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How have you dealt with it over the time you've been in business? It's early days for me so obviously figuring things out

Don't even know a specific thing, just after lots of physically demanding days something in it went when walking to the truck and could barely move at all. Had the same with my neck before as well

Lol. Yeah I thought this was a homeowner with a stump or 2 question, I defer to the machinery people..

I dig stumps out all the time with a mattock, if you post photos I could say if it's doable and what I'd charge

That's cool, hope it goes well 👌

Wow.. I vaguely knew from being here a while you did this arb website and the webdev stuff but that's cool you've gone into other things as well, mega entrepreneur !

I have looked into that a bit before since drop shipping is such a meme, but don't think I would want to do it. I'm pretty interested in making things myself, my own online shop, doing my own fulfilment etc.. Could maybe try making some arb equipment 🤔

The way you do it is pretty interesting. I can imagine doing both is a pain as you say, running different things at the same time must be challenging. The problem I guess is to try to not get spread too thin, and be able to allocate time to each business effectively? I love what I'm doing at the moment and if I could run it like it is now which is essentially me doing almost everything with the odd bit of help when I need it, it would be perfect. I don't think I really want to start getting teams together and send them out on jobs. Just need to think of that other way to make money on days off - I actually enjoyed work today since I was rested from taking yesterday off

Yet another day off with a back injury, going 110% all day every day has caught up with me. I've often thought about running another business alongside my tree one to give my body a rest. I'm the main climber, do almost everything myself, and don't really have any days off because I feel like I need to keep going to make it all work. I'm pretty uninterested in consultancy and surveying even though they are an obvious type of work to get into, which doesn't involve manual labour. Does anyone do something else? Can't keep ruining my body at this pace, but if I could split days between the physical labour, and another thing I could make it work.

Don't cut completely flush when pruning branches, go to the branch collar. If you attach a photo people here will show exactly where to cut to do it correctly

Interesting.. Why are they preferable to steel?

I just checked it's a KM 131R. Which when I google says is a 4 mix engine? It has been absolutely abused which may factor into it

I've heard of these underground anchors but never used any yet.. Just checked the price and if I'm not mistaken it's around £80 per tree I'd need to spend which is prohibitive for what I've priced already. The 8ft posts (if I can secure them properly in the ground) I'm sure will be more than enough, it's not an exposed garden, it's surrounded by a tall hedge and buildings.

Thanks appreciate the advice. Practically how do you use the pinch bar, just hit the ground with arm strength or hammer it in? And just the pinch bar's diameter in the ground will do, or I should try to make a sizable hole with it? I looked up those hammer/mell things and lots of options, don't know which head weight is best- 4.5kg screwfix one ERROR: The request could not be satisfied WWW.SCREWFIX.COM 5.4kg one with wooden handle Access Denied WWW.ZORO.CO.UK 6.4kg bulldog one, imagine it gets tiring quick but I like that brand, makes quality stuff Bulldog Fencing Mauls 6.4kg WWW.SAM-TURNER.CO.UK Features: One piece 36" heavy-duty fibreglass handle Epoxy paint coated cast head Soft-grip Head tempered for strength and rigidity

I've used a kombi Stihl hedgecutter for years now with the hedgecutter long reach attachment. I got it so I could change to the pole saw attachment when needed Is the dedicated HL94 any better for hedges than the kombi? I never researched if it was lighter or anything. The sound from mine is completely deafening I don't know if that's unique to my machine or not..