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  1. mikecotterill
    Yeah I'd like to know too. I can think of a couple of ways none of which I'd think were too safe
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    I'm looking at buying a small grinder from down there and was thinking either someone could have a nosey at it or pick it up and keep hold of it for me for a while, but I'm thinking I might just have to drive down for it as its looking difficult to get a courier for it because it has an engine!
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    Yeah lewes Nr brighton
  4. mikecotterill
    Great minds think alike
  5. mikecotterill
    As above anyone in the lewes area could you pm me. Thanks mike
  6. mikecotterill
    Was gonna say why not have it on the floor, but then saw the last part of your post
  7. mikecotterill
    Yep same here. I think there was/is a similar scheme in wales,
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    Cheers for the info guys, the link above for Cumbria isn't available to "outsiders"!
  9. mikecotterill
    Were you winching out with it rather than free spooling? Some winches have an internal brake inside the drum, this comes on when winching out hence the heat from the friction
  10. mikecotterill
    Was that for both? Or just medium? His site says 370 or so then 100 for windblown, but doesn't include notc assessment I don't think
  11. mikecotterill
    Are you on that? If so any idea on prices?
  12. mikecotterill
    I think it says in the afag guide its ok, or at least suggests it. Found a post on here for one next week so ill see tomos
  13. mikecotterill
    I'm thinking of doing medium/large trees instead of doing a small tree refresher, anyone on one soon and have room? Cheers mike
  14. mikecotterill
    To be honest I only saw the last 5 minutes, I think they ended up wrapping the rope round the pig and driving off to half the pig. You don't have to have it perfectly straight on to the winch to get it something like just "near enough". Like I said its never going to happen as people won't take the time, me included, but it is the fault of the operator I'm the same with wire, don't think it's OCD but I do feel a little embarrassed if its not on straight and I think it does look unprofessional too especially on the front of your truck
  15. mikecotterill
    I don't think there's any situation where you couldn't get a straight pull, but like I said its down to laziness, it takes time and effort to set up a redirect but it would solve the problem. I'm not saying anyone's going to do it, but its also not a problem with the rope itself just the user, synthetic rope just allows people to cut corners. If it bunches up on one side just unwind it and spool it on straight Funnily enough the myth busters episode was on tonight where they try to cut a pig in half
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    That's more down to operator laziness
  17. mikecotterill
    Yeah I'd recommend steel, I think the dangers of steel are hyped up massively, only downside is weight.
  18. mikecotterill
    Well the problem is when something goes wrong, in my area of work if a mistakes made if your lucky it could cost the company huge amounts of money, at worst there could be a major incident. It's just a way for the company to cover itself. For the average Arab company it probably won't ever come into play.
  19. mikecotterill
    A lot of us here have been here for two years now, like I said in my first post, its not exactly self employed as such, but I don't really want to go into it that much.
  20. mikecotterill
    If the wires are above each other it's probably lv, up to 1kv if there side by side hv above 1kv
  21. mikecotterill
    Utility poles should have two yellow warning signs just above head height, although obviously they could be removed.
  22. mikecotterill
    So before 805 did afag mention refresher training? I'm guessing that's why it's just coming to light as its fairly recent?? Yeah it's a day for 30/31 and a day for 38/39. Also found out that the agency may pay for it, if we sign something to say that if we leave within a certain period we have to repay so much back.
  23. mikecotterill
    Well the update to this is, as mentioned above is that afag recommend 5 years refresher, although at our place at least there's some uncertainty if its retraining or assesment that's needed? The company has found two places to do it, one for a three day course the other only one day, both are 250 pp. I think this shows up the major problem here, in that there isn't a set syllabus/course for this. The employees of the company we agency to, have done their refresher training and got a lantra certificate of attendance after it. Anyone know when afag 805 was produced? If it was fairly recently, hopefully it's just a matter of lantra/nptc sorting out a specific syllabus.
  24. mikecotterill
    Well that's how this came to light, one of the lads dropped a tree on the overheads
  25. mikecotterill
    To be honest I think aerial rescue should be a yearly thing, but doubt it'll come in.

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