Vespasian

The bulk of my work will be bread and butter work, fencing, decking, paving etc, not reworking stately gardens. A sophisticated design might look too flashy for the regular home owner looking for a simple garden revamp. The second point is my budget, at this stage I just need something cheap and simple to get the name out there and bring some money in. I think its best to keep it simple until I get established, then I can pay to have a more sophisticated logo to pull in the big money customers! Do a good job for a fair price and the work will soon chase you... and all anybody wants is your phone number... They don't want a work of art, they don't want a sonnet written in there, just your number... and the bonus is, by keeping your business card clean, you'll also keep it cheap... hopefully!!!

Look, you tried to belittle the past labour administration for overspending, I'm just pointing out that sometimes, especially in times of crisis, you do things that one day you might live to regret... For instance, it wasn't labour policy to get us into a world wide economic recession. From what I remember it was brought about by the herd mentality of millions of ordinary people.. Look how much my house is worth this week brigade.. Now, given that Gordon Brown was in the middle of a crisis, you wouldn't expect him to sit around like a rabbit in the headlights doin nothin would you?.. My complaint with his management of the crisis isn't that he spent like wildfire, but that he seemed clueless and out of his depth... But, spending money was the only real option they had... So when you bleat about the previous labour administration spendng money or loading us with debt, you might want to consider the context in which it was spent... A context that includes the collapse of the world financial system.. Now, I, like most people don't like debt, but I do recognize its better than spending all winter looking for turnips in some farmers field... And, as a lifelong labour supporter, I'd rather David Cameron in charge than any of the clueless muppets that have replaced him...tony blair that is!!

You don't wash your dirty linen in public, so no, Ed isn't gonna start dissin his former colleagues in public is he?.. That being said, he was clearly on the left of Blair.. Now, if you want to talk about overspend, twenty trillion dollars.. thats what its taken to keep us all in work.. You might want to thank George Bush jnr and Obama for "overspending" to keep you in a job..

David Cameron is the leader of Great Britain, engaging with other world leaders on a weekly basis... Jeremy Trotsky Corbin , who?.... I think we have a big winner there

I think you'll find Miliband was distancing himself from New anything, he wanted to return to old something. Look were it got him.. The Moron..

Conservative seats 331 Labour 232 Conservatives 99 more seats than labour, tells me Labour got smashed trounced and mauled... Ed Miliband, dictionary definition, officially the most boring man on earth..

Wasn't Ed Milliband a left leaning labour leader, didn't he and his party just get trounced at the last election?...

I would suggest a business card should look business like. who you are, what you are and how to get in touch.. By showing such a card to a customer, it shows you mean to get the job done, and not fanny about spending most the time thinking you're Micheal Angelo

forget any logo, logo's are naff anyways.. white writing on a green card, or grey card with red lettering.. your aiming for someone to phone you up, not admire or pass judgment on your art style.. whats the saying?.. keep it simple stupid... make the phone number twice as big as any lettering.. That'll be ten dollars,,

Not that I'm an expert, but my one piece of advice would be to test all your kit out somewhere safe before you put them to work... You can never be to careful if your asking me...

if asked I'd tidy up and get some money out of it.. I wouldn't get involved beyond that, if the neighbors think your up to something like goin to court on their behest, they might take your number and send you on all kinds of fools errands.. best to let these people sort out their own disputes and not drag other people into it..

how many times have I thought, oh that should do it.. how many times was I wrong?... and why are a bunch of firemen chopping down a tree?... did some numpty think by phoning them, they could save some money?.. and why did some moron think it a good idea to film the firemen at work and put it up to get a cheap laugh?.. Be nice if I found out the idiot responsible found himself in a car wreck and the firemen turned up and chopped him out with lang handled axes... have a film of him cacking it on Utube..

who mentioned the Romans?...though I'm sure even they could move a chipper, tracked or otherwise..

why else would you use a tracked chipper, errr Doah, because its the only one you have!!!!.. Oh hang on, I have a tracked chipper and its sunny out, phone customer up an tell him I'll have to cancel until it rains..

Lots of things are hard in theory, but have to be done in practice.. If you couldn't fix the chipper where its at, you have to get your thinking cap on... I'd still like to know how heavy this mysterious chipper is as well..

I wish people would stop moving the goalposts, the original question was, could it moved without fixing the thing. No one mentioned wet boggy ground then..

Not sure what a PICOW is, assuming its someone in charge of safety on a rail line.. but anyway, necessity being the mother of invention.. suppose you do what you can with what you got..

If your chippers broke down, you ain't doin nothin till its moved, so time doesn't much come into it.. you're there till its done... I'm assuming (havin thought on it) that you can't get a trailer in, so you have to either fix it or move it.. If fixing isn't an option, then moving it comes next... get yourself some pulleys an make a four to one pulley system.. Use fence posts to guide it over the ground till you reach the trailer... Now if you can't fix it, and don't have the wherewithal to drag it out, then I'm afraid the little tracked chipper is just gonna have to live there for the rest of its life..

The point being, that if you wanted to, you could get it moved and its easier than first imagined.. a bit of faffing about but doable... timewise though, I'd suggest a mechanic, unless you already owned a bunch of pullies I'm not dure how cost wise would be... As to the Egyptians, no they didn't have a woodchipper on tracks, but they could shift a thirty ton block at a pinch, how much does the chipper weigh?

I remember years back Fred Dibna driving down Manchester Rd in Bolton, stuck his hand out the cab of his scruffy looking landrover and gave me the thumbs up.. Couldn't put my finger on it seeing as I didn't have a landrover at the time. Then it dawned on me, I had a beaten up Toyota Hilux with offroad wheels on it, lifted suspension.. Then again, it could of been one scruffy f'er saluting another LOL...

Looks like you have two options, winch it somewhere by inches if the ground conditions suit.. Fix it.... OK, just thought of a third way, two pieces of plywood in front of it, greased up. winch onto plywood platform, then winch that on a trailer... or just stick loads of grease on trailer an loading struts.. If the Egyptians did it like that, then so can you...LOL..

I've spent many an hour slavering at all three. researched all of em, utube vids, opinions an whats bin said on here.. of all the ones mentioned, the only one I wouldn't bother with would be the Jo Beua 200. not many have anything positive to say when compared to the 400/500 model.. I like the look of the Haecksler myself, but I imagine the greenmeck would be easier to pull about..

Hiab truck...

I'm going out on a limb here, but I'm guessing the coil..