Peter
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Stump shot is a higher back cut to leave a step to prevent the butt coming back over the stump.
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It is only the later d22 navaras that had the engine trouble, 2003 onwards I think, so you would be ok with an earlier one, which is all you would get more £2-3K anyway.
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You can burn up to 10 tonnes a day of green material on site. Any more than that and the land owner will need an exemption from the Environment Agency, straightforward enough to get. I have burned several hundred tonnes on site in the last couple of years, on a site a bit like yours, difficult access and no-where to put chip or logs on site. Keeping smoke off motorways etc is common sense, ie there are no specific rules covering it, but if you cause an accident then you will get prosecuted. Get on to the EA if you need clarification. Here is rather boring video clip of my last fire. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcn3Lozm-FM&context=C45782c4ADvjVQa1PpcFNjBqJSxHAvPdvDH6QEtZQ_1xh0jSyIC2o=]The big burn - YouTube[/ame]
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Better find another stinger to accidentally run over then!
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Plus £30 for 2 part worn Chinese remoulds?!
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Used many TW 150, when I bought my own I went for the Greenmech, very happy with it.
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How about if he loaded his truck with rubble and took it straight to landfill from site? Or if he loaded his truck with rubble from site and tipped it at his friend's house where his friend uses it to make a new driveway, but no money changes hands. Or the above scenario, but the friend has a business partner who also wants a load, and gives the driver £20 for his trouble? Once you start looking at our day to day activities in detail it starts getting a bit murky.
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Very comprehensive thanks. I have decided to do my DCPC, for various reasons. In your example of a tree surgeon claiming exemption, does removing arisings from site really come under "tools and materials necessary for your work"? The DCPC isnt the only time that exemption comes up, and I have always wondered if it would stand up to scrutiny. Wood chip and logs, whether you class that as waste or a valuable by product, doesnt really fit the category of materials needed, and certainly not tools......
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Presuming your not from the uk? As a very rough guide you could expect to pay about 15-20% of that wage as tax.
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Dick Leigh carries the best range of spares in stock, if I ring them before 3pm I nearly always have the part I want the next day.
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Good work. Nice looking tree too, why was it felled?
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Exactly right. If you employ a driver or work as a driver then you have to to dcpc. I'm reasonably sure most tree firms don't employ drivers, I certainly don't. I do employ arborists who also drive as part of their work, and they come under the exemption outlined above.
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Not quite the case, if you employ a driver, they must have cpc. It you employ a tree surgeon who also drives as part of their work then they don't have to have it. Delivery of own goods is fine on a restricted o licence, it is haulage of others goods that isn't.
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I think you are getting your cpcs mixed up. The ones that apply to hgvs are either operator cpc, which as far as I'm aware you still won't need to hold a restricted o licence, and driver cpc, which if you are employed as a hgv driver you will need to get 35 hours of training before 2014.
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I haven't watched more than 2 films this year, and I love films! German Russian front, Cross of Iron.
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Lacewood.
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I dont see how it is any different to using a footlock strop with a klemheist or similar. Going up you use the hitch on its own, coming down you put a descender in. No-one says you cant use the system because you cant descend on the hitch, no-one uses a fig 8 without the hitch as backup. If you are worried about the wrench failing in use and not being able to descend, then carry a figure eight as a backup, or set a trunk belay system, or both.
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No reason to not include pantin and spikes etc on your daily, weekly and 6 monthly inspections.
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An item doesn't have to be CE marked to be included in loler. As long as it is fit for purpose. What else does the RW do other than act as a descender? It doesn't have any function during ascent.
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Don't worry Tim, found it. directive 89/686/EEC on Personal Protective Equipment 3.4 Equipment for climbing, rock climbing, speleology etc. (ice-axes, hammers, descenders not fitted with a built-in speed-regulating system, rope-climbing equipment, etc.) Category 0 (ie not PPE)
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Can you clarify which European Directive that is from Tim? The way you are interpreting it would mean if you hung a packet of fags from your harness they would need to be CE marked.
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Not really, if any component of a conventional system failed, ie biner, hitch climber or hitch cord, that would result in failure of the whole system. The RW is in the same category as a bit of string round your neck holding your footlock strop.
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I think you've tried to add 2 and 2 and come with last Tuesday there Tim.
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Probably run slightly better, certainly won't do any harm.
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I see it as a climbing aid not ppe, if it failed in use then the hitch should hold on its own, just as if your spikes failed you shouldn't fall.
