nissan. They were both out of warranty.
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Do you charge more for commercial work
Mountain man replied to Dryad's saddle's topic in Business Management
Price is price? No it's not, if your waiting 30/60/90 days for money you have to charge more to cover it, If you're mucking around on site meetings, risk assessments, plans etc instead of "500 quid to take down your oak missus, (client says that's fine) do it next Thursday, see you then" you have to charge more to cover it And as I said before they can afford it so you can charge more. I quoted a job for a large ground works firm once (through the brother in law of one of the directors) drove into London, looked at it,days hard work chipping and grinding so I quoted 600 quid. They sent it back with a message that I should be around the 2 grand mark. They had hundreds of thousands of pounds on this car park/slip road job. Strange but true. -
Oh give us a break from all the "noble savage" stuff. It's the sort of thing students say to impress girls at the university bar.
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Just check it's a double roller, maybe all those models are but I know some smaller vermeers can only have one.
