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  1. monkeybusiness
    Fantastic news, congratulations to the 3 of you - welcome to the world Maddalena!!! X
  2. monkeybusiness
    I’d be more than happy to be stopped and quizzed any time by the police. I wish it happened more often tbh. If there was a constant chance of being randomly pulled and machinery/trailer serial numbers and vehicle vins being checked then it would surely help deter some of the constant theft that takes place?
  3. monkeybusiness
    I am constantly asked for timber by turners, and have never ever met one who doesn’t expect it for free.
  4. monkeybusiness
    I’ve got a 66 plate Navara which is the new shape but one of the last without adblue. It has been faultless to date and is used on road/off road/towing/motorways etc etc. I have been considering swapping it but am worried that whatever comes next won’t be as good somehow.... It looks like it’s going to be a keeper for now!
  5. monkeybusiness
    Good set of binoculars required I’d imagine Eddie!
  6. monkeybusiness
    Is it @Gray git who has one of these set up with a grapple saw coming?
  7. monkeybusiness
    That is a beauty, good work!!!
  8. monkeybusiness
    So how much then? £100k?
  9. monkeybusiness
    Wankers, sorry to hear this. Looks like they’ve been in there before possibly?...
  10. monkeybusiness
    Winchmax are very good, and cheap.
  11. monkeybusiness
    I believe that you want to stay out of the ‘line-of-fire’ of the drum shaped bits - they fire a focused beam at the next mast’s drum etc etc and that’s where the most harmful radiation (I think) is.
  12. monkeybusiness
    We took a massive beech tree off/out of a house (it made a real mess, lucky nobody was hurt which is unusual in my experience of instances of tree/house interface). The tree belonged to the neighbour, but it was the affected householder’s insurance that paid (and the affected householder was a retired insurance loss-adjuster, so knew how the job works). Our work involved a crane etc and was pretty expensive (but nothing compared to repairing the house). The insurance company phoned me once they’d received our invoice (via the householder) questioning what proportion of our invoice covered arising removal, as they wouldn’t pay for that part of the job! I explained that we didn’t charge for arising removal, and it wasn’t something that could be separated out as we wouldn’t have been able to undertake the work if everything wasn’t shifted as it was craned out. Sharks the lot of ‘em!!!
  13. monkeybusiness
    Flowfit do hoses pretty cheap delivered in a couple of days if it’s not a ‘need it yesterday’ job. But be careful with their online hose-builder as the fitting sizes default to a menu-spec so you can end up with odd ends if you aren’t careful. I keep toying with a hose crimper - will probably invest this year.
  14. monkeybusiness
    Sounds incredibly cheap for a new rear axle - bargain!
  15. monkeybusiness
    If it needs a different rear diff ratio surely it will also need a different front diff ratio too?... Sounds like it could quickly become expensive...
  16. monkeybusiness
    Fortunately the waders didn’t fit me!!
  17. monkeybusiness
    Winching trees over into a river for ecological and hydrological reasons - it was a lot of fun!... B90B2574-89DE-429D-BEBD-F3EFF3A4FC15.MP4
  18. monkeybusiness
    I’d tread very carefully with second hand MEWPs - I bought a couple of older Teupens and the UK service agent was useless/not interested in the slightest (even though I spent thousands with them), but was the only firm set up to deal with circuit-board issues (of which there were plenty)... If you can make it work financially then buy something that complex new with warranty - if not then I’d steer clear of ownership and hire when you need to. Whatever you do, avoid second hand Teupens!!!
  19. monkeybusiness
    Love the duals. Is it a custom bracket to fit them or can you get it from SDF? Just an old set of Stocks - I welded some hoops into the rims for the clamps to grab. They make a mess of the paint on the tractor wheels which is a downside, but the whole tractor could do with some TLC to be fair (the mulcher gives it a beating on some of the sites we clear).
  20. monkeybusiness
    You need hired in plant insurance, which can be relatively expensive for one off hires unfortunately. It’s best taken as an annual bolt-on to your EL/PL policy where possible. I had a similar issue many moons ago and the cheapest way I managed to get cover was to take out an entirely separate PL insurance policy for landscaping through an online broker. The policy allowed different product bolt-ons (own tools, EL etc) - I bought what I needed and it worked out cheaper than adding HIP onto my existing tree surgery policy. You have to ensure the cover you take is enough for the value of what you are hiring in - in the event of a claim the insurers can reduce the payout by whatever percentage you are underinsured...
  21. monkeybusiness
    I still rate mine!
  22. monkeybusiness
    Go on the planning portal and look at permitted development. There are straightforward rules (height of building/size of plot/distance to boundary etc) which you will be able to check against what you propose. If you fall within the permitted development criteria then you can crack on. But you will need planning permission if you don’t meet all the requirements.
  23. monkeybusiness
    This is exactly what’s wrong with the railways - you state that it ‘can be cheaper than driving’. It SHOULD ALWAYS be cheaper than driving. Bigger trains/more capacity/simplified transparent ticket pricing/subsidised (where necessary) fares to keep prices economically viable thus enticing people out of their cars. I rarely travel by train, but when I do I am (generally) impressed by its service/speed. However, my limited use has been disrupted by cancelled trains and I’ve experienced ridiculous overcrowding on tiny trains - doing a daily commute being exposed to the apparent lottery of standards certainly doesn’t appeal. And as for pricing - why is it that any time I want to buy a ticket for a previously travelled route the price will be different online/at the station/on the train? My family took the train to Manchester for the day over Christmas and there were 6 or 7 different prices available from the ticket machine for our return journey. Why?!?!!!!
  24. monkeybusiness
    WhatisitwhatisitwhatisitwhatisitWHATISIT???????!!!!!!!
  25. monkeybusiness
    Nooooo!!!!

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