shabz1978
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i know a lad that found a bat roost on top of £40000000 worth of coal the other day. poor coalman. personally i love working with a bat man, easy days!!!
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i've used this stuff and didn't rate it. it's just weird. i'm not convinced it was any better than normal bio oil and it freezes. and it's just weird.
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if you're ever gonna work on railways then you can't wear a red or green hemlet. something to do with signals and stupid train drivers. but other than that i'm sure you can wear any colour helmet as long as it conforms to the standard.
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i just got a nokia 6220 classic. it's a 5 mp with carl ziess optics. seems ok. it has the gps too and "geotags" your pictures. so you get a grid reference of where you take the photo. i thought that might be handy for work/risk assessments and such like.
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surely the cost of MEWP hire is reason enough?? or, you could not have any trained operatives?
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I don't think i've ever been off that long! it'd have to be serious, or i'd never get to claim! LoL, no i keep hearing about accidents and don't fancy being on the wrong end of one:scared1: i think you're right though. saving has to be better than giving money to people who are clearly making money out of you. I'll try an ISA instead i think. i kinda wonder if they would ever pay out anyway, if i have an accident then i have probably done something wrong!!
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surely the rope diameters are the same as the old one? from the old one "2 1 Select ropes to provide a high margin of safety. Ropes suitable for tree climbing must have a minimum diameter of 10 mm, although most tree-climbing ropes are at least 12 mm in d i a m e t e r." and "2 2 Rope or cord used for friction hitches must be of a suitable type and have a minimum diameter of 8 mm. Adiameter of 10 mm is recommended for normal commercial use. Friction hitch materials are subject to high levels of wear and should be replaced regularly, and in any case where significant wear is found." also, on the subject of evaluating the tree "4 Climbers must be aware of the different characteristics of tree species and how these affect the work to be carried out. Climbers must also be able to recognise potential weakness caused by d e c a y, damage or the structure of the tree." unless i have a newer old one than you boys!!
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hey all, how many of you pay for personal injury insurance? is it worth considering? i have always thought of any insurance as a waste of money, but i'm starting to think that it could be a good idea, and i've no idea about the subject. How much does it cost and are the benifits worth the price should you have to make a claim?
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i'm not sure, i can't remeber the name of the place, if you come down off the bridge then turn right at the roundabout, instead of going down the a9, then maybe 1/4 to 1/2 a mile, in on the left down one of those roads. i think there was a husky dealer on the other side of the dual carriageway. i think he sells the greenmech chippers (the stihl dealer). he was asking my opinion of them cos he was gonna be hiring them. there was also a guy out towards fort george just before ardersier(?) on the b9039. i think he would hire a chipper but maybe just pto ones. my new phone is quality!! it has a map of the world on it!! inverness at least!
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surely the gingko would be a formidable enemy, the americans dropped an H bomb on one in hiroshima and it didn't die!!! they only missed it by 200 metres too.
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I was in a place in inverness about a year ago, a stihl dealership, i can't remember the name of the place but it was across the road from halfords and that big outdoors shop. behind the garage. anyway, he was talking about hiring out greenmech chippers. those safetrack ones are the daddy for rail work. they go anywhere. hope that helps.
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i'm sure it's the case that there are, maybe ten to fifteen units, i completed the one day course and got three units. Signing, Lighting and Guarding. my foreman at the time got these three plus monitoring. i think if you get all of them, then you are supremo daddy of traffic management (you can do all the motorway stuff), a bit like having CS30 and 31 or all of the CS units. I doubt if you would be held culpable for an accident having barely any experience of tm. i used to work on county council contracts, and we had a few collisions near our sites and the police always said it was driver error. if you do it correctly then how can you go wrong?? and that is, after all, what training is. teaching you to do a job properly. would you refuse CS 41 for fear of cutting through your rope and dropping something on a greenhouse? it could happen, but that's why you get training.
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ahh, i see. the insurance company had told him that they would pay for the clear up if/when they did fail. i don't think he had the money to pay for it. they were quite big trees and a lot of work. i suppose it's his fault for spending all his money on such a big house!!
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hi all, i recently dismantled a cherry tree for a private customer, who asked me to take a look at a couple of lime trees he had. one looked fairly knackered to me, heaps of its roots had been dug out to make way for car parking and it looked in poor health all round. the other had a large limb with quite severe included bark that looked to me to need removed. the client told me that he had called his home insurance company and they had told him that they wouldn't pay for the work until the trees had failed!! these trees were in his back garden with targets everywhere my question is, would the insurance company pay for the work if these trees were comdemned by a consultant/ someone more learned than myself??
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that's the course i've done, i think it was only a day. try and get the monitoring part of it too. i have a feeling that i'm only allowed to put them up, then take them down again cos i dont have the monitoring bit too?
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i was fortunate to live in the scottish borders, where forestry is one of the main industries, i believe, if you live in such an area, then the esf give grant aid towards forestry based training (apparently the average age of forestry workers in the uk is 47!!) There are local charities that get these grants and distribute them. The ones that i have dealt with in the past are forestry contractors association http://www.fcauk.com/business.htm and Northwoods http://www.northwoods.org.uk/ these people sometimes do a percentage of cost grants and sometimes pay all of your costs, but only periodically. i got most of mine through barony college in dumfries and galloway, where they claimed the grants and i paid the difference if there was any, i think it helps if you are very young (18-21) but i'm not and i still managed it.
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i did the chapter eight. you basically just read a book, then go out and put some traffic lights out. it's equally as boring as the chipper ticket but worth having i suppose! someone told me recently that the chapter eight course is being extended too??? i would definetly go for a trailer driving test if you don't already have it. it would be far more benificial in your career in the long run than either of these. plus you can get a chipper and chapter 8 with next years ila grant!
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you can get training grants everywhere nowadays, i have cs 30,31,32,33,34,35,38,39,40 and 41, pa1+6, mewps, stump grinder, chipper etc. etc. and i must've spent less than two grand on all of them. they were mostly funded by the european social fund. there's no way i'd feel guilty about having them paid for!! i did have to find them and fill out any gods amount of paperwork for them! I think i'll be paying for the tech cert myself though, can't find any grants for that at the moment.
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that's rough, certainly makes you think.... i'd prescribe arbtalk and porn. at least he didn't break his wrists!!!
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that's very good advice!!:001_smile:
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thumb thumb thumb. i failed my first one cos i didn't have my thumb wrapped around the front handle. i found it helpful to take the weight of the saw by putting my elbows on my knees, if you can imagine that, it made me far more acurate. take your time also. it's not a race. 33 34 and 35 are a doddle once you've done this one. good luck!!
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it is a global recession though, it was always going to happen, what did people expect when they were borrowing seven times thier annual wage to buy a house for 3 times what it was actually worth? it wasn't the government that got us into this position, it was reckless lending/borrowing. it's all about damage limitation now. i think that britain has taken the right steps to ensuring the recession is as shallow as possible. surely britain is going to be in a good, competitive position to start exporting goods now? timber for example? i was laid off from a forestry job in the north of (the republic of) ireland a few months ago because it was cheaper to import timber from scotland.
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i'm over in ireland at the minute, you really don't want to be paying our prices for saws, they're almost double the uk prices. and vat over here is 22%!!! i've never been a fan of the labour party but i think mr brown is doing all he can. devaluing the pound seems to have slowed down the onset of recession.
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i use shaving foam to clean it off my hands/arms, works a treat, dunno if i'd put it on my rope though. i've never cleaned a rope either.
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you want to try ireland, it's savage!! a bit warmer than the solway though. might go more west to bermuda or somewhere next. saying that, i'd be moaning about heat then!!
