Rupe
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I don't think a captive eye biner is suitable for mainline attachment! It would have to be permanently attahced to the bridge of the harness which is too restrictive, you may find you want to remove it more often than you think. HMS biners are ideal for mainline attahcment for prussik loop users. small geckos and sentinels etc are good for the end of your lanyard.
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You gave her the options. She agrees to take it down in the future if she doesn't like it. If she does that you'll get paid twice for the same tree! Telling her that is good tree work would be wrong. Don't worry about as long as no one saw you and as long as you don't put pictures of it on the internet or anything daft like that! It looks sh1t by the way!
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Have we got any clarification on this yet? You say its being run as an ISA comp. but is it THE ISA comp or just following the same format?
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The amazing bit is why they didn't fell the tree before building the house! Surely they knew it would become a problem at some point.
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We had a promark stump grinder similar design. I have one false front tooth.
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Saturday mornings on radio 2 have been awful without him! The friday night show I can take or leave, but he is on a contract so they have to bring him back or break the contract which would be expensive because however stupid his prank call was it was recorded, not live, so a few heads would roll before JR would have to leave.
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Dont forget the difference bettween a tonne, a ton, and an american tonne!
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To get their own back, women invented bird flu! Get Well soon, Andy.
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Thanks, yes I am on the wrong track!
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Am I getting confused here? Is CSCS a safety thingy then? I'm thinking of the CIS scheme which is more of a tax issue.
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Just been through this myself. Been on construction sites for years and some know the form others don't. Arboriculture /tree surgery is NOT construction, therefore you don't need cic or cscs or whatever they are called now. Site clearance is construction. However felling trees using tree surgery methods and taking care not to damage retained trees is not site clearance. As long as you don't use a jcb to clear stumps etc as part of your work then it should be ok. If another contractor comes along behind with jcb then thats fine he must be cis/cscs. Make out invoices as tree work, even if it is a bit like site clearance. Its best to make sure they will pay you in this way before you start.
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An 066 with a 30inch bar will only allow you to do 24 inch boards. A 36inch bar would in theory do 30inch boards but it will struggle especially in oak. An 088 is what you need!
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Think about it. They are offering a booklet to schools so the school can get quality tradesman and avoid the dodgy ones? Thats the sales pitch right? How do the poeple who make the booklet know if you are dodgy or not? What is there experience/knowledge of what makes a good arborist? The answer is none. Its your 100 quid that gets you in the book, not your skills or qualifications. There is a mountain of paperwork involved in doing work in schools, and even the ones that control their own spending will not use a book, sent to them without request, to choose a tradesman of any kind! Who sorts out if any of the tradesman are on the sex offenders register? Not the company taking the 100 quid thats for sure! The booklet will go in the bin.
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It was a long time ago, I remember the one in your photo, and one tree hill and thats about all! Plus smelly Rotorua!
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I once got a 30quid tip and I fu**ed the clients daughter for the next two weeks! Result! My best tip was "don't eat yellow snow" I mostly only get bottles of wine or champers these days, not enough daughters due to the credit crunch!
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They weigh a lot! My guess would be 200+kgs? The only problem with mounting it on indespension units would be that it might upset the height. When you put it in vertical mode it is designed so that the base of the splitter touches the floor and then very slightly lift the wheels off the ground. This make it safe and stable to use. Bigger wheels and indespension would mean that the base of the splitter woudl be off the ground during use which defeats the object as you can't get big rings in it. You woud then have to redesign the mounting of the ram to get it lower again. My trailer cost about 500quid, new. A second hand one would save you the hassle of rebuilding what is essentially a well made well designed machine.
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Couldn't they gaffa tape some chicken mesh fencing over the engines!
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I siezed an 066 within half an hour of it being bought by my then boss!! The dealer replaced it and I've been more careful since!
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negotiate logs for yard use! The type of people who have spare yard space would most likely have use for logs.
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Other uses!!! We cut leylandii (over 6inch diameter) into 28 inch lengths and bring it to the yard. Then split it on a early finish day and put it through the chipper. Also, we hire it out to customers who have requested to keep the logs and then looked at the pile of rings and said "what am I going to do with them!"
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On your own it is quite slow! Get a log, put it in, press both levers, maybe 10-30 seconds, lift both levers, kick log away and go and get the next one, then you still have to chuck them on the truck or trailer! Two people is best.
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Price is around 1500 quid, maybe a bit more today. I think Jonsie sells them? Ideally you want two people operating, as one can get the next log while your holding down the handles. (you could change the hydraulic valve to one handed use but of course this is not recomended) Then I would gues you could do a ton in well under an hour if you have the rings ready to go. Mind you 6-8 inches thats a lot of logs to make up a ton! We occasionally take the splitter as in the picture, and then break up larger rings into manageables instead of cutting the rings smaller.
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Heres a pic
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Its not exactly that model but that was the nearest picture I could find on the web. Its very good. 25T (american tonns?) not 25K Kgs! Its is a little slow but plenty of power. You can tow it around the yard but not on road as it has no suspension, it could be bolted onto a trailer or just get another trailer for it to go into. I have a small Iffor williams p6 4ftx6ft that is fits into niclely. Its perfect for arb waste splittign as we mostly have large rings, these are then split at ground level so no lifting. Sometimes you have to flip them over and get them to land "in" the splitter if they are to big to push into place.
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I have one of these.
