Conor Wright

Didn't know you were born there!

Great to see he's bounced back!

Believe it or not I've ended up with a private island as a direct result of my tree work. Kinda... Sadly I couldn't afford to go exotic so I went looking around localish. There were no actual islands for sale within budget but youve got to be smart... in the end, one found me. Well, I mean I bought a wet field in summertime and now there's only a bit of it visible... but you'd need a boat to get there, so it counts.

Ah man, he wanys to save it, not destroy it. There's hardly any meat on a layer anyway. 45 mins be plenty!

We take in ex battery hens now and then,just a dozen or so at a time. there's always one or two like this. We give them a night indoors, near the stove with a blanket and water, some cooked rice mixed 50 50 with a sachet of wet kitten food. If there isn't a noticeable improvement in 24 hours I either wring their necks or drown them to ease their suffering. The dogs get the meat and the innards get dug in near a young tree. No point getting too sentimental about them. I've been around caged hens in their hundreds of thousands. Death is a release to them.

This is where I'm at right now. Trying to get multiple freelancers lined up for jobs can be tricky. I've spent the afternoon looking at jobs I can't do alone. They're still worth it, but if I had the right guys full time it would be much less complicated. You can still be on the tools 3 or 4 days a week but you're right, trying to stay on the tools full time plus managing a company isn't viable long term. I struggle with this as I like being onsite.

The patchy one thinks he is, the yellow one tries to be but it's the big black thing that's the boss.

That about sums up my first three years self employed! Steep learning curve.

Point taken. Maybe I am. Maybe not. just thinking back to when I was about that age, maybe even a bit younger. I kinda had an idea where I wanted to end up and what I liked doing. Had no clue how to join the dots though. I do like to think all the youth (jaysus, I sound like an ould lad) aren't a complete lost cause. 17 is the perfect time to start planning out your life goals imo.

I think it also depends on whether they want to be employed , subbie climber with kit, or set up their own company. As an employed climber you'll have fairly set hours and it'll pretty much a job like any other. 40ish hours weekly and usual holidays etc If you're good enough, subbie work is probably the best money for least investment and you more or less manage your own hours. Much better day rate but no paid leave and your own insurance. If the long term plan is to set up a company and employ staff then prepare for lots of long hours, weekends, sleepless nights etc or a decade of crippling debt. Whichever you prefer. You get all the responsibility and cost, which can be a burden but if you get it right you can make almost as much as an employed climber!

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Proper snow. None of that slushy wet crap we usually get! Beagle was very unsure about it at first, but he embraced it after a few minutes. A great mid morning ramble was had by all.

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First touch of frost here. Fog is starting to lift now. Beagle had to be carried out for his morning business. Total refusal to get his paws cold. A day of maintenance, pricing, one small hedge trimming job and moving kit to ease myself into the week.

I've about an artic load of the stuff to come out before the end of the year. Wasn't looking forward to it coming back to the yard, it's full of wire, sorry I mean character. Please keep this rumour going so I can send it over the pond and retire a wealthy man.