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That must have been a bitter pill to swallow.

Not stamped on the device, I'll check the user instructions when i get chance. It's pretty uncommon for friction devices to have an MBS. Generally speaking the safety factor for hardware is 5:1.

A Durham one has gone independent!

I seen a Reform counceller bloke has defected to the Conservatives . Warrington . Its like musical chars .

It's a Swindon roundabout!

Thanks for posting this, it basically answers most of my questions!

How many U turns is that?

Quickest court case ever 😂 Keir Starmer abandons plan to cancel council elections APPLE.NEWS The government has abandoned its attempt to delay elections to 30 councils across the country after being warned by lawyers that it may be illegal. Labour...

Not Ashes but Aus could go out of the T20 World Cup tomorrow without making the last 8; they've just been whopped by Sri Lanka. Come on Zimbabwe - we need you to beat Ireland (sorry on this occasion Ireland).

NFU put a 6m restriction on mine years back, so I had to move. I’m tempted to go back now tbh!

Yeah. Sorry. I was being pointlessly snide.

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I work with somone that uses Business Choice Direct for PL. His was roughtly £500 for the renewal but has been with them a few years. I was suprised that many insurers put a height exclusion - apparently the first time it was 10m, he didnt read it closely and a customer pointed out, so he had to phone up and got it changed. Anyone else had that? While we have to have it, its not really worth the paper its written on!

That's the business they are in, easy bloody money. Being a broker, assuming most companies we deal with are brokers, they just wack as much money on as they think they can get away with.

Beat me to it Markie!

I’ve just received my renewal declaration from Trust. I doubt it’s going to be less than last year. Mate just had a £900 increase with his insurance company which he kicked off about so they reduced it to a £50 increase. Isn’t that just them admitting they were trying to rinse him for £850?

With trust here. Every year you now need to fill out a form detailing the different areas of your business and what percentage your turnover is of each sector. I find it tedious as nothing changes in my situation, bit like the National Trust asking for my tickets every blasted year, see the fecking email I sent you last year and forward it onto yourself you jeb!

Fyi I have been in the trees many years before I came to the farm, collage then prominent company before setting up my own show.

Mechanic found an exposed/earthed wire that controlled the injector. This was causing it to over fuel and spray fluid like Katie Price at a Man United Christmas party. He fixed that and it seems to run ok. He wants to fit original spark plugs and finish tuning this week. We will know if the engines ok when we put it in a stump. I am quietly hopeful.

Stayed with them in the end, told them straight been doing trees for 30 plus years no claims, and would take business elsewhere. Came back with quote only a little bit more then last year. I have £10m cover, Broker is Performance Direct, can't remember who I found them years ago, just they did advertise on here.

I was thinking yesterday I’d ask how he got on with the mechanic. Brighten our days, Mick.

*bump* @woody paul Sorry, just seen this -how did you get on? I'm currently struggling to get a reasonable renewal quote, for EL and PL insurance, here. Was with NFU for a couple of claim-free decades, until they decided to try and double my premium ! So then moved to Arborisk for 10+ (claim free) years, until they/Aviva wanted a 50% increase..whilst turnover etc declining.. So moved the policy to Howdens brokers last year (£1k), but now have that familiar sinking feeling -waiting for renewal quote with 'new' insurer... Tried trade specialist Consilio Brokers, who implied any EL and PL policy would really be starting at £1.5k There's a consistent 50% increase theme running here... I'm clearly in the wrong line of business -need to diversify into money printing/insurance! Meantime, can anyone else suggest brokers worth trying, pretty please ? 🤗

One thing I like about the ISC swivel is that it fits two Karabiners. Just a tidy place to keep a second Karabiner for MRS when you need it.

Ive always been lucky or unlucky you could say , the next pick up was fitted with rops as it came out of landrover , didnt fancy that again