Peter
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Does firewood actually dry in cord form?!!!
Peter replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Firewood forum
It does dry, not so quickly as cut logs. If you can fell and leave for a few weeks before snedding out the leaves will pull a lot of moisture out of the wood. -
Fit a decomp valve?
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Canter is much bigger (and heavier) than cabstar. The 3.0 cabstar made around 2005 is a little beauty though.
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You obviously haven't read the story. £5m to buy the site, and pay for the next 20 years of work, including creating 30 miles of footpaths. Sounds like a bargain, although whether its necessary or desirable is another matter.
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This is an FJ Cruiser...
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Sure, if your business is producing a timber crop. If your business is a service to individuals or organisations, and removing timber or woodchip is a part of that service, its a different story. Firstly, tree surgery is not forestry nor is it agriculture. Secondly that just reinforces my point that there isnt a blanket exemption that covers everyone involved in cutting trees, you need to look at what you do and whether it is covered or not.
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This has come up a few times now, the short answer is it depends what your drivers are doing. If you drive truck to site carrying tools required for your job, do the work and drive straight back to the yard, then you dont need it. If you deliver anything to a third party, ie logs or woodchip, then you do need it. If you go to site, load straight up with timber, and run it back to the yard, then you need it, as the main purpose of your activities is to haul materials. If you drive truck to site, do the work and haul a load away at the end of the day, then you may or may not need it depending whether you consider arisings (logs, chip, rakings) to be "materials required for your work" or not. Hope that helps.
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Or hauling valuable loads of mulch and firewood for resale......
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That looks really smart, like you say the build quality has come a long way.
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Supermarket or cash and carry. I joined Booker as they sell it in 25 litre drums.
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CHAS helps if you are already tendering for commercial work, but it wont suddenly bring in lots of work. As for getting someone in to do the application for you, if you already have all the paperwork done, (risk assessments, method statements, health and safety policy statement etc) then what are they doing for £350? You might as well put it all together and submit it yourself. On the other hand, if you are starting from scratch and need a complete set of paperwork drawn up, then it might be worth using someone to do that for you, but if you do make sure you use someone with an arb background, otherwise you may pass the assessment but the paperwork will be useless when you actually need it for a tender. I can point you in the right direction if you do need someone.
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Midland road springs.
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I use pure rapeseed oil, about £1 a litre. Avoid sunflower or other veg oils.
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No one is going to make you use one, whats your problem?
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I very occasionally let the guys have a lunch break, unpaid of course.
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It is possible to uprate them to 3500kg gross, give me a ring if you want more info. I have uprated the leaf springs on my Navara, but Nissan fit really soggy ones in the UK to improve the ride quality.
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Just replaced my old Stihl HL75 (I think) with the Echo as I didnt want a 4 mix engined Stihl. They are ok, nice cut but managed to jam the gearbox on the first outing, adjusting the angle of the head isnt as easy, and they wont take the abuse my old ones did.
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Its a pity tree surgeons weren't around in 1867, we could have wangled a tree surgeon's exemption to Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation, and dispensed with the need for ropes and mewps.
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You could make the same argument for haulage, the only reason to drive anywhere is to collect something and then drop it off, the driving is incidental....... As usual the rules are as clear as mud, until we get a test case. Any volunteers?
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Some days it is the main part of my job, that's why I'm doing it. Besides, one 7 hour course a year is hardly onerous.
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Sept 2014. I am doing it, FWIW you can do one 7 CPC qualifying first aid refresher every year and that will give you 35 hours every 5 years. If you've left it until now to start you may want to book a 35 hour block, uptake has been low up to now, next year or so is going to be a scrum.
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Ps, bloody glad we're not on that site today after last nights rain! Reckon the lorry would have sunk without trace in that stump sinkhole!
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Cheers, got any pics of those lumps of beech?! Flipping monsters!
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Possibly, depends if you can find evidence of the design weight being higher than the plated weight. Much easier to buy a 6.5 though, lots more of them about anyway.
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Er yes it does! Whatever the plate says is what you can carry, no physical changes to the vehicle but if you downplate it and then load it up to 7.5 tonnes you will be in trouble if you get weighed!
