egghead29

There's a good chance that this tree was on the way out anyway, or at least about to struggle. The very cold snap in November 2022 damaged a lot of eucalyptus here in Scotland. 2023 was just watching a few of them slowly die off as the damage was realised.

My advice would be to really work on your people and communication skills. I'm not even close to the best tree person in my area but the ability to really understand what customers want, explain what's good for the tree and letting them make a balanced compromised decision is worth it's weight. We get so many good reviews from people who really appreciate that. I would also say it's going to cost way more to run it than you think. In reality, for a two man team, you need to be taking £500-800/day. And also as someone who set a business up in my 20s I would probably agree with the previous comment and I'd travel about first. Once it's up and running it's a real big thing to leave it and go somewhere else. If I had my time again I would do more subbing in more places before starting. It's kind of like doing lots of fun dating before you finally settle down.

Was recently recommended the pronar chipper over a used st6. Was told that the build quality on these polish machines was better than the forst. And a new machine from pronar is about the same price. Wonder if anyone has had any actual experience with them.

😂 Mick. Sounds like your house is full of pulleys and shoes. Thanks for the advice. It arrived today and I'm probably just going to keep it and see what I end up using it for. I got a good price on it. And probably I'll get a wee pinto at some point. Although if it wasn't already here I think I would have stuck with krummholz advice and just waited until I actually needed one. Thanks for the input.

I do most of my rigging from a stein X ring and it's great. I've got some jobs coming up where it will be useful to be able to lift some small pieces over some lines so I decided to invest in a pulley. I got excited and ordered a huge icr 255. But now it's on the way I'm wondering if I'm wasting my money or if it's a good futureproof investment. Do I just return the big block (£200) and get a wee pinto rig (£50)? I've not got a winch so it's not likely that I'll be lifting big weights anytime soon. And I'm happy with the xring for negative rigging etc. Do folks find that the big blocks just stay in their bags because they are so big and they're more likely to use a wee pulley. Any thoughts much appreciated