Thesnarlingbadger

Cool yeah I thought this would be the case.

Just looking at the chipper tyres and would say they are starting to look on the slick side. As I've never actually changed a chipper tyre I thought I'd ask how people go about it on here. I have a spare which is brand new on the wheel but would like to keep it like that just incase of an emergency. I'm guessing it's just a case of taking it in to a car garage and saying "how much", or am I going to have to take it in to Forst? It might be a very obvious question but I have never had to deal with one in the 8 years I have been doing this. Thanks in advance people :-).

It does seem appealing on the low cost side of things to me. As I have marine ply on the inside i shouldn't get an issue with anything denting the ally from the inside-out. Thanks for the input. Hope you can bent the dent back without to much fuss mate.

Great track.... On the point of the original post. I don't think its worth wasting your time with complaining to anyone about it. It gets on my wick when I see companies about who blatantly cut corners and pretend to be something that they are not but if I went round reporting them all I'd waste a lot of time, plus where do you draw the line? NPTC stickers to not wearing chainsaw trousers to using a top handle with one hand on the ground with their willy out. Everyone in this industry and every other industry does things that aren't "by the book" but if you spend your life fretting about it and dobbing people in then your only wasting your own time. Let them make their own mistakes while you pick and choose yours. Their not the first company to not keep kit LOWLER'd and they sure as hell won't be the last.

It's a good idea that. I may look in to it. I quite like the look of ally composite as it means a little less work on my part.

haha yeah I know but I didn't have the cash to splash on a ally, helium filled planks sow went with what I had at the time. But have weight it and with myself and tools I still have just over a tonne to play with. Just means more trips to tip sites for now but its not the end of the world.

The welder (person) was my old man, The actual welder was an arc welder, with an investor ill find out the make etc when I next pop over. He's pretty happy with it. But we decided to weld the frame off the van as we wanted to avoid any mishaps.

Cool, just looked it up. Looks like the right kind of stuff. Just short on the full length but I can work with that and its coming in at about £165 per side which I can live with. Thanks mate.

Sounds delightful. I'll look in to it. I could get that in black could I?

I am just wondering what others have used for the outer sides of a chip box. I have done the frame work out of box steel and bolted marine-ply to the inside of it but am looking for a sheet to go on the outside to tidy it up and put the sign writting on. The sides have to be black, as its what works with my logo, Im happy to spend a few hundred on it as it is more important to me that it looks neat and tidy and is done properly. I am going to buy whatever I get as a sheet and cut the angles etc out myself as I'm happy to do as much as I can by myself (gives me a sense of achievement and adds to my skill set). Now the options I have looked at so far are Perspex and Ally sheets (that will have to be powder coated to make them black I believe). So what have other members of Arbtalk done in the past? any reason to avoid either of the materials I have mentioned or any other light weight thin materials that people can think of using? Here are a couple of pictures of the back and the build so far to give you guys a better idea (may have to do this part through the phone as I've never done it on the computer before :-/). As always thank you in advance.

Yeah I think I'm going to contact the seller and see what they can do. It's definitely not right as they pop off whilst working sometimes. Thanks for the replays people. :-)

Ahh cool. I'll look in to that and see what I can do. Thanks

I have a Protos lid that I got at the arb show earlier in the year. I think its great and very comfy but the ear defenders keep popping off and its a pain in the backside. I just want to know it this is a common fault or not? I don't care that I look like a powerranger in it or the fact it costs double what other lids do but it is annoying when you pay top dollar for something and a basic irritation like that arises straight away. I would have mentioned it sooner but it wasn't exactly top of my things to do list. Its basically where the little pins on the outside of the ear defender casing sit in the groves (I'll get pictures tomorrow if I haven't explained it well enough), and its with both ear defenders (leading me to believe it is a common fault). If it is a common fault has anyone come up with a basic solution other than a shed load of duct tape? Thanks in advance people

Second that, than just wipe over with a rough sponge type thing.

I have only just set up and found if I have a job where I have a few people on board I get to the home stretch and leave them to it to nip off and do a couple of quotes, back in time for the clear up. You'll find if you ask the customer if they can leave the gate open you can nip in and have a look even if they are not in. Then just give them a phone call later and pass on the quote verbally and or by e-mail. I prefer to meet people in person when I quote but have come to except that we live in a busy world and its not always possible. I try not to let business get in the way of family life but had a week last week when I was out doing quotes and sorting things out till late. You get some weeks or even months like that. The way I see it is I have to put in the effort to keep the money rolling in and I just try and enjoy the quiet periods and spend time with the kids. Doubt this will be of great help but may be useful.

Got a set of 16ft ones (think it's 16). With adjustable lets and they are worth their weight in gold when it comes to any type of hedge work. I never even look at the ladders nowadays. Got mine from western garden machinery and were around the £350 mark if I remember correctly. They feel bloody sturdy and I have no problem with leaning over that little extra to get those annoying bits that would otherwise be out of reach.

Ahh cheers for that. Yeah the logo is a vector but I would not have known to convert it to outlined etc. I'm not to savvy with all that computer jazz.

Yeah already sorted that one thanks mate. :-)

Thanks to everyone's reply on this. Only just realised the tread re-opened. In the end I went on a logo website and brought one for about £20 that I can change all I want. Then I downloaded the free trial of Adobe illustrator and changed it to my liking. I think light green on black suits my needs so I went for that. Here is a pic of it on one of my flyers I had made up. The next thing is to blow it up and get it on the sides of the wagon. I assume this is pretty straight forward, just going in with a dongle with the logo on and get the printers to do there techie stuff. Once again I appreciate all the input on the matter.

I was under the impression you are legally allowed to cut back to boundary unless it is detrimental to the tree health. Or was it permission to do the climbing? In which case I've always gone on verbal consent.

Great stuff, love the attention to detail :-).

This is a good point. Cockeyness can and will cause accidents. I have worked with a handful of people over the years who come in with a 'I can do anything better than you' attitude and granted some of these guys may be bloody good but a lot of the time they are useless big headed pain in the arses. But how do you as an employer know this? If some one comes in to your company and says "I can do big fells no problem" then as an employer you are in a position sending this guy out to do a potentially dangerous job with nothing other than someone's word. What I am getting at is as a sub contract climber I have gone out to work for people who I tell them about my history and my capabilities and first day on the job I may be sent up a huge tree to rig down over a house. Now that's fine until someone lies about their capabilities and things go wrong and I have worked with people like this who have smashed things on the first day all because they have lied about their skill level. The issue lies with these larger firms that don't have the boss out on site working with their employees so 9 times out of 10 they don't know how good there employees actually are. Just a thought.

That's a fair point maybe these larger felling tickets are not needed if you are felling all day everyday in a forestry environment. However if you rarely fell trees and are more of a climber it may be an advantage to learn to problems that can occur felling larger trees and it's not always a simple gob and back cut with a rope on with some of these big buggers.