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I don't know the rates down south, but I wouldn't be paying you any more than that with 3 mnths experience. You will be slow and cautious (hopefully - which is what you need to do until you have years of experience). After a year you should be OK speed wise, after 5yrs+ fully up to speed. Have you asked what you need to do to earn more? You are getting paid reasonably to learn your trade (that is worth a lot), with experience other better paid options will become available or they will pay you more to keep you. Hope you are enjoying it.
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Sorry to hear about you saw. I was told by my Husky dealer that I had to run the saw with Husk XP oil to comply with the warranty. Not sure if that is true but that is what I put in all my saws, as I didn't want to invalidate the warranty.
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I have found that my total costs run at about 65% of turnover, excluding vat. I'm assuming you're not reg yet. I have relatively low overheads, but pay staff well. 35% of 500 is 175 profit. I could earn that subbing without all the hours and stress and financial commitment of running a business. Your costs may be a greater or lesser % than mine, time and experience will tell. J.
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Henchman Ladders have snapped off - are these worth getting welded?
jfc replied to Treepigmatt's topic in Picture Forum
Accidents happen, stuff gets broken. Only if you were messing about and being reckless (being a d!£k), would i ask you to pay for it. If you are a conscientious employee who takes care of tools and equipment you shouldn't have to pay. -
Client is keeping them, storage place looked nice and dry. Wish I had space to to store boards.j.
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Panther Mill, as supplied by Rob at chainsawbars.
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Here's a weeping ash with Adb we took down and milled today. Looks pretty good I think, crown was 90% dead.
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After 20yrs as a nurse I was in a dead end job, which I wasn't enjoying. Resigned and became a stay at home dad for a couple of years. I had done rock climbing/mountaineering since my teens and had a aldi chainsaw to do logs for our stove. Wondered if I could therefore do tree work, spent a lot of time reading up on courses what was involved and did my basic felling, then climbing. Got taken on as a subbie to local firm, after a year we parted company, only option was to set up for myself. Its now nearly 10yrs since I started all this.
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Chip goes to various gardens, allotments, orchards, farmers and golf courses. Used as mulch, for paths, in muddy gateways by them. Rarely sell any. Logs - hardwood has plenty of takers, generally sold or swapped for storage space. Softwood - some sold or swapped. Bags of non chippable stuff taken by some who get logs and burnt etc. Sometimes have to pay to dispose of at local green waste facility. Generally have an empty van at end of day for free.
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300 a day gardening??? Nae chance getting that for gardening. This gives people unrealistic expectations of what they can earn. There is also the fact that hand cutting I assume you would get 1wk or 1 month of work or more. How many gardens/homeowners would take you on for a week at 300 a day? Regular work/employment is worth a lot in its own right.
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Looks quite like black poplar to me?
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Planning advice, protected tree on a building site has died.
jfc replied to Clutchy's topic in General chat
I'd get the clientscarchitect to deal with it. Planning dept should give you the ok to remove it but let them sort it out. -
I get to store similar giving them good quality hardwood logs and use of the chipper when available. I have tried offering money but they were happy to carry on this arrangement, which works great for me.
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I had a quiet spell may/june but since back from hols in july it's been really busy. We do a lot of hedges this time of year and tend to just get called back each year so it's good repeat business. Also had a lot of tree work come in, so got about 6wks work booked and it keeps coming. Lots of my work comes from recommendations I am lucky in not having to advertise really. Hope it's getting better for other folks. j.
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What to replace burnt and stolen chippers with...?
jfc replied to benedmonds's topic in Large equipment
Horrendous, sorry to hear this. Scumbags. -
Not sure what the green omega symbol is. Meindl airstream suit me/my feet, although people say the soles don't last as well these days. Guy I work with bought stein defenders and is happy with them and the price, fair bit cheaper than mine. There have been other fairly recent threads, in ladt couple of years, on other options for climbing boots. Do a search for meindl boots or new boots. All the best, J.
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I guess for most of us the biggest expenses on most jobs are man hours then machinery. With that set up it is the other way round. However in the UK big machines like that can only do less than 50% of the work. Still plenty of scope for tranny and chipper teams.
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Best (cheap) attachments for Tuefelburger Evo treemotion harness?
jfc replied to redmotive's topic in General chat
Prussic tied with an eye2eye friction cord and cheap pulley will cost about 30-40quid, if you have a carabiner. Prussic is very simple knot best one if you have no training. You are going to do your climbing tickets I assume? -
I think you just need to be able to show you projected turnover will be less than 83k. I will need to speak to my accountant about it, I'm not sure what happens with vat we've reclaimed on plant etc. It might be worth the hit though. J.
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One of my team has left to join SSE , I am now wondering if its best to stay as a two man outfit and look at deregister from vat.
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How many on here have seen a significant drop in work and enquiries? I have about 2wks work booked in as opposed to 4+wks the last few years.
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Hi, get a reputable local company (one with plenty of experience applying and getting tpo work) to assess the tree. The application needs to comply with bs3998, which I assume you have no knowledge of. The council may well reject any other applications you make as you don't have a scooby of what is permissible/recommended. However you may well have to modify your expectations of how much it can be reduced. Btw Cedars shed branches in storms, snow and just cos they feel like it.
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Is that arb? One of my team came to me today and said he's been offered a job with sse. Starting salary 27k, plus hols, pension etc he has felling 380 and 760 tickets only. I cant pay anywhere near that. In fact I paid myself 30k last year (could of taken more but invested in plant and let the business build some reserves). I'm now wondering how much I would get with them, as a team leader?
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I have spent last few years with 4-8wks work on the books all the time. It has dropped off massively since April. Got 2wks work booked in now and phones/enquiries gone quiet. Most of my work is domestic arb. However hedge season is coming up so all my regulars will be in touch but I think it's tough times ahead.
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Are you meaning trusted traders as Co ordinated by Trading standards? That is the case in scotland anyway. I have had mixed results as I was membership in 2 areas. I gave up membership in 1 area , the other one provides regular work and is worth it. I have found that if you Google trusted traders in your area you get a lot of ads for my builder, bark, check a trade etc. Hope that's of help. Tough times to be setting up your own gig btw imo.
