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  1. Dan Maynard
    Good question, thought it might be a bot. My money for Vesp was Welsh Cleaning Service because of the similarity to Scottish Cleaning Service, but the posts don't sound enough like Vesp. Either way if he's joined back it'll be a game to keep us guessing.
  2. Dan Maynard
    I'm not totally sure this samurayjack is a real bloke anyway, and he revived an old thread from 2014.
  3. Dan Maynard
    I was going to say I've mostly changed over to battery but didn't want that to get confused with the beautiful woman earlier.
  4. Dan Maynard
    For forestry as well I seem to remember?
  5. Dan Maynard
    Brampton Valley Training are Towcester, which part of the Midlands do you need?
  6. Dan Maynard
    Haven't heard of the C250 so googled, saw 2 adverts. One had a bespoke alloy tank fitted and one had the tank replaced by a Jerry can so seems a common issue. JoBeau use a Jerry can, replaced the tank on mine recently for about £25. Maybe worth the effort making some brackets and converting? Got to cost a lot less than £280 in bits.
  7. Dan Maynard
    My splitter is single phase 16A so slightly more, runs off blue plug. I came to the same conclusion about speed and power and got a Posch 6T rated. It's two stage pump so its fast but won't do really gnarly bits, I just throw those away - lifes too short to be sawing firewood into blocks. On the easiest to split logs, an axe is probably faster. The splitter wins out on bigger or tougher wood by being incessant, it doesn't take a long drawn in breath when looking at a big log and think about where to hit it. It also doesn't slow down after an hour. The other thing, my splitter is the vertical table type where the ram pulls down from below. This means you do everything at waist height, and after an hour or two that is a great improvement too. But back to the original question, no I wouldn't buy the really cheap splitter.
  8. Dan Maynard
    Higher than a house isn't huge for a tree. In terms of removal, there's nothing under the trees to worry about breaking. Often a lot of labour goes in to moving everything from the back garden to the front, we can park right next to these so everything goes straight off the tree into the chipper. It would be a fun job for someone.
  9. Dan Maynard
    Somebody very recent posted from NZ, bit further back for the last guys from Aus. I think it helps enormously if you find a firm first who sponsor your application, they then help with all the visa stuff too as they know the ropes.
  10. Dan Maynard
    Get someone reputable to have a look, we can't inspect for defects from these photos. The size doesn't look excessive so may not be, if there's something nasty in the undergrowth then maybe. Its in the unwritten rule book not to price off of photos but they look more like 2-400 per tree to me than 1000.
  11. Dan Maynard
    Looks like you would suddenly be liable for a big chunk of the VAT you've reclaimed. I ponder the other way round, I could register and get the vat back on my trailer, saws etc all at once and not sure how much difference putting price up 10% would make.
  12. Dan Maynard
    Obviously I haven't seen them but if it's outside your garden so I can park next to it they would have to be flipping massive to be a grand a tree. I've just priced today to remove 3 trees for 900.
  13. Dan Maynard
    Green waste is tricky on a weekend to be fair, I have to pay to tip it and they're only open Saturday morning.
  14. Dan Maynard
    I guess they probably wouldn't bother if you just cut the trees down. May not be that much more expensive than trimming, and obviously one off expense rather than ongoing. Worth a chat with the neighbours who cleared their bit, anything they tell you is cheaper than a solicitor finding it out.
  15. Dan Maynard
    Sounds like you applied to take 7m from the top of a 22m cedar, ie about a third of it. Really hard to do so that it doesn't look horrible, it'll then sprout like mad into a multiple top which is much weaker, so you're worse off than you started.
  16. Dan Maynard
    Yes absolutely, let the accountant worry about the tax you need the right vehicle for the job. 4x4, van, 3.5t towing, roof rack for ladders, low depreciation - ended up with a Defender as the weirdly sensible option. No good if you do any mileage though, too bloody uncomfortable. Also I think I was lucky to find a TD5 with only 65k miles and rust free chassis for not outrageous money.
  17. Dan Maynard
    The other difference is the tax you can claim back on the purchase. A commercial vehicle is simple - just 100% expense first year in your annual investment allowance. The car you have to go with capital allowances which is a % based on when you buy it, age of vehicle, CO2 emission etc. Capital allowance is of course the kind of thing you pay an accountant for, I wouldn't be trying to work that out myself.
  18. Dan Maynard
    There are some pockets of land in our village which as I understand are similar in that the developer liquidated. Nothing has been done to the trees on that land either. I can't understand that they have no responsibility for the trees if they own the land though, surely the same rules for any landowner would apply? So if the trees are at reasonably foreseeable risk of failure then they would be negligent if they did not act. Doesn't mean they would do anything to keep them trimmed of course.
  19. Dan Maynard
    Probably is the sensible option, yes. Not mine though, I bought a TD5.
  20. Dan Maynard
    I remember when I did my UA1 course the bloke said that utility arb is the most recession proof sector of the industry.
  21. Dan Maynard
    Word of mouth is really effective but takes a bit of time to build a reputation. I used to use bark and had some good jobs but there are a load more people responding now and cost has gone up double. The trouble with the internet search type enquiries is the reason the person has gone to there is that they don't have any recommendations and are looking for a cheap price, so it can all be a bit of a race to the bottom.
  22. Dan Maynard
    I know someone who had 2 Disco 2s, rusting core plugs, auto box fail, when the suspension collapsed he scrapped it and bought a Shogun. So far so good, more reliable.
  23. Dan Maynard
    My brother's defender has 9 seats. V8 petrol though, you really couldn't afford to drive it anywhere nowadays.
  24. Dan Maynard
    Annoyingly not much tree left but I was cooked, guys on the ground also cooked. Don't know the weather forecast temp but we were in Cambridge, with narrow street making a sun trap.
  25. Dan Maynard
    Equally, we do know the trees are only 7 or 8 years old so (as said above) that rules out heave anyway. No chance they can have been drying the ground before the extension was built because they weren't there.

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