Starscream

Self employed groundsman looking to fill some dates in Jan - 10th, 12th, 24th, 25th, 26th in or around Bromley, Kent. Happy to travel within reason.
Caffeine dependant 34 year old with chipper and unmarked truck, own PPE, saws up to 661 on a 28" bar. Good plant knowledge. Happy using most tools, hedgecutter, stump grinder etc.. Really good with a blower. Have CS 30,31,38,39. Can climb but wouldn't tout myself as a climber as I'm not into big stuff.
Let me know if I can help anyone?
Thanks,
Matt

Hello,

Are there any subbie groundies with relevant quals around the Bromley/Orpington area - ongoing work on an ad-hoc basis.

52 minutes ago, Commando said:

It might work off the interior light switch?

How do you mean? I have turned the light off manually because it stays on

Hi, my 07 transit has its door ajar light on all the time. When I lock it the horn sounds but all the doors are locked?! I know which door it is as it's slowly been playing up and now nothing. My question is, does anyone know where the sensors are?? I've had the door apart not really knowing what I'm looking for to be fair so need to ask the hive mind. Cheers

As title, a customer from 16 bloody months ago has called complaining that the stump I ground out has resprouted. I went round to take a look and the roots have popped up loads of suckers.. is this common? Did I not grind enough of the stump?

Any advice on how to deal with this greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt

Nice one Will..

Have spoken to Tony, Sean. Am going round to provide a quote tomorrow. Thanks

Should have gone to Stihl-savers

The newest version of the 261 is actually a very good saw. All issues sorted, 300g lighter, better side case for better chip clearance and it's got more power than its predecessor.

I run it on a 15" sugihara bar with full chisel chain. It's so nimble.

I've also got a new 362 and it's got bags of power on an 18".

"Game over man, game over".. guy was a quality actor.

Used it on my 38.. did ok

Try a new spark plug first

The saws you listed are all great.. they're also in different classes and price brackets though..

The 661 is awesome on a 28" or less but depends what you're using it for. The 461 is also, in my opinion, one of the best saws available.

For what it's worth, my setup is 261, 362, 661.

Also check out the husky 365 xtorq. Very well priced 70cc saw

To answer a few questions:

Stolen property will be registered on the local forces system which is searchable. Some forces do use the same systems- Surrey Sussex and Hampshire do which is great

Having sites like this is good. There is also another public national web site called http://www.immobilise.com where anything with a serial number can be added. You can even add photos. The police and places like cash converters then use a linked site that only they can use. I try and promote this where ever I can.

 

The busted door- yes they should have probably come out and looked for prints inside the vehicle. However it depends on surfaces. Unfortunately it's not like CSI on the TV though. I wish it was.

CCTV is generally useless especially at night but if it's there I will view it because there is always a chance.

 

When you refer to "hobby bobbies"- a little unkind. If you mean PCSOs that is what I do. I don't want to be a police officer. It isn't a "hobby!!"

With the gear that was recovered last year I instigated the warrant due to the knowledge and the criminals I had in the area I cover, i logged all the property, I did the work in trying to locate the serial numbers of the property, I sat for hours searching all the systems trying to find the owners, i contacted the manufacturers/retailers, I called people who had reported a crime and had property stolen and all they could tell me was "it was an orange chain saw", I contacted the moderators on here to get the spreadsheets of recovered items added as a post, I put it out on social media and had 84,000 see it with everyone from Brighton to Bolton saying I think you have got my chain saw and trying to reply to the 100s of messages coming in. The only bit I didn't do was arrest him.

Yes it's my job and I wanted this thief charged with as many thefts as possible

 

Yes the law is an ass and it is very frustrating but there are lots of us out there that work our socks off with what we have. It's not ideal. I often throw my toys out the pram on a daily basis due to the frustrations!

I will be leaving this forum. It's bad enough getting a grilling at work but in your own time.. and I don't even own a chainsaw!!

If we recover anymore property however I will get the moderators to put a post up.

I don't think leaving the forum is the answer here. This thread seems to have gained a bit of momentum and any input you may have should be seen as an asset. You've better knowledge of how scumbags operate and may have valuable input as to how better we can secure our tools.

Whilst I'm going to mark and register my tools I don't hold out much hope of them being recovered if they got stolen, and if they were, I would have already started my insurance claim and my premiums will have gone up; forever. We pay for theft at every angle. Physically, emotionally, economically. It's a ball ache and the only way is a hardcore frontline defence.

I intend to make my tools prisoners.

Ooosh, very nice.. How much that go for??

I have a 10 month old baby boy as well and he occasionally comes with me. Absolute winner

Don't turn up in an E-type, but a £70,000 mogs OK?

Ah but Mr and Mrs Smith don't know the value of a mog, they just see 'a truck'.

If on way home then obviously in work gear. If on a weekend just casual stuff. If I go in the car I tend to park round the corner (we have a half decent car, wife has a good job) as I don't want them to think that's where their hard earned cash goes, on funding a nice car!

We had a builder come round to quote for some work recently actually... He came in a suit and drove off in a 16 plate Audi A6. Put me right off. Quote came out at 40,000!!! Me and my brother are going to do the work now and costed it to around 12,000-14,000! That includes my brothers day rate!

I didn't even think.. Can a mod delete this thread please:blushing:

It seems we live in sadder and sadder times with post after post of stolen equipment. I myself have been victim to theft a couple of times, one recently. I keep stepping up security measures, but it's never enough. Only last week I had my garage door literally ripped from its housing. They took a 66, 26 and a beloved 200t. They could've taken more but luckily they didn't.

So everything is now bolted to the floor and I'll be installing an alarm. We are going to completely re-jig the garage so there is only one way in and I'm going to try and make it bomb proof. But, where does it end? I thought they were pretty secure until the brazen bottom feeders did that to the door.

I'm kind of hoping people can share their security measures for those of us who may not have thought of something, or a measure that has actually thwarted an attempt.

As we are aware tools are rarely recovered, so whilst micro dots and listing serial numbers are great, they don't really do much. These people make a living from stolen gear and they will do anything to get at it.

One thing I keep seeing/hearing is "My truck got done over and they got x,y & z".

Now this is an easy one and I emplore people to NEVER leave kit in vehicles. It WILL get taken.

Let's not give them a free ride. Post your security measures so that there's less of our hard earned tools/kit getting into the hands of these scum.

Matt

Are we talking about 'Roundup' or the active ingredient- glyphosate?

1.5m3 uncut is still going to be 1.5m3 of cut logs, surely?

1.5 ton for £50 might be a better deal.

It that your dads nursing home chain?

18k a year? Based on a fortnightly rotation, 26 visits per year) that's nearly £700 a visit! How big is this site? We do nursing homes, with some large plots but they float around the £195 mark.

A good rope with zigzag, but I found it to have a lot of bounce/Spring on a long ascent which would take energy from my pull and make it a little more difficult to ascend... Even with foot ascender.

Loads of them here in south London mate.. Franchises I believe. Green Thumb is one of the bigger ones around here