Rich Rule

Drove down to the south of Norway on Friday. Been chatting to a breeder for over a year and finally there was a pup for us. 6.5 hours drive home and she was pretty good in the cage. There was a bit of barking the first night, last night she slept through without sound but I did leave the cage open but she didn’t leave it. Just seems to whine when the door is locked. I’ll be working on that the next few days. Meet Kira, 9 weeks old Jämthund, she is settling in to her new surrounding quite nicely. She is already sitting on command and walking pretty well on a leash. Gonna do plenty of puppy training over the next few weeks and then in April, hopefully do a blood trail course with her.

We have a puppy (not a kelpie) ready to pickup from the southern part of Norway. The weather has been pretty bad this weekend so hopefully we will get down there later in the week or next weekend. My kids are really looking forward to getting their own dog. I grew up with gun dogs and they have been really close to their grandads gun dogs but sadly he is no longer and the dogs went to a few of his hunting buddies. I will be adding some pictures to this thread when she arrives.

Sorry for your loss. What breed was Santi?

Very Shpeshul! 😁

It sure mate. We just used ply for everything. Drill a few holes in the ends and some polyprop rope and just can create hinges if you need to.

Edit as a side note, sometimes it is how you sell it. We used to do quite a few through the house jobs in SE London and Kent. At the quoting stage the guy would comment on how nice the decor was etc and that he would instruct us to put down tarps and plywood against the walls and we would do our best to keep it clean. Then would add, if they went to the supermarket and grabbed a load of boxes and gaffer tape they could tape up door and corners just to be extra sure. 9 times out of 10 we would turn up with the ply board and tarps etc but entering the house it would be something like CSI crime scene. All taped off, card board everywhere and plastic sheeting. It meant we would be able to crack I. A full pace, showed respect to their property with our efforts and help them remove the stuff they had put up. Customers over the moon and we always got a tip. Manage the customers expectations. ToO many companies just quote a job and then expect/let the lads get in with it. I have lost count of the number of jobs I went to with a dilapidated prefab in the garden with knackered asbestos roof. Again sheets of ply laid in the roof and then you do t have to worry about repair or expensive fixes. Same as for greenhouses. Yet a bit of forethought and planning removes all the hassles. Such as apologising to the customer, having to fix on their own time and thread like this asking advise on what others would do.

Work towards their strengths. Get some sheets of ply and take them to jobs like that. They work wonders propped up against a wall, by a window, on shed roofs etc.

My mistake. I was on the phone before. Now I see it is the TW150 not the 230. Still a good chipper. Is it meant to be a direct competition of the GM150? I dont know much about the GM range, even though I have used quite a few. Edit: FFS I need to learn to read as well. I see now you have bought a 230 and the above picture was your first 150 which you were reminiscing about. Ill get my coat now, LOL

Cracking Chipper. I haven’t used the petrol version but used plenty of the TW 230’s. Did you get the throttle bungee thrown in for free? 😁

I bought that setup quite some years ago with 16mm Polydyne rope. For heavy rigging it was great as it wasn’t far off the WLL of 18mm rope but didn’t need the large impact block. I then added smaller rigging ropes when I needed them. when I was contract climbing in the Uk I snapped a few rigging line heavy rigging, so wanted something I could trust.

I would get the rc 2001 bollard. It is pretty much idiot proof and easier to show newer staff how to use than a PoW or the stein version.

If you mean by good conditions, they get a small electric go kart and it really doesn’t matter if they put the letters in the correct boxes…. Then yeah, there working conditions are amazingly good.

Tell me about it! Norway has lots of positive points. Their postal service isn’t one of them. It’s like a third world service. I honestly cannot guarantee anything will be received or arrive. The when it does arrive late there is often a load of fees tacked onto the package. Usually parcels.

Bored again? Not got any motorways round your way you could go and play on?

RIP Maxi. Faithless was part of the soundtrack to my life. Even my kids love Insomnia. Here is a tribute video to him. He is looking in ill health and it was a few years ago but you can see the 40 somethings appreciated seeing him. Great performer and will be missed.

That was something many said during the pandemic that the Gov were handing out contracts to friends and family, yet where called moonbats by certain elements of society. The corruption has become so bad, emails are being sent to Nigerian nationals. Apparently they have along lost Uncle who was a peer and all they need is their bank info to deposit some funds. It’s a mess, that’s for sure.

Kind of my point. Where were those Weapons of Mass Destruction?

To those who are wondering/ questioning where the money for pay increases would come from? How about the UK minds it’s own business, looks after their own including ex servicemen and women and stops sending millions in aid to places like Ukraine? Plus the countless other bullshit conflicts they have got into over the last 30 years. The UK is a failed state at the moment IMO.

Yes they are usually over loaded.

Mark, as you know the chew on I had with mine. When I spoke to them I asked this and was reassured they would be exactly the same entitlements as on the paper edition. I didn’t believe them so I ran the webpage and printed off the entitlements I had. My license came back within 5 days and initially was impressed. Until I checked the entitlements. I even showed them the Printout sheet of what I could have legally driven 5 days earlier and why had it changed? Made the zero difference. I even included all this info in the letter to thw CEO and Ombudsman. It was like a little Britain Sketch where the moron sits behind the PC and can only repeat… ”Computer says no!”

I was informed by the Traffic consultant that luck had nothing to do with it. There was a period in the early 90’s (definitely 1992 as that’s when I passed). That they tried to bring the rules and refs in line with the EU regs. 12000kg MAM was a Euro train, so was allowed. I might have the terminology wrong but it was along those lines. Then the DVLA brought in the 107 restriction. when I queried it the DVLA even said I would have been prosecuted driving a 7.5 t MAN and the large Scheisling I was towing at the time. Might not have been the 12000kg but it was definitely more than the 8250kg. @GarethM I moved to Norway. They have strong ties to the UK. You just hand your license over and they replace it with a Norwegian one with the same entitlements.

I have done and the DVLA website still says I am only entitled drive 8250kg MAM as they had no record of me ever passing the trails test. I did it to death with them, even got a transport consultant on the case as he was working with one of the firms I was contracting to. I wrote letters to the CEO and the ombudsman but they just came back with the same line that Pee 97 blah blah blah. I told them to check what allocations were given in 1992. Their answer Pre 97 blah, blah, blah. In the end I gave up and moved country.

Exactly. I knew what I used to have. I know what I had after I upgraded my paper license. I am now after clarification from Gareth I can now drive 12000kg MAM.

I am quite aware of that. I had C1 E on my license as I passed in 1992. I was in a minor traffic altercation in London and the Police turned up. My old license 12000kg MAM was still registered at my family home in the North East and I had mentioned I lived around the corner. He suggested I update my license as I was looking at a grand fine. License came back with C1 (7500kg) plus E with a n107 towing restriction (750kg). 8250kg MAM. So are you no saying I can drive up to 12000kg MAM?