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just read that and i for one would be 100% behind the farmer on that one,

AA contractors sending unqualified staff out with a PTO winch, now someone said to join the AA contractors list has it would bring me up to speed on risk ? to take a tractor and PTO winch on a site with no proper training is putting all on site at risk, because if your stood in the wrong place using a PTO winch is deadly, FMOC tickets are not the easiest to aquire as there aint that many guys doing the assessments, but as you say matty stood in the wrong place, pulling masses, pulling angles and where to pull from, you learn the basics in FMOC training but you will learn a shit load more when your out there doing it day in day out.

Shit happens, i said that several posts back, and it always will do,

Oh i understood it but the way it reads is if you write a risk assessment and do a method statement nothing will happen, and to become a AA approved contractor why would i need that to get up to speed on risk and how to manage it ? i do plenty of risk assessments with what i get involved with i run up to 8 cutters and they are all hand picked and if they dont come up to speed along with being safe they dont stay, simple as that,

Hi i think there is a misstake some where here CS30/31 would be cheap today at £700 and its generally 5 days plus a day for assessment, chipper 1 day £120 - £200 depending on how many are on the course, CS38/39 has got to be 6 or 7 days at about £1100 so if some one has offered all 5 for £700 in 5 days i would be asking some questions as how they can fit it all in to 5 days, i dont think its possible to do that be carfull,,,,

Hump someone he,s never met before, they always say dogs end up like there owner,s ? ? ?

got dogs my self mark and i am from a farming back ground so i see both sides, and for some ones dog to have a bit of fun with someones lively hood i dont see funny at all, and when a farmer askes you for a lift for 10 mins and you have to help him drag a carcase that is still pumping blood out in to a trailer its not nice and then he says well thats another £250 down the pan ,BUT its not the dog that is at fault its the the owner and if you cant train and keep a dog under controll in my eyes your not fit to own one, own 2 labs myself both from very good working lines not an ounce of fat an either of them and neither of them rarely go out on a lead and never had a collar on either but a collar out in the working field is no good, the second photo was the work of a pointer which was shot the morning after and delivered back to its responsible owner as he called his self,

if its in live stock you are totally within your right to pull the trigger, a relative of mine had a lot of trouble last year with dog walkers letting there dogs off on his land amongst sheep with lambs, he lost 14 sheep and 9 lambs in a week last year due to dog owners letting there dogs off, he armed his self with a go pro camera and the correct fire power for the job, 3.45pm a couple come through gate in to field with 2 staffies and a bullmastive, none of them on leads with in 60 seconds the mastive was hanging on to a sheep and the 2 staffies joining in shortly after Neil the land owner/farmer shouted and whistled the dogs 3 times and they still carried on and then the owners started shouting there dogs and they still carried on 30 seconds and 3 shots all 3 dogs laid dead,dog owners came marching up the field shouting and playing holly F--K with him and asked what the hell he was doing he just smiled and said protecting my live stock from rampaging dogs, yon can imagine what the rest of the conversation was like, the boys in blue arrived and calmed the situation and it was 2 very different stories then Neil handed one of the police the camera and played it back he just looked at the dog owners and said to them, well its not like what you said, its a lot different would you like to watch it, bothe declined, and they asked the officer if was going to arrest the farmer and the officer said what for he has done nothing out side of the law, they where then told to remove there animals from the field, it turned out they where from chelsea up here in a holiday cottage on a easter break, Neil shortly after recieved a soliciters letter asking for compensation for the dogs so a counter claim was sent back with video and photos but did,nt hear owt back,

so a method statement and risk assessment will stop things happening like the video at begining of this thread ? well i didnt know that, and then when its happened you draw up a new plan ? bit late shutting the stable door when the horse has gone, No paper work on this earth will stop accidents happening, shit happens and it always will do WE are all human and not one of us is perfect,

its barmy when it comes to bunny huggers and some one like your mate just doing a bit of vermin control having a run in, the law will always be on the side of the bunny hugger , i would go and but one sheep put that on the land, next time the dogs came on i would be doing some vermin control as long as every thing looked right round me,

Ok but timber prices have took a hike this last year with an average increase of 37% we as a small forestry co have never had prices like we are getting at the moment and the only thing i can say is long may it continue,

Hi as Khriss says 600 hrs for this engine is nowt i would expect 15-20,000 hrs out of it, who fitted the oil bath fillter ? so this will be the 3rd engine in 630 hrs its either bad luck or you need to change your maintainace program and the air filter system, as i have said in many posts oil, filters and service parts are very cheap as compared to engine rebuilds,

As stubby says no BS or lolar marks? i would,nt use em just hang your pop bottle and fag packet on em should be ok for that, i once bought a cheap snatch block rated at 4 tonne and destroyed it in the first hour, cheap chinese copys not worth buying ,

should be her in the police station as hunting/chasing deer with dogs is not leagle and on some one elses land is poaching any way, and why his he there ? it should be her ? monday morning we where out goosing got back to my mates car wich was parked just in through a gate when we got back there was a note on the windscreen which read STOP SHOOTING HERE i know your car next time it will be your dog, 2 trail cameras going in the hedge next time one either side so will catch them and go from there, but one thing i will say is that it will be some one who has just moved to the area and dont like what goes on in the country,a woman has been to the farm and asked if he could stop spreading shit near her house Tony just said yes i will. going for my dinner now, then carried on afterwards and she was there again got totally blanked, letter of her day after, Tony just said silly bitch,

we all cut corners , and your not telling me you do every thing by the book ???

is that turn right at first set of lights, left at the T junction, 2nd exit of the roundabout, ? i think i will give that a miss as i dont think i could get back in time for tea,

where is AB Trees based ??? could help if not fare away,

we all cut corners now and then and get away with it, this guy did cut corners by clearly not using a gob cut that he has proberbly done before and it worked ok, but this time he didn,t get away with it, it looks nasty and i hope the guy is ok, but he will of learnt a massive lesson with that, one thing that springs to mind with me is that it was,nt by chance a Friday was it ?

Bras made of chicken wire and plastic ? just watch kim Wilde,s video on youtube for, you keep me hanging on, the one where she has tight black top and grey pencil skirt on , hers was not made of chicken wire and plastic, has a very nice jiggle on and even the camera man had to zoom in for a second or two,

He is due in the uk this year i think, he is well worth seeing, i have seen him twice now and wont hesitate to go again, but a word of WARNING if you do go to see him dont book any work in for the day after as you wont be able to breathe properly as your rib cage will be aching that much, far better comedy than anyone in the uk only person who comes close is Roy chubby Brown but .

well there is so many but wizzard,s i wish it could be christmas every day takes some beating, and with the success of slade,s christmas anthem with it entering the charts so many times in what 4 different decades says something, Now back in the 70S when we where kids mt sister was a womble fan and the wombles had a song called wombling merry christmas, so my auntie bought my sister a 4ft womble for christmas with tinsel on it ,and it frightened the shit out of my sister as it was about a foot taller, it ended up in the hall way at the bottom of the stairs and my sister would not go near it she used to climb through the rails on the stairs and drop to the floor so she did,nt have to go past it, i found it funny at the time and one morning i managed to get it upstairs and put it right out side her bedroom door, hence no one else found it funny and it cost me a good clout round the ear off my mum,

Shortage of skills? i dont know about that. i think its more like a shortage of people willing to work and learn in the younger generations,and we all know its not easy in either side of the tree game weather it be arb or forestry, forestry for me but work with a couple of arb crews and earlier this week was carrying some beech out of a back garden up 11 steps and then a slopeing path to the truck, i was F = = = = D when i got home about 6,30 and my calfes are still aching today, but up at 3,30 morning after drove 140 mile to whitby 8 hrs on a boat and then 140 mile drive back but in bed for about 9pm and didnt even count to one before i was asleep, morning after in buiding for 9am loading logs delivering all day and in building till 8pm geting crates of logs sorted for day after, how many of the younger generation would do all that, not many i think,

you do right by going and doing CS32 you will learn something i am sure, as its been said before CS39 ok for dommestic arb but working in a school it has just become commercial and this is where having all the correct tickets pays, i worked with a arb crew last week taking a large ash down the climber had all the kit but when it came to chogging down the stem he did not have much idea about cutting big wood, cuts all over the place and nothing coming in line making hard work sliding discs off, 660 with 36" bar not the ideal saw stood on spikes when there was other smaller saws available like 441 18" bar and 461 20" bar, stem about 36" diameter so not massive at all, getting some one in is the only answer at the moment, we worked at a private school earl on this year and they wanted to know everything and copys of all certificates saws,chipper and first aid but because our first aid is +F we had to use there first aid team who would only have emergancy F/A at work, which we have and then the +F is added on, how do you explain that ? its just there rules and regulations,

well this has got interesting, doe,s it really matter what colour the oil is ? and befor you tell me yes i do know the differance ones blue and about a tenner a drum dearer than the red one, been using the red HP super for years now and no problems with any saws yet and thats running 9 different saws from 241 - 660, generally get throught 10-15 ltrs per year.

Brexit, that,s what happens when a big fat lass from Barnsley sits on one of them plastic patio chairs ???????????