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    It holds a lot more than you would think. It's 9x5 and 5ft tall. I don't ever need to tip off mid-day, I just take home a load of chip at the end of the day.
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    I used to live in Fangdale Beck and now live in Chop Gate. Small world!
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    This is what I do but the wife doesn't like it!
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    Is this what you were looking for?
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    As I understand it, provided each bit of kit is uniquely identifiable, it doesn't matter how you've marked it. Numbers, colours, whatever, as long as it's not like, "the prussick with cow **** on it", and as long as there isn't repetition. Most krabs come with s/n already. Ropes can be labelled with the aforementioned shrink tubing. We use white tubing with s/n written on and clear tubing on top for waterproofing.
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    thanks skyhuck, I can keep a copy in the truck for when neighbours tell me I'm breaking the law.
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    Think you have to use that really expensive red coloured hydraulic oil to prevent the gaskets rotting.
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    I'm in North Yorkshire, will keep hold of it if it comes my way, at gunpoint if necessary. Fookin thieves.
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    Have you got a link to that legislation mate?
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    The legislation says, "in practice, this PROBABLY means somebody external to your business, your insurance company MAY require you to use an independent examining engineer". Too many grey areas! Personally I wouldn't be shy of retiring kit because I just love buying new gear. Again, I think if you can show that kit is being retired and new kit bought in...it would help your case.
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    I've been told by my LOLER inspector that the training course highlights a lot of issues that simply wouldn't be apparent to the average climber, regardless of experience. After doing the course, he came home and threw away pieces of kit that had previously been considered OK. I'm thinking of doing the LOLER inspection course and cheking my own kit, which gets used by myself and another employee. I think if you can show that items of kit are being retired from use it would help your case, but personally I think lack of training, regardless of experience in terms of "time served", is going to be used against you in court. It's frustrating that the legislation isn't more specific.
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    could you explain what that's supposed to mean?
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    you also get the benefit of mains pressure hot (and cold) water, without the need for a header tank.
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    You know it is possible to operate a pressurised system if, for example, your house is a bungalow and you can't get the header tank high enough to generate sufficient pressure. You'll need a mains-pressure hot water tank and expansion vessels on both the central heating circuit and hot water tank, and a pipe-stat on the outlet from the coil that triggers the central heating pump to operate. This will protect the system from overheating and dump the heat into the radiators if you stack the stove full of logs and turn off the circulating pump.
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    Haven't the Chinese had a 'one child per couple' rule for like 3 decades?
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    What parts does it need?
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    magic. What a workshop. Didn't look that big from outside but there was loads crammed in there. You'd be totally lost if you didn't know what all the tools and benches and clamps were for. I like the sort of 'knee vice' idea where he hammers the tines into the head.
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    Sick of Stihl

    Perkins replied to Wolfie's topic in General chat

    :001_rolleyes:Brand new MS201T keeps cutting out. Stihl dealership say it's all the ethanol 'that they're putting in the fuel these days'
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    Jokes???

    Perkins replied to brownie1964's topic in The Lounge

    A bloke takes his wife to the doctors after she starts acting strange. The doctor takes some blood samples and says it'll be about a week before they're analysed. A week passes and the guy rings up the surgery to get the results. Doctor says, "Look I'm awfully sorry but we got your wife's results mixed up with another lady, so at the moment we're not sure if she's got Alzheimers or A.I.D.S.". The bloke says, "oh, that's terrible, what should I do". Doctor says, "Well...if I was you, I'd drive her into the middle of town and drop her off, and if she finds her way home, don't shag her".
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    I noticed a few technical errors in each magazine. The only one off the top of my head is the MBS of the new DMM Large Impact block was quoted as 200 tonnes in issue 1. There were a few others. Anybody else noticed?
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    Aren't the seats rigid, with metal inside? If so then it's not going to ease up with use. Change it for leg loops mate you'll have more freedom.
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    Great, thanks to everybody for the advice and help, especially the pdf link. Will contact network operation and get a shutdown organised.
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    OK... so all of the trees along this front boundary are to come out, the leylandiis and the willow. The powerlines are domestic voltage. It's not easy to see but there is a spur from the top of the pole which feeds directly to the house, no transformer. It doesn't look it from the pictures, but there is approx.2m clearance from the 5 unsheathed wires to the tips of the leylandii's. Any advice gratefully received. Thanks Perkins

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