manco

chances are its a major case of SEP.

an ex-cypress.

insurance makes me broker

stihl br800. go big or go home.

give it to someone else to do. thats a winner every time

sounds like HAL having a bitchfit again. keep your helmet on.

if it becomes a problem the pink panther is the best weapon to save us

no

drop it in one saves logs dropping off near the windows and stuff one low cut in the right direction removes risk of stuff swinging at height or dropping move the car, rope the top, 1/4 gob 18inch from ground towards the grid in the gutter, go through the back 2/3, pull it over no pressure on the saw when you cut, let it nibble to reduce jamming from fibres. after that youre on your own. or pay someone else to do it and shove it all on the back of their truck cos its shit stuff

dried camel turd

just wear a top i can feel comfy in if it gets wet and have dry change. if its bad enough to need waterproofs i aint working in it. not spending a fortune on fancypants lightweight flexi waterproof tops that are gonna get ruined within a week. cheap aldi jacket does fine

90% within 5 miles

taking this "why bother" thought down a new path, how much do we all clean up afterwards? surely a customer is going to expect a large amount of sawdust from a tree coming down? do we get it all up or do we feel its acceptable to leave sawdust all over the borders cos they epxected it anyway? obviously lets not destroy the garden in getting the tree down and not leave branches all over the place but some leaves and sawdust?

yeah just put the word around. try some of the smaller sole trader guys, they might value the occasaional day worker on a bigger job and be done by 3 on the heavy stuff

tenner says its about 2 inches too wide to fit through a standard side gate

but will the insurance not try every single possible trick to wriggle out of paying anyway? and find some tiny thing you did wrong and you still end up taking the hit? im fully insured, for a few years when i started i wasnt, its made very little difference i can see to any work ive done beyond legal requirement i see the argument for not having it, feels like a waste of money but the cost is fairly easily absorbed over the year if work is steady

surely just going to make sea levels rise

happy to pay 12 or 15 quid an hour for someone thats gonna be into the job, eager and is gonna get the work done and not drag-ass. 8 hours at a tenner is 80 quid. if that same lad can get the same job done in 4 hours, at 15 quid an hour its 60 quid and its worth the extra 20 for getting the job done quick. problem is young lads dont seem to understand that thinking, get the job done quick and get home quicker with comparatively more wages. they just seem to drag-ass and try to get 80 quid for a full day. where do you find better lads who are switched on and actually want to do the job and start getting into tree work? coming from arb college is no good cos they want megabucks and still cant do anything, and dont want to drag brash facebook dragslags are a waste of space and dont have any interest in the job or learning and doleys are waste of time. are we talking careers days in schools or what?

twenty isnt plenty. its a pain in the arse. so i ignore it. maybe if kids were taught Stop, Look, Listen in school instead of being taught we are killing the planet then maybe they wouldnt keep getting hit by plant-killing cars. and while we are at it kids can go f*ck themselves telling me i shouldnt be cutting trees cos of the environment. and older people should know better and not wander around in roads and then wonder why they got hit by a car doing 30. but from the flip side maybe if so many drivers werent utterly useless at it and could drive properly then 30 would still be fine. either way they can still sod off.

ok enough with the stupid replies, im asking a serious question where do you all go looking for labourers.

ok stop focusing on the "cheap" cos thats not even the issue right now the issue is where do you look for good lads, where do you find new workers who are wanting to get into trees but not rocking up fresh from college arb course and wanting megabucks cos they think theyre the dogs danglies. 100 quid a day goes a lot further as a wage for a 20 yr old than for a 30 yr old. but i have to find them first. thats the question. where do you find new guys.

what i want is someone young and cheap with a keen interest in getting started on the job by dragging then training up to cut and climb. ****************ed if i know where to start looking for someone young and keen for this kinda job everyone ive had from facebook has been a waster

where the hell are people finding new groundmen? ive tried facebook and all i get are muppets but i dont need to be paying for a trained qualified chainsaw lad to rake up and drag brash

i currently use shell vpower with husq xp oil but this is for a brand new 661. so im looking at only using either apsen or motomix in it. im just working on figuring out which of those two is the better suited or generally better. the lubricative properties of the fuel may weigh bigger than the clean-burning properties, but i cant be sure. currently i am leaning to apsen. im just wondering if we trust the guff from stihl and trust theyre making the perfect fuel for their saws, as opposed to just better than the other shite

from aspen Aspens 2-stroke oil is very high quality and certainly as good as any of the other brands top quality oils. It is developed by Aspen themselves and not available as a 2-stroke oil alone so to keep the formulation secret.