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Check with your building insurer too with a 200l drum on site, should the worst happen that’s a big old fireball! Lifted stand and a tap gets my vote, minimal moving parts, no sparks etc etc You know you can get Aspen in 200 drums too?

Take a look on the Ranger forums, loads of head and turbo issues on the 2.0 engine. HP means nothing in our world, it’s all about torque. ‘HP is about how fast you hit the wall,torque is how far you move it’ I’m in a mk6 Hilux that needs a remap really, new one isn’t much quicker, isn’t much better on fuel, costs 30k for a basic new one. It also gets add blue, regens ever 5 minutes etc etc I can fix mine at home very easily meaning little down time, warranty is great but they don’t make you a priority and a week with a hire vehicle is a lost week in our game, very few courtesy cars have tow bars if you even get a pickup.

Rav4’s are cheap, cheap to run and will get you just about anywhere a std bigger 4x4 will get you. Budget for some decent tyres and you are sorted. My Hilux is ace but i fill it regularly so can justify it, just hate the fuel bill. You can get guards to go on the rear windows to limit smash and grabs or just get a cage made up

Agreed. taxing us for a license they have voted to be not needed.

See what happens i guess,sorry for the harshness of the previous comment clients took any last ounce of nice i had left today.

Oh when everyone was furloughed good stat

Did that happen loads pre 97 when they changed the rules?

I keep a few new scalpel blades, great for almost pain free opening up of stuck thorn pricks. Found it heals faster than risking leaving the thorn in. pointy tweezers like needles help too

The latest husqvarna out front mowers get good reviews, they even offer an out front collected but it’s 7k… the mulchers are about half that.

Single cab pickup, notch the chassis rails to drop it as low as possible, or mount behind the rear axle (using airbags to stabilise the weight?) don’t bother with a turn table or similar, just move the spout. Could even shorten the chassis to bring the trailer closer or shroud with something to stop too much chip blowing about

Most solid flooring is done in much shorter lengths, any movement on a 5m length will show up massively. hence why parquet flooring was popular, small bits move less, bonded down too. Any natural wood even left to acclimatise will move with the seasons unless you are in a super modern sealed type passive house?

needs reapplying yearly if it’s the lanoguard stuff made from sheeps wool lanolin or something. Speak to buzzweld and do it once properly with something like War

Buy Aspen in larger quantities and the pricing goes down. Anyone can afford Aspen you just chuck an extra amount of the quote… £5 on a smaller job and so on.

Tree surgery insurance i find is best for carrying out the art of cutting trees

my brother uses the half a bulk bag sized bags easier to move about and chucks a sack truck under it with wide tyres. Far easier than big bags

Find a decent accountant who can advise you on the best way to proceed. Lots of costs you don’t think about with paye You will need to draw up a contract of employment, stating the rules ie you will be employed monday to friday 8-4 with x amount of holidays per annum. Then stipulate overtime etc If you employ them then it’s your responsibility to make sure you have work for them as you are paying them regardless so snow/storm days you need to do maintenance or splitting to get your money’s worth or just suck up the cost. You can’t not pay them due to no work. Holidays unless you agree with them they can take legally as they please.

But sitting next to an instructor for 5 hours to be coached through how to pass a test actually translates into being good at towing? I’ve not sat the test but have done easily 20k towing various trailers from plant to car both here and in France, so how does that work in your scheme of it not translating? i’ve not lost a trailer, not had a dodgy moment with snaking etc ive been pulled 4 times and they check the loads secured,everything as it should be and on your way, not once was my license checked. Accidents happen, quite often it seems something hits the towed trailer caravans quite often it seems. People don’t maintain things so tyres blow out much like happens with cars but they have that license too. If accidents suddenly jump up i will be surprised, i expect an increase but not a drastic one. Everyone will ge going abroad again next year so all these caravanners will be selling them when they realise they have £40k sat on the drive that they use 3 times a year to go sit on a cold wet beach, when for 2k a family can go to spain, be cooked for and burn themselves pink on a nice beach

Levels the playing field to those who passed their tests before the rest of us. What difference was there between someone who passed pre 97 and post other than modern tests are harder Silly stealth tax Plenty of info out there on how to load a trailer and safely tow, plus anyone driving for their company can ask for some info and pointers, if towing a chipper you can’t load it wrong so there’s one big thing off the table anyway.

Biggest problem is weight, something transit sized, then add transfer box, axle, etc etc and the already stupidly low carrying weight goes down by another 250kg Add the arb body and you can legally sit in it and possibly put your weekly shop in the back without going over the weight limit!

Had one recently, clients neighbour wanted the trees removing as he got no sun… whilst we stood in full sun as the sun moved across the opposite side of the garden, wasn’t best pleased when i pointed that out! So you bought a house and now want the neighbours to remove their trees and replant something you want there? Good luck with that. Your house purchasing survey would have listed any issues potentially arising from the trees no? maybe buy a house without trees next to it that you don’t like next time?

Looking at the video cross cutting and a normal splitter looks faster? especially if you take into account time to get a log on the deck?

two routes, Get to know some subby climbers, and start your own business, booking climbers in as necessary, plenty of hedging, small tree prunes etc you can do alone to fill days. Buy a piece of plant, be it a digger - broad range of uses esp with a grab . stump grinder, Avant etc and hire yourself out.

I use power barrows where ever possible on jobs as they carry far more so rather than a fleet of wheel barrows it’s far more buckets in one and no effort to get waste out and skipped. I like the multi attachment options of mower, flail etc making it a more useful tool. With the bucket a mini digger can dig it out and pile it while another user moves it out to a pile/skip this improving work speed (no waiting to load a power barrow whilst it’s dumping

width is what led me to things like the worky quad over a Avant rear steer type machine as they all seem to start at 1m wide which rules out half the clients i’ve had this year. i’ve used mini diggers and tracked power barrows etc so used to the damage they cause.. so defo on wheels…

Struggling to find half decent staff here in Derbyshire, so looking at ways to speed jobs up with less of us… We do a mix of tree work but slowly landscaping is taking over, garden rooms etc. Cast worky quads look like they could be very useful, bucket for waste out and stone in, forks for carrying materials, grab for tree work etc Anyone using such a thing?