LeeGray
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I’d say employing someone at £10 full time with usual benefits as above is costing £15/hr. Stick time not billable to customers as an hour everyday average and you’re at £120/8 hr day - 7hrs billing so more like £17 for every hour your billing before all other costs.
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30% for cash...the same deal I offered the Nigerian gold miners last week. Fuckers never got back to me either!
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Your too late, I got back to her this morning...sent her my bank details, just waiting for the cash now!
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What stupid stuff have you seen on the road today?
LeeGray replied to LeeGray's topic in General chat
What’s the dot for? Security service? -
What stupid stuff have you seen on the road today?
LeeGray replied to LeeGray's topic in General chat
This trumps all obvs! -
250m/day double rows, caned and guards. One with a pinch making hole other footing them in . Walk along to cane then guard from either end.
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After driving past a woman eating her cereal whilst driving erratically down the A1 this morning I thought that’s the stupidest thing I’ve seen anyone do whilst driving and probably going to be the cause of her death in the not to distant future...so over to you lot! ps no on the phone whilst driving, seems every nob head on the planet is taking no notice of the rules on that one and we all see loads every day
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Kebab/chippy where they normally to be seen here, unless it’s closing time on a Friday night of course.
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Had the bobbies at my place several times recently saying my lad had nicked a jerry can of petrol from Morrison’s garage. I got the date time and amount then showed coppers the receipt as he was getting the fuel for me luckily. They said oh no it’s definitely a theft as they have cctv proof of him do a drive off. After three days back and forth ‘investigating’ they turned up to show us the damning evidence, a cctv video of him at the counter putting his card in the card machine at the exact same time as the receipt I had! Fucking muppet didn’t even see it and had to point it out to him. Rang Morrison’s store to complain and turned out an employee had just left having reported lots of drive offs and taking money out of the till. Cost the tax payer a week of police time at least
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Or put your bags on pallets and get a 3 point hitch set of forks made up to shunt stuff about. The hitch on my little tractor will lift 2t but you wouldn’t want to go far
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But if your looking for fence post banging, a bit of flailing, splitting and moving logs around you may get more bang for your buck with a digger too.
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You can stick a loader on most of them but tbh for the cost of a new loader and fitting you could just buy a forklift or old telehandler and they’ll lift two bags of 1t plus at a time. A little tractor would struggle with over 300kg without either killing it or you.
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Got a new Holland tce 45, mainly because it fits on a trailer so easy/cheap to take to jobs. Runs a 6’ flail, 8’ twin roller chipper and 250kg hammer post knocker fine. Bad sides are can’t really tow much with it and it needs weights on the front. I put a 7’ hydraulic link box on it and although it could lift it no problem you would only be able to drive in straight lines! Cheap as chips to run, easy to operate, not much soil compaction and good value compared to full size Tractor provided you stay within its working parameters.
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Lighten the steering bill?
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Hans Roslings factfullness is a great book to get a better grasp on how even though it feels like it about to go tits up, the world is actually a lot better for almost everyone these days. Counter intuitive but has some hard to argue against facts that help see the future more positively.
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Mines has done forward and not backwards several times over the years but always been a dodgy connection. But this is on or off and won’t change with fluid temp so probably not the case for you but easy one to rule out. Swap the spool connector round to try it. If it then goes forward you know it’s electrical and not mechanical. I replaced the forward/reverse switch with an old toggle to get by but got a new unit complete for about £200. It’s a doddle to replace. You our should see a dramatic improvement in hyd filters and oil change too so worth doing anyway the filters are cheap enough but it takes a fair bit of oil.
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True Gary but sandwich/coffee storage capacity needs are higher priority
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When the dumper doesn’t turn up desperate measures kick in. Not going on the road luckily, just have to pull it off in a field. Must be 8-10t clay? Hope the rover pulls it!
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That’s cracking value, I’m paying £3.90 plus vat for a 15yr 110mm softwood post alone, another £8/strut and £27/strainer. How much are the oak stakes down your way gdh? Are they split or just peeled rounds?
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First steps into forestry with no experience-FMO aspirations.
LeeGray replied to Ruaraidhfc89's topic in Training & education
You pornstars are always complaining! -
£8/m good quality ht stock, 3ht flat wire or 2 barb for me assuming less than 100m pulls, but probably more like £6-7 if you can get a good straight level pull. Intermediate every 2m.
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my order cancelled by amazon today, includes link to one at proper price £719. No reason given for cancellation though.
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And it comes with espresso!
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That’s what I’ve always thought and why I was keeping mine for posts in water
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Any other good uses for it? I’ve had some laid up for a while that I was going to mill for deck posts over a pond but it never came off and a shame to put into firewood. Does it rot quickly if not damp?
