johnp

28 minutes ago, AHPP said:

 

Apart from the ivy, what was so bad about it?

Nothing. Is the Ivy not enough for you? 

Disgusting Ash at Glastonbury Festival site

Sloooooww on new enquiries, but enough repeat customers and annual jobs to keep afloat. By the skin of our teeth some weeks though!

1 hour ago, silky fox said:

I'm trying to make a trunk call...Silky Fox calling Arbtalkland...You are never going to believe what's just happened.  But before i tell you i need to bring this thread up to speed.I have not been able to keep up with the events in my life these days thats for sure.But i kind of expected things to take off.The power of positivity! 

Hello! 

18 minutes ago, stihlmadasever said:

Get new blades on your  ht 85's.

 

Yeah, but rough cut aren't going to give a cracking finish I wouldn't have thought?

I've been reluctantly picking up more and more hedge cutting work, and my blunt rough cut ht 85 is not that tidy, what's everyone s weapon of choice for a good finish? Ta

I think it's smashing, well done Steve and whoever else has put hours and hours of their time in. Spot on

I really mean it when I say it's a shame that others have had problems. They seem a great bunch of lads when you speak to them on the phone. I hope they can sort out whatever the issues are.

Aye, had loads of grief with them, got fobbed off for two weeks, saying my regrinds and new blades were in the post then saying oh they are just in the pile to go out today, then it turned out they didn't actually have the new blades in stock. Which would be fair enough if I wasn't fed a load of bullshi, won't use em again

Bet it was a few loads of chip in that tipper!!!! Nice work

Yes mate,

I like that people get excited about stuff - esp where it demonstrates how badly the public sector might be managing it's responsibility to the public.

 

 

 

Out of interest John, which road(s)??

A30 fairmile/allercombe, Birmingham northern relief Rd, a320 Guildford and Lyminge forest in Kent. They were really good times

I see what your getting at John and understand but to your average domestic they couldn't give a monkeys about LOLER PUWER or any other legislation all there interested in is how much and when, let's face it the travellers have fancy vans and chippers now and pass themselves off as pros!

 

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That's what I'm getting at, my customers don't care about loler etc. I've no wish to educate them! But they do appreciate a nice looking tree or a tidy, damage free removal. A scheme which proved competence of work/skill would, I think gain a bit more traction/uptake and therefore be more widely known amongst domestic customers, the aaac as it stands is never going to infiltrate wider domestic work

Trouble is how basic do you make it? A few nptc certs and insurance? Pretty much anyone could pass that so yet again there is little credibility, it needs to be at a reasonable level or its not worth doing, one glove won't fit all.

 

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I was thinking more focus on the workmanship/professionalism of the job, how the site is run, customer relations etc, so not something every single firm can achieve but top end cutting and tidying. I realise that the aa bar is set very high and for commercial work I suppose it's becoming the norm, but most of my domestic customers don't know there loler s from their rolos, and a more widely recognised certification of competent work would be of benefit to me, them and possibly the aa ( through more widespread quality affiliates and wom). Possibly.😀

Personally I think it's great that people give a shi and are actively trying to protect the trees. It's nice to know they still mean something to people! ( I speak as an ex road protestor)

Hi John, thanks for posting.

 

 

 

As a small business, correspondingly the paperwork requirement is reduced AND the majority of what you need to complete and present is on the AA website.

 

 

 

I wholly acknowledge your points here and you can, if you so wish but it isn't the most cost-effective option, undertake the assessment on a Modular basis so presenting the completed works and site works first but the paperwork will still need to follow. In reality, as a small business and at the initial assessment stage, the assessor has a certain amount of discretion to determine approval with follow up paperwork improvements.

 

 

 

The Affiliate Contractor Member, is designed to help businesses such as yours to put stuff in place to achieve ARB Approval at a later date...actually within 2 years. Please consider this.

 

 

 

Please try to get to one of the workshops when we can talk more...or give me a call sometime (07971 995351)

 

 

 

Cheers,

 

Paul

Thanks for the reply, so you can't see a point or need where a more basic workmanship accreditation may exist? Obviously certain insurance/certification aspects would have to be in place. Ta

Personally, as a small one man and subbies band I am realistically never going to have the office/paper work side of things any where near where it should be, however I'd like to think the standard of the jobs and customer satisfaction are up there with the best, what frustrates me is there are loads of firms doing excellent work but don't necessarily fulfill the office side of things, it would be nice to have a half way house that covered quality of work. I realise that it may be unrealistic but so is the aaac for me as it stands

My website is at www.saletreesurgeon.co.uk

Not keen, doesn't come across as v professional imo, and as above about naming other tree surgeon s, I'd be livid if a competitor was doing what your doing

I was watching Question Time last night. It came from Manchester.

 

There was a Muslim man complaining about his daughter getting called a terrorist at school.

 

22 people dead - about half of them kids/teens. Thousands of kids traumatised by seeing other kids blown up.

 

However Muslim's complain about "Islamaphobia".

How dare he look out for his daughter, they really are unbelievable aren't they

Some interesting posts, always good to see peoples true colours.

 

 

 

Personally I'd sooner take my chances with the terrorists than live in the kind of police state many of you are advocating

Agree completely, we can't let civil liberties be eroded

Thanks! You can take that as true... If I had seen it, or been aware of it, I would have said so

 

 

 

Now I do know about it, in so far as you have described it, I couldn't give a monkey's. It's semantics. Surely you are not seriously suggesting she wants to implement a holocaust style genocide as a "solution" or mitigation to the current islamist problem? Seriously, you're not are you??

 

 

 

Are you suggesting the words "final" and "solution" should be eradicated from the Oxford English dictionary just in case there could be some paranoid aversion to the use of the words for fear of a historic association of the phrase when the words are joined together.... Mark, please, you're bigger than that.

It is Katie Hopkins we are talking about!

Try mjo forestry nr Chichester, or is that too far?

I would agree

Plus 1

I would be keen to see the government crack down in all the fake self employed, with something like the CIS scheme for all industry, so everyone but bonafide subbies are taxed at source, would simplify things hugely. The main grief I get when trying to find guys is the myth that they're better off self employed but want to work with us 'all the time'.

It wouldn't for me, I sub into a few jobs and they sub to me, I do my own books, last thing I need is to be dicking about with cis!

Pyramid stage in the distance