flatyre

great setup and great vids, subscribed.

after working up to it all year are you guys happy or sad to see the end of the log sales? Also if you sell out thats great but is there not a risk of your customers going to a competitor who can keep them supplied right through?

took down a few Monteray monoliths a while ago, most went to firewood but carved some crude seats for the owners grandkids.

nowadays churches etc are run like a business, just treat them like any other commercial contract. I maintain a large manse garden, can be a pain working with committees but always get paid in the end.

I have a willow to remove next week, it has seven or eight main trunks about 9" to 14" diameter, also have a family friend wants me to knock up a table for them, doesn't need to be a solid piece top and colour isn't important, they just want something bespoke:001_huh:, does willow mill ok, does it look any good, whats the seasoning timescale for 2" boards, is it prone to severe splitting/warping, in short is it worth milling?

so it says in the personal account small print that its not for business use, fair enough, but why, whats so bad about using a personal account for a small business, when I was an employee I got my wages paid into my personal account as millions of people do, so its legal to get the financial gains from your work paid into a personal account, but also illegal to get the financial gains of your work paid into a personal account? whats the difference, seems to me the banks are pushing business accounts purely for their own financial gain.

thanks folks, think i'll do that.

Am thinking I need a second account for the business but to be honest I don't see the benefits of a business account to a small scale sole trader, from some basic research you need to pay a fee to have it, and you get charged for lodgements. What are the benefits then?

TBH people like that will just find another way of mangling themselves.

isn't that what happened another guy not long ago? I'm no tree surgeon but I always position myself above the cut so my head, neck, and upper torso are clear in case of kickbacks, seeing people use a saw at neck height makes me cringe. Sorry to hear about it though, guy had a one year old son.

do you process firewood? maybe use the waste to fuel a crude wood kiln or get into the charcoal business, or both!

i'd love to have a go at long bow making if anyone has a suitable piece for sale in Northern Ireland?

thanks for the advice folks, once I have a bit more experience I'll be pricing by the job, don't think anyone does purely stump grinding round here so that might be worth looking into!

will do, my local hire store only have the Rayco, another store has a Toro STX26, great machine, but £160 a day and two hours round trip to pick it up!

cheers folks, will have a look at the xperia before buying anything

hey folks was doing a bit of stump grinding today with a Rayco RG13, hired it out for three separate jobs, split the cost over them and charged £20 an hour for my time. Wheel brake didn't work very well so instead of pivoting on it, it kept creeping forward and I had to stop and drag it back repeatedly. Hard to move when surrounded with mulch, just an awkward bugger. Sitting here stiff as a board and aching all over, £20 an hour?

Well my old Samsung Galaxy s3 has finally calved so its off to the O2 shop for a replacement. Not sure whether to go for a Samsung s7 edge or an iPhone 6s, anyone own one of these and whats your opinions? The iPhone is a bit more expensive, but comes in 32gb, 64gb, and 126 gb whereas the Samgsung is only available with 32gb.

That would be a good buy for off road toy

 

 

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yeah that was my thinking, round here short wheel base 4x4's are getting good money for rock crawlers and off roading, also being a fair age I thought it might appeal to someone wanting something different. Anyway I just thought it would make a fun weekend motor for taking the family down to the Mourne Mountains and places like that, and when the novelty wears off sell it on with out loosing anything.

I thought you had an old l200? How's that coming on?

 

 

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still have the L200 but holding off doing any work on it as the chassis is so bad, waiting to see if a good one crops up with a knackered engine, if not its out with the welder.

a mechanic mate has a 1990 2.6 petrol trooper in his yard for sale for £200, totally original, swb, red over silver, really good condition, no real use to me, but i'm a sucker for old school Jap 4x4's, what you reckon?

if you can afford it buy a tipper, as the saying goes "better looking at it than looking for it"

I wish my hedge was emo, then it would cut itself!

my missus decided to get her health in order and asked if I was prepared to change our diet. I didn't think I needed a change of diet having a physically demanding job and being in good shape. I may not have been over weight but that doesn't make you healthy, we have the Jo Wicks book out regularly, full of healthy tasty dinner ideas, I also bought "500 soup recipes" great for making in batches then taking a flask to work each day for lunch. Also got a nutri bullet which is great for filling you up with healthy drinks rather than snacks. We don't follow any one diet/health regime as you can become sick of them when forced to follow a rigid plan, instead we just float between them. Last night we had an indian for dinner (one portion of chicken balti with rice and a naan bread between us), this morning poached eggs on spinach and wholemeal bread with a fruit smoothie, forget counting calories, what the scales say, or the measuring tape, if your healthy you'll feel healthy.

I watched a clip once on how to maintain a conifer hedge, the "expert" cut the hedge to a neat but not tight finish then went over it with hand sheers cutting into it here and there to create openings for air and light to get into the hedge, sounds weird, and up close a bit holey, but from further back it looked great and made a nice healthy hedge. Anyone use this technique?

was asked by a new customer to trim their Leylandii hedge "good and tight". I trimmed it up much tighter than I would normally do only to be told by the customer it needed to be much tighter. I doubt they will ask me back as I told them it was bad for the hedge to cut it so tight as extreme weather could damage it. Is this true and is there any way to get that dense finish without risk. Personally I don't like it, looks fake almost, like green polystyrene. But lots of people seem to go for it even when parts of their prize hedge or topiary turn brown.