Paul Jenks

You should inform both NRSWA and the TMA section of the council highways dept. They may well guide you as to a preferred method of active traffic management. Lights are often safer for static works as people are conditioned to stop a red lights, mostly. Stop goes are sometimes recommended for traffic sensitive areas as they can control traffic much more efficiently. They're ok for slow or fast roads. Usually used on mobile works.

The head is the most important part. Though the handle is a close second. Buy a cheap axe/maul and you might be lucky. I bought 3 cheapish mauls from the same supplier, of the same brand and in the same batch and only one of them is any good. It happens to be the one I picked. I rate it up with Granfors. The other two are poo. When compared the heads are a different shape. Generally, if you get a more expensive axe/maul from a recognized supplier you'll get what you pay for. The axe/maul debate is almost as boring as the Stihl/Husky debate. It all depends on what you like, and that'll take time to develop. I use a cheap maul to split rings down and then a short Gransfor splitting axe to process into logs. Try some out before you buy. Once you've split a few thousand rings you'll get a feel for what is good and what is tish.

We only use Stihl bio. Whatever you use it gets sprayed everywhere. Just look at the road on a wet day. It's expensive though not so bad and less obnoxious for the guys and the environment.

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We hire the tool for the job. If we have several days of roadside lifting a transit mewp does the job. Anyone can drive it. quick to set up and break down. All the signs and cones fit in the back. Very versatile. Off road or back garden a tracked does the job. It's the same as anything. Sometimes a transit and chipper will do for a job and sometimes you need much bigger. Sometimes a 261 will do others you might consider an 88. There's always something the kit you have won't do. Look at what you do the most of and go that route.

It'd be alright if the lube to which you refer wasn't chainsaw related.

Our 88 was stolen recently and I have no real reason to replace it. I'd go for the 66 or Husq equivalent. The vibrations from the 88 are awful and half an hour on it wastes your fingers.

Scored barrel or piston seems to be catch all for incompetence. We had a 66 back from a repair company once and they said it had a scored barrel. We'd sent it back after they'd botched a carburettor repair. After a week of hearing nothing I went over there to see and with the exhaust off it looked like they'd stuck a screwdriver in and pulled it over a few times to scrape the piston. I had a few words, but couldn't prove anything. They no longer trade BTW.

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Aside from not having had a tv for 15+ years, I stopped watching QT when Sir Robin Day left. There is rarely a challenging debate and the politicians rarely answer the questions posed, merely stumble into their pre-prepared soap box diatribes about the opposition. In answer to one of the points raised above, internationally our currency is recognised as GBP or Sterling, not 'The English Pound'. Is the Barnet formula something to do with shampoo?

We've attended 8 or 9 so far. On call tonight though the wind is dropping now.

Regardless of the semantics, to carry out works on or in close proximity to the highway you need to have a certain level of insurance. If you want to work in the road you are required to notify NRSWA, New Roads and Street Works Agency, to book space. You therefore have to have someone who is deemed competent, i.e. has a certificate of competence, and is on the SQWR. NRSWA and highways inspectors can demand to see your certificate and have the right to remove you from the road or footpath if they feel you're not qualified or if your signage is inadequate. If either of these 2 factors are apparent in the event of an incident it may well give the insurers a good excuse for not paying out. Stick to your guns and demand that your employer provides adequate training. If you are expected to work adjacent to or on the highway, for your safety and the safety of others you should be trained. Your PPE should also be commensurate with the speed of the road.

Without wanting to digress from the OP, it's illegal to take monies from wages other than tax, NI and authorised repayments. Unless explicitly agreed in contractual form. Loosing equipment may be a disciplinary issue, if explicitly detailed in a contract of employment and/or company handbook. I guess what sets us apart is that, had the saw not turned up, the person responsible would have offered to pay for it before being asked.

The lads tipped a brand new 201t the other day. Luckily the chap we gave the chip to found it and even brought it over to my house. I've got to drop him off a rather nice bottle of scotch or something similar.

Forst costs about 17k plus vat I think. The office did the maths. 3 years parts and labour warranty. Think about the after care. Who is nearest to you. When bits fall off whichever chipper you get, and bits will fall off, how quickly can you get the thing up and running again.

Everyone gets caught out from time to time. It's no good kicking yourself. Definitely don't dwell on the clients behaviour. They have their own internal reasons for acting in the way they do. Having a tree fail and the unforeseen costs is stressful enough. You don't know if a relation had just died or his wife was having an affair. It may sound absurd but sometimes quite small things can tip someone over the edge. Back to topic. I priced to get rid of a root ball a few years back. I thought a chap I know could lift it over the hedge and get rid of it. Turned out it weighed about 15 tonnes so the £300 I had on it didn't go very far. That, coupled with the 5tonnes of topsoil required to level the site. Hey-ho.

I'm sure there'll be nearer people to you who have trained in Wales who can give advice on that one. We use an expedition company to do ours as they cover off some really nasty stuff. Don't recall the name, I'll endeavour to get the details and post. Everyone operationally gets this and all the office staff have a first aid cert.

Mitsubishi with a ported exhaust, orange and white paintwork, MudGrabber tyres and a 4' bar.

Blood clotting agents are only to be used in extreme situations. For normal cuts where bloodflow can be contained by pressure or tourniquet the emergency services would much rather you didn't use clotting agents. Good training and a couple of emergency dressings will get you through pretty well anything. Failing that good training and your hand or t-shirt or sphagnum moss will do.

Quite the most disgusting thing I've heard all day. I rarely wash mine. My wife does them.

Our 53 plate Navarra did over 180k and it didn't have an easy life. Got it with only 13k on the clock. We've also got a 57plate ranger with 140 ish on it and a South African D22 with the 3L with 150k. None get it easy as everyone drives them. They're there to do a job. Looking to get a couple of new ones, single cabs this time, with tippers either Izuzu or Hilux.

You'd have to have a bloody smart operator. Chip off too much and the side would fall straight through the house anyway

I wonder if you can see the slight bow in the end wall of the house where it breathed in.

There doesn't appear to be a quick answer on the HMRC site so I'd suggest it'd be thrown back at your employer for errors in submission. If your employer happens to be you, unlucky. If they've supplied you with an incorrect tax code, very common, I still think it's down to the employer to check and question it. If it's a few hundred quid, with the base interest so low, I wouldn't think it was worth pursuing. Unless, of course, it's the principle of the thing and you want to do your bit for the downtrodden masses and tell them all how to claim their £0.23444 in overdue interest