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  1. Canal Navvy
    Assessing brain damage in a scaffolder is also tricky 🤭
  2. Canal Navvy
    London plane that is taller than a house and covers part of the garden......... only a baby, got loads to grow yet, and considered to be safe to retain in town 😉
  3. Canal Navvy
    I would say that the control systems are definitely the weak part of complex integrated energy installations. So far we are at the point that all the parts can communicate with each other but they don't know what they should be doing. It still seems to have to be told what to do by an interested human who also happens to be organised. I'd imagine that in time self-learning control systems will get good enough to guess when the likely power demands and inputs are in the day. As it is an unfortunately large proportion of owners of wood burning stoves seem incapable or disinterested in learning to use them efficiently, so I see little chance for anything more complex 😒 Most of the time our energy distribution networks have become spectacularly good so people are inclined to go into renewables with a very high expectation 😉
  4. Canal Navvy
    Don't know how recent your streetview image is, in my area the fibre optic contractors have been through since then and roadside trees have no roots above 400 mm 🤔
  5. Canal Navvy
    I've had one that went in, got all hot and puffy before becoming a lump that broke back out in a different place a year later. In a previous life it wasn't at all surprising to find a thorn rolling around inside a hedge cutting tractors rear tyre having been fired straight through the sidewall 😲
  6. Canal Navvy
    Room for two ? 🙂 , 24" lengths too 🤔
  7. Canal Navvy
    Many of the postmasters had to dip into their savings to make the books balance, who got to snaffle those funds ? It makes my mind boggle that this travesty could ever have happened 😡
  8. Canal Navvy
    Good read (as always) Alec. Interested in your views on Phase change materials 😉🙂
  9. Canal Navvy
    It would be fascinating to know how much lower the air pressure is in your house than atmospheric pressure outside 😉
  10. Canal Navvy
    I remember seeing the Victron combi with power assist in a canal boat magazine about 20 years ago ....... impressive but eye wateringly expensive (my slightly wonky memory says 3.5 k) Last year I finally bought one and added a Cerbo GX plus GX touch for half the price the basic jobby was back then. The technology has improved as the cost has plummeted. Victron with their attitude to sharing information and making software open source makes them an easy choice for self installers. Batteries are the expensive bit now if you need a good round trip efficency and want to run a generator for only short periods. I'd be wary about running a three phase generator set up as it does scream non-domestic and may not be permitted to run on red.
  11. Canal Navvy
    So once we are flushing tanks and changing filters after using duty rebated will the delivery tankers carry on having just the one meter and delivery hose ? 🤔
  12. Canal Navvy
    Cor !! You wouldn't even mind mooring next the the vacuum cleaner and hairdryer salesman on his Nahlin if you were the owner of her 😁 Hope you get more moments of light than dark in the near future Eggs 🙂
  13. Canal Navvy
    Got something near identical from safety lifting gear (used to have a stand at the arb show) , really good value and very reliable 🙂
  14. Canal Navvy
    Didn't the forestry commission reckon on a thousand operating hours before an operator became efficient enough to pay their way ?😉
  15. Canal Navvy
    5 ah batteries in mine too and also surprised what it'll do. Use it for the odd bit of firewood cutting as well and think it feels safer than using one of the proper forestry saws on small bits, so can't see any objections to using one on hedges 😉 Talking about the top handle 36v
  16. Canal Navvy
    Looks like Gloucestershire are still on the need to know principal 😔 Might be something to do with the other half working from home ... possibly 🤭
  17. Canal Navvy
    I'm still liking my twin battery top handle Makita after two years of use, nice up a tree and when I'm not watching myself it's done a fair bit of firewood 🙂
  18. Canal Navvy
    Two harnesses, three ropes. Stands to reason it's got to be safer than one harness. + the self inflating buoyancy aid .... the rescue knife for cutting the lanyard that is trying to drown us we already have on our work positioning harness ..... Somewhere under all the layers
  19. Canal Navvy
    That is a course I'm looking forward to, at what point would we go from full body to self inflating buoyancy aid and on to work positioning when working waterside? Realistically I'd hope that an appreciation and application of hierarchy of risk would indemnify us from any risk of prosecution in the event of an incident 😀 God I sound wet behind the ears at times 🤪
  20. Canal Navvy
    Surely in the view of HSE the mewp is collective, it should be in itself safe and the only requirement is to be restrained within its safe space. Arguably restraint can be whatever best meets the requirement, and within the guidance there is how to safely transfer into the tree. I've not ever seen any reference to a mewp having to be suitable to withstand a shock from a falling body be it human or a lump of rigged timber 😉
  21. Canal Navvy
    The chain brake on a properly maintained saw already does a good job and when using a sharp forestry chain will come on several times a day during normal felling & processing. I could see the value in having an accelerometer that looks for the activation of the chainbrake and if not defeats the ignition. In commercial softwood harvesting it is absolutely usual for saws to be flicked all over the place and absolutely safely, it would be unhelpful to slow down professional users to give extra protection to fools.
  22. Canal Navvy
    Obviously from my user name I'd say do you have a local canal ? Restoration groups are very aware of the need to plant trees to offset the self seeded ones that get removed during clearing works. Planting on the non-towpath side is good as they can be seen and visited but remain out of reach of casual vandalism 🙂
  23. Canal Navvy
    If it is only a "bit" more money he is getting he won't be hanging round long 🤔 I remember Aspen Bob commenting that paying good operators a good rate was difficult as they like to boast to the others 😬
  24. Canal Navvy
    I'd guess you've already looked at harvester sprockets from someone like Clarks 👍
  25. Canal Navvy
    I wonder who does the delivery for your potential supplier ? . I am constantly amazed by how much information can be scavenged from the packaging 😉 The old safe system of supplying flooded cell batteries dry got properly scuppered by the precursor regulations unfortunately 😑

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