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    I did a job for Cronospans engineering manager recently. They have to user their own generators for the big plant or it makes the street lights dim and kettles in the village wont boil:laugh1: Even then the energy bill is the size of a small country
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    The lass on one of the cheese stalls at the farmers market has a particularly potent "extra strong" that they freely describe as "like licking a farmyard floor":laugh1::laugh1:
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    I like a bit of good cheese I get most of mine from there folks They do a cracking stilton Buy Cheese online from the Hartington Cheese and Wine Company - Christmas Hampers Now Available
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    What law makes it illegal?
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    This citizens arrest is going a bit off topic, the question was, when is it ok to lay hands on and the simple answer for tree work is.............. Only to prevent immediate danger to the person or others. If you do lay hands on, you need to be able to justify that action and if your system of work makes it inevitable or even likely you need to alter that. If you cant justify your actions you are wide open to a charge of assault, I don't think "he didn't listen and walked past me" is going to do the job for you.
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    Or you can buy whips in, cheap as chips. I don't think you could go out and harvest free ones for less and whips managed in a nursery will have a much lower failure rate. Here is an example Sycamore - Acer pseudoplatanus Chew Valley Trees
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    You said hand plane I said surface planer. The thicknesser for 750mm would have Wadkin somewhere in one of its castings My question to you is, why would you want a slab like that? Ok the occasional bar top but its a specialised bit of kit with limited use to the average UK arb. Have you seen the finish you can get from a bandsaw or a chainsaw mill? Not that shabby if its set well
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    Well here's the thing, this machine isn't the only way to get a board true, its been going on for decades, you can use a surface planer or a thicknesser Can you even buy one of those on this side of the globe?
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    Steerforth rams Hydraulic Cylinder, Hydraulic Jack, Hydraulic Rams supplier. Hydraulic parts and cylinder supplier Make the blade out of digger bucket edge material. Find someone who refurbs the and get an off cut
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    I have seen cages that are decades old and no sign of corrosion other than a little surface oxidation on the zinc.
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    I hope you had the key in your pocket:thumbup1:
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    Please,,,,,,,,,,,Not even vaguely similar though is it?? How can you offer that as an example? Its an entirely different situation. In tree work its a situation you set up, you cause the situation to be thus and have a duty of care both general and under the HSAW act to manage it properly. That means not creating a situation where you have to lay hands on someone to keep your work running. The situation on the boat was an arsonist, (allegedly) a criminal act. There are all sorts of powers a ships captain (and his agents) has, including restraining someone endangering the vessel. On dry land you would have the right to restrain someone in the same circumstances.
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    What he said:thumbup1:
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    Tipper kits

    treequip replied to Rich2484's topic in Arb-Trucks

    That's only one of the dimensions needed. What's the distance from the hinge to the point the bottom of the ram attaches? Moving the ram wont have any affect on the pressure, that's governed by the pump output.
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    It matters not what categories you currently hold, there is no category for 2 trailers unless you are a showman or, under certain circumstances a farmer.
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    When you say "legal work signs" do you mean they conform to the standard required by legislation or do you mean something else?
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    Did you read my earlier post? Mary Bell is a traffic commissioner, she is in charge of VEHICLE operations in her area and she is entirely the wrong person to ask. A traffic officer is nearer the mark but since this is a DRIVING LICENCE issue the DVLA would be the appropriate authority. If you want to do it just get on with it, I know others that do it but they know they are breaking the law. Ask yourself this, if it were legal, why don't you see people doing it on a daily basis?
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    The above is correct as a general principal if completely out of context. In this case the person pushed past and continued on their way, if it was an on going assault you could defend yourself but since the assault is over tit for tat is not defendable in law. You have also missed the context that the "assaulted" created the situation by poor management.
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    From a R/A point of view, that's a poor system, when you say you aren't responsible for safety, well that responsibility may be given to others on site but the law will hold you liable to one extent or another, if there was a chance of people entering a danger area you shouldn't have pressed the button. Your system requires you to have personnel in the danger area, that is an unsafe working practice, the trespassers should be prevented from entering the area and if that means a line of personnel at the fence then that's how it has to be.
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    And that's where it becomes inapplicable, you would be permitted to use reasonable force to prevent an on going assault but, if you try to restrain someone just so you can continue working, your reasonable force becomes assault. A legally defendable system of working would eliminate this possibility.
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    No you aren't, just because they have assaulted you doesn't mean you can assault them, you are supposed to set up a system of work that prevents the danger of injury to members of the public. Laying hands on people cant be part of that.
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    Those placement students can be a handful cant they? On a serious note using reasonable force to prevent someone from deliberately harming themselves is acceptable
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    Its assault, plain and simple. If the persons actions would have resulted in imminent and certain danger to themselves you would probably get away with it. Taking the other view, if you have to lay hands on a member of the public like that, it that just means your risk assessment and safety system were inadequate.
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    I would have appealed that, if they managed to navigate the road clearly it should have been open.
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    On occasion there is the need to close a road but round here it seems to be the first option. They close the snake pass at the first glitter of frost. Clearly there are less able drivers and those who will get into bother and bitch and whinge about how the police ought to have done this or that to prevent it so I understand the need to protect the less able from themselves. What I find unacceptable is that they chuck a couple of barriers up and go away, they leave the road closed signs up long after the road is "idiot navigable" If they take measures they need to take responsibility for them.

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