Kent Arboreal

First tree of the day

I’d do that in a copse but you got big balls dropping it through that fence, nice job [emoji106]

I assume the third person in this scenario is a groundie making sure his mates safe while he’s climbing

Great news if you insist on correct expression to the point of incoherence. The pedant’s help desk is now open 3 3/7

When they ask how I want my steak I always reply “So a good vet could bring it back”

People who ask for it well done should be given a plate of turkey dinosaurs and postman pat spaghetti

Any recommendations for a small chipper? I had a 18hp Hyundai thing a few years ago which was a bit rubbish. Upgraded to a nice towable Timberwolf but sold it to go towards a house deposit. I rent at the moment at £105 a day but it’s a bit of a pain in the arse to keep picking it up and comes up expensive over a month.

[emoji23][emoji23] bit close to the mark that

Great saw versatile and light. Wished I’d bought the heated handle one last winter. I find it can bog down in a bore cut but to be fair only when your cutting stuff that’s a bit big for it. It’s robust as but I reckon that if you’re using an18 inch bar something with a bit more beans will do better.

I haven’t had any issues running my saws on E10 except they seem to be a lot thirstier. I never really kept track of how much they were using beforehand so I might be imagining it but I usually refill before they run dry and recently I keep being surprised when they do.

Panic buying toilet paper was easy, I just stuck it all in the shed. I’ve had to drive 400 miles today to make room for another tank of diesel.

A moth goes into a podiatrist’s office, and the podiatrist’s office says, “What seems to be the problem, moth?”

The moth says “What’s the problem? Where do I begin, man? I go to work for Gregory Illinivich, and all day long I work. Honestly doc, I don’t even know what I’m doing anymore. I don’t even know if Gregory Illinivich knows. He only knows that he has power over me, and that seems to bring him happiness. But I don’t know, I wake up in a malaise, and I walk here and there… at night I…I sometimes wake up and I turn to some old lady in my bed that’s on my arm. A lady that I once loved, doc. I don’t know where to turn to. My youngest, Alexendria, she fell in the…in the cold of last year. The cold took her down, as it did many of us. And my other boy, and this is the hardest pill to swallow, doc. My other boy, Gregarro Ivinalititavitch… I no longer love him. As much as it pains me to say, when I look in his eyes, all I see is the same cowardice that I… that I catch when I take a glimpse of my own face in the mirror. If only I wasn’t such a coward, then perhaps…perhaps I could bring myself to reach over to that cocked and loaded gun that lays on the bedside behind me and end this hellish facade once and for all…Doc, sometimes I feel like a spider, even though I’m a moth, just barely hanging on to my web with an everlasting fire underneath me. I’m not feeling good. And so the doctor says, “Moth, man, you’re troubled. But you should be seeing a psychiatrist. Why on earth did you come here?”

And the moth says, “‘Cause the light was on.

Your making it sound like Scottish cleaning is back [emoji23][emoji23] Your not working undercover here are you [emoji23][emoji23]

I miss his posts.

That looks like a bast&@d to sharpen without putting it on a bench

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I like that a lot

Cherries do that, I knocked one over a couple of weeks ago that was absolutely rooted inside and the crown was held on by what might as well have been polystyrene. Only a diddy one so no dramas. Wouldn’t want to find a larger tree in that state though, I wouldn’t know where to start [emoji23]

Resurrecting an old thread here but I’m going to need 2 chippers in the Canterbury area next week and I’ve only got one! Did you ever start hiring out your Timberwolf? Plenty of room on site to pile it up and put it all through once the jobs over if that’s easier

@drinksloe yup, definately, not pissing aint a good sign either. Huge intakes of fluid upzets yr body, as those clubbers on drugs unfortunately found out ( Wot Lia Betts died from, sadly - not the drug but pressure on brain) teaspoon of salt in box of fruit juice is a good rehydrator. Tastes  better too. K

In a litre box? Or one of those little ones with the straw on the side?

I’m topping leylandis today and somehow it’s even hotter up the top, no shade, nowhere to hide, had about17 breaks already and I’m considering sacking it off till tomorrow now

Good for you. This is important stuff. I thought mental health problems were trivial until I went doolally for a few months after some stressful events all hit at once. Now I’m of a different opinion. Well done

My missus has a rare disease of the toenails and although she hasn't lost any yet (the foot doctor wanted to take them off ages ago) she will lose all of them eventually.

What a lovely story

Could be a stone spider, their bites turn to ulcers that take ages to heal. I don’t know about the lump though that’s not something I’ve heard of.

I had originally come here to try and identify which oak tree it was, only in the last few days it was decided it was going to be cut down.
 
In any industry it should be fine to question a quote you get. I don't see questioning why something costs £2000 for one days work is such a surprise to anyone.

It doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone, and you’ve had a pretty comprehensive list of answers as to why it might cost that now. But anyway, that’s just my ten pence worth, it ain’t like I’m gonna be felling it, it’s miles away. [emoji23]

I have one quote for £1250 + vat so far and some lower ones elseware

So basically you’re in the ball park, and by asking here, which is a reasonable idea, you’re getting the inside track on rates and how everyone goes about pricing jobs. We’re all running businesses so our aim is to get the best return on our time and investment, which isn’t cheap. For example, I work with one other bloke, for bigger jobs we get subs in, for yours I’d want three of us. Some guys might do it as a pair, some might have 4, and that’s up to them, there’s no standard that everyone does, it’s their call and that’s gonna be reflected in the prices we’ve all got bags of kit which is expensive to buy and expensive to maintain. We’ve gotta keep all that somewhere, I for example live in a regular sized semi detached, so I need to rent a yard to keep it. Because it’s expensive gear it’s attractive to the light fingered, so I pay more for a yard with cctv locked gates and people on site at night. That’s another cost. It all needs fuel, the tickets cost money, we spend our free time out quoting jobs many of which you won’t get, odd days where you’ve gotta service your saws, have a proper sharpen up on a bench, none of that’s getting paid for, expensive ppe. hell even my trousers cost £250. Turnover is a completely irrelevant barometer of the health of a business. If someone says they’ll do it for ten grand then they’re taking the proverbial, if someone says 500 quid, they’re probably gonna fell it onto the neighbours conservatory, but £1500 to £3000 isn’t unreasonable and it’s up to you to know what you can afford and choose who you think is gonna do the best job of it for that money. And bear in mind the reality of it is that none of us are interested in a race to the bottom because there’s plenty of well paid work out there if you do a decent job of it.

Out of interest how do people feel about doing some of these jobs? I was watching a video on YouTube from an American landscaper and he turned a job down because he knew the outcome would look garbage and he didn't want to put his name to it. I've felt sometimes, especially with work in public view that I want to turn it down through fear that it will not just look garbage but kill the tree. I'm sure some ARB company will pick up the job but I am wary of being the company who made the tree look crap or "killed my beautiful tree" even though it was what the customer specifically spec'd

Just say yes if it’s in the back garden [emoji23]

Sobering. Wouldn’t wish that on anybody.