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Very sad news J, really sorry to hear that.
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Telegraph poles - new pole on private land
monkeybusiness replied to Paul in the woods's topic in Trees and the Law
There are wayleaves and easements - one of these agreements essentially hands over all future rights of access etc to the utility company, the other keeps the majority of rights in the hands of the landowner. If one of those agreements is in place historically then they may be able to place their infrastructure on your land howsoever they see fit. If not then they won’t be able to do it without your written agreement, whatever they tell you. If they come on against your will and plant a pole whilst you are out then I’d fell it and keep it personally. -
A lot of tenders are won on loss-leader pricing, with the winning bidder anticipating making their money on unplanned additional work…
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No real interest in cricket, but Elizabeth Hurley hung off the end of him for a while so he was clearly a legend!!!
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A mate is scrapping an old ocean-going tug and I took the forestry winch to help him get it to a slipway today - it was a nice change from the norm! (I don’t know what the boat weighs and scale in the vid is hard to guage, but the crankshaft weighed 5.5 tonnes when he pulled the engine out to get the hull sitting higher in the water!…)
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Anyone got one? I’m looking for someone to chip some whole tree for me please - either to waste or you can have the chip (would need to go out in tractor trailers though, as nowhere to load a truck). Cheers, Dan
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I’m thinking more for daily/weekly operator records.
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Boring subject… Does anyone have a way of recording HAVS exposure they would recommend by any chance? Cheers, Dan
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Does water running off it stain surfaces below out of interest?
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I’m guessing you burn at least 3 ‘faces’ of the boards to allow for shrinkage/movement, so there isn’t a disparity in colour?
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Any pics?
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Zero experience, never heard of it until now tbh, but saw the last half of an old Grand Designs recently with a chap converting an old bungalow and he was charring the larch cladding with a blowtorch before installing. It looked brilliant when finished!
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Who do you insure your diggers with?
monkeybusiness replied to QuattroKev's topic in Large equipment
I had a quote off them last week - already have a tractor insured with them for forestry/tree work (insured as ‘special types, a lot more expensive than ag tractor which I also have with them). They would cover the diggers in the same way (but maybe because I already have a policy in place) - was expensive though so didn’t bother moving. -
Who do you insure your diggers with?
monkeybusiness replied to QuattroKev's topic in Large equipment
Trust (who insure them as a bolt-on to my liability insurance). I just had confirmation from them that the diggers are covered onsite if secured in a heras compound overnight. It’s not something we do as a rule (and I wouldn’t do it with anything under 3 tonnes as feel it would be too risky, insured or not) but have a job coming up where it is necessary. -
Those infamous man-eating cows left to pray on the weak and infirm… Sad as it is I see this as nothing more than ‘One of those things’. (The dogs won’t have helped). Load of bollocks that the farmer has been convicted of anything at all - I’d imagine a couple of warning signs either end of the field access would have seen him considered innocent.
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60 Days with the Gypsies (New Series)
monkeybusiness replied to topchippyles's topic in General chat
Any anti-gypsy talk is always met with ‘They/we aren’t all bad but we all get tarred with the same brush/there’s good and bad in all elements of society’ blah blah blah. Why does any provision for this particular group get destroyed if not strictly overseen? Outsiders doing the robbing? (I personally doubt it). A small element of scumbags within the society ruining it for everyone else? (If so why don’t the non-criminal majority ostracise them and kick them out?). -
Those UFKES are the dog’s bollox, I’d probably be looking at those or MusMax before Bandit tbh (nothing wrong with Bandit drum chippers though, but I’d be interested to see a side-by-side throughput comparison with these 3 manufacturers equivalent machines). The UFKES infeed setup is very very good.
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This thread contains all of the evidence required to reinforce why you should never believe any ‘facts’ found on the internet! What an enormous pile of bullshit from a vociferous but ill-informed few!!!
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It’s a bad time to be buying a second hand truck/chipper/anything really - stuff that should be £2-3k is making £6-8k for some reason. I’d mirror the above, put your dosh down as a deposit against something newer if you can.
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South islander? Genetically mega at rugby!
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Cheshire. It is, yes!
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It’s a great idea - might be worth sending a few loops to relevant colleges possibly?
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I’ll pm you now.
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My mate is selling this @eggsarascal - he’s dead straight and it will have had plenty of servicing in his ownership (it’s been his work van, he’s a tractor and plant mechanic). Not sure if it’s up your street but you can stand up in the back etc.
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Shame - I’ve got this big old girl that I’m going to move on as don’t have a use for. Planer and table saw combo, you won’t wear it out!
