smokeygaz

I've just dragged a 435 out of the skip at my mates garage and swapped the new style caps off that onto my 357, tried on the 346 but as already said the oil cap was smaller. 

they fit a treat  on the 357 and should save having to use a combi spanner to open them. 

On 04/08/2015 at 22:58, shavey said:

I will send you a PM later

hi shavey, 

i know this is an old thread but im looking at doing the same thing. do you stock these parts yourself and / or do you have a parts list to do the conversion? im struggling to find a few or the parts for tentioning the chain. any help would be very much appriciated 

thank you 

Hi, Just wondering if anyone has an expression of interest template that i could take a look at? Ive been asked by a private customer to send him one as he works for a housing agency. Any help would be very much appriciated as im terrible at writing these things. 

Thank You 

Hi Ben. I would be interested in joining you at some point. I’m entering in the 3ATC comp at the Arb show this year so if I do ok I might enter more. I’ll give you a shout after the comp.

I would also be interested in an "up North" course if you decide to do one 

Where are you based?

Definitely need pictures

im going to go round and see him i think thats probably the best way to handle it. quite disapointed really. but thanks to everyone for their comments, and it gives me some honest quotes to refer to when i see him

Or he just thinks it's for a letting agency, I'll stick double on it.

 

 

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would like to have thought that was the crack but he messaged my mum direct with the quote and skipped the agent, told him "i know her really well, leave it with me, ill sort it" and bi passed him.

no idea sounds about right too

if guys doing the job for a living are charging less than the man who probably has never felled a tree this big and scary before then it would be reasonable to say that he is taking the p

on a slightly different note if any of you lads live near Stockton on tees let me know as it would save me a 6 hour round trip. or if some one wants to grind the stump out and leave me to fell it that could work as well.

Can we all get on the same page here?

I think we all agree the fell to a low stump is pretty simple.

The work is in the grind (and chasing surface root) and clean up.

I wouldn't do a grind free for my wife.

 

 

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just said tackle doesnt come out for free but the quote in question doesn't include any kit other than a saw and the stump is being retained

you will if you do 10 a day

aaaarrr right i agree if your running tackle you need to charge. someone said that about their grinder, it doesnt come out for free even for mates. cant argue against that, the things cost a fortune

I disagree!

 

Any one running any business without insurance is a moron!! IMO and far from professional.

 

You are leaving yourself and your customers open to loosing out on a scale thats difficult to even contemplate.

by that i did not mean that you dont need insurance and i agree that you are stupid to not have it. however if someone was to pass their CS30/31 and get some insurance that still does not make that person a professional.

what ST 6 chipper?

the lad who quoted doesn't have one

I never really gave a monkey's self abuse about the back story.

 

You wanted prices, by and large most people have given you the same price.

 

Ie. Just shy of a ton.

 

So there you go.

the back story was to clarify to will c as to why i was asking an unqualified and uninsured guy to drop a tree for me, a merely explained that i hadn't asked anybody to do it. also im happy with every ones quote, never said i disagreed with any off them.

That does explain some of it. Estate agents are ime terrible at paying on time, normally wanting a commission even though they are already being paid by the landlord to deal with these things.

But it's not mates rates. I do some work for agents and the rates you charge can be high as normally for me as I don't do trees the work is for tidying garden not touched by tenants so being paid for out of deposits.

If he wants to quote that he can but he should not try and call it "mates rates" and expect to keep his "mate"

 

 

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Thats exactly what i though, expensive anyway and just being cheeky calling it mates rates

wow. you would assume as nepia said lots of rain and and wind. great bit of footage though

So your asking a uninsured, unqualified mate to drop your mums tree?

The next thread will be about making the industry looked at better by the public or complaining about some ***** pinching there job and that's with out handing out invertations

 

Ffs

I have not asked anybody to fell a tree and neither has my mother. As she lives in Australia, the house is let out through a letting agent, the tenants have complained to the agent about the tree. He has asked my mate who has done a few DIY jobs for him if he could do it. I live 3 hours away and have never met nore spoke to the agent before and the first i hear about this tree is through my mother with a quote off my mate.

your right insurance doesn't show professionalism,

5 mins travel time ie he lives up the road. not 5 mins to do the job. and i didn't ask for mates rates he said that in the quote he sent my mother. i thought £200 is asking a lot for a job that shouldn't take any longer than an hour if your feeling slow first thing on monday morning. either way no one on this thread has quoted higher and at full price. so £200 at mates rates is unbelievably expensive.

Evening all,

Just to clarify a few things, the guy quoting the job is a mate of 15+ years,

he doesn't have a chipper

he doesn't have a stump grinder

he doesnt have a chainsaw ticket. (so i would assume un-insurable as well??)

he doesn't employ anyone

he doesn't have a yard / lock up to pay for

he doesn't have to travel for longer than 5 mins

and would burn the logs himself

so obviously he is not a tree surgeon / arborist

hope this clears up a few things.

thanks to all for the responses. it seems most would do it for free (mates rates)and the highest estimate was £180 to £200 stump ground out and at full price.

Your "mate" should nip round there and take that down for ya foc on his way to or from a paying job not Rip your your Ma off, glad his not my mate..... I think I'd have to drive up there & do the job out of principal !!

Thats exactly what im going to do. thanks mate

That's about what I thought, with it ground down I would expect to pay a bit for the stump grinder. But as I know the lad doesn't have one it will be just the tree to remove. Milk and 2 sounds fair to me as well. Thanks gents much appreciated