Brits talkin about Brit stuff

[ROLLACOSTA]

nah you're alright, im just going to be a man of leisure for the next week at least.

haha is that what you think ,i have a days work for next sat if your interested ????

 

[teressa green]

bit of storm work ,tidy ups etc ,mainly reassuring house holders that their trees are safe,checking for root bowl lift etc,bit of dead wooding ,trimming broken limbs etc ,not great but it gets the name out there ,as good as money in the bank ,,,,

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

tha asses in this area seen only to be concerned about there tree's when they have a huge bough resting on the roof of there house

 

[SteveBullman]

tend to find people wait for a couple of days till after the storm before calling so they dont have to pay emergency rates if they can be avoided

 

[PRUNER 1]

aaarrrgghhh!!!!! bloody storm, darlington clocked 90 mph winds on fri/sat night. we lost loads of sorbus and loads of huge poplars. plenty on cars and houses and loads of roads shut off. only 6 of us to deal with it all aswell. worked 17 hours on saturday and 15 on sunday then back to the normal grind today. all the cemetary's were shut, the south park that we restored with heritage money has been obliterated. months of work tidying up to come! loads of overtime though!

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

and loads of private stuff i bet ???? to PRUNER1

 

[iain]

anyone picking up any storm work?

we have been swamped with it call outs for local auth`s n business but then you always get the usuual `how much will it cost ` brigade (private punters) god that really gets irritating after the umpteenth call :angry2:
pruner1 we`ve lost plenty of the same but we seem to be getting it right across from conifers to oaks around here lots of wind blown debris on the roads, cuts down on dead wooding in the spring i suppose

climb high n drink lots :angel:

 

[jamie]

work

we have not had anything major just yet, like with everything else, we breed them tougher than what you english do.

i have a saw home with me and my phone by my bed tonight as its a bit blowy out.

had a small beech with the top hung in another tree to remove on sunday, some local councillor came round and had a go at us as he wasnt informed of the decision. i was punching holes in the stem (the top chunk was a big un, i aint climbing on mush). the sh!t has hit the fan with the council arb officer because he never told the coucillor just told us to get on with it (it was in a primary school). there was only about 10 years of growth rings on it, where there was substantial growth.

jamie

 

[blue]

so far we've only had 2 stormjobs.a big dead horse chesnut snapped in half,we were due to fell it anyhow soon so didn't make anything on it.and a fallen connifer.
guees it was a bit more windy up there

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

big big blow coming this week so i see on the weather forecast

 

[blue]

big blow mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

yeh but not our area

 

[blue]

i see it's another good weather forecast for the north tomorrow and tuesday.just for a change though it looks like snow and gale force winds instead of rain and gale force winds.you guys up there are so lucky

 

[jamie]

snow you say

snow, maybe the scottish ski cnetres will open then

and hell may freeze over

jamie

 

[teressa green]

lucky ,forgot what a day off is like ,pricing til 9 pm ,bloody hell ,just wanna ride my bike on sundays ,

 

[blue]

terresa,
have you ever riden off-road in snow?

 

[teressa green]

yep, wash like russian roulette on two wheels ,fun fun fun ,doesnt hurt too much when ya sling it down the road,,,,,,just got up no snow or wind ,usually get a bit of wind after brekkie ,,,,,must be my age ,,,,,,phaaarrrrpppppp,,,,,,,cough ,fhutttttt,

 

[iain]

i see it's another good weather forecast for the north tomorrow and tuesday.just for a change though it looks like snow and gale force winds instead of rain and gale force winds.you guys up there are so lucky

mmmmm yeah that s just what we thought out working with the winds blowing all the ????e in your face while the cold try`s to freeze off the brass monkeys lucky us

but there you go i`m waiting for the indian summer pleasesssss

 

[blue]

think you'll have along wait Iain

 

[blue]

SO HAVE ANY OF YOU NORTHERNERS GOT TO MUCH WORK TO HANDLE after the winds recently,can have a lorry,chippa and crew up there if you need a hand?(sorry about the caps lock)