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Good luck with everything - please keep us updated (and jealous!!!)

My cousin used to drive transfer minibuses in the Alps for a company called Skiidy Gonzales - a brilliant setup, very professionally run. Their USP was that the drivers wore sombreros in Geneva airport to make it easy for newly-arrived travellers to identify their lifts - this MO worked perfectly for years until a disgruntled woke yank took umbrance and pulled the racist card!!! I’m not sure that any Mexicans were harmed or offended at any point during the previous decades, but the hats are now ancient history sadly… Back on topic - my lads and I have all worked today. It was hot. We drank plenty. Nobody died. Who’d have thought?!!!!

Sounds good value if they are going to airspade etc too.

Hope you’ve got deep pockets!!!

That is a MASSIVE house - wowsers!! Were building control happy with recycled type 1? I though it had to be virgin stone under a house (ridiculously!)?

A winch and more importantly someone who knows what they are doing to get that down, not difficult with the right knowledge and kit but pretty dangerous if done wrong (there are some dodgy suggestions in this post IMO).

The last brew of the day is the best when the bag(s) are left in all day. (The only caveat to this is when the teabag has burst unknown to the drinker, usually on days where the flask has had a rough time rolling around in a tractor…). Milton once in a while cleans flasks back to ‘as-new’ - it does say to not use it on stainless steel but I’ve never had a problem.

I bought a couple of second hand Teupens a few years ago - incredible machines but an absolute nightmare to work on. You are essentially beholden to the UK service agent, who were the worst people I’ve ever had the misfortune of dealing with in my life. I’d never ever put my money into any Teupen machine again, and would think very very carefully about any large second-hand MEWP that is dependant on circuit boards to operate.

Fanny - I thought you were a tree guy. Should be the woman in the car needing the ambulance for driving into something so hard!!! (All joking aside, glad nobody seriously injured)

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It’s a fee paid by the arbs looking to tip - my understanding is that listing your site is still free.

I can’t see how it can bounce back really - it went mental because millions of ‘investors’ swallowed the hype and bought in, forcing prices ever higher. This massive crash proved that it’s a risky investment and will put off future potential buyers, so there is a far more limited pool of people willing to buy out those who were left holding their overpriced bitcoins who can’t/won’t/daren’t sell until some of there loss has been recovered. I certainly wouldn’t put any money into it.

I think Liza Tarbuck is really funny, and she plays some great music (that I’ve largely never heard before).

Today £87k plus vat, but new orders will be over £95k……..

His drivetime show in the week is very good - ‘Mexican Handbags’ is hilarious IMO. Shame about the adverts though…

To be honest Janey Lee Grace has always annoyed me, I think she’s a bit of a twat…. Love Steve though, and there has never been (and never will be) any better radio feature than ‘Ask Elvis’. FACT!!!

It’s definitely an expensive toy but it chips faster than a 2.7 tonner can feed it… I’m not convinced by the crane-mounted jobby - this one can’t be crane mounted (and still remain under 3.5 tonnes) as it’s designed to give the most throughput so is a bigger drum-chipper than the lighter disk machine. This can be built on tracks or on a heavier chassis for truck/tractor towing (and you could have the biggest crane in the world then!).

Yeah, I suppose chopping in a white male for another white male (that is gay) helps tick a box somehow. I can’t listen to Zoe Ball, she’s absolutely terrible IMO. Vernon Kaye has been on this week and he’s much better, but I tend to listen to Radio 4 until 9am (largely because of Zoe Ball!). No way can I listen to Scott Mills at any time of day, he only spouts childish crap…

Had this on demo today - it’s a very good chipper under 3500kg to be fair! 400x600mm opening, can be crane or hand fed, radio controlled, 140hp etc etc. Good bit of kit, just working out man-maths now…

I meant have you priced up these Case machines - interesting to see how they compare to other machines in the market as they are essentially a repainted Eurocomach. I’ve got a little Bobcat E27 (not the Z, it’s the more powerful version with a small tailswing) with extra counterweight and Rototilt and that weighs exactly 3 tonnes with the tilty and grab on. It’s good though, can shift a lot of timber in a day with it and it is amazingly stable and powerful for its size. This tilty is actually bigger than you’d need on this sized carrier though - you could save at least 100kg if you fitted the next size down.

Apparently they are Eurocomach machines rebadged (which have a great reputation but are mega expensive) - have you priced anything up as will be interesting to see what sort of dosh they are? It’d want plenty of counterweight to make the most of it on a small machine IMO, probably no use on a zero. The 6 tonner looks a nice bit of kit!

We do loads of this for customers I’m afraid to say… BS5837 was brought in to protect trees on construction sites (which it does once in play) but it has also inadvertently led to the felling of a great deal of decent tree stock, often for speculative reasons. It is worth taking a punt on the cost of legally clearing a site prior to submitting any sort of planning application to remove the risk of tree constraints impacting the chances of development.

Planning law. It would essentially be the same as building a block of flats instead of the extension permission has been granted for. The trees are currently protected in the same way as if tpo’d until the building is completed and signed off. There’s nothing to prevent the tree report stipulating tree removal, and if accepted then that work can obviously be undertaken. However, it has to be accepted by the planners, so there would need to be good reason for removal (not just ‘They’re my trees and I can do what I like!). Be careful though - further protection can be implemented if the trees are deemed TPO worthy and there are indications that their future may be under threat…

If you cut those trees down now without a report to fall back upon you will potentially be in contravention of your planning permission - I’d not personally recommend that as a course of action. The planners will have given consideration to the existing site ‘as-is’ when determining the application, including any screening provided by existing trees (hence their insistence on tree protection during the build). You will need to submit a suitable tree report, but it doesn’t necessarily need to be the one you already have to hand. Talk to the arboriculturalist and ask them to make the stipulations less onerous. Install necessary tree protection fencing (heras panels with home-printed and laminated signage are more than adequate) and keep out of those protected areas with all machinery/materials etc. Any excavations within the protective fencing should be under arboricultural supervision, but that’s up to you. You should be able to do what you want (within reason) outside the protection areas.