PeteB
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Yeh, and smoke their fags! Read their paper! Passenger (sleep) in their truck!
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True enough - work hard, play hard. Work is often play but getting paid for it!
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Your not demolishing trees, just converting them or even recycling them. Even the ash that results from the fire in the front room is good for the garden. Woodchips - biofuel, mulch, play surface, outdoor menage, footpaths etc...........
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My understanding was that its only waste when you've finished with it. Woodchip is being carried from the job to storage and timber is for fuel wood. However, a waste transfer ticket might be necessary if you drop of waste soil bricks etc from fencing work and drop in the yard prior to disposal. You are transfering it from truck to floor. I've met a guy who got a big fine. Stupid isn't it.
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Spent all day writing training manuals, compiling reports on sales, accomplishments blah blah blah. Not even opened a door outside, house smells of fart and tea. hate being outside. Looking forward to watching the stockcar racing and fireworks at Coventry on Staurday night.
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Ditto.
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"Yes Missus, if it wasn't for the mess, you wouldn't know we'ed been". "short of nought we ain't got"! "two sugars in mine" "his lift doesn't go to the top floor" "her light's on, but nobody is in" "legs like condoms full of pebbles" "never seen that happen before" "they will ride up with wear" "it's the newness, sir" "that'll polish out I'm sure"
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Get on, I love gags like that!
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My guys would 08:00 'til 17:30 with 10 minute morning tea, 30 for lunch with possibly a ten for tea @ 3. Sats @1.5 x time, sundays at double bubble! They where happy on the whole and on reflection an honorable lot!
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Me please, it will go with the Vermeer travel mug for the car and the B Trac mug for the desk! If I ever get hold of the extremely limited edition GreenMech mugs, I'll put it up for grabs.
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Hayden, I read your thread re the imported american 'chipper. You obviously have not seen the article, or indeed seen the machine in the UK. No sign saying "machine feed only" is present, and the article showed it being hand fed. As you know from other threads posted, towing weights and other factors mean that European woodchippers are totally different from American machines. Some Euro machines do have 6x6 openings etc, but others go 6x9 and still fulfill the other factors. I'm afraid my previous personal POV still stand!
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Sorry, you are probably correct, the last one I weighed was back in 2004, the only way to make that one weigh under 750 was to remove spare and discharge chute and clean it!
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Most of the huge Elm trees that my ex boss (now retired) felled included 92 from one parish help prop Leicester and Staffordshire in the form of pit props. I hrlped fell the last one and it was a nice stick! Wish there was more about!
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At the North Wales Woodfair in North Wales (St Asaph) a couple of years ago I watched a guy carve a womans torso out of a chunk. He explained that while he was doing(!) the rear a brown stain appeared inappropiately and he sweated hoping that it would go when he got to the final proportions. It did and the redult was A1. My only attempt at carving made a rabbit look like a rat! I once planned to turn a Leb Cedar (1852 acording to records) into "furntiture" ended in ashes when some scrotum set fire to the shed!. It had been there fully slatted for four years waiting a house big enough to have a big kitchen table. B+#~ar£!
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Bob's thread could be from from auld english spoken and heard in a pub in the west midlands some thirty years ago!
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Divorced Dad's Weekend. Just took Tom and Pip to see Rataouille. Great Film, Pixer and disney do some great stuff! Now watching a Hendrix gig - cannot get better!
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Sorry Bob, if you got sold a brakeless TW150 on the basis that if it had brakes, you need to uprate your licence, yu bin dun! They had big windows there and could see you coming a mile off. The issue there is that a TW150 is so finely weighed, remove the discharge chute, fuel and hydraulic oil and it does weigh less tha 750. Add the bits that make it work and it goes over - hence the brakes. Sorry mate.
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As far as I'm aware, braked or unbraked doesn't matter. If the towed item weighs more than 750kgs, it has to have brakes, if less - delete the brakes.
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I started as a groundie. It's like a brickies labourer - try to anticipate everyone else's needs, think ahead - always! Try to have it all cleared up as they drop it! Learn your ropes and knots, carry stuff and think ahead. Watch what they are doing - never roll a fag without doing theirs, they needeth a fix to (Use theirs)! Drive, carry, lug, drag, push go for it and do not forget to ask whats next!!! Good Luck, a good groundie is a climber as well....(albeit next year and when your a good climber in a team - you must advise or tell). Above all, ask, question, then do it! TEAM SPIRIT WINS, ALWAYS.
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Cool, well done - I like word play like that.
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Spin it around, have your guards away from you and you can see clearer! Otherwise, good tool! Is it easy to use or to do need a modicum of sensitivity on the swivel controls?. Best regards PeteB
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I ran 3500kg (Transit type). Useless off road, but that was our work. A load of 4x4 helped, but our transport laws are fair restrictive! If I was in the street tree market, I would have gone over to maybe a short wheelbase 10t truck with a medium (say 12 to 1500kg) chiper. Wood still has its uses, from candle sticks made from holly and yew to big butts, for furniture or even bio fuel if you collect enough for HomeGrown. But roads, costs, licences etc prohibit asking for the right money on most contracts. There is always some numbty going to undercut you or staff going to leave you!
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"It was enough to make a cat laff". "I haven't laffed that much since Granny caught her tits in the mangle"! "as soft as a bag of puppies".
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Fair Play, bring your views t'table yoof.
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The kit we had was only on HP. Another rule is - if it lasts, lease it. If it doesn't buy it and take the loss quickly!!!
