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  1. Canal Navvy
    A quick appeal to guerrilla ivy cutters......... Please look up to see if a climber has been up and reduced the ivy, proper soul destroying spending a couple of hours doing an ivy reduction only to find that someone has subsequently cut the stems at the base 😬
  2. Canal Navvy
    How else are they expected to power the factories to make all of the kit to satisfy our green energy goals ? 🙄
  3. Canal Navvy
    I find them the same fit as Haix (when some others had to have Haix a size up). The fell hunters do feel a bit big and clumpy when new but soon ease up and it is good to be able to walk through deep slop and keep warm dry feet 😀
  4. Canal Navvy
    I'm now on my fifth pair of Arbortec fellhunters and so far they have remained usable to the bitter end, start off as best boots and end up being beaten to death in the workshop. Used to wear Haix but found the soles parted company and the steel toe caps fell out. My other half is a keen trail runner and recently had her favourite pair of shoes resoled in Vibram by Cheshire Shoe Repairs mail order service ..... very impressed with their workmanship 🙂
  5. Canal Navvy
    Manheim Gloucester Auctions seem to get a lot of ex fleet vehicles. Little Vauxhall Corsas from rail track or open reach, VW transporters from the AA & RAC, ex council tippers and loads of end of finance vans. Their on line auction catalogue gives you time to make a short list based on mileage and service history and then it's a good day out eating bacon sarnies and seeing how they look in the flesh. The trade buyers will be looking for forecourt appeal to turn their money quickly so vans that are not cosmetically perfect can be a really good buy 👍
  6. Canal Navvy
    A few years ago Morrisons supermarket where giving out Sambonet knives on a loyalty offer. The other half has some and I'm probably as happy with them as I am with the German beasts 😁
  7. Canal Navvy
    Another Zwilling Henckel user here, got the stainless ones. Stay sharp well, use a steel to tidy up the edge and a screwfix diamond card to thin the edge every so often. 👍
  8. Canal Navvy
    A ground helmet has a chin strap (if fitted) that breaks too easily for climbing and does not perform with side impacts so can never be used up a tree. (EN 397) Climbing helmet lacks the peak that adds to kick back protection and the chin strap is considered too strong for ground use. (EN12492) Loads of people use a climbing helmet on the ground with no problems, if you are using a saw up a tree you ought to be pretty competent on the ground is the view 😉
  9. Canal Navvy
    A scaffold tower built on the back of a trailer might have worked. Can be built to overhang with a bit of ingenuity and firmly ratchet strapped down for stability 🙂
  10. Canal Navvy
    You say "not cutting uniformly" , on your machine do you have to do every other depth gauge and then turn the chain the same as sharpening the cutters ? . Not that hard really to hand file a single depth gauge down just far enough measured with the filing gauge and then set the grinding wheel to just kiss the surface 😉
  11. Canal Navvy
    Worth noting that duty rebated means it is a reduced rate taxation, those of us who have up to now been paying road fuel duty on non mobile machines are now going to have to pay full duty due to the misuse of the mobile users 😡 And to rub salt into the wounds the offenders get to keep their economy fuel ⛽
  12. Canal Navvy
    Our local supplier has the pump set to cut out at 99 litres to check if you have a registration card in their files. It'll be interesting to see how it develops as they are in an area with a lot of off grid dwellers and so have good reason to keep supplying duty rebated 🙂
  13. Canal Navvy
    Do we actually know how the off road use of duty rebated fuels is going to be regulated, at the moment we have only concerned ourselves with the acceptable use of such fuels on road. As it stands anybody can purchase at the pump duty rebated fuels with no questions asked or any record being kept below 100 litres and use it for anything off road other than inland boating. I rather fear that the extra level of confusion caused by the upcoming changes is aimed at finding a good reason to totally withdraw the good old red diesel ⛽
  14. Canal Navvy
    Comes under forestry so still usable 😁
  15. Canal Navvy
    Bath has form for putting their signs in obscure places, at one time a single bus lane was a fairly major revenue source for them 😠
  16. Canal Navvy
    Anyone knows what happens if the road you were going to use is shut and the temporary diversion goes into a zone ? 🤔
  17. Canal Navvy
    Assessing brain damage in a scaffolder is also tricky 🤭
  18. 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 😉
  19. 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 😉
  20. 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 🤔
  21. 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 😲
  22. Canal Navvy
    Room for two ? 🙂 , 24" lengths too 🤔
  23. 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 😡
  24. Canal Navvy
    Good read (as always) Alec. Interested in your views on Phase change materials 😉🙂
  25. Canal Navvy
    It would be fascinating to know how much lower the air pressure is in your house than atmospheric pressure outside 😉

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