Brits talkin about Brit stuff

[Big A]

Been planting up specimen trees in the gardens of a large house, really cool job as the client had no real idea as to what he needed, so had carte blanche to spend someone elses money on really nice trees. Nothing over-large, but nice all the same. only downer was there was only about twoo inches of decent top soil then rock hard below that, so much excavating, moving in topsoil, mixing in TPMC then planting. Then the perimeter needed hedging putting in, miles of it. What started outas a 2 day job has now extended to 2 weeks, all with his consent of course. As he is so impressed with the quality of work, he's asked us to carry out all the tree work for his large building company ( subject to price). Result!!

 

[Caledonian]

As he is so impressed with the quality of work

= a 'Big A'

(Arboculturist = StephenBullman)

Didn't want you feeling left out buddy. LOL :angel:

 

[Big A]

Aww Shucks!! I aint in Stephens league, lol, but cheers all the same.

 

[teressa green]

bloody railway track safety course ,very hard one to stay awake on ,agreed to do some takedowns for a company up here ,but have stipulated no saturday nights ,

 

[Ross Turner]

TG so you have got your PTS now,good luck working at night up trees aint fun

 

[highpoint-utd]

certainly aint,make sure you get the best petzel head torch you can get then buy another one!and get one of those 5 million candle power shooting lanterns and survey each tree before you climb.dont want you tying into deadwood !(this can and has happened)

 

[Ross Turner]

The company i work for are doing work for Balfour Beatys & have been asked to apply for a CIS card,I thought our industry did not need one,only construction.
Did anyone find out if this was black & white or still Grey.

 

[iain]

its mainly down to who you are contracting too, if they are in the construction industry their accounts are geared to cis so they expect everyone to join in,
idleitus
however i was told that if your task is not construction related ie site clearance for a development, then that is maintenance and thats not part of the cis scheme
the pure facts are, if you want the work you got to tow the corporate line !!

 

[Ross Turner]

I thought as much,the company have applied for CIS but they want the work.

 

[digga]

hi guys not sure this is posted in the right place but sure u will tell me if not I have recently brought a 8wheel forwarder and am wondering what rates I should be charging some customers want a price per ton to extract others want a day rate ? Mainly work in the south east uk
One of the main reasons for buying the forwarder was that I do a lot of cutting but never had the means to extract the timber. so had to get someone in which worked ok till they started pinching my customers and undercutting so I took the risk brought it so I can offer the complete service cutting and extraction just have to add what a awesome site this is loads of helpful advice

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

The company i work for are doing work for Balfour Beatys & have been asked to apply for a CIS card,I thought our industry did not need one,only construction.
Did anyone find out if this was black & white or still Grey.

Been through this before ,Arbs don't need a CIS card this is 100%..

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

High digga welcome to our thread ,don't know much about forwarder rates but one or 2 on here do,there sure to pipe up soon.

 

[teressa green]

been down the night climbing road before ,took on the contract but stipulated no nights ,,,,,,,up here saturday nights are for drinking ,and prepping the bikes for sunday ,,,,

 

[Buzzlightyear]

Digga you have mail !

 

[digga]

hi guys thanks for the warm welcome just replyed to your mail buzz

 

[Buzzlightyear]

hi guys thanks for the warm welcome just replyed to your mail buzz

Not a problem ! Their quite friendly here lol

 

[Acer]

hi guys not sure this is posted in the right place but sure u will tell me if not I have recently brought a 8wheel forwarder and am wondering what rates I should be charging some customers want a price per ton to extract others want a day rate ? Mainly work in the south east uk
One of the main reasons for buying the forwarder was that I do a lot of cutting but never had the means to extract the timber. so had to get someone in which worked ok till they started pinching my customers and undercutting so I took the risk brought it so I can offer the complete service cutting and extraction just have to add what a awesome site this is loads of helpful advice

If you find out, let us all know! One chap near me runs a mini forwarder, low output but very low ground pressure. He works for £150/day, which seems a bit cheap. He can only move 10 tons or so, but it is a specialist m/c for fragile sites. The book Practical Forestry by Cyril Hart has a lot of prices in it, but these would be c. 1990. I'm not sure how these have changed. UK inflation has been around 2% p.a., but I know my inflation is more like 10%! A rough guide round here seems to be £5-10/cu. m., and a cu. m is normally araound a ton when green.

 

[tam]

yeah man working with rossburger's great.
that chipper sure is very dodgy. if you got your glove (or ear) caught on a branch you'd never stop the beast in time to save your glove (or ear). then youd only be able to hear out of one side or your head. i mean, imagine if there was this low flying aeroplane coming at you from your earless side, and you didn't hear it in time and it flew over you and you pood your pants. that would be awful.

yip, i'm still taking the tablets...

 

[Buzzlightyear]

If you find out, let us all know! One chap near me runs a mini forwarder, low output but very low ground pressure. He works for £150/day, which seems a bit cheap. He can only move 10 tons or so, but it is a specialist m/c for fragile sites. The book Practical Forestry by Cyril Hart has a lot of prices in it, but these would be c. 1990. I'm not sure how these have changed. UK inflation has been around 2% p.a., but I know my inflation is more like 10%! A rough guide round here seems to be £5-10/cu. m., and a cu. m is normally araound a ton when green.

£150 a day is way to cheap....the least i've ever paid for a forwarder is £250 per day ....

Where's Thor when you need him ?

 

[Thor's Hammer]

I'm back. After taking 35 whopping great poplars down next to a national grid 400,000KV substation in 2 1/2 days, I to tired to be posting much. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz