Puffingbilly413
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Yep - it's a pruning saw the 536 certainly. Handy to have near the chipper though. Also good for early starts in the summer when a petrol saw would piss off les voisins. But that's true of all battery saws.
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I have a 536 top handle - find it pretty light to be honest. I have a 300 husky battery too and agree it does change the balance. Still find it usable though. All the more with two hands - it's fine in the ground saw version too. Balance wise I'd say it still feels less tiring in the hand than the 540 petrol. Seem to remember that the 540 needs the bigger battery to deliver it's full cutting power whereas I don't know if there's any difference with the 536 - I don't notice any that's for sure.
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That's roughly £30k a year then before tax. You'll struggle to get anywhere near that just starting out I'm afraid. Depends where in the country of course but outside of London and the SE ARB salaries just aren't that high. Don't wish to seem negative but if you need 1800-2000 take home per month then you might need to reconsider.
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This guy was doing it for a documentary - he was obsessively fit and yet struggled in parts. Huge achievement but a one off. Recruiting age cut off is much lower. But you don't have to be bootneck fit to do tree work, far from it. Mid 40s if you're fit in mind and body you've still got at least 10-15 years graft in you. Watched a Canadian dude on YouTube still doing proper west coast tree work at 64. Financially though - it's a massive risk. Maybe hedge your bets and go part time in your current job and do tree work for the other?
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employment Work and employment advice please
Puffingbilly413 replied to John Hathaway's topic in Employment
Don't forget you can claim mileage back in this scenario IE using your personal vehicle for business travel (you're not going to a yard every day but instead travelling to various locations) -
I have a lot of kit registered on arbsafe Steve. Not all of it so thanks for the reminder to get up to date. I think it's a great resource. It's free and it doesn't take long to take a few pics and note a few serial numbers.
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I have a horrible feeling that this is not a joke
Puffingbilly413 replied to Billhook's topic in The Lounge
Longpigs. Not for me thanks. -
But to respond to the OP, 300-350. Light logs and air gaps. A solid cubic metre of wet wood would be a tonne; we're nowhere near that. But I am curious.
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I tow with a defender so would (should) always be well under what I'm allowed so it makes no odds to me either. But as I can't count very well it's also fairly academic a question. If it moves it moves.
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Yeah I was 93 and mine has always had the 107 on it.
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Aye that's a pisser. No way round it other than doing the test then. Or moving country!
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If you had it on your old licence just query it and ask them to reinstate what you had - although if you never took a test then it 'should' have been automatically down to 8250. Some people were lucky, others weren't.
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Mark 8250 is the old bastard's grandfather rights level which is what I have ie you're allowed the relevant category that should let you do 12000 but because we're ald and never had to take a test it's been downrated. That should probably have been more than one sentence.
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Sieve-like brain.
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Just realised it wasn't the Pythons but Spitting Image I was on about earlier about nice S Africans:
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You'd need to make up your own mind re where Rhodesia sits morally I suppose. Like everything, it's never black and white (pun most definitely intended). If you look at the armed forces of WW2 Germany, it was full of Poles, Russians, Danes, Dutch etc etc, yet we think of those as allied states or occupied countries. Conflict is never, ever remotely straightforward.
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Haven't seen that one - any good?
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You see Doug - 80s keepers and bush wars are a great antidote to dickheads and traffic management...
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It does indeed.
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No never lived out there. Ex-British Army so met loads of Commonwealth guys serving. Did a couple of degrees on African politics and focused on Rhodesia. Rhodesia during the period of their bush wars was considered to have the best fighting force in Africa. Zim is huge - but they fought a counter-insurgency (communist supported) against overwhelmingly superior numbers of insurgents, all the time facing global sanctions, with a regular armed forces of about 12,000 people. Tactics we think of as niche today were most likely tried and tested in Rhodesia, S Africa etc. Going back to Blood Diamond, your man's character was actually Rhodesian - he made a point of it because they detested being thought of as S African.
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Yeah he was (is) quite a big anti racism campaigner. Was reading about his time as a white kid training with an entirely black club in Rhodesia.
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Yes - a huge difference. Also a generalisation but in my experience whites from Rhodesia/Zim aren't particularly racist unlike many (but by no means all) I've met from RSA. If you like war history, the Rhodesian Bush Wars are fascinating. Or we could go with the Monty Python view 'I've never met a nice South African'...
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Ah still can't dent his kudos as a Liverpool icon of the 80s. Neville Southall across the park was certainly a better keeper but unfortunately he played for the wrong team...
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Yes I realised that after I typed it doh
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He's Rhodesian/Zimbabwean though mind...
