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tsk tsk! Gentlemen, Ah has drive one, albeit the earlier petrol engined varient. A magnificent piece of engineering all round, regardless of being on the off road tank course or on the public road. An the way them big golf ball sized knobbed colour coded diff-lock knobs slid into engagment "just so" as I powered up a short but very steep greasy slope. Sex on a stick Sur! Der "G" Wagen Van sulked most all the way home.:lol: m

Nothing an Afganistan tour wouldnay sort oot! I am sure they would all be available from the local brazzar.

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And? There was an accident? I presume not, but why should we presume there should be? Having formed an opinion that most Polish workers who came to the UK, were competent in their choosen fields. PS About 1981 the MT Sergent asked who could drive an HGV, I said I could, he agreed and I did, including it must be said a spot of highway driving I had not anticipated. But by then I had gotten the hang of the rather sharp air brakes. Needless to say I did not actually have an HGV Licence. Albert, the MT Sergent, was properly apoplectic when I returned, quite safe and immoderatley pleased with myself. The pax in the back were not so impressed!

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Same as the routine inspection of lift chains in forklifts. Inspector hmms and haws and condemms they on a yearly basis anyway, regardless of actual use or wear. Or a Council Food Safety inspector inspecting a freezer full of salmon after a power failure. The top-most salmon were still frozen solid enough to drive nails. Sucks teeth, looks thoughtful, then condemms them all anyway. "x" years of Uni training, why bother.

(i) It Looks like Poclain track motor turned into a winch. (ii) I can only imagine the third top mounted pipe is indeed a bleed off pipe. Connect the other two "paired" pipes to the spool connections and see what happens, it should obviously turn in either direction dependant on oil flow direction, place the open end of the presumed bleed off pipe in a 20 l jar just in case. Hmmm? Not perchance a hyd speed control function, acting on the swash plate angle, this should only need a single pipe, I imagine. but, if indeed it is, the motor should still work, at I am guessing, its slowest speed:confused1:

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Quite quite wrong Steve, we are merely "born equal in the eyes of the Lord", (or whatever God you worship, or not) After that it is the result of both nature (genetic makeup) and nuture(education) We are emphatically all different, to a greater or lesser degree. Some are brighter. Some are better physically coordinated. Some are bother brighter and better coordinated. Some are very intellectual but physically uncoordinated. Some are unfortunately somewhere else on these spectra?(spectrums=spectra?) Have I mentioned Kruger and Dunning recently? regards, Marcus

Exactly!! Will "the organisation" listen to such reasonable arguments. Answer NO! they rather spend others tax dollars on "laying-off" the risk on an outside organization, as opposed to making safe reasoned pragmatic decisions themselves. That would imply they were actually responsible for goodness sake.

Mat, I will not (nor cannot) argue with that account. Howerver to digress (at least apparently) We had a very very good (despite my yawning apprehension) "lone Working/lone worker" training session a couple of weeks ago. Presented by a W.H. who spends most of his time briefing briefs, in respect of claims against employers, or indeed probably in respect of advising claimants also. He absolutly knew his stuff, and presented it most clearly. BUT What struck me was the number of times he put his fingers to his temples and said "THINK" this, your brain, is the most powerful tool you possess to ensure your own safety. Iffen that "engineer" hadda "thought" about the risk/hazard, he would NOT have stuck his hand into a guillotine, without first ensuring the power was properly LOCKED off, or the mechanism mechanically immobilized. An electrical engineer, who worked on construction sites once told me that despite what anyone told him about cables not being "live" he habitually shorted them to Earth, just to be sure.

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So is it "safer" to work strimming a bank "downstream" of a parked van with load n loads of flashing beacons, as I have been told. Or my contention is, it is way safer to allow the drivers, approaching on the same side as the workers, to clearly observe the workers, protected by a row of cones, rather than swerving round the parked vehicle, possibly/probably in the face of oncoming traffic, unaware and unknowing that a worker may be working in the lee of the vehicle? In the 30mph limit just across from a horrondously busy filling station. Safety dictates the grass should remain uncut, UNLESS, traffic control is put in place, to strim 20 or 30m of bank. Which would cause constranation and amusement in the local community. But strictly under the 15 min exemption, NO such precautions are needed. Except setting out the signs n cones will expand the task to more than 15 minutes:lol: But if the erercise is repeated on a weekly basis? Are they? Hindsight is ALWAYS 20-20, espc in the eyes of senior staff.

OK Install a "faggot" burner. Faggots comprising bundled thin branchs. Sorry, but actually "bumping" this thread for your benefit :001_tt2:

Were they pre-occupied with their presence at LAMMA? perchance?

I could not agree more.:blushing::blushing: OUR particular LA cannot, nor will-not accept there IS a difference, easily observable to those of us with the nous.

I am aware of all of the above btw, but Govt H & S Officers tend to be obsessive about paperwork, crossing "i's" n dotting "t's", not "achieving output", and have NO pity for the poor trees felled to make ALL the necessary paper. I attempted to process paperwork on a guy who carried a newly filled with petrol 20litre Jerry can, across the yard, literally, and I MEAN literally with petrol splashing about his feet. He apparently had not noticed. And attempted to make several excuses. The lid was not "latched", nor was there a rubber seal in place, despite me having brought 10 or 20 back from the War and Peace show. I was ignored. I was "picking" on the poor man.

(i) Yes, but not for firewood, purely fer cuddling n hugging.(an there a woody joke in their somewhere!) (ii) Got unlimited windthrown conifer to cut up n burn anyway.

Psst Un-common sense Apparently. Would any of "youse" let a groundy climb a tree with a chain-saw. Why do some remain "groundies"? LA are convinced that any sows ear can, with appropriate training and supervision, of course, be made into a wonderous silk purse. Cos to do owt else ud infringe on their 'uman rights.

Kevin. Apologies, but since I have worked in Northern Ireland Local Government since 1984, I beg to differ. Senior officers prefer acolytes to good safe, productive (but challenging, cos hey dey got a functioning brain, like!) workers. Thust me, I know, unfortunately for my mental wellbeing. From a humble supervisory perspective. Where I get to answer for their sins, but cannot tell them how to do, cos hey, they know better. Everything, absolutly every apparently inconsequential instruction, needs to be issued in WRITING, OR "IT DID NOT HAPPEN" Seriously. No human being can run a multi-tasking do-it-all squad on such a basis. For instance, very recently, I instructed an employee to leave 2 heavy petrol engined pressure washers back, p'washers on wheels with handle-bars. said p washers were already on the back of a 3500kg beavertail. The hire depot was about 10 miles away. I issued the instruction at about 08:10. At 09:20 I observed a dropside pick-up leaving the depot with the 2 pressure washers on the back, along with a whole clatter o hoses and lances. The beavertail then sat parked up all day, being otherwise uneeded. This dropside pick up is used for pitch maint, the pitch they were going to first lay very near the hire depot. Why did a senior 20 year experienced man cross load these stores, with some difficulty as I was wrly and reliably informed. They should "obviously" have taken BOTH vehicles, one to backload the stores, one to commence pitch maint works. Yet "bad back" claims still abound, but/and ALL our staff have had had multiple approved Manual Handling training. Stupid CANNOT be fixed. m

With a TR70? branch chopper/lopper and working with sub 3" material, on fertile ground, not many years, at all, required. m

Well I have "broken things", and had "adverse" results from "risky" undertakings, but only when i knew I was pushing my luck, and had appropriate control measures in place to prevent injury. Other than repeatly, and badly, "going over" on my ankle, always unexpectedly. My control measure for that is to simply always wear Lowa high leg combat boots. Near fell below a bus once in Belfast as a result, before I larned i had flat feet/weak ankles. As they do say. "Ships will be lost whilst in Harbour, but that is not what ships are designed for."

I noted during a conversation with a J Deere rep yesterday evening, that JD now fit load moniters to their grass cutting equipment, probably "driven" by the higher current being drawn by the more heavily loaded cutting cylinders when entering a stretch of heavier lusher grass. The machine now slows the forward pace down. Because JD "larned" they could not trust the modern operator to "listen" to the machine and instinctively/intuitively back off the "go" pedal(hydrostatic drive) as the engine note changed. In days a gone by an employye who refused to "larn" ud ave bin sacked. Now they get sent for pointless training and also councilling because the Supervisor used "rude and intemperate" language. Due to such behavouir being endlessly repeated. But! It can apparently never be the employees fault (from hard and repeated personal experiences) Dumb and dumber ad infinitum. regards. Marcus

One simply CANNOT "fix stupid". But stupid MUST be employed. Simply because the comprise such a significent proportion of the population. Working Life has also become very very mechanised, due to H & S, but the employment of powerful machinery makes significent injury much "easier" to incur. In the old days there was much more room to safely employ the cognatively challenged. PS A disproportinate of the cognatively challenged prob are employed by L A's (not not work for, ho ho ho!) Simply because they are the ones who will stay(being virtually unsackable) while the better guys move on and upward.(Am i an example of this hypothis?, hmmm?) Anyway, in the best example of "reducing to the absurb" the hypothsis put forward by Jermey Clarkson is entirely logically infallible. If, instead of air bags and seat belts and ESP etc etc. Each car was fitted with a titanium spike mounted in the dead centre of the steering wheel. Everyone would drive a LOT more carefully and defensively. My particular "beef" with our current H & S culture is that it absolutly prohibits anyone THINKING, cos, jeeze thats a proper dangerous pastime. One MUST follow these proscribed steps/processes ONLY. Do NOT think. Bah, bah, bah!(thats meant to be sheep noises btw.)