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Bolt

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  1. Another change in your story there then. I’m not sure you can be bothered to remember a single thing you have written. 3/10 for effort.
  2. Surely this as all fantasy? The way it’s written makes it sound like the DNO produced a document stating that they ‘approved’ some random landowner having a go at removing branches that were up and through their live power line? Don’t think so somehow. I think we’re being drip-fed a particularly poor example of creative writing.
  3. …..but in your original post you wrote it was their tree. Pay attention.
  4. Sorry, but under no circumstances does 33.112.(C.02) grant any exemption that permits the ‘blasting’ of little mermaids.
  5. Good to see that each hornet has been individually named.
  6. I would assume that’s where the rat smoking hose attaches to that @Muddy42 mentioned earlier.
  7. I think you will find that they park on either these: or these:
  8. Maybe, but I always assumed the pickup size was directly proportional to the inability to park considerately during the school run.
  9. Yeah, that looks about par-for-the-course. You would, however, be a bit miffed if you had burnt through a tank of aspen in 15 minutes cutting through that with a 200t.
  10. Battery saw run time time seems far more affected by what you are doing than petrol equivalents. General trimming back, pruning and dainty conifer dismantling easily gets you a morning on a T540i and a bli200x battery, but clogging down an oak stem with bar fully buried in the wood gets about 20 minutes. When I put my heart into it, I think my record to flatten a fully charged battery is about 7 minutes (firewood logging). The battery gets nice and hot when you do this, and the charger won’t recharge it till it’s cooled off a touch.
  11. Not really. PUWER just treats chainsaws differently to all other bits of work equipment. For all the ‘non-chainsaw’ stuff mentioned above, it’s up to the employer to identify and implement adequate information, instruction, training and supervision.
  12. In general, yes, but for chainsaws PUWER makes it clear: “workers should have received appropriate training and obtained a relevant certificate of competence or national competence award”. Some jobbing gardener, or passing tree surgeon is not likely to be going to be handing out a relevant certificate of competence or national competence award.
  13. But, as @daltontrees has already said, for chainsaws, PUWER 98 makes it completely black and white: "All workers who use a chainsaw should be competent to do so. Before using a chainsaw to carry out work on or in a tree, a worker should have received appropriate training and obtained a relevant certificate of competence or national competence award, unless they are undergoing such training and are adequately supervised. However, in the agricultural sector, this requirement only applies to first-time users of a chainsaw." For the workplace (except agriculture) workers should have received appropriate training and obtained a relevant certificate of competence or national competence award. simples.

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