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  1. Rich Rule
    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
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    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? 😁
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Jokes???

    Rich Rule replied to brownie1964's topic in The Lounge

  8. Rich Rule
    Bored again? Not got any motorways round your way you could go and play on?
  9. Rich Rule
    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.
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    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.
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    Kind of my point. Where were those Weapons of Mass Destruction?
  12. Rich Rule
    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.
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    Yes they are usually over loaded.
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    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!”
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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?
  19. Rich Rule
    I don’t think that is correct Gareth.
  20. Rich Rule
    Some of those ridiculously light guesses were exactly that, ridiculous. I am sure many here have taken down Lleylandii before. The logs are proper heavy compared to other species.
  21. Rich Rule
    It’s been pretty nippy here in Norway. The warmest it has been this last week was -8c. Winter tyres and Quattro for the win. For he most part very stable, unless your pretty dumb and driving too fast and stamp on the breaks. I sometimes do this (obviously when it is safe) just to see how the car reacts and how I react to it. The hills are pretty steep to get down to my house by the Fjord. No problems though. I fall over every time on this road when I am walking after a winter night out on the piss. IMG_6147.MOV
  22. Rich Rule
    Do a search for Webasto. That is the name of the diesel heaters here in Norway. I did a quick search and there were Uk suppliers.
  23. Rich Rule
    I have Nokian’s on both my Hilux and Audi Etron in the winter. I used to have studded tyres on my A6, that was great fun in the snow. I rate the Nokian’s, can’t compare though to other brands as I’ve always had them on my cars in Norway for winter driving.
  24. Rich Rule
    We once turned up to a rather posh residence somewhere near Sevenoaks. Nice House, Range Rover, big landscaped garden covered in dog eggs. I knocked on the door and a rather fit looking bird in her 30’s answered the door. I explained that we needed the garden clear before we would do any work and the dog had laid eggs everywhere, “did she have a ‘poop a scooper’?” She went back in the house and came back with a shovel and tried to hand it to me. I just walked off. She didn’t have to be an expert in body language to work out I wasn’t clearing up the dog shit her dog had left.
  25. Rich Rule
    What a babe. Murdering bar steward, how dare you cut down trees? I guess I am one of the murdering b’stards as well. Lovely day for it. Fresh, crispy and still. Removal of quite a few healthy trees just for the view. There was the odd stinker in there as well but to admit that would get the ecomentalist going for removing valuable habitat.

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