Dean Lofthouse
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Why on earth do people think it is acceptable to use a cemetery as a dog walking area? I couldn't,t believe what I was seeing today working at the side of a really well looked after cemetery, dogs peeing on headstones and crapping on graves, most picked it up , but to Me the act of allowing you dog to pee or crap in a grave yard is totally unacceptable Sent from my iPhone cos it was
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Ha Ha..One of my cutomerss insisted...... it's all still there 4 years on
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My best piece of advice is be sure you always have a dump before you go to work, nothing worse than getting caught short Sent from my iPhone cos it was
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I can tell by that shot that the front lungee has his left lunge leg facing south
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I think in tree work, some jobs just have to have H&S rules bent a little. Very hard to see from pics, but I would either anchor into the tree behind the tree the limb is hung up in and come down ontop of the hanger, tie it off, then remove all branches that have no weight or stress on them so you can see whats happening. Or I'd just fell the knacked tree away from the hanger after climbing it and knocking all remaining limbs off without rigging them. Or just get in a mewp, I did a worse one than that with Frank (arbtalk)earlier this year with my mewp
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I had a similar one with two trees just too far away, so I run a skyline between the two trees with an anchor in the middle, it was one hell of a swing but into free air, was really good fun The only problem is you have to remember you swing back towards the danger zone
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Round the back of the remaining stems..? Isn't there a nearby tree to use as an anchor to "bail out" ?
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Step cut and winch.... ask dadio it works
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Are you insured with NFU mutual Insurance
Dean Lofthouse replied to Dean Lofthouse's topic in Business Management
What annoys me is that they will still barter with someone's misfortune even if your sum insured value is around the vehicle value, my loader is still uninsured as nfu refuse to guarantee a payout value they just keep saying there's a lot of fraudulent claims I intend to road register the loader and then shop around a bit but thanks to nfu my vehicle is. Urgently uninsured Sent from my iPhone cos it was -
I spent about 6 hours of evening time repositioning the exhaust on the CSF Loader and putting in a flexi section. The exhaust is engine mounted and just keeps snapping time after time after time. So I've mounted it on the body and put a flexi between Now I've just an exhaust to put on the 130 and another on my big mower
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Id say no. The working envelope would be reduced anyway with two people in and I would say the dynamic loading of a person or two persons exiting the basket in a dramatic fashion, would not be good at full tilt. The best thing is to never work in a fully loaded basket (two people) at full reach I have done it once and survived and will never do it again. One person in the basket with maximum leg extention and full outreach you have a very good safety margin. The same with two people, your safety margin is drastically reduced A mewp designed for 200 kg with only 100 kg in the basket will not rely on electronic sensors. When fully loaded, you will rely heavily on the sensors doing their job Sorry if I have dented your confidence
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Beechwood Technical Demo at AA Conference 2011
Dean Lofthouse replied to Simon Rotheram's topic in General chat
Haha....yeh...cant be joe, there's some bum fluff on his chin -
Beechwood Technical Demo at AA Conference 2011
Dean Lofthouse replied to Simon Rotheram's topic in General chat
Talking of pic 11..... Has Joes fly come undone, he looks like he's zipping up after someones just told him -
I have had the same clutch for three years. I don't work in the rain which could be a major factor. A dirty gritty rope will rip a clutch to bits in no time. Also if I do a long decent I take some of the load off the clutch by holding the tail of the rope
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I now weigh 14 stone 2 on what ever that is in kilos
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He may have put them on in jest, but if he actually sells them to someone, he may have a few headaches if someone does injure themselves. Actions have consequence
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PM'd you jonny Mine was a bushnell 5mp but they advance in technology faster than a pc so mines out of date, they are up to around 12mp now with solar chargers and alsorts. Did the jon though, didn't stop log theft but lets you see who the culprits are
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Sporting a lovely Glock too Mike
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One that deserves a mention
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Hunt for killer hit and run driver widens to Huddersfield - Local West Yorkshire News - News - Huddersfield Examiner Red Nissan Navara, greedy sides and "Tree Services" above an oval logo on the door
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Just a couple hundred ton of wood to shift now and I have completely vacated the old yard and the new yard is then workable
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Had the containers moved 150 yards to the new yard today and was expecting a crane that could lift 1 ton at 60ft, but they sent this little one instead. I was all excited looking forward to seeing this mega Hiab and some serious crane porn
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I'd say he's done it a couple of times [ame= ] [/ame]
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Are you insured with NFU mutual Insurance
Dean Lofthouse replied to Dean Lofthouse's topic in Business Management
I want to insure it for it's "replacement" value. If it went missing, I would have to pay £15k to get one exactly the same from a dealer. Sadly, there aren't many dealers that would sell me another at "mates rates" If your next door neighbour won the lottery and let you have his brand spanking top of the range £70K Range Rover for a £100 for tax reasons and invoiced you for said amount, what would insure it for?
