Mr Ed
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The training and assesment would be shockingly expensive. Besides, I dont want any MORE damn asessments. I've been using cranes for about 15 years, but I bet I'd fail their damn test.
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Driving the crane or lifting pieces off? I have a crane operators licence if that counts.
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Funny thing I've found, Great crested newts love the water filled ruts created by tractors and forwarders...
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Photoshopped.
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Sure can Pete, although not on that early model, it had a fixed chute. That unit only weighs 950kgs, and carries 4 m3 of chip, plus tools.
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I have had plenty of problems with them on site clearance jobs. They are protected as heavily as bats. Once they're there, nothing you can do. You can try and fence off the area's they inhabit with riparian fencing.
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How to purchase your tickets
Mr Ed replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Christmas Charity Raffle 2007
oops, I forgot to put 'raffle' after arbtalk in the donation page. Think it will cause a problem? -
What you need is one of these behind your landrover-
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:wave:
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Or those manky Korean things.
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Japcrap I say! Just Kidding. Although I love landrovers, I drive a Nissan Patrol.
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We need to change it to a M3 (cubic meter) A cube of fresh chip will weigh 350kgs, but up to 450kgs if it gets wet. Species can alter weights aswell as density. Poplar chip can be very heavy as it is such wet wood. Usually I work on 350kgs per cube.
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WHen I first started going to work with my father, every single job was burnt off. I can remember the guys peeling back the turf on a lawn to make a fire pit, and reinstating it beautifully at the end of the job. Happy Days.
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I cant claim the idea is mine, another member suggested it, so I thought I'd stick it out here. Instead of having a picture thread, can we have a picture forum? the picture thread ends up hundreds of pages long and story lines get crossed. If we had a seperate forum, (like the Video Forum) members could start athread with their pics, and answer questions / discuss without crossing other members pics. If you do put up pics, we could try to put a bit of the story in too.
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Why would you want to be an approved climber? you have your NPTC certs. You CAN sit the AA tech cert in arb, which is a far superior qualification, and has as a prerequisite the NPTC qualifications.
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At the time, I think they felt it would create conflicts of interest. Not sure if its still the case.
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My father just works as an assesor on the approved contractor scheme. We were approved contractors for years, but the status was lost when he became an approved consultant - I am told they no longer do this.. I've never really felt the need for renewing it, as a none of my customers seemed to worry. I really dont think the AA are causing elitism and division within the industry. If they were to turn round and say 'no more approved contractors, the rest of you can get lost', that would be elitism. But you could apply for approval tomorrow and probably get approved within 3 months. I think the AA does far more to try and unite the industry than divide it.
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Good post Frimsley. Shame that despite the request to not turn this into a bashing thread, it still becomes one.
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My circle is very similar to yours Tim. Started with a Tautline tied in the end of the rope, then 2 wrap prussik with cord, then Blakes, then VT/ machard tress, now back to blakes.
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Well, their not on the member list any more, so maybe one of the mods deleted them.
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Chinese flat pack, make of it what you will. Not bad value by any means, but I would much prefer a nice little Fergie T20 or 35X. As to logsplitters, yes, it would run one that had its own pump via the PTO shaft
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Most excellent choice:icon14:
