forestboy1978

Trying to answer this as simple as possible... Cos it's pure chance that I have 2 jobs back to back with the same waste and neither have such significant waste that they would tie up my trailer to such an extent that I couldn't work out of it i.e fit new materials for next job in it along with waste from previous. I'd have to pay to drop waste and pay minimum charge under normal circumstances. On this occasion I don't. Simply put that's how you make some money and I see it as fair business.

Hi guys, As some of you know I run a fencing business. I've done quite a few of my tickets. Slowly going into arb as I have always been interested in it and I'm bored with fencing and banging holes in the ground is wearing my shoulder joints out. If anyone needs an extra body around who is in reasonably good shape and willing to work for £80 now and then please let me know. Got all own climbing gear and saws and a 4x4. Could bring 3.5 tons tipping trailer with chip box also but it's sign written so not sure how you'd feel about that unless I can cover the signs or something. As I say I'm willing to do a hard days grind as long as I'm learning stuff and the piss is not taken. Bottom line is I'm not marketing much toward tree work so only getting the odd call and the lack of frequency means I'm forgetting stuff and having to re learn. Quite easy going chap, crap for the first hour in the morning or until I've done 1 hours physical work. Cheers

Hi guys, As some of you know I run a fencing business. I've done quite a few of my tickets. Slowly going into arb as I have always been interested in it and I'm bored with fencing and banging holes in the ground is wearing my shoulder joints out. If anyone needs an extra body around who is in reasonably good shape and willing to work for £80 now and then please let me know. Got all own climbing gear and saws and a 4x4. Could bring 3.5 tons tipping trailer with chip box also but it's sign written so not sure how you'd feel about that unless I can cover the signs or something. As I say I'm willing to do a hard days grind as long as I'm learning stuff and the piss is not taken. Bottom line is I'm not marketing much toward tree work so only getting the odd call and the lack of frequency means I'm forgetting stuff and having to re learn. Quite easy going chap, crap for the first hour in the morning or until I've done 1 hours physical work. Cheers

Not saying it can't be done dude. Just it's really hard. Good for you.

No, don't lift, don't do anything except work. Very recently my weeks have been light though not through my own volition. I could have trained, but I didn't know this was gonna happen. Past 5 years been working 60-100 hours per week. Training under such circumstances is futile, or worse, counter productive. That said, training is/ was my passion. Perhaps not training per se, but pushing the body in different ways. Becoming better, faster, stronger. Trained obsessively in my early 20's for about 6 years nearly 7 days a week. Got back into it a bit in my late 20's early 30s and late 30's but work commitments wouldn't allow it. I'm an all or nothing person so I couldn't give my all so I gave nothing. However, I always have training in my mind as something to be a part of my life if work allows. Not steady state cardio, although it has its merits, but more resistance training, strength training and interval high intensity training. I'm all about functional fitness. Strength training has been proven to increase/ sustain bone density, exacerbate neurogenisis (yes that's right you're less likely to get altzheimers/ parkinsons etc if you train) and it will stimulate the pituitary gland to produce hormones at reduced declining rate as you age, especially if you eat a good amount of cholesterol, protein, fat and electrolytes throughout your days and rest adequately. Most guys who are "shredded" and "natural" are drug users, especially if they are in that state all year round. Reason being, you can't maintain a high level of training and testorone output unless you have at least 20% body fat or more. This is why natural power lifters are always bulky and not shredded. Anyway, yes, training can and will help anyone at any age if done correctly, incrementally, with proper diet and REST. Very hard to do if you run your own business or you are a ground worker. Possibly doable if you are a climber. Peace out.

Doubt this will come to anything. He's got to speak to the neighbour anyhow and I hate this mutual agreement jobs. Double the probability that someone will not be satisfied or lacking agreement or whatnot. Good to brain storm though. Wish I had pics. Thanks for feedback.

Normally photo everything but forgot to charge phone last night and wasn't enough battery for camera. I think multiple anchors is the answer as someone suggested. At least that way a fall would put me into a triangulated position and be less severe. Only one ring on my harness though....

One of these would do the job https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Super-DIY-Up-to-9-2m-Aluminium-Scaffold-Tower-1m-frames-One-man-Tower/273306515844?hash=item3fa2567984:m:ms4hqf1IEZigW6oxU4sM6rg:rk:31:pf:0

even stood on the very top of an 18ft tripod (I won't be doing) with a pole saw I doubt all the over hanging branches could be got. As I said, even if I went to the trouble of taking them off, he'd then need to cut back the lanky shoots growing up out of the top which would be way in excess of 1/3 as it's sending growth mainly over his garden. By then he may as well just be done with the whole thing. It'll look crap whatever is done.

I say it's not climbable... hmm, it probably is but you'd want to wrap a flip line around it a few times and be tethered elsewhere and ready for a good swing if branch snapped. pole saws or pruner perhaps but as Hairy says, impossible to make perp cuts.

No but he says they are OK and probably would be fine to cut some back to the trunk but if I did that it'd leave this trunk with pineapple top looking mass of spindly branches sticking out the top. You'd then be left wanted to trim them down which is not easy as they are not climbable and if that was managed you'd be left with a shell of a tree. No way of making this monstrosity look pretty/ not harming the tree with one visit. And not easy either. I figure it would require awkward and costly manicuring over a couple of years to get it healthy and amenable.

Just went and had a look at a badly butchered oak. Customer wants over hanging branches cut. I explained that there are no good pruning points further back than a meter from the tips. No TPO so could just cut over hanging branches vertically above his boundary but would look hideous and do no good to the tree or other option to trim back suitably which is what I advised. HOWEVER... nothing substantial above them to anchor to, too high for a ladder and not accessible from a MEWP. No idea...

Utterly crap camera though. I hated mine when I had one.

A Beaver or some such is a handy tool to have sure. But Dan has a yard. He doesn't carry it around all the time, he gets it as he needs it. I carry 95% of my tools around with me, barring extra wheel barrows, cement mixer and mitre saw and table which come out as and when. I can't fit a big tool in my van and a beaver is over kill for 80+% of jobs for me. Regarding other breakers. 6-8x the price for maybe 50% extra power along with 50% extra weight just doesn't compute. Every now and then I come along work which requires a demolition hammer and genny. I hire it.

Just figured I'm paying for lightness and nowt else. I can afford to break 1 to 2 £150 breakers per year. Can't afford breaking a £1K one.

I got a pointed chisel so badly stuck we had to jack it out with ball of concrete attached and break the concrete from the side with another breaker.

I'll look into it. Massive Lidl just been built right next door to me as we speak. Opens in 2 weeks.

I go through around 1.5 titan breakers per year. You can pay £700 for a breaker that is half the weight but it'll also be a little less powerful than the titan. I prefer a flat chisel and I have a 7ft thick steel bar that weighs near 20kg that I jab into the cracks and wrench concrete out. I never use a pointed chisel for reason stated above. Depth of spur should be 1/3 that of what is above ground. I.e 2ft for a 6ft fence.

Job I semi finished today. Building 1ft raised benches inside tomorrow for the old people to put their bins on so they don't have to bend down

One of them was an earner. 2 weren't. I won the earner and one of the others. Still good to be out there. I find work comes to me more when I'm out and about. It was my fault really. Should have noticed but it just didn't click.

Well I've had 6 calls this week. Some on the BT cloud coming through to mobile. 3 of which were utterly crap but single man day earners. Not bad money if all goes well for a day if I add disposal cost to another job. Of which I won one which is my last day of booked work next Tuesday. The other 3 were monumental sized jobs, and awkward to price and to do and customers are just getting a feel for prices for when they get it done, if ever ? Over a day just working the quotes out on those and not sure if I even want them even though I bloody need everything at the moment. Hanging on in there in short...

I bet you were. It's ridiculously hard work. Much harder than climbing I reckon.

I know the definition of both words. I'm just saying in my mind, to a person like that, it's an act of compassion whether they're aware or not. They're living in hell already, they just don't know it. I also don't agree with execution because of the possibility of failure. Otherwise I'm OK with it, for rare instances of pure evil, which I think this is.

No I meant it. I don't believe in torturing people. Quickly, painlessly, put him out of his and everyone else's misery. No need to revel in it. Just get it done.

And the rest. Euthanase him and save the money. He'll do nothing of good in his entire life on this planet anyway. What a piece of shit.