Steve Bullman

If the small amount of people who have submitted the poll is a reflection on the wider audience then its clear i need to put more energy into promoting it, but obviously being a free service I don't have the marketing budget for it at this time. Gets tiresome repeatedly posting about it here and on social media. I stupidly thought it was going to be easy to push with the amount of thefts that are rife in the industry.

Thanks for the feedback Mark, Yes there are a few updates that need doing to the site for sure, but as its not really been doing anything in terms of traffic I haven't done any further development. I will get that looked at. Regarding the amount of items stolen, I think its likely that a lot of the people who registered had already had the items stolen and joined specifically to list them

capstans are good but if you are going to be using different groundsmen on the regular, id definetly recommend the rc 2001, its basically fool proof

Same to you! It’s a very dry festive period for me this year unfortunately. To make it worse I received about 10 bottles of wine for Christmas that are just staring at me!

That’s a good question. Can’t say I see much posted on Facebook either. I don’t do Instagram, perhaps some hang out there

Is there a specific section you need translated? If you stick up a screenshot

Do you have any experience with other manufacturers such as Husqvarna or Echo? I know its already been mentioned that the newer autotune saws register the owners name. Also as a dealer, whats your opinion of Arbsafe?

I believe they are supposed to, but this hinges on the vendor actually doing so. I expect this falls down a bit with online sales, or with lesser brands that aren't subject to quite the same rules the bigger companies impose on their dealers. Thats speculation though. Either way, with Arbsafe you are taking the responsibility into your own hands.

I suspect thefts are only going to get much worse in the coming years. For all the complaints about the police force the fact remains they do recover quite large hauls of stolen equipment from time to time.

Back in 2014 I developed the Arbsafe stolen equipment register. This was the first of its kind that I am aware of that specifically targeted equipment in our industry, and to this date is still the only register that I am aware of. Despite it being free it proved nearly impossible to get wide scale adoption and as a result it has been sitting quietly in the background doing nothing. A recent post on Facebook by a local police force saw them comment that they were unaware of a database for stolen chainsaws, which I find quite astonishing. 'Stolen chainsaw database' brings up Arbsafe at the top of google, so I can only assume they didn't bother looking. I am considering either having one last big push on this or just putting it to bed for good, so would like some feedback as to why you think people are hesitant to register their gear. A quick outline of how Arbsafe works: Registration is free Equipment is listed in your user account and remains private on a secure server If you have any equipment stolen you can log in to your account and mark it as stolen Once marked as stolen the one item (or more) become publicly searchable I understand this was never going to change the world, but security is all about adding layers, and this is one more layer to add. Unlike nearly all other layers you could choose to add, this one is 100% free. The idea is that people purchasing stolen equipment can search the database prior to purchasing a piece of second hand equipment, that is if they have a mind to. Beyond that though, over the past 8 years the site has been live, I have been approached on a number of occasions by police forces looking to reunite kit with its rightful owners. Most of this kit has still had the serial numbers intact, however no means of identifying who it belongs to. Had the kit being listed on Arbsafe, it would have been reunited with its owner, instead it was likely sold off at auction, or who knows what. Please take your time to answer the poll or reply to the topic, thanks! Home :: Arbsafe ARBSAFE.CO.UK

Yeah, its not difficult at all, its just different to the simplicity that the younger generation have become accustomed to and a lot simply dont take a moment to learn it. One guy on facebook was once complaining that the tip site directory was too hard to find. Theres a flipping icon right at the top of mobile view, not sure how much simpler I can make it 😁

Actually the amount of traffic is a lot larger than it was. At the peak of forum activity around 2013-2014 we used to get about 80,000 unique visitors per month. Now its more like 120,000. Less choose to actually post these days, largely due to what I just mentioned about the dilution of platforms. I don't buy that people dont post due to a few members. If that were the case social media platforms would be dead as they are amongst the most toxic environments out there!

Social media has become quite diluted in the past 10 years which is probably the biggest reason

Good question. I’ll definetly be checking in on Spartacus

its become almost something of a tradition to ban someone on christmas day....joyful times seem to bring out the worst in some people. Please keep this up for another 2 days.

Basically the american system

I don't think anyones has to be fair. Groundsmen in our trade are still starting out on what I did 25 years ago!

This is probably the biggest part of the problem, all the money wasted. I read the other day they spent £100,000 on training staff how to deal with pregnant transgender men including the use of the terms 'chest feeding'. Not sure if that was actually true but it wouldnt surprise me these days.

Anyone who works hard deserves more. as for the prices Gareth posted, I don’t think they show a true picture of what nurses do earn as it doesn’t take into account shift pay etc. plus I think any nurse who knows how to play the system does the minimum amount of contracted hours then makes up the extra as bank staff, again more toot. Can only speak from experience but someone once close to me was certainly bringing home in excess of 40k a year

not sure if it makes a difference if you are doing it as practice in your own garden or on a paying job? I remember the first tree I climbed I had barely even used a chainsaw. Didn't know any knots. Strapped on a pair of spikes and was shown where the clippy things clipped to on the harness. Times have certainly changed a lot

I expect to see the overweight vegetarians brain in the reduced section in Tescos along with other unpopular cuts like lamb hearts and livers

Not exactly going to be the leanest meat out there is it

Something makes me think that was @Ian Flatters

They are by very definition the party of losers 😀

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