Canal Navvy
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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
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Looks like Gloucestershire are still on the need to know principal 😔 Might be something to do with the other half working from home ... possibly 🤭
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Makita twin 18v chainsaw vs Milwaukee M18 Fuel?
Canal Navvy replied to doobin's topic in General chat
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 🙂 -
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
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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 🤪
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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 😉
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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.
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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 🙂
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Struggling to find labour? Time to buck up?
Canal Navvy replied to mattalway's topic in Business Management
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 😬 -
New sprocket for Peterson chainsaw mill needed.
Canal Navvy replied to Squaredy's topic in Milling Forum
I'd guess you've already looked at harvester sprockets from someone like Clarks 👍 -
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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Wasn't Marlborough the plaice where the great arbtalk cod war erupted from 🤭
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Malborough high street is like a section of dual carriage way with parking in the middle and down both hard shoulders, this church and graveyard is at one end. I've seen old photo's of rows of military lorries parked down the centre during the war so I wonder if the tree had damage caused by an enemy attack ? 🤔
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No chance of that , there is a gert ex church out of shot to the left 😉
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I did once sit down and read the hire contract and the insurance sold by them. For 15% of the hire fee they covered only the used market value of said machine, in the hire contract it was new for old and the hirer was to pay for lost hire fees until the new one was in service. Just to rub salt into the wounds the payout was ex vat and the replacement was full retail plus vat 🤪
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HSE RR668?
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There are loads of good workers around , unfortunately very few good employers 🤔
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With the added advantage that they would restore some of the lost rotational mass that keeps the network stable 🙂
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Battolysers are looking promising for the storage of energy from renewables in the future. Basically an old fashioned Nickel/Iron Edison cell but with the electrolyte at high pressure so that the evolved gas comes off at storage cylinder pressure. When there is a surplus of energy the battery bank is fully charged and is able to feed back into the grid if needed if not it gasses Hydrogen off that is pure enough to use in a fuel cell. The Edison cell is very abuse tolerant and doesn't use any exotic or hazardous materials 🙂
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I'd be looking for a quiet,straight,level bit of road when I had a load on and prod the brakes enough to feel the overrun brakes come on and then let the lot roll to a halt on its own, and then nip round and look what the hitch is doing. When I was younger and dafter I would have sat on the trailer while someone else drove and observed
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I'm building myself a tug style narrowboat as a live aboard that will also tow a work barge. To keep it simple it'll have a separate generator with its own tank.🙂 Nice and simple, white for propulsion & red for the generator when not at work, red for propulsion and white for the generator when working. 🤪
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In my experience that only ever happens after I've cut a big ring and then have to half/quarter it to handle, so cutting with the grain and bunging up with noodles 🙂
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Extracting over a weak bridge
Canal Navvy replied to Johnpl315's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
If you're putting anything in a watercourse it's probably a good idea to take it out at the end of each day 😉 -
I can see the need for the green revolution due to man-made climate change but our politicians view of how to do it makes me lose all hope ☹ It's unbelievable that we are being handicapped with a legacy of high energy costs just so they can virtue signal on the world stage. China is promising to do their bit but I'd guess only once they have run out of more profitable export markets, and in the meantime coal is king 😡 It won't be long before we'll be back to sending aid to wealthier countries in the form of tree planting schemes and wonder why they view us as clowns 😕
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OTT request from planning dept ?
Canal Navvy replied to JLT's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Finding the oak could be challenging, can't have been in leaf when the plans were drawn up 😉
