flatyre
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Hey folks I'm insured with Admiral and just got my new premium the other day, no claims, no convictions, but my insurance has gone up by nearly £50. Phoned them regarding the price hike and went through the old "did you claim" no, "did you get any convictions or points?" no, "oh it must be because we went from being a broker to providing our own insurance", so I said surely that means you can offer insurance cheaper? "no it doesn't work that way". So why re-structure your business to be more expensive? Then got a load of waffle about all insurance companies have had to put up their premiums, is this true or are Admiral just being twits?
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one day? give it time son!
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Now we all agree that a cord is an 8x4x4 stack of unprocessed cordwood of any type of wood, why not make it a sticky so anyone selling or buying cord on the forum will be reading from the same page so to speak?
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similar length to what we do so the customer can move them about by hand, but our work is mostly residential, a lot of guys on this forum and other media advertise cord roadside and its a lot bigger than that, maybe its just relevant to the customer and their means of transport?
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Being in Northern Ireland I'm a bit too far away to be of help but like you I was a landscaper/tree firm, found it difficult to juggle both balls, so have basically shut down the landscaping side of the business to focus my time and finances on the tree work, how do you manage?
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don't know much about top handles but my old echo pb650 blower was given to me for free, its old as the hills, the straps have worn through, the pipe is more duck tape than pipe, just about every piece of trim is missing or held on with cable ties, it's never been serviced, but still goes like the clappers! when it finally dies its getting buried with my granddads war medals.
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have to agree with skyhuck, if its your own grinder then you should know what to charge as that's not an amateur piece of kit, if you mean you have access to such a machine then charge for a day and hope you get it done before dark
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I to originally thought Cord was cut to a specific length, plenty of youtube vids showing guys with dinky tape measures etc. but I think its used more as a general term for unprocessed firewood in manageable lengths rather than a specific length. A cord of wood could be 8" diameter or it could be two feet across, so can't be an accurate measurement of quantity?
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Hi folks I have a homemade Alaskan mill I use to make square posts, mantles, and beams, its a basic standard jig on ladders setup. I recently acquired a set of loft ladder which I hope to modify into an extendable runner. That way I don't need to strap a full set of ladders to the roof of the van when milling smaller lengths. At the moment the loft ladders are telescopic and I was wondering if the 'T' shaped track feature could be used in some way on the mill. Having the jig lock into the rails should make the bar less likely to 'wobble' as it travels along the rails, but i'm also wondering if a second jig that holds the saw at 90 degree for doing both vertical cuts first would work?
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Think its all sorted now, flushed out all the pipework and fitted new oil and filter, running fine so hopefully that was the first and last time i'll ever experience diesel engine runaway!
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Here's my new addition to the fleet (vivaro and relay crewcab tipper, not much of a fleet)anyway its mainly for delivering quotes and stuff, don't laugh.
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decayed ash, any idea of cause and should it come down?
flatyre replied to flatyre's topic in Fungi Pictures
Thanks for the replies folks, not sure about bonny prince Charlie and his first joint, maybe king billy shot gunned his first buckfast under it, who knows? it might clip the house but only just however any vehicles on the driveway would be flattened, and the customer does want to build a workshop right beside/under it, its also close enough to the main road to block both lanes. because of all the other trees around it, all the growth and spread is at the very top so a reduction would look rough for a few years, and cause major stress to an already weakened tree, basically it doesn't have much going for it and as Mick says, the customer is concerned. They have already given me the go ahead to remove it but just wanted to check if there was a plausible alternative. -
Hi folks I cleared away this mature ash which came down during Mondays storm. There is another ash the same size and age about 8 metres away which has some signs of decay. The customer has asked me to bring it down as they're concerned about its condition. I'd like to hear your opinions before getting back to them. There was a bit of a cavity in the fallen tree and you could clearly see the trunk was rotting out. There was very little deadwood, and the customer said both trees had a good healthy canopy during the summer. This is the cavity on the second ash, its much bigger than the one in the fallen ash, a fair bit of deadwood, and its now exposed to the wind with the other one is gone. The property is surrounded by a ring of ash trees which the customer wants reduced before spring, which will also expose this tree even more. What do you think, should it come down?
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And there you have it folks, you trawl ebay every week for months but as soon as you look away...
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don't want to hijack the thread but if anyone had an old 242 kicking around.......
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get yourself a twig stove, larger ones can cook a full meal and run on brash which is kind of handy in this game!
