madmatt

BFG Muds are not noisy! well they arn't noisy if your normal and drive round listening to the stereo or chatting to the passenger! The BFG is terrific in lasting forever and its road holding is brilliant for a mud tyre. I disagree with Charlie though I prefer a wider Mud tyre due to the fact I can still keep traction but I do tend to cut in less so sites tend to be less cut up. That said Charlie is right in that the vehicle gets covered in mud. at the end of the day pay ya money make ya choice!

I agree however its harder to get special builds out of Ifor and the take a hell of a long while to be built in my experiance.

Try Graham Edwards Trailers think they have a web page.

Hmm!! thoose two certainly don't look good. A better job can be made even with a shear. We have trees down here that were pollarded with the shear 12months ago and now you'd never know thats willow for you! To set the record straighter, not ALL EA lads are allowed to climb, some are a select few at select depots, There isn't an out right ban on all EA staff from being climbers. The shear could have been choosen because there wern't qualified climbers avliable or, the risk management paperwork specifed the use of the shear. We'll never see the paperwork package for the above job so its hard to judge the use of machine over climber accurately. The reason I asked in previous posts about ;landowner negotiations is the EA have a short window annually to carry out work and often have to go in and access wet areas and chew fields up, but its allways negotiated with the land owner and reinstated afterwards, Its very rare the land owner gets a rough deal. I wait to be shot down in flames and bombarded with unpolite comments from the people that will insult EA ops guys just because they work for the same organisation that legislates waste transfer and burning on site etc!

I'd have said its old age! Bloody frightning though and food for thought!

How old is the trailer?! and have you owned it from new? Ifor still offer the larger wheels as an option, I've owned several Ifor's and never had a problem at all after thousand of miles.

I don't know about a drysuit specific course. But we covered using a drysuit on the 2 day waterside safety course. Though different areas do different training some times!

My drysuit was a hand-me-down from my old chargehand, it was specially made for him and has chainsaw wellies attached! cost 900quid new! I don't wear it that often hence why we can't justify getting me a new one at the moment. Getting Hiflex on under it is hard. I usually wear it if cutting stood in the bed when the water is over waist height as the splashes are enough to soak me through. Like you I assess every job on its own merits before inssiting on life jackets.

gloves can pose more of danger than a benefit when working in water. They make handling a saw and operating the controls akward. I work in rivers a lot and rarely use chainsaw gloves some times the the thin rubber grip glove but never chainsaw gloves. If you think about a modern chainsaw both hands are well protected. its all about calculated risks.

I would have thought BioDiversity should be encouraging this. I'm sure there are some Ops Guys that would jump up and down about it, but in my opinion its all about the right thing in the right place at the right time. As for Hiflex under waders I had them on under a drysuit week before last. As you say certainly don't feel the cold!

these folks are in Hampshire http://www.overland-es.co.uk/index.html

are you refering to the ops guys Charlie? As i guess you have spoken to conservation/biodiversity or what ever they call there selves in Upper Trent.

probably ment the P.A.T test portable appliance testing, done on all electrical items in a commercial environment on a 3,6,9or 12 month cycle.

I can vouch for that above I am in this boat this month!!!!

my god my head hurts! Just started a week of training today CS32,34,35 assesment is next monday I'll be a right mushed up mess by then my little brain is in infomation over load!

You need to get a diesel burning night heater mate, 2 mins and a defender is toasty warm!

Really does depend what its being used for. My dad had a TD4 freelander for 262000 miles 240,000 were trouble free apart from servicing and tyres. It was chipped and returned 38mpg regularly on a run. Offroad capability on a freelander is all down to the driver and whether or not the freelander has the HDC kit fitted. Not all freelanders had hill decent control and traction control as standard. I went to an independent off road driving school with work and the freelander there could get most of the places a defender could if it was driven by people that were taught how to drive a freelander off road properly. At the end of the day pay ya money take ya chances!

Dm chainsaws have a 190 Ben or can get you a 150 with variable track they will supply a trailer too if needed. if not your looking at Orange Plant.

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1992/Uksi_19921687_en_1.htm makes interesting reading

Dodger sorry if you thought I was making out you were a muppet thats the trouble with posting at 6am. The point I was trying to make is you'll find in actual fact that the buck stops with the person with the supervisors ticket unit 10 if the operatives that hold 8 have carried out everything to his plan. Chapter 8 holder can only be hold responsable if they have actually failed to carryout thier duties in accordance with the rules/tm plan.

I have Chapter 8 for work. However we can't just set the stuff as we like, Our supervisor has chap 10, he does site surveys risk assesments and a plan of the work area we then put it up to the plans etc. We have the old people at work how were described as "wiser" the are the muppets that hate change don't like showing newbies what to do, won't wear new uniform, moan about vehicles etcetc our boss has a very low oppinion of them. Becarefull refusing courses at the moment your gaffer could soon find someone willing to do the job who already has the ticket!

It might have leaf springs but a 10x5 tipper will be knocking on for 800 kilo empty so it won't bounce that much. Also if a leaf spring breaks they can be replaced easily some of the indespension trailers you can't just replace the unit on one end you have to replace the whole axle.

Well my old 90 managed to get a 38tonne loaded artic moved off a roundabout on the A5 one friday night back in the days the old bill could ask for help without a reem of paperwork. The current 130 gets used for so many tasks that are so varied i wonder what the next one will be

ok its on a landy but there are pics of my sides on this thread http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=519