monkeybusiness
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Liam Gallagher. Owes absolutely everything to his brother, I cannot understand how he has any sort of career outside Oasis.
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We subbied to Ground Control on the WPD contract for a couple of years - I had 10 fully authorised climbing arborists working with chainsaws from ropes and harnesses around live power lines day-in, day-out. Mountains of paperwork, regular site audits, routine safety briefings (days with no pay for me as the business owner but the same wages to pay etc, all part of the job!). It came to a bit of a head when some office-based safety muppet decided we needed the NPTC blower qualification (we all already held just about every NPTC ticket available, and had to routinely refresh these!)… I lost my rag tbh, told them we’d just leave the blowers in the yard and they’d have to explain to landowners why the jobs weren’t left very tidy. We don’t work for ****************wits any more….
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Don’t be shy with it - choke as many logs as you can together and drag them all in one pull! Don’t use the tractor handbrake and make sure your arms are free to drop whilst winching - some tractors lock them each time you turn the engine off etc and you need to let the winch pull itself into the ground as it loads up.
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Are you fitting a new chain with the new bars? Sounds more like a possible chain issue to me.
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Yes - the Tajfun are brilliant winches. We run ours on a little 90hp SAME and it’s a mega setup. When pulling hard the torque through the pto can make it lift a wheel… Get the powered outfeed and radio control would be my advise.
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Most disgraceful customer supplied refreshments.
monkeybusiness replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in General chat
I think you need to lay off the crack (or at least reduce your consumption)… -
Certainly seems to get them burning well enough when hung on the speed cameras around here!…
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Cabstar cabs rust for fun - have a good poke around under the seats and up the back.
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Sounds like it’s goosed - I’ll give you £50 for it.
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Totally agree with you tbh!
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Catchy saying that!
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A fixed (ie non-swing) rotating grab gives massively more control and dexterity than any other type BUT is subjected to a great deal more forces than one that swings, so needs to be used with a degree of mechanical sympathy and built as strongly as possible. For the money suggested above I’d probably consider the Kelfri free swinger, as I’m not sure how well a cheap grab would stand up to being fixed onto a digger.
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That’s all mine do.
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The trouble is the police (like all walks of life) have their fair share of dickheads. I know a few coppers socially, all bar one of them are sound. That one individual is a nasty piece of work though, a power crazy bully with no idea how to talk to people and no understanding that he rubs people up the wrong way.
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I got pulled over by a traffic officer on the M62 a couple of years ago as his ANPR camera had flagged up my pickup (he was driving and not actively checking me, whatever system he had fitted must check all the plates going past him I guess). Apparently my vehicle (same model, colour and reg) had been used to steal something from a building site in Kent a few weeks prior, and I can only assume the reg was being looked for across the whole country (which I was quite impressed with!). Anyway, I was in Gran Canaria when the theft occurred and my pickup (only driven by me) was parked on my drive in Cheshire whilst I was away so it was obviously someone with cloned plates. The copper was really sound, and I didn’t worry about the half hour lost.
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Were they watching your yard, or where the van was collected from, or is there a tracker on it, or is it registered as stolen for some reason and has tripped ANPR cameras?
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I’ve had similar - been stopped with a sheep trailer outside my yard in the dark before now, I was really pleased they were taking an interest tbh. There’s a really proactive rural crime team in our area (which makes a change from 3 or so years ago when there was nothing!) - they go all over the country arresting people for crime committed in Cheshire which is great!
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Yeah, for some reason that’s not allowed over here. The Scandinavians are light years ahead of the UK with this type of mechanisation.
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It’s down to the numb way the plant hire industry is set-up in the UK - a 13 tonne excavator with 3 buckets and an agency driver costs x per week, there is no appreciation of efficiency gains so there hasn’t really been any incentive for machines to be up-spec’d by hire firms as they won’t get their investment back from hire rates. Tiltys are gaining traction over here now (I’ve got 2, and I know plenty of other people with them) but it tends to be owner-operators who invest and benefit from the increased efficiency on price works and ability to use the machine for a lot more than just digging square holes.
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I’m clearly a retard too as find the electric saw occasionally out of oil. Largely because I’ll grab it to cut something (rarely a tree!) and then chuck it back in the van/on the shelf, using the batteries for something else. Life is too short to check the oil just in case, I’m only using it as a rule because I’m being lazy in the first place!
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Yeah, but if you are going to invest in a new system you might as well get the best setup currently available - technology moves pretty quick and things get superseded. No point getting something that’s already out of date!
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Off the kress website someone linked to - I CBA looking again but the big batteries are £1100ish plus vat, the charger is £600ish plus vat, and the saw itself was only cheap (under £400 istr). Mental money to get set up with an unheard of battery saw imo.
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£2k for a saw with 1 battery, or over £3k with 2 batteries. Bargain!…
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What’s the price with charger etc?
