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  1. Big fat TPO'd beech in a nursery playground with ganoderma brackets in root buttresses. What would you do/what additional tests would you recommend.
  2. LARGE JAPANESE LARCH TREE felled firewood use | eBay He has sold a felled one for over £100!
  3. Previous discussion when we did a job a few years back. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/utility-arboriculture/34654-work-next-railway-line-4.html
  4. I was surprised to see separate clips of two of my kids in a 3 min film, voiced by Clive Anderson.. Celebrate Queen Elizabeth's historic Diamond Jubilee during 2012 with the Woodland Trust
  5. Unlikely... If he is on a shrinkable clay soil he could potentially suffer from the opposite, heave.
  6. My boys 7 and 9 love the wii, there are some good family type games where 4 can play and have a laugh. Gran can even play.. It might not be suitable for hard core gamers but do you want your kid to be a hard core gamer?? The only downside is kids constant asking to go on it. Plus some very clever marketing for skylander giants which mean you have to buy extra figures. You need at least two controlers and the nunchucks.
  7. https://www.gov.uk/specialist-tests-for-lorries/change-the-weight-you-can-carry
  8. I asked VOSA, and that is the advice they gave. It made no sense to me and we have yet to get round to it... I reckon we'll just try filling in the VTG10 and sending the £28
  9. We have not found it that simple. VOSA told me to contact Iveco, who passed us onto a company who responded: Downplate – Iveco Daily 65C @ 6500kgs to 6000kgs for a GTW of 8250kgs Thank you for your enquiry concerning the downrating of your vehicle. Downplating requires that a physical alteration is made to the vehicle and the most cost effective method is to reposition the suspension bump stop to reduce the operating travel of the suspension both front and rear. This involves a calculation in which the deflection of the roadsprings determines the reduction in travel required. The calculation, a justification and a Dtp form, numbered VTG10 are submitted by us to VOSA at Swansea. On clearance by the Technical Dept at VOSA, instructions are sent to your local Goods Vehicle Test station to call the vehicle in for examination. In the meantime, we consign to you, on receipt of payment, a conversion kit and fitting instructions designed specifically for the particular vehicle. The kit is despatched to you by UPS Next Day services. You should allow approximately 1½ - 2 Hours for fitment. The cost to your company is £312.00 (£260 + VAT) To allow me to De-rate your truck I need some details from the vehicles :- • Copy of plating certificate VTG7T - with tyre sizes (or Type Approval) • How many leaves you have front and rear (main & helpers ) • Shape of the Bump Stops front & rear • Which Goods Vehicle Testing Station you would like the vehicle tested at • Covering letter with Company Name & Address • The laden weight of the trailer to be towed (weigh ticket required) or a copy of the plate on the trailer • The overall unladen weight of the vehicle (weigh ticket required)
  10. I thought they were the same trucks with different ratings, so the 5.2 would carry 1450kgs.
  11. We took our 6.5 tonner with tail lift which I guess is the same over a weigh bridge rammed with poplar chip 3 climbing kits, lowering kit, 8 saws, tool kit etc.. 6,650 Kgs - I though you had a 6 ton one? http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/arb-trucks/29792-iveco-6-5-a.html Weighed it empty will and have the figure someplace.
  12. I have 23 big poplars to fell, last time we cracked and chipped the lot. Well Edd and Buzz/AHS did: http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/picture-forum/3628-11-poplars-fell.html I don't think AHS do the cracker and chipper any more, who does? or who wants a lot of poplar wood.
  13. I brought 3 petzel Alveo Vents (orange), all have cracked within 5 months use. Rubbish! Vertex Vents would last 5 years and still be serviceable.
  14. It's not complicated if the buildings are outside of the RPA and the Method statement would be: erect fence.. but you would need the AIA to confirm the RPA. You could do the AIA yourself, its not rocket science, but you would have to have a copy of the (massively overpriced) BS.. The arborist, arboriculturalist comment was a bit flippant. As to practising tree surgeons being able to write an arb method statement to protect a tree I would disagree. Many tree surgeons no very little about trees, hence the regular tree mutilation threads...
  15. We have employees on the books and use the occasional freelancer. It just looks like a lot of paper work.. Even if you are not doing CIS works you have to fill in a monthly nil return.. HM Revenue & Customs: Contractor registration and obligations Submitting monthly returns Each month you'll need to send a monthly return to HMRC. This tells HMRC about the payments you've made to all your subcontractors - and any deductions you've made from them. If you haven't made any payments, you'll have to make a 'nil return' to let HMRC know.
  16. We been asked if we a signed up with the CIS - Construction Industry Scheme a few times and always got round it, we work for a few developers who take off 20% tax and I'm fine with that. A new client says we have to register.. A quick read of the HMRC site looks like we should be registered, but obligations include monthly returns to the HMRC. Has anyone registered and is it a ball ache..
  17. I'd say you'd need a consultant or an arboriculturalist. An arborist is more of the cutting climber IMO. Both could be both of course, and it doesn't really matter.. But your average climbing arborist will not want to write an AIA or an AMS. You should need a survey although councils vary with their requirements. You can't really write an Arb Method Statement unless you know what is there/how much protection is required. The Method Statement could be as simple as erect fence but you need to know where to put it, so you need the AIA first.
  18. What was the A and E's reaction to the spray congealer? As some folk are saying celeox shouldn't be used?
  19. It's the second time they have gone on our machine now... They are also greased daily when in use and the teeth are kept in good condition, keeping vibration down. Any other HB20 operators had to replace the bearings?
  20. We were very happy with ours ... but the bearing has apparently gone today.
  21. Make sure you take my MS200's wit you..
  22. I walked the route burn many years ago. Why are you flying out logs? It's a forest...
  23. I bet you will have no legal payload on a transit with a tail lift. We have a tail lift on our 6 ton iveco. Originally we planned to remove it but it has proved very useful. It did however break today and we therefore had a day without the truck! The tail lift guys managed to get it going again for now but think it is going to need some major repairs (£1,600 + VAT) soon. I don't think we'll be replacing it if it breaks again.

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