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  1. treequip
    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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    No I meant haw many flats have you made into tippers, answer none, went with the spend more money option. From the last few posts I don't think the OP has much to spend so putting the effort into the job is probably going to be the option of choice. Your £1200 quid option is most of his vehicle buget You can pick up a pump/tank unit for a couple of hundred and a hundred quids worth of steel will put a spline in a flat.
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    How many have you done?
  10. treequip
    Beg to differ. Been there done that.
  11. treequip
    I have done it and what it will cost will depend on what skills and resources you have available and whether you want new bits or used.
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    But, its a multi agency thing and VOSA are the wrong agency to ask. People call this a grey area but it only seems that way because they haven't looked into it enough. Ask VOSA and they might tell you they have nothing against it but that bit of paper wont be a defence when the police prosecute if you are driving otherwise than in accordance, nor will it help you when HMCE have any issues with fuel usage.
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    You mentioned under load on HILLS. That's the bit of water moving and finding the terminals. Drain the tank and the water will stop finding its way into the water separator.
  14. treequip
    Dont underestimate the power of condensation. Keeping the fuel tank full minimises it.
  15. treequip
    Indeed, driving through floods demands proper equipment and a degree of ability, these were abundant in the land rover vid and completely absent in this one [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uFm002CuA0]Police Van Flood Fail - YouTube[/ame] Not fair to criticise when your own people cant get it right
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    A really good breakfast, I work best when properly fuelled
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    That sand will ruin the chain:laugh1:
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    So pack it out, a timber and gaffer tape job till you get it right then get something more permanent made
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    Not legally they cant
  20. treequip
    12N sockets are subject to inspection, they have to be attached and not busted. The newer 12 pin sockets are subject to test Rather than mucking around with the existing kit why not just put a small Anderson plug (or similar) on to run the reverse lights?
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    It matters not what you call your log splitter, in the eyes of the law its still a trailer.
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    It can be done on show mans and in agriculture under certain circumstances but for your purposes one trailer cannot draw another (legally)
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    He may or may not be asked to pay for the works to re open the road. Depending on the authority most don't charge for reactive emergency works but in these financially strapped times that may change
  24. treequip
    You can use whoever you want to clear it up. That has nothing whatsoever to do with the LA and they certainly cant set any conditions. If the tree owner clears it up himself he is perfectly entitled to and that wouldn't be insured.
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    Arborwear

    treequip replied to BHAtrees's topic in General chat

    I like arborwear for the quality rather than fashion' A second hand pair off ebay might not be for everyone. Doesn't make the brand unpopular.

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