MattyF
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Looking at it again it has completely different axles!
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Has any one tried to see if the TCF wide wheels will fit the stein Arb trolley ?? I’ve actively looked for wide wheels that will fit and found nothing. I’ve had the Arb trolley up to it’s axles and stuck In soft ground so the wide wheels sound a great option..
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I put a large air filter and air box on a 576 with low hours .. the bottom end shat itself quite shortly afterwards.. and left me wondering if it was connected or just bad luck.
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https://www.lawson-his.co.uk/makita-p-90451-grease-gun-attachment-for-drills-and-impact-drivers I’m interested in this , any one tried it?? Will go straight on my makita impact gun.
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Balance rigged with a tag line pulled in on winch like grcs or even a truck as long as you have a good groundy on the lowering end who knows when to give Slack and not cause to much pressure on rigging point.
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If you can make a living out of small scale forestry you will find Arb work a walk in the park!
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Pretty valid in that case ! Never thought of it like that.
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I very rarely deploy the chin strap ! Maybe if I want to swing around up side down on a rec climb , or it’s so hot I’ll wear ear plugs which for both is pretty much never...I hate the things seriously they make me feel claustrophobic and restricted ! I got twatted hard a while back by a large chunk of collapsing tree whilst wearing an Arb helmet with out a chin strap, I think as pete said the helmet coming off absorbed so much of the impact as when I looked at the lump after I came to the conclusion it should of broken my neck . I’m not a HS freak either it’s just the folk visiting and inspecting our sites are.
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I climbed my last nptc refreshers SRT, except arial rescue that is ... never been asked not to climb SRT but if your gear is CE marked and the wrench is I don’t see why they would disallow it ? In my opinion it keeps you less fatigued and lessons the chance of an accident and keeps you more productive. I would definitely go on strike if I was forced to climb on a double rope again .. what a ball ache !
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I have sort of tried that tonight ,well put normal sordins in the technical holders if it does not work I will do what you said. Thing is the muffs look is identical to normal sordins and the sordins fit I just can’t work out why out of three helmets every single one has issues with the metal strips popping out.
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I think one is designed to take impacts from falling debris whilst the climbing lid is designed if you slip and swing and take an impact. I wore one for years in the woods but it appears to be something you can get pulled up on .. even wearing a climbing lid on the ground doing tree work and unfortunately the way things are going you might as well stick to the rules.
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Any recommendations?? Don’t say husky technical or pfanner ,Sick of looking at things and they fall to bits. Well vented and rain guard would be handy.
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How do you find the trailer with those tyres and What’s powering the hydraulics ? Are you winching to the road side or will it cope with driving down racks ? Sorry for the questions !!
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Wow That’s saved the day matelot! You refused continually to acknowledge why I said it was a mess today and jump on the 200 year old slavery thing so who can’t handle the truth..maybe given who you are and your position it would not surprise me if who you worked for had invested interest in that current exploitation anyway.
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Can you read ?
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I’ve said nothing on oxfam ... Take off the VAT and call it charity ! It’s all a scam .., shit I said some thing... any way I’m done with this thread ...again.
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I’m not saying that but it was hardly a stable start when other countries where growing ...I’m saying it’s being exploited now by the arms trade and for its natural resources with no concern for the population, creating civil war is an ideal smoke screen for illegal business which a lot of is conducted by the British.
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And continuing to ignore our legacy’s of the past and present in Africa......your lying to your self if you think it has nothing to do with the mess it’s created and been caused by it.
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Really 99.99 % ?? I think that’s more the number of people on here who disagree with you . I guess drought , famine, exploitation from the arms industry recently and apartheid colonisation and more exploitation in the past had nothing to do with being able to have a stable environment for growing and providing food for the population continually exploited by richer nations.
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You have a quote for £1000 ??
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Folks have had there esse for 8 years and never had a chimney fire , they only burn soft wood with the occasional large very dead bit of oak to keep it in all night. It does behave very differently with hard Wöod though can get so hot it goes off the temp gauge from when I’ve used it.
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All too often I see terrible work positioning , absolutely shocking , some from apparent training vids from people being assessed ... with a decent landyard set up for work positioning the saw or bit being rigged should never put a climber in the danger zone, it’s just pure laziness or the fact that the climber is too scared to trust there spikes and lanyard putting them in danger. .. maybe both , good work positioning is what it’s all about.
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It’s a shame that Jonny but sounds you got a good deal.
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So a while back you went in to detail about some rigging job you had cocked up , you have no training on work positioning with a chainsaw I imagine on the ground let alone a tree or Ariel rigging apart from watching some you tube vids and you managed to put a hole in the roof, so imagine it had been worse and not only did it go through the roof it swung In to you intern giving you a saw injury and the guy holding the rope for you who had no Ariel rescue , first aid or idea of how to get you out could do??? Your a statistic waiting to happen imo ... and when it does it will be another excuse for HSE to add more bullshit to the ones of us who have to keep it legit and pay through our noses in constant training in a lame response to stop these accidents but the public will keep on paying the village fool to go and cut that there trees for beer tokens and accidents will keep on happening.
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The job I was talking about was a completely different job that required heavy machinary to lift and mill a huge oak Butt but emphasis the point customers don’t see the cost ... unfortunately are industry is riddled with jack of all clowns like you who think they are experts with no training or overheads creaming off easy jobs and having accidents making are insurance go up and have to apply more HSE regs to are crews to prove we are not as dumb which in turn requires more paper work and training and cost which I’m sure you won’t apply to your work and continue how you are as a liability , I quite agree with the OP that is not a £400 job but we have no idea or really care why he was quoted so high... he is not obliged to take the quote and won’t !
