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    Info should be stamped into the guidebar and on the chain packet. Is the clutch sprocket fixed or replaceable version?
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    13" would be most suitable and the longest available if needed.
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    Should woodchipper firms legally supply a decent wooden "Push Stick" for tree workers to use instead of arms/legs? Could an infra red beam be mounted inside the hopper which would stop the machine if it found a human? Terrible news but I am sure that 80% of accidents are human error often due to working long hours under stress thinking about bills and the additional 20% of accidents caused by defects on machines. Machines should not be left running alone in case children appeared on the work site.
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    Hope you catch the B******S.
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    I have a friend who works in NSW at McDonalds and she is paid £15 HR when one works out the exchange rates. What is the agency rates for sourcing the work as that figure seems low?
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    There will be a large amount of damage inside the space where the animals are getting in. Electrics often are chewed and can cause house fires. Check the ridge tiles as often access there.
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    To make it secure take a look at the site as if you were going to steal from there. (Advice from local Police) Do this in daylight and nightime to see where weakness are. 99% of all people doing rural crimes use a vehicle so this needs to be stopped from going onto the site. Ditches and steel bollards are useful as a mobile linked alarms.
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    CE marking is done with the firm who produce the product. I always assumed it was done by an EU testing house. HSE and Trading Standards told me this. Duties on US ranges between 3% and 14%
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    The NFU here insured both a U421 and a U417 (Registered as Agricultural vehicles) and include attached/detached equipments. I would ask to talk to the local area Manager if the small local office is unwilling to help. If you do some woodland work then no problems. Do not have to be a landowner/farmer!!
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    How good are the walls and roof?
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    Some shine on that truck!!
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    A large amount of interesting info to read on this post. Pollarding was done to provide fuel (wood/charcoal) for people and food for livestock in old times on common land and private estates.
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    Those figures were current a long time ago. Shame rates for professional cutters do not increase and it's no surprise young people leave the woods. With the price of fuel £200 a long working day would be more viable. I am sure "Climbers" would not work for the same rates.
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    I would take back to the firm who sold the vehicle. Has it oversize tyres? Salt in springtime often causes problems on brakes/springs/exhausts.
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    Oz and NZ are strict on these issues. Here plants arrive from Holland all the time. Vehicles also bring in soil on chassis and tyres.
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    We used the Hydracrack on large lumps of Elm-Ash-Beech. I have some pictures somewhere in a file I could find if you like.
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    Cambridge rollers work well on bracken and are cheap in used condition. Regarding the stuck LR with machine could you have driven down hill and off the site that direction? Leaves and moss are difficult to drive on.
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    Well you need to use Silver Birch not the Downy Birch. Then no problem with the taste.
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    I am looking for a decent lathe at a sensible cost so some advice on makes please. I would like to turn some large lumps of wood into something useful.
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    Once in a Spruce woodland during a severe wintertime storm with nowhere to hide. :thumbdown: and multi stems falling down. In Australia walking under a tree species known as the "widow makers". A Large stem ripped off and dropped where we had walked 10 seconds before and had planned to park the hire van but thought better looking at wind conditions.
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    I have also sent you a PM.
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    Slightly off topic. Birch in the 1st week of March can be tapped for making a nice wine. Trees give 1 gallon in 24hrs.
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    The is a new tread pattern version of the BFG mud terrains out now. The Cooper Discoverer is also a good tyre in snow.
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    The problem is most foreign people like to practice good English so will respond in English. Reading the news on the www helps but can be confused with different dialects. (Nynorsk/Bokmal) Perhaps we should be all learning Cantonese also due to the world economic climate.
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    Forestry alone is common and OK but extra hard work and nice to be sociable:thumbup: Tree Surgery alone is extra time costs/loss of income and a serious risk if one has an accident high up in a tree and need help fast. (No good waiting for the fire service when bleeding) I thought at least one person in a team had to be able to do aerial rescue?

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