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  1. Canal Navvy
    Drinks are on you then 😁
  2. Canal Navvy
    The real arse with day rates in any trade is that to a customer an inexperienced worker looks awfully busy while someone on top of the job looks to be coasting 😕
  3. Canal Navvy
    At the time the letter came round I was driving a 7.5 tonne lorry and towing a two tonne generator, the letter went to the keeper of the vehicle who misread it and just told us to stop towing ☹️
  4. Canal Navvy
    And when they drive on our roads ?
  5. Canal Navvy
    Ethanol in diesel ? , I was under the impression that Ethanol went into petrol as the "green" bit and diesel got its bio credentials from vegetable oil. Clearing virgin forests to grow palm oil and then just sticking it into fuel to make it green I find questionable 😠
  6. Canal Navvy
    I've been dipped three times in 30 years, twice when drive past testers have spotted the diesel stains round the filler of the land rover and once on a multi agency check on the motorway. There are no realistic alternatives to using diesel prime movers on most off road applications at the moment. The only thing that really annoys me is seeing the amount of duty rebated fuel being used to produce "green " energy. ☹️ A forage harvester running an energy drum (set up for really short chop as needed by biodigesters) will gobble two and a half litres of fuel every minute 😜
  7. Canal Navvy
    Red diesel in narrow boats is staying after all ☺️ . You fill up with red and make a declaration on the non propulsion ..... they suggest 40% and you pay duty at 60% of the road fuel rate
  8. Canal Navvy
    Out of interest was that when red was gas oil or more recently when it was low sulphur diesel dyed red ?
  9. Canal Navvy
    Oh cod you're not carping on about that again 🤪
  10. Canal Navvy
    Ideally the extension would have foundations at the same depth as the original and dowelled in wouldn't they ? . It's the differential movement that causes the "settlement cracks" . Be a bit embarrassing if the well engineered mini piles showed that the existing house was built on candyfloss 😉
  11. Canal Navvy
    A fairly long Ifor Williams (or brand of your choice) flat bed trailer works well. Shunt it into position, Jack four corners up, pull trailer out, job done ?
  12. Canal Navvy
    You really are better off getting a throw line and regularly give the dead branches a good shake and documenting it. A dead oak branch presents very little risk to the public and if left will be good habitat and will show potential funders your concern for conservation. A genuinely hazardous branch can be easily snapped out before it can naturally cause harm. If all else fails try contacting the WRG forestry team ?
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  14. Canal Navvy
    The OP was looking for something waterproof ?
  15. Canal Navvy
    It's a tree sturgeon thing ?
  16. Canal Navvy
    Is the ban on "fitting" ten year old tyres or having them already on the front axle ? In my old days of tyre fitting I saw many Michelin tyres on farm wagons that where structurally good and twenty years old and rather more budget tyres that couldn't pass an mot at three years ! The classes of vehicles affected by the new law should already be adequately covered by operator licencing , and the commercial testing stations should have stopped the use of the "mot tyre set" years ago ?
  17. Canal Navvy
    Using the stretch in a climbing line to limit forces only works if you have a lot of rope in the system, something like a snake anchor limits the force regardless of rope length or type. Have you ever tried trying to hold a work position on a long stretchy line ? ?
  18. Canal Navvy
    I've always assumed that arb climbing lines are a relatively small market so competition doesn't push the price down to silly prices. It is quite a big ask of a rope maker to create a climbing line that is non stretchy enough to allow work positioning without making it so static that a small fall doesn't become life threatening.
  19. Canal Navvy
    Arbortec fellhunters are a good long lasting, comfortable and waterproof boot. I like to have several pairs on the go from brand new getting broken in all the way down to five year olds for damaging jobs. I look after them with a good soaking of chelsea dubbin and they look after me
  20. Canal Navvy
    I'd be very wary of burning any treated timber, the old fashioned chromated copper arsenate is really not good for our health when burnt . My mother was a big fan of burning treated wood from her neighbours landscaping projects right up until the lung cancer got her ?
  21. Canal Navvy
    25N does seem low, I wonder if that is a maximum breaking load like we have with helmet chin straps or chainsaw lanyards ?
  22. Canal Navvy
    One ring and a length of 63mm MDPE pipe is even better ?
  23. Canal Navvy
    I'd guess that TCD is currently doing an in depth study of mud. ?
  24. Canal Navvy
    Definitely worth reading the hire agreement alongside the offered insurance, I've seen machines hired in where the hire states replace old with new and full hire paid until the machine is replaced when the insurance cover they sell is for secondhand market value only !
  25. Canal Navvy
    Ooh, left handed viola...... not going to be cheap!. French horn might be a good option ?

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