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  1. benedmonds
    I've used a similar set up for taking down lines of lombardies. If you put the horizontal line under tension (pulling the trees towards each other) you can then get the groundies to pull on the lowering line and the pull of the trees can lift the logs up so no/little shock loading.
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    Got the letter today, what a PITA! Can claim loss of earnings £64.95 per day for first ten days £129.91 for 11th to 200th £228.06 for all subsequent 201 How am I supposed to run a business..
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    Hope so. But as it is an old machine what will they give us for it? It had a new engine with probably less then 50 hrs on it and we have looked after and maintained it for the last 7 years, so know it's not been abused!
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    Our kwickchip 222 was stolen over the weekend. From indespension trailers in Derby. We sent it in to have a look at the tow hitch.. They apparently ram raided the gates and lifted it into a truck as it had no hitch! Nothing else was taken... It has a nearly new lombordini engine, a turn table, elongated dischage shute (different from the one in this pick) and CTS engraved with a dremmell in lots of places all over. There is also a fist sized hole in the fiberglass on one side.
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    Solar PV has great potential at the moment with the feed in tariffs paying 42p per kw you produce. Cost about £10,000 so 10 year pay back and guaranteed for 20 years. From:Feed in tariffs - Generate your own energy - Energy Saving Trust As an example, a typical domestic solar electricity system, with an installation size of 2.7 kWp could earn around: £990 per year from the Generation Tariff £40 per year from the Export Tariff £70 per year reduction in current electricity bills. This gives a total saving of around £1,100 per year. I'm waiting for the feed in tariffs for biomass boilers in domestic homes which I think should come in in 2012. These will pay you to heat your home with wood.
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    I wouldn't say I've made the big time...... I'm not judging anyone just asking the question..
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    Looks very tidy Kev, we still need to tart the old 130 up...
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    [quote name= We have a Transit tipper. I am very confident indeed that we do not run overloaded in the course of our work.[/quote] Do you fill it with chip? or only ever take half a load..
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    Bad couple of weeks....
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    It was just a point for discusion really. I still run 3.5 tonners and have for 8 years. We still have and old smiley transit and a 130. The transit is a great truck fot tree work, did everything I ever asked just was always over weight. With just tools on it was 2.8 tons. I was chatting to a guy with a 3.5 ton long wheel base crew cab tipper, it must be nearly 3 tons empty and you could put 3 tons of chip in the back. What annoys me is that some simple to do H&S that may have little value is enforced when other obvious but more tricky is just swept under the carpet.
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    We all know that 3.5 to trucks are going to be overloaded in tree work. So the AA or councils approving contractors who use them must be turning a blind eye to this, unlawful, dangerous, work practice.. Should they be? and if it's OK to be overloaded is it OK to skirt round other H&S?
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    We have a 190 which sometimes won't start. sounds like a dead battery or faulty starter motor, We have tested the battery and it is A1 and we have have had the starter motor of and refurbished. We've checked the contacts are OK If jumped it will start and once started in the morning starts later in the day OK. Any ideas what to check next? Thanks
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    The pics don't show the damaged side of the tree. It now has a number of large limbs that are now exposed to the wind and if they fail could hit the playground. It is a fantastic tree and if not sat in above an area with high occupancy, valuble targets then my recomendations would be different. But it is a big old cedar that has dropped one limb and likely to drop more.
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    No cable, that's a rope holding it while they are removing it.
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    Mine was the same. The T.O. took advice and did not want to do it even when I sugested they offer to do it for all the contractors..
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    I got a call out sunday night thaying that a branch had dropped onto my local playgroup and could I go and have a look. My wife is on the commitee and it's only a 5 min walk away so I grabbed a silky and headed up... It was a bit bigger then I thought... Over the wall is the playground. It happened at 1620 on a sunday, sunny light winds, no obvious defects. Sunday school had been in the building in the morning. Two other "tree surgeons" were also there, one with a pint in hand from local pub.. The church wardens said because we all had turned up we could all work together to clear it up! Me being precious about my H&S and one of the firms having a tracked MEWP decided that 3 teams was more then required so didn't do the clear up. I am recommending fell and trying to get the cash strapped church to get the trunk carved into something. Any carvers interested pm me.
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    Once you've added the weight of a half decent crane to a 7.5 tonner you have reduced it's payload, to the extent you can't carry much. If you then added a chipper you could probably legally carry very little.
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    O license

    benedmonds replied to Treemon's topic in Arb-Trucks

    http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/arb-trucks/24186-operator-licences-again.html
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    I did CS 41 a few months back, two days + assessment around £300. I am an experienced climber (over 10 years) and to be honest it was the big waste of three days and 300 quid. I'm not knocking the instructor who had good knowledge, but I learnt very little.. I was very disappointed. At least I've been doing it right all these years.
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    Poplar trees chopped down - News - Ilkeston Advertiser Not the best press... But it has wound me up: I do not hack down trees I do not have vans and the workmen on site, answered questions and were subject to abuse! They did NOT abuse the (member of public), even after he went off on one!
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    How big is too big. We probably could fill an arctic or 3 with BIG logs mostly poplar and willow but also other stuff.
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    A local farmer has a mini festival for the school kids and they provided and set off 60 or 70 last year! You can get ones without wire, that are suppossed to be 100 percent biodegaradable. It did look pretty cool but I have to admit I am unsure about them. There had been rain and the wind was blowing away from the airport..
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    Get the 6.5 tonner as filled with chip and tools ours weighed 6.650kgs.
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    I am VERY pleased with our iveco! Not checked the mpg's..

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