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PA1 and PA6(aw) pesticides training Derbyshire
Quickthorn replied to Charlieh's topic in Training & education
Hi David, From a flow chart in the pesticides ACOP, if you can answer NO to ALL of the following, you do not need a certificate yet (their word, my italics): Are you applying pesticides as part of a commercial service? (You are if the crops, land etc you are treating are not owned, occupied or rented by you or your employer, or you are applying pesticide to seed that will be used on land not owned, occupied or rented by you or your employer.) Will you be applying pesticides on land which you or your employees do not own, rent or occupy? Were you born after 31/12/1964? Will you be directly and personally supervising someone who would need to hold a certificate but does not have one? -
It's the intent, not the tool, that's important. Tighten up on chainsaws, they'd use an axe; tighten up on axes, they'd find something else. This is a more recent story, can't remember it being posted here before, Another chainsaw death
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Climate Change - Man made or not?
Quickthorn replied to Jack-Arb aka Tiago Sinclair-Julio.'s topic in General chat
I totally agree with that. I found it a bit depressing, too, that just about the first thing they thought of was ways to trade and speculate on carbon, rather than working on the actual problem of mankind's contribution to climate change. -
Sounds like a bargain, depending on where you are. I've seen farmers asking for that just to rent a shipping container. How much are the business rates on top of that?
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Hardwoods normally have a yield class of around 4-6. If you stretched this to a coppice situation, you can expect an increase of 4-6 cu. m per year per hectare, so a sustainable production would also be 4-6 cu. m per hectare per year. Your 10 acres (about 4 ha or so) of ash is probably growing at a rate of around 16-24 cu. m per year. Ash is pretty light, at about 860 kg/cu. m green, so you'd expect 14-21 tons/year to be a sustainable yield. We coppiced an area (leaving the biggest as standards) last season that was supposed to be 1 ha. It had probably been coppiced about 15-20 years ago. We reckoned the resulting stack was 70-100 cu. m (I'd go for the smaller figure, because it wasn't all straight)
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I'd definitely get some advice before switching. It's been a long time since I used a mac, but I worked at a place where the manager of our department bought macs in a company that mainly ran pcs. The main use for me was typical office applications, like word processors/spreadsheets/databases etc. Macs seemed a lot more highly strung than the pcs, and were forever crashing in the middle of your work, and it was hard to transfer work between mac and pc without some sort of problem or another. Things might have changed, but personally, I'd never consider a mac.
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Traffic law..aimed at agriculture, but some of these answers are useful, especially licences and towing with a 7 1/2 tonner, use of red diesel Andy McTractor
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Find your local A&E..probably most useful for filling in risk assessments and emergency plans. Click A&E button, type in postcode or place Slight problem in that link seems to change or disappear quite often.
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I don't think he means any offence. Fish is the lead singer of a band called marillion.
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My 110 has been tested under class 4, and grosses at 3050 kg. Looking at that, it should really be class 7, apart from the dual purpose bit. This bloke has looked in to the issue, and VOSA sent him an extract from 6th edition MOT tester's manual. Dual purpose vehicles come under class 4, and a dual purpose vehicle is: "one that is constructed or adapted for the carriage of both passenger(s) and goods or burden of any description; and has an unladen weight (ULW) not exceeding 2,040 kg; and which either: (a) is so constructed or adapted so that the driving power of the engine, is, or by the use of the appropriate controls can be, transmitted to all the wheels of the vehicle; or (b) ..." The ULW < 2040 kg may count out some 130s, though.
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Well, he managed to sell them for 5p. Tidy profit, if you don't count the 10p listing fee ebay would have charged.:lol:
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Does this mean it processes 16 cu. m /hour ?
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If someone in the HSE has told you this, it is totally at odds with other stuff they are publishing.. HSE forestry/arb pages From "Tree Work News June 2008", published as a pdf by the HSE (download from link above) " Recent enforcement notices Prohibition notices have been issued covering: having no one on site capable of carrying out aerial rescue;..." (page 4) " Best practice for tree-climbing operations ... Aerial rescue provision: There must be a second person available equipped, trained and capable of performing an aerial rescue in the event of an emergency." (page 5)
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That sounds more like differential wear. The splines would have to be partially stripped to allow that much play. Also, if you have the handbrake on when you check the wheels, the test for the front wheel as you describe may be adding up the play of all parts to the front diff, plus front prop plus transfer box, whereas the rear wheel test would only cover parts between the rear wheel to the handbrake..ie. you would get more play on the front wheel compared to the rear. Try comparing how much you can move differential input flanges, with the truck fully on the ground, handbrake off and the wheels chocked. That way (i think) you'd be comparing like for like, and there may be less difference between front and rear than you thought.. It would be a shame to swap front axles only to find that you still had the same amount of slack as before.
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For that lot, you're probably right with the price, more if you want OEM parts, just depends how far you have to go. Here's a guide to parts prices..famous4 There are cheaper, but I've found them to be rubbish.
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Replacing half shafts isn't as bad as it looks. One of mine broke a while back, and I ended up having to replace that, and also take out the good one and the differential to knock the broken end out. All in, it was a day's work..the new part, plus new hub seals, gaskets etc came to less than £50 delivered.
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I'd echo what Andy said there. I don't know the full circumstances of your tenancy, but most of us are only ever 2 months away from being kicked out, because that's the notice you're entitled to on most agreements. The landlord doesn't have to give a reason, and there's no right of appeal.
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Either that, or work out what you can afford to pay, still pay them the minimum and put the difference in a savings account. You can get ISAs that will pay 7% tax free, which is probably a lot more than the interest on your student loan.
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They're talking about haulage here. Some figures mentioned are £10/ton, and £1.50/mile (including the return trip)...but this refers to bulk haulage of ag. produce. Let us know what you find out. I'd be interested to know how much it would be for a 150 mile round trip per 20 ton load firewood (2m x 6-12" dia)
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I had to do a cockspur thorn once. Painful, to say the least:scared1:
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This is the first time I've ever seen this..well spotted..! Looks like some sense is finally creeping into this. I suppose it all hinges on how strict their definition of "forestry operations" is, and where you intend to take your chip/logs.
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I'm not sure that's how the EA view it. If you'd done the work specifically to produce logs and chip, then that is probably a product. If the main reason for the work is to prune or remove a tree for someone, I think they see anything that comes of it as waste. They seem to be very keen to get as many people as they can onto waste licencing. Last time I rang, I got several different stories, but the attitude seemed to be that I should get a licence "just in case".
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Ditto again for yesterday. Looked an exciting match, but disappointing to literally throw it away at the end. Even more disappointing was the Elliot runout. Although Collingwood apologised afterwards, it should have been obvious at the time that the bales should never have come off in the first place.
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I wouldn't be surprised if there are plans in place for this anyway. I'm torn between two positions. On the one hand, you'd like to leave it to common sense and the existing legislation, and I certainly wouldn't look forward to another 2 sets of test fees and associated time tied up arranging tests/repairs/retests; on the other hand, common sense isn't all that common, and I've seen numerous instances of trailers with no working lights, tyres in dangerous conditions which are then run until they burst, home made trailers made from ancient caravan chassis which are then loaded up to the 2 ton mark and beyond - and that's just amongst people I know! On balance, a testing scheme seems sensible.
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I'd imagine the purchasing department here have been advised what to look for in a contractor by their tree officers, and a lot of tree officers are in the AA and tend to toe the party line.
